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The Liar Paradox in the predictive mind
Authors: Michel Christian 
Published: August 2020

AbstractMost discussions frame the Liar Paradox as a formal logical-linguistic puzzle. Attempts to resolve the paradox have focused very little so far on aspects of cognitive psychology and processing, because semantic and cognitive-psychological issues are generally assumed to be disjunct. I provide a motivation and carry out a cognitive-computational treatment of the liar paradox based on a model of language and conceptual knowledge within thePredictive Processing(PP) framework. I suggest that the paradox arises as a failure of synchronization between two ways of generating the liar situation in two different (idealized) PP sub-models, one corresponding to language processing and the other to the processing of meaning and world-knowledge. In this way, I put forward the claim that the liar sentence is meaningless but has an air of meaningfulness. I address the possible objection that the proposal violates thePrinciple of Unrestricted Compositionality, which purportedly regulates the conceptual competence of thinkers.
The intercorporeality of closing a curtain
Authors: Katila Julia , Philipsen Johanne S. 
Published: August 2020

AbstractJointly coordinated affective activities are fundamental for social relationships. This study investigates a naturally occurring interaction between two women who produced reciprocal emotional stances towards similar past experiences. Adopting a microanalytic approach, we describe how the participants re-enact their past experiences through different but aligning synchronized gestures. This embodied dialogue evolves into affective flooding, in which participants co-produce their body memories of pulling down window blinds to block out sunshine. We show how the participants live this moment intercorporeally and how multiple timescales are tied together in gesture, which is both an incarnation of body history and a novel expression of it. Thus, collaborative gesturing is a resource for experiencing together emotions re-enacted from body memories. Contributing to our understanding of the intercorporeality of human action, we provide an empirical investigation into how emotions and multiple timescales are nested in cooperative gestures. Data are in Finnish with English translations.
The Relationship between Emotion Regulation, School Belonging, and Psychosocial Difficulties among Adolescents with Specific Learning Disorder
Authors: Kopelman-Rubin Daphne , Siegel Alana , Weiss Noa , Kats-Gold Inna 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
This study explores the relationship between emotion regulation and psychosocial difficulties among adolescents with a specific learning disorder (SLD) and examines the role of the sense of school belonging in this connection. Participants were 249 seventh- and eighth-grade students diagnosed with SLD (146 boys, 103 girls) from 11 urban public schools. The analysis indicated that the total effect of students’ emotion regulation on the degree of psychosocial difficulties was significant: the better the students’ ability to regulate emotions, the lower their degree of psychosocial difficulties. This association was significantly mediated by a student’s sense of school belonging. Furthermore, the better the student’s ability to regulate emotions, the higher their sense of school belonging, which was in turn linked with fewer psychosocial difficulties. The article concludes with a discussion of theoretical and applied implications of the findings.
International Judicial Cooperation in Game Theory
Authors: Tang Zheng 
Published: August 2020

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This article utilizes the game theory to assess the feasibility and weaknesses of different methods to promote international judicial cooperation. It starts by justifying the game theory as a proper model to understand the pattern of interaction between states. It then applies typical games to analyse states’ decision-making process. It suggests that states should not update their domestic laws to unilaterally offer judicial cooperation to other countries even if reciprocity is adopted to urge other states to cooperate. The only effective means is through an international judicial cooperation treaty, which encounters relatively small compliance and enforcement problems. The first-mover disadvantage at the ratification stage is not a fundamental barrier and may disappear over time. The battle-of-the-sexes game at the negotiation stage can be mitigated through the facilitation of a reputable institute, increasing cooperation interests and needs and reducing cooperation standards.
Celiac disease with intra-abdominal adhesions in a 32-year-old female patient: a case report and literature review
Authors: Elseidy Sheref A , Awad Ahmed K 
Published: August 2020

AbstractCeliac disease is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease. Symptoms are divided into typical gastrointestinal manifestations and atypical non-gastrointestinal manifestations. However, the atypical manifestations, which account for the majority of the presenting manifestations among celiac disease patients, include abdominal pain, bloating, vitamin and mineral deficiency, chronic fatigue and osteoporosis, intra-abdominal adhesions as a complication of celiac disease has never been reported. In this case, we report a female patient presented with chronic abdominal pain and steatorrhea. Celiac disease was diagnosed by serological tests and a duodenal biopsy. After the exclusion of gynecological and other gastrointestinal etiologies of intra-abdominal adhesions, the relation was assumed by the resolution of the intra-abdominal adhesions symptoms and improvement of follow-up computed tomography scans after a gluten-free diet. Intra-abdominal adhesion is an end-stage result of multiple gastrointestinal (GIT) and non-GIT disorders as inflammatory bowel disease and endometriosis. Although an indirect relationship between endometriosis and celiac disease has been previously discussed in the literature, celiac disease alone has never been reported to be the direct cause of intra-abdominal adhesions. So, we recommend if the patient is suspected to have celiac disease and reported with diarrhea or any other intra-abdominal adhesion symptoms, both a colonoscopy and a laparoscopy should be mandated to approach such case.
Life on Mars?: Hélène Smith, Clairvoyance, and Occult Media
Authors: Keep Christopher 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Turning away from the recent critical interest in spiritualism and its connections with the telegraph and wireless radio communications, this essay examines the mediumistic practices of Élise-Catherine Müller (or ‘Hélène Smith’) and the psychical faculty of clairvoyance. Smith’s capacity to project her mind to the shores of an alien world allows media scholars to consider the ways in which occult media afford alternative ways of imagining the relationships between self and other, actual and virtual, and presence and absence. In Smith’s accounts, detailed in transcripts of her séances produced by the noted Swiss psychologist Théodore Flournoy, and in a series of startling watercolour paintings produced by the medium herself, clairvoyance appears not as the uncanny other of the electric telegraph, a means of conveying coded signals from one place to another in real time, or even as a kind of psychic television, affording the viewer an opportunity to see and hear distant scenes. It models, instead, a kind of tele-presence, a mode of being in which the self and other, no less than the ‘here’ and ‘there’ of tele-communications, are shown to be deeply imbricated in one another. In the world of occult media, the essay concludes, communication is never as simple as sending and receiving – it is a problem of being.
The British Overseas Territories of Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos Islands
Authors: Dickson Susan 
Published: August 2020

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This chapter starts with a summary of the historical background to these five British overseas territories in the Caribbean. It goes on to describe their constitutional status and their constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom, examining the powers and position of the United Kingdom Parliament, the Crown and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It describes in detail the powers of the Governor in these territories, as well as their governance in accordance with their respective constitutions, looking at executive, legislative and judicial powers. The chapter examines the protection of human rights in the territories and the exercise of their external relations. It concludes with a look ahead to the future for these territories. The chapter includes copious references to the relevant constitutional provisions, relevant legislation and case law.
The Constitutions of the Dutch Caribbean
Authors: Broekhuijse Irene , Hirsch Ballin Ernst , Ranchordás Sofia 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the key constitutional provisions and the political structure of the Dutch Caribbean as well as of some of the most important constitutional issues regarding these islands. While the Caribbean countries and public entities have a different constitutional status, they are all part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. With respect to its European part, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has always been a Member State of the European Communities and nowadays the European Union, which affects the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom. Therefore, the chapter also addresses the narrowly shaped and specific relationship between these islands and the European Union.
Social and Economic Rights in the Caribbean
Authors: James Westmin R. A. 
Published: August 2020

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This chapter examines socio-economic rights within the Commonwealth Caribbean by addressing a number of substantive issues- covering the range of doctrinal and socio-legal areas of inquiry. Firstly, the chapter addresses what is the substance of constitutional protection of socio-economic rights within the Commonwealth Caribbean by addressing the individual rights which receive constitutional protection throughout the region and the judicial interpretation afforded to these rights within Commonwealth Caribbean jurisprudence. This chapter will also look at the relationship between international law and domestic law in the enforceability and enforcement of socio-economic rights. The inter-relationship between international law and the protection or lack thereof of socio-economic rights within Commonwealth Caribbean legal and political thought is critically important in the absence of justiciable rights within the core of the Constitution. The chapter will then address the relationship between civil and political rights and socio-economic rights within the Caribbean constitutional milieu. The chapter will examine the approaches to civil and political, and the creative judicial approaches which have emerged regarding the indivisibility of socio-economic and civil and political rights and notions of implied enforceability will be examined. Finally, it will consider what are the judicial approaches which have emerged in Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutional interpretation; and what are the possibilities for the future. The chapter also examines the judicial approaches which have been gleaned from Caribbean Jurisprudence and the limitations such approaches may beget within the context of economic austerity and slow growth which has marked the Caribbean’s economic landscape.
The Effect of the Original Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice on Regional Integration and National Law
Authors: Berry David S. 
Published: August 2020

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The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) serves as both a final appellate court and, under its original jurisdiction, as a treaty-interpreting court. Under this latter jurisdiction the CCJ has developed and enhanced the effectiveness of Caribbean Community law. It has introduced a number of legal doctrines, several of which parallel doctrines of European Union law. In doing so the Court has challenged fundamental national legal norms and traditions, including the dualist view of the relationship between international law and municipal law, the principles of constitutional supremacy and separation of powers, the role of legitimate expectations, and potential for indirect effect. This chapter introduces the CCJ’s original jurisdiction jurisprudence and places it in its legal and historical context. It identifies the different bases under which the CCJ can take jurisdiction, and critically discusses some of its foundational decisions in two areas, namely, free movement of persons and the rules related to the Common External Tariff. The chapter compares the jurisprudence of the CCJ to that of the European Court of Justice in order to assess the former’s potential effect upon Caribbean constitutional norms. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the CCJ has laid the foundations for significant legal developments which may reshape our understandings of the relationship between the regional and national spheres and the scope of authority within each sphere.
Black Power in the Caribbean
Authors: Lewis Rupert 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
The rise of comparative constitutional studies has made our world much smaller and more accessible than ever before. We are in an era of unprecedented interest in understanding and learning from others as individuals and institutions invest enormous amounts of time and resources into facilitating cross-national exchange and education in constitutional law. Yet some parts of the globe are still waiting to be discovered. With few exceptions, the Caribbean has remained understudied and underappreciated outside of the region itself. Not only on its own terms as a part of the larger world, but for how the lived experiences of the countries in the region can help illuminate new and productive approaches to challenges facing constitutional democracies across the globe. This book begins to fill the enormous void in our comparative knowledge of the constitutional systems of the world. The Caribbean is home not only many different constitutional systems, but also to different traditions of constitutionalism, making it more appropriate to speak of the various Caribbean constitutionalisms. The book seeks to both inform readers about these traditions of constitutionalism and to illuminate their implications for constitutional adjudication, evolution, interpretation, and reform. What results is a rich diversity of historical and modern constitutional experience that puts an end, once and for all, to the conventional misunderstanding of Caribbean constitutions as being one and the same.
Supply Chain Distribution Strategy
Authors: Li Yanzhi 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Distribution strategy deals with the journey of products, from the completion of production all the way to the hands of customers. It aims to get the products to the right place at the right time, in the right quantity, and at the right price. An effective distribution strategy requires a distribution network that balances the distribution cost with service level. The connectivity empowered by the Internet and particularly mobile broadband accelerates the information exchange in the supply chain, enables new business models, and demands a more connected, customer-driven, and responsive distribution network. Empowered by data technologies, the distribution network is becoming increasingly proactive and integrated. More research is called on to study the new challenges and research issues resulting from technological advancements and new business models.
Strategic Cost Management in the Supply Chain
Authors: Ellram Lisa M. , Tate Wendy L. 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Companies increasingly face challenging economic times, where it is not uncommon to see revenues decline or remain stagnant. This can strain business viability and reduce the return on investment for shareholders. To increase the return on investment and favorably impact profitability, organizations focus on cost reduction efforts. Cost management should be both holistic and purposeful, while taking a supply chain perspective. This is often not the case because the cost reduction efforts tend to be internal and short-term focused and do not consider the supply chain implications of decisions. Strategic cost management takes a supply chain perspective and includes several tools that can help facilitate cost management. This chapter provides a definition of strategic cost management with supporting examples. It also discusses some tools, including total cost of ownership, target costing, and supply chain finance, that can be used to holistically and strategically manage supply chain costs. The chapter closes with a discussion around the growing role of supply chain finance in cost management.
Non-Synoptic Winds Data Basis
Authors: Ulbrich Uwe , Meredith Edmund P. 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
A high-quality data basis is essential for reliable assessment of non-synoptic wind hazards and determination of any mitigation measures needed. Common data sources, however, often come with many shortcomings, which, if not taken into account, may lead to unsound estimation of risks from non-synoptic wind hazards. In this chapter, the range of potential data sources for assessing non-synoptic winds is discussed, including observational and model-based products. Observational products include station-based observational networks and remote sensing techniques, while model products range from global analyses to high-resolution large-eddy simulations. Both traditional and latest generation products are presented, including an explanation of how the respective data are produced and any limitations that end users should be aware of when working with such data. Sources of data deficiencies are additionally discussed, as well as factors to consider when assessing the suitability of a chosen data source as a basis for decision-making (e.g., its representativeness).
Potential Effects of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Non-Synoptic Wind Storm Hazards
Authors: Trapp Robert J. 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
One of the primary contributors to non-synoptic wind storms (NSWSs) is thunderstorm-induced phenomena such as tornadoes and downbursts. The intensity of these phenomena is intimately linked to the characteristics of their parent thunderstorms. In turn, these depend to varying degrees on the larger scale temperature, humidity, and winds, which comprise the meteorological environment of the NSWSs. Thus, any modification of the meteorological (and also physical–geographical) environment, be it natural or anthropogenic, has the potential to affect the intensity of NSWSs. This chapter begins with the background theory of how tornadoes and downbursts, specifically, relate to their larger scale environment. Simple arguments are then made on how changes to the environment might result in changes in the intensity and other characteristics of tornadoes and downbursts. Next, analyses of historical data are examined to determine the existence of any long-term trends in such intensity/characteristics consistent with an ongoing anthropogenic climate change impact. To determine if future impacts are to be expected, global and regional climate model simulations are consulted; a discussion of the means in which these simulations are “downscaled” to thunderstorm (and smaller) scales is provided here. The chapter concludes with some insight into implications of the historical and projected trends on exposure and risk to NSWSs.
Migration, Development and Latin American Sociology
Authors: Canales Alejandro I. 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
The migration–development relationship is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon. Most debates around this topic have been shaped by the hegemonic discourses of the receiving countries and international organizations. As a Latin American scholar, the author believes that these approaches suffer from at least four limitations that affect an understanding of international migration’s causes and consequences in the contemporary global society: overvaluing the impact of remittances, neglecting the contributions of immigrants in receiving societies, failing to adequately discuss the root causes of migration, and distorting the question of rights. This chapter contributes to a global and comprehensive approach to the migration-development relationship.
Guatemala
Authors: Carey David 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Presiding over some of the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, Hispanic elites and authorities regularly exploited and abused indígenas (indigenous people) to maximize their labor and minimize their political and economic power. As much as race, class, and gender compounded the marginalization of many lives, some indígenas, Afro-Guatemalans, poor and working-class people, and women deployed those identities to their advantage. In so doing, they influenced the larger political, social, and economic histories in ways that are not always reflected in Guatemala’s national history. From midwives, migrants, and nuns to activists and intellectuals, women shaped postcolonial Guatemala. Set against a long history of subjugation and violence, indígenas similarly responded to oppression in ways that ranged from resistance to collaboration and capitulation. Throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, indigenous entrepreneurs and intellectuals enjoyed some success and autonomy though oftentimes at the expense of their poor and working-class counterparts.
Studying the Effects of Meditation
Authors: Oman Doug 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
This chapter traces the history of modern meditation research. Meditation is conceptualized primarily as a seated practice for systematically training attention. Historically present in every major religion, meditation was traditionally used for spiritual purposes and usually accompanied by ancillary practices, such as spiritual fellowship. This chapter traces the dynamics and evolving interplay between dominant conceptions and forms of meditative practices under scientific study, as well as critiques of those conceptions, research questions, study designs, measurement instruments, and public reception and application. It describes how developments in each of these spheres have at different times opened up new lines of research, sometimes transforming other dimensions of ongoing research and practice. For the past fifty years, modern meditation research has progressed through partly overlapping periods that emphasized physiological measurement and secular adaptations; links to numerous health and well-being outcomes; emphasis on a sui generis psychosocial goal (mindfulness); advances in physiological and questionnaire-based empirical measurement; expansion of public, corporate, and governmental interest; increased concerns about abandonment of ethical bases and cultural context; and initial moves toward greater inclusiveness and integration of diverse methods and traditional perspectives.
Public Opinion and Executive Approval
Authors: Magalhães Pedro C. 
Published: August 2020

AbstractWhat executives are and what they do in democratic regimes should obviously be affected by public opinion. This occurs not only through the electoral process, but also through the influence that, in the interim, public attitudes exert on (re)election-minded politicians. But what drives public support for executives? This chapter focuses on four types of determinants: outcomes, processes, events, and time. After describing the findings of the early social-scientific studies on executive support of the 1970s and 1980s, we address the multiple caveats and contingencies that resulted from expanding these approaches to contexts different from those in which they originated. The result has been an increasing attention to heterogeneity: of effects, information levels, political and institutional contexts, and publics. Understanding this heterogeneity will be vital as we move more decisively in the future to the empirical study of the relationship between public opinion and the formation, survival, and (re)composition of executives.