Thomas W. Barton et al., eds. Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World: Essays in Honour of Paul Freedman. Europa Sacra 22. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017, 346 pp., 7 figs., 3 tables.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-260
Author(s):  
Thomas Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medieval Historiography ◽  
Medieval Historian

Paul Freedman is an outstanding medieval historian with wide-ranging interests. I first encountered his work through Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (2008), and was surprised to realize later that he was also the author of Images of the Medieval Peasant (1999). These two works by no means exhaust the full range of Freedman’s erudition: Over the past forty years he has published on topics ranging from papal privileges in Catalonia to medieval historiography—and as this book’s co-editors observe, not only have his interests ramified over the years, he has continued to publish in each of his many areas of expertise, gaining new interests while retaining old ones.

Body and Desire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael A. Cadenhead
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Diachronic Analysis

Although the reception of the Eastern father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought, particularly in relation to the contentious issues of gender, sex, and sexuality. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory’s thinking on the challenges of the ascetic life through a diachronic analysis of his oeuvre. Exploring his understanding of the importance of bodily and spiritual maturation in the practices of contemplation and virtue, Raphael Cadenhead recovers the vital relevance of this vision of transformation for contemporary ethical discourse.

scholarly journals Therapeutic Abortion and Psychiatric Disturbance in Canadian Women

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 453-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther R. Greenglass
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Psychiatric History ◽  
Legal Abortion ◽  
Therapeutic Abortion ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Psychiatric Problems

Summary The majority of one hundred and eighty-eight women interviewed after having legal, therapeutic abortions did not experience psychiatric disturbance. While women with a psychiatric history were more likely than their more mentally healthy counterparts to experience some psychiatric disturbance afterwards, the majority of those with psychiatric problems in the past appeared to be coping reasonably well afterwards. It was pointed out that factors and circumstances other than the abortion itself, but occurring around the same time, may constitute reasons for the subsequent appearance of psychiatric disturbance, such as suicide attempts. Finally, the grounds for legal abortion in Canada were questioned — particularly the artificial practice of compartmentalizing and labeling reasons for abortion as psychiatric and non-psychiatric. While such practices may facilitate the decision-making processes involved in reviewing applications for abortion, they do not take account of the full range of human and social need.

scholarly journals Interpersonal dynamics and multidisciplinary teamwork

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 462-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Reiss ◽  
Gabriel Kirtchuk
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Relationship Patterns ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
Therapeutic Modalities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teamwork

SummaryAnalysing interpersonal dynamics is an approach through which the multidisciplinary team can develop a shared understanding of their patients. This empirically based method provides an insight into repeated patterns of dysfunctional behaviour, which not only have been evident in the past, but are currently having an impact on the patient's relationships with caring staff. The technique is accessible to any team member with only minimal training required. It provides the team with a coherent map of the patient's relationship patterns that underpins the formulation of an effective strategy for care. The multidisciplinary team is then able to work towards shared goals, supporting all members in their provision of effective interventions within the full range of therapeutic modalities. The approach promotes positive staff–patient interactions and provides an additional dimension to the assessment and management of risk.

Self-Undermining Rhetoric in the Past and Present

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Seth Levine
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
The Face

This chapter considers the prospects for political change in the face of communicative barriers to collective action. It begins to address this question by identifying several of the most well-known historical and recent moments in which there was large-scale mobilization on some economic insecurity issues. This discussion, in concert with the empirical findings in this book, helps clarify the prospects for political action (and policy change) on these issues. The chapter then uses the findings from the book to identify three types of people that are most likely to become active. It also talks about the implications of having this (narrower) set of people active as opposed to the full range of people that find the issues to be important. It concludes by reiterating how self-undermining rhetoric is a broad concept that can apply in many different situations beyond those considered herein.

The Role of Vitamin D and the Vitamin D Receptor in Bone Oncology

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (03) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. M. Holzapfel ◽  
F. Jakob ◽  
A. A. Kurth ◽  
G. Maier ◽  
K. Horas
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin D ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Vitamin D Deficiency ◽  
Vitamin D Receptor ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Cancer Cell Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Health Problem

SummaryVitamin D deficiency is a global health problem of enormous and increasing dimensions. In the past decades, numerous studies have centered on the role of vitamin D in the pathogenesis and course of many diseases including several types of cancer. Indeed, vitamin D has been widely acknowledged to be involved in the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis in numerous cancer cells. While the full range of molecular mechanisms involveld in cancer cell growth and progression remains to be elucidated, recent research has deepened our understanding of the processes that may be affected by vitamin D or vitamin D deficiency.In this review, we consider the properties of bone that enable cancer cells to grow and thrive within the skeleton, and the role of vitamin D and the vitamin D receptor in the process of primary and secondary cancer growth in bone.

DIVERSITY AND MEANING IN THE STUDY OF BLACK FATHERHOOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria S. Johnson ◽  
Alford A. Young
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Black Fathers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
The Many

AbstractFor the past several decades, numerous studies have focused on the so-called “crisis of Black fatherhood”—that is, the many ways in which Black fathers struggle to fulfill traditional paternal roles and duties. Given major shifts in both the structural conditions and cultural expectations of fatherhood in general over the past century, we argue that it is necessary to reestablish not only what Black fatherhood looks like today—in particular, the internal diversity and dynamism of this category—but also how Black men (as well as other members of Black families and communities) make sense of these changes and meaningfully negotiate their implications. We outline a two-pronged research agenda that: first, identifies gaps in the existing literature that limit our knowledge of the full range of Black fathering practices and experiences; and second, reclaims and repurposes “cultural analysis,” not to pathologize “what’s wrong with Black families and fathers,” but to shed much needed light on the ways in which Black fathers themselves process and make meaning of their roles and realities.

scholarly journals High point narrative structure in mother-child conversations about the past and children’s emergent literacy skills in Costa Rica

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (115) ◽  
pp. 93-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Sparks ◽  
Ana María Carmiol-Barboza ◽  
Marcela Ríos
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Emergent Literacy ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
High Point ◽  
The Past

Abstract. The relationship between narrative coherence in mother-child conversations about past events and children’s concurrent emergent literacy was examined in a sample of 32 Spanish-speaking, middle-class, Costa Rican mothers and their preschoolers. Coherence, as expressed in the constituents of high point narrative structure, was measured in reminiscing conversations about everyday events. Our purposes were twofold: 1) to see whether their co constructed narratives in talk about the past could be meaningfully examined for the constituents of high point narrative structure and 2) to explore the links between coherence in these narratives and children’s language and literacy skills. We found a full range of the constituents of high point structure in these conversations, with more advanced forms of narrative structure produced in conversations about the child’s misbehavior. Conversations about misbehavior events were most frequently in the form of classic, high point narratives. In addition, a rich set of relationships between coherence in reminiscing conversations and children’s language and literacy skills were observed. The results revealed similarities in the narrative practices found in this middle-class sample in Costa Rica to both middle-class families in other parts of the world and to conversation and cultural practices unique to Latino communities. 

scholarly journals Using paleoclimate reconstructions to analyse hydrological epochs associated with Pacific decadal variability

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 6399-6414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lanying Zhang ◽  
George Kuczera ◽  
Anthony S. Kiem ◽  
Garry Willgoose
Keyword(s):  
Decadal Variability ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Dynamic Threshold ◽  
Run Length ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pacific Decadal Variability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Paleoclimate Reconstructions ◽  
Run Lengths ◽  
Past Millennium

Abstract. The duration of dry or wet hydrological epochs (run lengths) associated with positive or negative Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) or Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) phases, termed Pacific decadal variability (PDV), is an essential statistical property for understanding, assessing and managing hydroclimatic risk. Numerous IPO and PDO paleoclimate reconstructions provide a valuable opportunity to study the statistical signatures of PDV, including run lengths. However, disparities exist between these reconstructions, making it problematic to determine which reconstruction(s) to use to investigate pre-instrumental PDV and run length. Variability and persistence on centennial scales are also present in some millennium-long reconstructions, making consistent run length extraction difficult. Thus, a robust method to extract meaningful and consistent run lengths from multiple reconstructions is required. In this study, a dynamic threshold framework to account for centennial trends in PDV reconstructions is proposed. The dynamic threshold framework is shown to extract meaningful run length information from multiple reconstructions. Two hydrologically important aspects of the statistical signatures associated with the PDV are explored: (i) whether persistence (i.e. run lengths) during positive epochs is different to persistence during negative epochs and (ii) whether the reconstructed run lengths have been stationary during the past millennium. Results suggest that there is no significant difference between run lengths in positive and negative phases of PDV and that it is more likely than not that the PDV run length has been non-stationary in the past millennium. This raises concerns about whether variability seen in the instrumental record (the last ∼100 years), or even in the shorter 300–400-year paleoclimate reconstructions, is representative of the full range of variability.

Long Term Variations in Jupiter’s 11 cm Radio Emission

1975 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 340-342
Author(s):  
P.M. McCulloch
Keyword(s):  
Radio Emission ◽  
Orbital Period ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Rotational Axis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Range Of Values ◽  
Long Term Variations

During the past twelve years five series of observations have been made of the polarization of Jupiter’s radio emission at a wavelength of 11 cm. This data shows characteristics which have been stable over a period of years as well as some unexplained variations. The observations were made during one complete orbital period of Jupiter and hence were obtained over the full range of values of DE, the angle between Jupiter’s rotational axis and the plane of the sky. These are summarized in Table 1. The 1967 observations have been reported previously (Komesaroff and McCulloch 1967) and the 1963 data is from Roberts and Komesaroff (1965).

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