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This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian,
Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related
stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many
travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles,
churches, houses) throughout the world. These visits often involve
discovery of new historical facts through the origin stories of the
associated tribe, region, or nation. The transmission of oral
tradition and myth carries on the significant meaning of those
religious sites. This volume unveils multi-angle perspectives of
symbolic and mystical places. The contributors describe the
religio-political experiences of each regional case, and analyze
the religiosity of local people as a lens through which readers can
re-examine the concept of iconography, syncretism, and materialism.
In addition, contributors interpret the growth of new religions as
the alternative perspectives of anti-traditional religions. This
new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the
practical agony and sorrow of regional people in the context of
contemporary history.
East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South
Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in
East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical
perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume
presents valuable and original contributions to global
conversations.
Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based
optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis,
lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering.
Invaluable to all concerned with structural system reliability and
optimization, especially students, engineers, and workers in
research and development.
Continuously increasing oil prices, a dwindling supply of
petroleum, and the existence of extensive reserves of biomass,
especially of coal, have given rise to a growing interest in
generating CO/H from these sources. Catalytic reactions can 2
convert CO/H mixtures to useful hydrocarbons or hydrocarbon
intermediates. 2 There is little doubt that petroleum will remain
the backbone of the organic chemical industry for many years to
come, yet there is great opportunity for CO as an alternative
feedstock at times when it is needed. The loosely defined body of
chemistry and technology contained in these areas of development
has become known as C 1 chemistry, embracing many C 1 building
blocks such as CH , CO/H , CO, CH OH, CO and HCN; still emphasis 4
2 3 2 rests on carbon monoxide. Academic research laboratories, oil
and chemical companies are in the vanguard of C 1 chemistry. The
Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry is sponsoring
a seven-year program of 14 major chemical companies in C 1
chemistry aimed at developing new technology for making basic
chemicals from CO and H2 . It is likely that C 1 chemistry will
develop slowly but persistently and the future holds great
potential.
This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its
historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the
genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth
century, the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an important early
text whose origins and place in the history of Christianity
continue to be subjects of debate. Aiming to relocate the Thomasine
community in the wider context of early Christianity, this study
considers the Gospel of Thomas as a bridge between the oral and
literary phases of the Christian movement. It will therefore, be
useful for Religion scholars working on Biblical studies, Coptic
codices, gnosticism and early Christianity.
This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new
religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of
anti-colonial ideology from local religious groups or individuals.
The contributors argue that when traditional religions were
powerless to maintain their cultural heritage, the leadership of
NRMs adduced alternative principles, and the new teachings of each
NRM attracted the local people enough for them to change their
beliefs. The contributors argue that, as a whole, the Asian new
religious movements overall were very ardent and progressive in
transmitting their new ideologies. The varied viewpoints in this
volume attest to the consistent development of Asian NRMs from
domestic and international dimensions by replacing old, traditional
religions.
This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its
historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the
genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth
century, the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an important early
text whose origins and place in the history of Christianity
continue to be subjects of debate. Aiming to relocate the Thomasine
community in the wider context of early Christianity, this study
considers the Gospel of Thomas as a bridge between the oral and
literary phases of the Christian movement. It will therefore, be
useful for Religion scholars working on Biblical studies, Coptic
codices, gnosticism and early Christianity.
More than 1.3 million Korean Americans live in the United States,
the majority of them foreign-born immigrants and their children,
the so-called 1.5 and second generations. While many sons and
daughters of Korean immigrants outwardly conform to the stereotyped
image of the upwardly mobile, highly educated super-achiever, the
realities and challenges that the children of Korean immigrants
face in their adult lives as their immigrant parents grow older and
confront health issues that are far more complex. In Caring Across
Generations, Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim explore how earlier
experiences helping immigrant parents navigate American society
have prepared Korean American children for negotiating and
redefining the traditional gender norms, close familial
relationships, and cultural practices that their parents expect
them to adhere to as they reach adulthood. Drawing on in-depth
interviews with 137 second and 1.5 generation Korean Americans, Yoo
& Kim explore issues such as their childhood experiences, their
interpreted cultural traditions and values in regards to care and
respect for the elderly, their attitudes and values regarding care
for aging parents, their observations of parents facing retirement
and life changes, and their experiences with providing care when
parents face illness or the prospects of dying. A unique study at
the intersection of immigration and aging, Caring Across
Generations provides a new look at the linked lives of immigrants
and their families, and the struggles and triumphs that they face
over many generations.
This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new
religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of
anti-colonial ideology from local religious groups or individuals.
The contributors argue that when traditional religions were
powerless to maintain their cultural heritage, the leadership of
NRMs adduced alternative principles, and the new teachings of each
NRM attracted the local people enough for them to change their
beliefs. The contributors argue that, as a whole, the Asian new
religious movements overall were very ardent and progressive in
transmitting their new ideologies. The varied viewpoints in this
volume attest to the consistent development of Asian NRMs from
domestic and international dimensions by replacing old, traditional
religions.
A young man flees a disaster at home, and comes to live in the city
with his sister, making ends meet by taking a job as a deliveryman
- only to encounter a flood of old friends and past acquaintances
on his daily route... At first elated by the company of these waifs
and strays, their own desperation for work begins to trouble his
conscience - but what happens when you can't deliver help to
everyone? Chris W. Kim's distinctively detailed graphic style
embodies an elusively disquieting parable of modern isolation, and
of the ties that bind - or fail to bind - society together.
This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian,
Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related
stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many
travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles,
churches, houses) throughout the world. These visits often involve
discovery of new historical facts through the origin stories of the
associated tribe, region, or nation. The transmission of oral
tradition and myth carries on the significant meaning of those
religious sites. This volume unveils multi-angle perspectives of
symbolic and mystical places. The contributors describe the
religio-political experiences of each regional case, and analyze
the religiosity of local people as a lens through which readers can
re-examine the concept of iconography, syncretism, and materialism.
In addition, contributors interpret the growth of new religions as
the alternative perspectives of anti-traditional religions. This
new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the
practical agony and sorrow of regional people in the context of
contemporary history.
This volume presents evidence of the extent and effects of
intercultural contacts across Europe and the Mediterranean rim,
opening up a new understanding of early medieval civilisation and
its continuing influence in both Western and Eastern cultures
today. From the perspectives of textual transmission, cultural
memory, religion, art and cultural traditions, this work explores
the central question of how ideas travelled in the medieval world,
challenging the conventional notion of insular communities in the
Middle Ages. Despite the schism between East and West that took
hold after the thirteenth century this volume reveals a rich and
extensive cultural exchange and demonstrates that transmission of
ideas and culture across borders began much earlier than the
Crusades. It contributes to new perspectives on medieval cities,
Christian Europe's history with the Byzantine and Islamic
Mediterranean, the landscape of power and the power-plays of the
medieval Church, and the way in which cross-cultural transmission
affected all of these areas.
More than 1.3 million Korean Americans live in the United
States, the majority of them foreign-born immigrants and their
children, the so-called 1.5 and second generations. While many sons
and daughters of Korean immigrants outwardly conform to the
stereotyped image of the upwardly mobile, highly educated
super-achiever, the realities and challenges that the children of
Korean immigrants face in their adult lives as their immigrant
parents grow older and confront health issues that are far more
complex. In Caring Across Generations, Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W.
Kim explore how earlier experiences helping immigrant parents
navigate American society have prepared Korean American children
for negotiating and redefining the traditional gender norms, close
familial relationships, and cultural practices that their parents
expect them to adhere to as they reach adulthood. Drawing on
in-depth interviews with 137 second and 1.5 generation Korean
Americans, Yoo & Kim explore issues such as their childhood
experiences, their interpreted cultural traditions and values in
regards to care and respect for the elderly, their attitudes and
values regarding care for aging parents, their observations of
parents facing retirement and life changes, and their experiences
with providing care when parents face illness or the prospects of
dying. A unique study at the intersection of immigration and aging,
Caring Across Generations provides a new look at the linked lives
of immigrants and their families, and the struggles and triumphs
that they face over many generations.
This accessible guide details an evidence-based educational program
to help couples adapt to parenthood while minimizing the inevitable
stress on the relationship. Complete with content, rationales,
activities, and client materials, its flexible format allows for
home and office visits and phone/online support across the
transition, starting during pregnancy and continuing into early
infancy. Activities build on themes of caring, change, and
cooperation as couples learn to identify and address sources of
conflict, solve infant-care problems, and to become optimal
partners as well as optimal parents. The book's hands-on
presentation includes chapter highlights, boxed "Practice Tips" and
"Clinical Connections" sections, client handouts and worksheets,
and examples of clinician interactions with couples. The sessions
described in Clinical Guide to Helping New Parents: The Couple CARE
for Parents Program are organized to meet challenges and reinforce
skills in key areas including: Developing realistic and shared
expectations. Promoting positive communications and self-change.
Conflict management communication skills. Developing sensitive and
responsive parenting Reviewing personal and social support.
Developing caring and healthy sexuality. Anticipating and
preventing relationship deterioration.
First of all, I would like to share the great pleasure of the
successful five-day symposium with every participant in the 5th
Iketani Conference which was held in Kagoshima from April1S
(Tuesday) to 22 (Saturday), 1995. Outstanding speakers
enthusiastically presented their up-to-the-minute results.
Relatively little time was allotted for each presentation to ensure
asdnuch time. as possible for intensive discussions on the
particular topics that had just been p esented: I was delighted to
see that the lectures were of high quality, and the discu,
ssionswere lively, exciting, and productive in a congenial
atmosphere. We also had 92 papers in the poster .session, in which
young (and relatively young) scientists made every effort to
present the novel results of their research in advanced
biomaterials and drug delivery systems (DDS). I believe some of the
research is most promising and will become noteworthy in the
twenty-first century. It was a privilege for me to deliver a
lecture at the special session of the symposium. In my introductory
remarks, I pointed out five key terms in multifaceted biomaterials
research: materials design, concept or methodology, devices,
properties demanded, and fundamentals. I am confident that
innovative progress in device manufacturing for end-use, e.g.,
artificial organs, vascular grafts, and DDS, can be brought about
only through properly designed advanced materials that exhibit the
desired functionality at the interface with any living body."
East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South
Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in
East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical
perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume
presents valuable and original contributions to global
conversations.
This book is an anthology of the results of research and
development in database query processing during the past decade.
The relational model of data provided tremendous impetus for
research into query processing. Since a relational query does not
specify access paths to the stored data, the database management
system (DBMS) must provide an intelligent query-processing
subsystem which will evaluate a number of potentially efficient
strategies for processing the query and select the one that
optimizes a given performance measure. The degree of sophistication
of this subsystem, often called the optimizer, critically affects
the performance of the DBMS. Research into query processing thus
started has taken off in several directions during the past decade.
The emergence of research into distributed databases has enormously
complicated the tasks of the optimizer. In a distributed
environment, the database may be partitioned into horizontal or
vertical fragments of relations. Replicas of the fragments may be
stored in different sites of a network and even migrate to other
sites. The measure of performance of a query in a distributed
system must include the communication cost between sites. To
minimize communication costs for-queries involving multiple
relations across multiple sites, optimizers may also have to
consider semi-join techniques.
Continuously increasing oil prices, a dwindling supply of
petroleum, and the existence of extensive reserves of biomass,
especially of coal, have given rise to a growing interest in
generating CO/H from these sources. Catalytic reactions can 2
convert CO/H mixtures to useful hydrocarbons or hydrocarbon
intermediates. 2 There is little doubt that petroleum will remain
the backbone of the organic chemical industry for many years to
come, yet there is great opportunity for CO as an alternative
feedstock at times when it is needed. The loosely defined body of
chemistry and technology contained in these areas of development
has become known as C 1 chemistry, embracing many C 1 building
blocks such as CH , CO/H , CO, CH OH, CO and HCN; still emphasis 4
2 3 2 rests on carbon monoxide. Academic research laboratories, oil
and chemical companies are in the vanguard of C 1 chemistry. The
Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry is sponsoring
a seven-year program of 14 major chemical companies in C 1
chemistry aimed at developing new technology for making basic
chemicals from CO and H2 . It is likely that C 1 chemistry will
develop slowly but persistently and the future holds great
potential.
Cross-Cultural Family Research and Practice broadens the
theoretical and clinical perspectives on couple and family
cross-cultural research with insights from a diverse set of
disciplines, including psychology, sociology, communications,
economics, and more. Examining topics such as family migration,
acculturation and implications for clinical intervention, the book
starts by providing an overarching conceptual framework, then moves
into a comparison of countries and cultures, with an overview of
cross-cultural studies of the family across nations from a range of
specific disciplinary perspectives. Other sections focus on
acculturation, migrating/migrated families and their descendants,
and clinical practice with culturally diverse families.
Herman is a reclusive, straight-laced street cleaner or so it seems
to those he works with on the city's waterfront. But he has an
extraordinary hidden talent: the ability to transform his
appearance at will. When the unsmiling cinematic genius MIO calls
an open audition for her new movie, a queue forms along the
waterfront, snaking past the industrial park, the beach, the
shipyard, and beyond. On the fourth day, Herman joins it. As he
waits, swept up in the frenzy of creative ambition that has
overcome the city, his past life becomes increasingly remote. By
the time he enters the audition room, he might have lost his job,
but his talent remains. Dazzled by Herman's ability to adapt to any
role, MIO deems the rest of the cast redundant, sparking a furious
outcry. When the cult director's new film premieres, with Herman
performing every role, it doesn't get the reaction she expects.
Spectacularly drawn, Herman by Trade is a captivating graphic novel
about art, identity, and making space for self-expression.
This volume presents evidence of the extent and effects of
intercultural contacts across Europe and the Mediterranean rim,
opening up a new understanding of early medieval civilisation and
its continuing influence in both Western and Eastern cultures
today. From the perspectives of textual transmission, cultural
memory, religion, art and cultural traditions, this work explores
the central question of how ideas travelled in the medieval world,
challenging the conventional notion of insular communities in the
Middle Ages. Despite the schism between East and West that took
hold after the thirteenth century this volume reveals a rich and
extensive cultural exchange and demonstrates that transmission of
ideas and culture across borders began much earlier than the
Crusades. It contributes to new perspectives on medieval cities,
Christian Europe's history with the Byzantine and Islamic
Mediterranean, the landscape of power and the power-plays of the
medieval Church, and the way in which cross-cultural transmission
affected all of these areas.
Crime and violence inflict high costs on the private sector costs
that are rising globally, according to the World Bank s Enterprise
Surveys, discussions with chambers and associations, and the Bank s
Country Partnership Strategies, which reference the losses in terms
of gross domestic product (GDP). In Latin America and the
Caribbean, for example, losses due to crime and violence have been
estimated at 9 percent of GDP in Honduras, 7.7 percent in El
Salvador, and 3.6 percent in Costa Rica. In sectors such as
clothing assembly, international purchasers can shift know-how and
capital quickly to less violent destinations, while other sectors
such as extractive industries are more likely to stay despite
rising violence. Behind the statistics are human costs: lost jobs;
shifting of businesses working capital from productive uses to
security firms; and an increase in contraband, fraud and
corruption, and rule of law issues. In this book, original case
studies from Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, Nepal, and Rwanda
illustrate the specific challenges to businesses and the coping
mechanisms that firms and groups of firms have used successfully
against crime and violence. The book s findings have implications
for the private sector, governments, and the World Bank s efforts
to support both under difficult circumstances."
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