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Student voices in transition reports the experiences of 70 students
who entered university through two national award-winning pathways
at Monash University in Australia and South Africa. It provides
insight into why these students sought university qualifications,
how they adjusted to university study, the challenges they faced
and the rewards they experienced. Their voices confirm that
effectively adapting to university entails more than the
acquisition of new study skills. The challenges faced by commencing
university students, particularly those who have past experiences
of modest academic achievement, extend beyond classrooms into their
social life and sense of identity. The students confirm that it is
in the first year at university that they learn the appropriate
skills, behaviours, attitudes and values necessary to become
successful students and graduates. Curriculum and teaching
practices that cultivate student identities enable them to become
future-focused and optimistic learners, equipped with adaptive
learning strategies and able to build and sustain academic
momentum. Student Voices in Transition contextualises the
experiences of students studying in Australia and South Africa
within recent international research and confirms that many of the
challenges and rewards of adapting to university teaching and
learning practices are generic and similarly experienced
internationally. The student participants provide insights into
what is entailed in coping with competing academic, social and
workplace demands. Their observations and perceptions will be of
interest to commencing students and their families, as well as
university educators and administrators engaged in supporting new
students. Producing graduates who are ethical and engaged citizens,
critically enquiring and work-ready, requires universities to
understand their commencing students and to explain the acquisition
of these attributes. In Australia and South Africa, as in many
other states, higher education policies seek to broaden
participation among underrepresented student groups. Universities
have responded with pathway programmes that attract, prepare and
retain students from increasingly diverse backgrounds. To
effectively equip these students for success in their studies, it
is important to understand how they experience university. Student
voices in transition explores how previously underrepresented
students perceive, experience and learn to successfully adopt
university learning practices.
Accepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to
controlling drinking, the latest edition of this bestselling book
will help you assess your drinking and determine whether moderation
or abstinence is the best path for you. For decades, the standard
treatment for people struggling with alcohol consumption has
focused on convincing them to admit that they are an alcoholic, to
stop drinking entirely, and to enter into a program, most commonly
Alcoholics Anonymous. But in his more than thirty-five-year career
as an addiction specialist working with people who want to change
their drinking habits, Michael S. Levy has found that the routes to
behavioral change actually vary. And although abstinence is the
successful route for many people, others can moderate their
drinking on their own or with professional help. In this practical,
effective, and compassionate book, Levy helps people take control
of their alcohol problem by teaching them how to think about and
address their drinking habits. Beginning with a set of
self-assessments that reveal whether the reader's use of alcohol is
creating problems, Levy explains the causes of problem drinking,
discusses the growing recognition of the various ways an alcohol
use disorder can show itself, and talks about why it is so
difficult to change. Offering advice for choosing between
moderating your drinking or abstaining altogether, he also touches
on coping with slipups, fighting helplessness and the fear of
failure, and knowing when moderation is not achievable. The book is
unique in that instead of telling people what they need to do, it
meets people at their stage of change and level of readiness to
change and helps them decide for themselves what they need to do.
Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, this new edition
includes * a chapter on the concept of self-medication-a useful but
at times overused idea; * a chapter on the concurrent use of drugs
(particularly cannabis) during recovery; * an exploration of modern
strategies for dealing with drinking, including technology (apps
that count drinks, for example) and medications that curb alcohol
consumption; * reflections on the use of stigma; * communication
strategies for individuals seeking to share their struggle with
others; * an exploration of common triggers; * additional
worksheets and tips to achieve success; * further material about
self-help programs; and * insights about the dark side of addiction
treatment. Ultimately, Take Control of Your Drinking empowers
people to tackle their drinking problem and gives them the freedom
to do so in a way that fits with their own lifestyle and values.
This book is useful for anyone who may find that they are drinking
too much, for the loved ones of such people, and for clinicians who
want to broaden their skills when working with people who struggle
with alcohol.
Social Work Ethics on the Line discusses social work ethics
in-depth and the process of making ethical judgements in social
work practice. This much-needed book guides social workers through
ethical dilemmas and assists them in their exercise of professional
discretion without exclusive reliance on the codes of professional
ethics to which they are committed. The author proposes a method to
lead social workers through making ethical decisions which enables
them to evaluate decisions in actual practice and in the
adjudication of grievances and complaints of unethical conduct.
This method is fully demonstrated in twenty-four vignettes
representing situations commonly encountered by social workers in a
variety of professional and educational situations. Raising the
ethical consciousness of social work practitioners, trainees, and
students, this book helps them develop the awareness and skills
necessary for choosing ethical actions in their work. Social Work
Ethics on the Line is an invaluable guide for social work
practitioners, supervisors, administrators, and community
organization workers. It is also helpful for in-service training in
social agencies and undergraduate and graduate schools of social
work.
Two aphorisms are often stated about Gibraltar: first, that it was
a possession that "Spain did not value until she had lost it"; and
second, since the day it became a British possession, "Gibraltar
has been a thorn in the side of Spain." Except for a few relatively
short periods, the Gibraltar issue has adversely affected
Anglo-Spanish relations during the almost 275 years of British
ownership. To date, negotiations under the aegis of the United
Nations have proven unfruitful. Spain demands that complete
sovereignty be returned. Great Britain declines to take any such
action without the consent of the inhabitants. Despite a referendum
in which the Gibraltarians voted overwhelmingly to retain links
with Great Britain, the Special Committee of the U.N. General
Assembly continues to strongly support the Spanish claim. What
effect Spain's entry into NATO will have remains to be seen. This
book examines the historical background and present status of the
dispute, making extensive use of documents not previously analyzed
in depth. Dr. Levie describes the events leading up to the Treaty
of Utrecht, provides a detailed analysis of the treaty itself, and
traces the origins of its various interpretations. He discusses how
the British, unintentionally or otherwise, have violated its
provisions, and how the Spanish have attempted to retaliate. The
book concludes with a discussion of how the Gibraltar issue has
beeen handled in the U.N. to the present day.
Two aphorisms are often stated about Gibraltar: first, that it was
a possession that "Spain did not value until she had lost it"; and
second, since the day it became a British possession, "Gibraltar
has been a thorn in the side of Spain." Except for a few relatively
short periods, the Gibraltar issue has adversely affected
Anglo-Spanish relations during the almost 275 years of British
ownership. To date, negotiations under the aegis of the United
Nations have proven unfruitful. Spain demands that complete
sovereignty be returned. Great Britain declines to take any such
action without the consent of the inhabitants. Despite a referendum
in which the Gibraltarians voted overwhelmingly to retain links
with Great Britain, the Special Committee of the U.N. General
Assembly continues to strongly support the Spanish claim. What
effect Spain's entry into NATO will have remains to be seen. This
book examines the historical background and present status of the
dispute, making extensive use of documents not previously analyzed
in depth. Dr. Levie describes the events leading up to the Treaty
of Utrecht, provides a detailed analysis of the treaty itself, and
traces the origins of its various interpretations. He discusses how
the British, unintentionally or otherwise, have violated its
provisions, and how the Spanish have attempted to retaliate. The
book concludes with a discussion of how the Gibraltar issue has
beeen handled in the U.N. to the present day.
As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies
scholars find themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing
availability of digital resources (data), new technologies to
interrogate and analyze them (tools), and the question of how to
critically engage with these developments. This volume discusses
how the digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies. It
explores the current state of the art and probes how digital
developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions,
challenges and problems that Jewish Studies scholars confront. In a
field characterised by dispersed sources, and heterogeneous scripts
and languages that speak to a multitude of cultures and histories,
of abundance as well as loss, what is the promise of Digital
Humanities methods--and what are the challenges and pitfalls? The
articles in this volume were originally presented at the
international conference #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital
Age, which was organised at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital
History (C(2)DH) at University of Luxembourg in January 2021. The
first big international conference of its kind, it brought together
more than sixty scholars and heritage practitioners to discuss how
the digital turn affects the field of Jewish Studies.
Social Work Ethics on the Line discusses social work ethics
in-depth and the process of making ethical judgements in social
work practice. This much-needed book guides social workers through
ethical dilemmas and assists them in their exercise of professional
discretion without exclusive reliance on the codes of professional
ethics to which they are committed. The author proposes a method to
lead social workers through making ethical decisions which enables
them to evaluate decisions in actual practice and in the
adjudication of grievances and complaints of unethical conduct.
This method is fully demonstrated in twenty-four vignettes
representing situations commonly encountered by social workers in a
variety of professional and educational situations. Raising the
ethical consciousness of social work practitioners, trainees, and
students, this book helps them develop the awareness and skills
necessary for choosing ethical actions in their work. Social Work
Ethics on the Line is an invaluable guide for social work
practitioners, supervisors, administrators, and community
organization workers. It is also helpful for in-service training in
social agencies and undergraduate and graduate schools of social
work.
In recent years topology has firmly established itself as an
important part of the physicist's mathematical arsenal. It has many
applications, first of all in quantum field theory, but
increasingly also in other areas of physics. The main focus of this
book is on the results of quantum field theory that are obtained by
topological methods. Some aspects of the theory of condensed matter
are also discussed. Part I is an introduction to quantum field
theory: it discusses the basic Lagrangians used in the theory of
elementary particles. Part II is devoted to the applications of
topology to quantum field theory. Part III covers the necessary
mathematical background in summary form. The book is aimed at
physicists interested in applications of topology to physics and at
mathematicians wishing to familiarize themselves with quantum field
theory and the mathematical methods used in this field. It is
accessible to graduate students in physics and mathematics.
This book is an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written
by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a
psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic
functioning. In particular, it draws on attachment theory to
explain how trauma undermines psychic resilience both within
individuals and also within broader communities and societies. This
collection contextualises external traumatic events and addresses
both individual, internal responses as well as the impact of trauma
on broader social relations.
Contents: Introduction. - Fundamental Concepts. - Topological
Vector Spaces.- The Quotient Topology. - Completion of Metric
Spaces. - Homotopy. - The Two Countability Axioms. - CW-Complexes.
- Construction of Continuous Functions on Topological Spaces. -
Covering Spaces. - The Theorem of Tychonoff. - Set Theory (by T.
Br|cker). - References. - Table of Symbols. -Index.
Rule-Based Programming is a broad presentation of the rule-based
programming method with many example programs showing the strengths
of the rule-based approach. The rule-based approach has been used
extensively in the development of artificial intelligence systems,
such as expert systems and machine learning. This rule-based
programming technique has been applied in such diverse fields as
medical diagnostic systems, insurance and banking systems, as well
as automated design and configuration systems. Rule-based
programming is also helpful in bridging the semantic gap between an
application and a program, allowing domain specialists to
understand programs and participate more closely in their
development. Over sixty programs are presented and all programs are
available from an ftp site. Many of these programs are presented in
several versions allowing the reader to see how realistic programs
are elaborated from `back of envelope' models. Metaprogramming is
also presented as a technique for bridging the `semantic gap'.
Rule-Based Programming will be of interest to programmers, systems
analysts and other developers of expert systems as well as to
researchers and practitioners in artificial intelligence, computer
science professionals and educators.
In recent years topology has firmly established itself as an
important part of the physicist's mathematical arsenal. It has many
applications, first of all in quantum field theory, but
increasingly also in other areas of physics. The main focus of this
book is on the results of quantum field theory that are obtained by
topological methods. Some aspects of the theory of condensed matter
are also discussed. Part I is an introduction to quantum field
theory: it discusses the basic Lagrangians used in the theory of
elementary particles. Part II is devoted to the applications of
topology to quantum field theory. Part III covers the necessary
mathematical background in summary form. The book is aimed at
physicists interested in applications of topology to physics and at
mathematicians wishing to familiarize themselves with quantum field
theory and the mathematical methods used in this field. It is
accessible to graduate students in physics and mathematics.
Accepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to
controlling drinking, the latest edition of this bestselling book
will help you assess your drinking and determine whether moderation
or abstinence is the best path for you. For decades, the standard
treatment for people struggling with alcohol consumption has
focused on convincing them to admit that they are an alcoholic, to
stop drinking entirely, and to enter into a program, most commonly
Alcoholics Anonymous. But in his more than thirty-five-year career
as an addiction specialist working with people who want to change
their drinking habits, Michael S. Levy has found that the routes to
behavioral change actually vary. And although abstinence is the
successful route for many people, others can moderate their
drinking on their own or with professional help. In this practical,
effective, and compassionate book, Levy helps people take control
of their alcohol problem by teaching them how to think about and
address their drinking habits. Beginning with a set of
self-assessments that reveal whether the reader's use of alcohol is
creating problems, Levy explains the causes of problem drinking,
discusses the growing recognition of the various ways an alcohol
use disorder can show itself, and talks about why it is so
difficult to change. Offering advice for choosing between
moderating your drinking or abstaining altogether, he also touches
on coping with slipups, fighting helplessness and the fear of
failure, and knowing when moderation is not achievable. The book is
unique in that instead of telling people what they need to do, it
meets people at their stage of change and level of readiness to
change and helps them decide for themselves what they need to do.
Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, this new edition
includes * a chapter on the concept of self-medication-a useful but
at times overused idea; * a chapter on the concurrent use of drugs
(particularly cannabis) during recovery; * an exploration of modern
strategies for dealing with drinking, including technology (apps
that count drinks, for example) and medications that curb alcohol
consumption; * reflections on the use of stigma; * communication
strategies for individuals seeking to share their struggle with
others; * an exploration of common triggers; * additional
worksheets and tips to achieve success; * further material about
self-help programs; and * insights about the dark side of addiction
treatment. Ultimately, Take Control of Your Drinking empowers
people to tackle their drinking problem and gives them the freedom
to do so in a way that fits with their own lifestyle and values.
This book is useful for anyone who may find that they are drinking
too much, for the loved ones of such people, and for clinicians who
want to broaden their skills when working with people who struggle
with alcohol.
What determines whether an action is right or wrong? One appealing
idea is that a moral code ought to contain a number of rules that
tell people how to behave and that are simple and few enough to be
easily learned. Another appealing idea is that the consequences of
actions matter, often more than anything else. Rule
consequentialism tries to weave these two ideas into a general
theory of morality. This theory holds that morally wrong actions
are the ones forbidden by rules whose acceptance would maximize the
overall good. Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader
explores for students and researchers the relationship between
consequentialist theory and moral rules. Most of the chapters focus
on rule consequentialism or on the distinction between act and rule
versions of consequentialism. Contributors, among them the leading
philosophers in the discipline, suggest ways of assessing whether
rule consequentialism could be a satisfactory moral theory. These
essays, all of which are previously unpublished, provide students
in moral philosophy with essential material and ask key questions
on just what the criteria for an adequate moral theory might be.
Rule-Based Programming is a broad presentation of the rule-based
programming method with many example programs showing the strengths
of the rule-based approach. The rule-based approach has been used
extensively in the development of artificial intelligence systems,
such as expert systems and machine learning. This rule-based
programming technique has been applied in such diverse fields as
medical diagnostic systems, insurance and banking systems, as well
as automated design and configuration systems. Rule-based
programming is also helpful in bridging the semantic gap between an
application and a program, allowing domain specialists to
understand programs and participate more closely in their
development. Over sixty programs are presented and all programs are
available from an ftp site. Many of these programs are presented in
several versions allowing the reader to see how realistic programs
are elaborated from back of envelope' models. Metaprogramming is
also presented as a technique for bridging the semantic gap'.
Rule-Based Programming will be of interest to programmers, systems
analysts and other developers of expert systems as well as to
researchers and practitioners in artificial intelligence, computer
science professionals and educators.
Contents: Introduction. - Fundamental Concepts. - Topological
Vector Spaces.- The Quotient Topology. - Completion of Metric
Spaces. - Homotopy. - The Two Countability Axioms. - CW-Complexes.
- Construction of Continuous Functions on Topological Spaces. -
Covering Spaces. - The Theorem of Tychonoff. - Set Theory (by T.
Br-cker). - References. - Table of Symbols. -Index.
A small program is presented to motivate the concerns for
programmer productivity and program quality that are the central
issues of this set of essays. The example is one which demonstrates
the performance aspect of programming. In order to achieve program
quality, where a program is understood and known to be correct, we
need a primary program description. This primary program
description not only describes the program but is also used to
generate the program. The method of applying primary program
descriptions to produce programs is called metaprogramming and is
described in Chapter 3. In the later chapters, we show how the
method can be analyzed from an economic point of view to address
the issues of productivity as well. 1 Introduction In thinking
about programming over the last decade, I have concluded that very
little is known about the process of programming or the engineering
of software [1]. The consequence of having very little established
truth to use as a basis for thinking about programming is that
almost every conclusion must be reasoned out from first principles.
Also, you cannot rely solely on textbooks but must use
experimentation and direct observation to gain some experience with
which to proceed.
Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology
to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political
decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and
political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political
conflicts and make foreign policy decisions. In this updated third
edition of The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Leonie
Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer Jerit have
gathered together an international group of distinguished scholars
to provide an up-to-date account of key topics and areas of
research in the field. Chapter authors draw on theory and research
on biopsychology, neuroscience, personality, psychopathology,
evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental
psychology, cognitive psychology, and intergroup relations. Some
chapters address the political psychology of political elites,
while other chapters deal with the dynamics of mass political
behavior. Focusing first on political psychology at the individual
level (attitudes, values, decision-making, ideology, personality)
and then moving to the collective (group identity, mass
mobilization, political violence), this fully interdisciplinary
volume covers models of the mass public and political elites and
addresses both domestic issues and foreign policy. Now with new
chapters on authoritarianism, nationalism, status hierarchies,
minority political identities, and several other topics along with
substantially updated material to account for the recent
cutting-edge research within both psychology and political science,
this is an essential reference for scholars and students interested
in the intersection of the two fields.
For more than 10 years, the Quick Reference Dictionary for Athletic
Training has assisted clinicians and students in applying current
concepts applicable to the profession while in the classroom,
clinic, or on the field. Now updated into a third edition, this
pocket-sized, comprehensive, and user-friendly companion guide is
an essential resource. With over 2100 terms and 20 appendices, it
includes a more complete series of neurologic and musculoskeletal
special tests, as well as available evidence-based data including
likelihood ratios, and interrater and intrarater reliability data
to support the use of each test. Additional updates include:
references to accreditation; goniometric range of motion measures;
pharmacology; concussion assessment protocol; and the NATA's Code
of Ethics. This new edition will textually and visually provide the
athletic training clinician and student with a quick overview of
the essential elements of the profession.
Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled
Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. On
a freezing December night almost two centuries ago, a fire erupted
in lower Manhattan. The city's inhabitants, though accustomed to
blazes in a town with so many wooden structures, a spotty water
supply, and a decentralized fire department, looked on in horror at
the scale of this one. Philip Hone, a former mayor of New York,
wrote in his diary how "the progress of the flames, like flashes of
lightning, communicated in every direction, and a few minutes
sufficed to level the lofty edifices on every side." By the time
the fire was extinguished, a huge swath of land had been
transformed from a thriving business center into the "Burnt
District," an area roughly the same size as was devastated during
the September 11th attack. In the end, nearly 700 buildings were
destroyed. So vast was the conflagration that it was immediately
and henceforth known as the Great Fire of 1835. Manhattan Phoenix
reveals how New York emerged from the disaster to become a global
powerhouse merely a quarter of a century later. Daniel S. Levy's
book charts the city's almost miraculous growth during the early
19th century by focusing on the topics that shaped its destiny,
starting with fire but including water, land, disease, culture, and
politics, interweaving the lives of New Yorkers who took part in
its transformation. Some are well-known, including the land baron
John Jacob Astor. Others less so, as with the Bowery Theatre
impresario Thomas Hamblin and the African-American restaurateur
Thomas Downing. The book celebrates Fire Chief James Gulick, who
battled the Great Fire, examines the designs of the architect
Alexander Jackson Davis who built marble palaces for the rich,
follows the abolitionist Arthur Tappan, chronicles the career of
the merchant Alexander Stewart, and reveals how the engineer John
Bloomfield Jervis succeeded in bringing clean water into homes. The
city's resurrection likewise owed much to such visionaries as
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who designed Central Park,
creating the refuge that it remains to this day. Manhattan Phoenix
offers the story of a city rising from the ashes to fulfill its
destiny to grow into one of the world's greatest metropolises-and
in no small part due to catastrophe. It is, in other words, a New
York story.
"An invaluable primer on how inequity breeds ill health" -New
England Journal of Medicine AN ESSENTIAL WORK ON SOCIAL
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, NOW UPDATED AND EXPANDED This newly revised
edition of the classic text is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource
for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social
injustice on public health. Across chapters from experts in health
and medicine, readers learn to recognize both the threads of
inequity and the health impacts they produce. The result is
illuminating and essential reading for students and professionals
in public health. Enriched with photographs and case examples and
featuring contributions from the luminaries whose work helped
define the field, Social Injustice and Public Health is a
foundational text for understanding and addressing today's biggest
challenges in health.
The first comprehensive, real-world look at two-phase flow
systems-from one of the world's leading authorities on the subject.
From his early works in the area of heat transfer research on
boundary layer flows and two-phase flows to his role as one of the
lead consultants following the Three Mile Island accident,
internationally renowned engineer Salomon Levy has achieved an
ideal balance of theory and practice in his engineering career. In
Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems, Dr. Levy's newest book, he draws
on this breadth of experience to examine these systems in the real
world.
Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems offers a unique look at
two-phase flow phenomena (primarily gas and liquid) in a variety of
systems, from water reactors to the global climate system. Focusing
on the interaction and simultaneous behavior of all the components
in a system, the book's approach departs significantly from
conventional texts, which emphasize modeling of separate phenomena.
The book begins with the formulation of an integrated program of
experiments and analytical tools, and describes experimental
aspects-specifically the scaling of test facilities-essential to
representing the critical elements of the behavior of complex
systems. Subsequent chapters:
* Discuss system computer codes for predicting system behavior
during transients and accidents.
* Examine flow pattern maps and flow pattern models.
* Describe typical limiting phenomena known to impact the safety
and cost of complex systems (including countercurrent limiting
conditions and critical or choking flow).
The book also illustrates how the analysis used in understanding
the dynamics of a nuclear power system canbe applied to the entire
global climate system, including the phenomenon of global warming.
War causes death, disability, and disease. It damages the
health-supporting infrastructure, displaces populations, violates
human rights, and diverts resources. And it subsequently leads to
more violence. From Horror to Hope documents the health
consequences of war, primarily for noncombatant civilians but also
for military personnel and veterans, and outlines what can be done
to minimize these consequences. Written by a public health
physician engaged with this subject for decades, the book also
describes positive developments in addressing the health impacts of
war, including new initiatives to protect civilians during war,
reduce gender-based violence and mental trauma, and control the
international arms trade and nuclear weapons. In addition, From
Horror to Hope profiles inspiring health professionals who are
providing healthcare for war-affected populations and participating
in education, research, and advocacy to reduce the health impacts
of war. Finally, the book demonstrates how traditional public
health frameworks and new paradigms can be applied to the
prevention of war and the promotion of peace. Given the current
peak in armed conflicts and the increasing threat of future wars,
From Horror to Hope provides an extremely timely overview for
anyone seeking to better understand and address the health
consequences of war.
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