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Canadian scholarship on international relations: Unified, divided or diverse?

This article examines the Canadian data collected by the Teaching, Research and International Policy project to assess the state of Canadian international relations scholarship. The focus is on the divide, mentioned but not studied in previous work, between the higher profile PhD programs (UBC, McGill, Toronto) and other Canadian universities. The results indicate that the approaches, methods, and theoretical inclinations differ less than often averred, but that the two groups do value different scholars, journals, and presses. And there is more diversity within each side than often argued, which makes the divide itself less deep. The article concludes with some implications about the possibility of a distinctively Canadian international relations.

Experimental investigation of the yield stress measurements for xanthan solutions and crude oil-xanthan emulsions

ABSTRACTYield stress measurements of xanthan aqueous solutions and crude oil-xanthan emulsions were investigated experimentally. The yield stress study was carried out for wide range of crude oil (0–75% by volume) and xanthan gum (0–104 ppm) concentrations. Two types of xanthan polymers of Sigma and Kelzan were used for the current study. Aqueous solutions with higher xanthan concentration displayed higher cycles of shear rate-shear stress rheograms. Both aqueous solutions of Sigma and Kelzan showed similar behavior for concentration of ≤1000 ppm, however, Sigma solutions of higher concentrations reported slightly higher flow behavior than Kelzan. Similar rheogram behaviors are found for both Sigma and Kelzan emulsions up to concentration of 5,000 ppm. However, for 10,000 ppm, a slight higher profile for Sigma emulsions was reported.

Selective Harvesting Impact on Natural Regeneration, Tree Species Richness and Diversity in Forest Co-management Block in Liwonde Forest Reserve, Malawi

Biodiversity conservation within forests depends, in part, on management practices that restore or maintain plant community diversity and function. Because many plant communities are adapted to natural disturbances, selective harvesting has potential to meet this need. This study was conducted to determine the impact of selective harvesting on tree species regeneration abundance, richness and diversity in Chidenga forest co-management block in Liwonde forest reserve, Malawi after four years of harvesting. The study constituted two treatments: harvested area (selective harvesting) and non-harvested area (control). The data obtained was analysed using Rẻnyi diversity profile in Biodiversity R. The results show that there were substantial variations between the treatments on the studied variables. Harvested area had higher tree species regenerants abundance (6088±452 ha -1 ) than non-harvested area (5324±364 ha -1 ). Harvested area had a higher Hα (2.64) at 0-alpha than Hα (2.48) for non-harvested area, indicating that harvested area had the higher tree species richness than non-harvested area in the understory. Furthermore, in the understory, harvested area had higher profile, 2.64 to 0.33 from 0-Alpha to infinity, than non- harvested area, 2.48 to 0.21 from 0-Alpha to infinity. This indicates that harvested area was more diverse than non-harvested area. In the overstory, harvested area had individual tree species evenly distributed than in non-harvested area. This signifies a healthy or good ecosystem. Therefore, it can be suggested that selective harvesting has a significant role in conservation of the forest resource base, and may be promoted for sustainable management of forest co-management blocks.

AMAR E SERVIR NO SUL DA AMÉRICA: origem e articulação dos centros sociais jesuítas

Desde a Carta de Inácio de Loyola aos Padres e Irmãos de Pádua, de 1547, o Apostolado Social tem se constituído numa das dimensões centrais do carisma da Companhia de Jesus. Tal opção, no entanto, ganhou um relevo maior por ocasião da criação dos chamados Centros de Investigação e Ação Social (CIAS) em diversos países sul-americanos, entre 1950 e 1970. Apoiados em documentação oriunda de diversos arquivos da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil, Itália, México e Paraguai, discutiremos a origem e articulação dos CIAS sul-americanos, inicialmente por intermédio do Secretariado Interamericano de Ação Social (SIAS), logo depois pelo Conselho Latino-Americano dos CIAS (CLACIAS), inserindo-os num contexto fortemente marcado por polarizações ideológicas e políticas. Ao longo do artigo, procuraremos demonstrar a hipótese central de nossa investigação: a trajetória dos CIAS está marcada pela tensão permanente entre duas forças contrapostas: (a) o compromisso com a justiça social e (b) a luta contra o comunismo.

Corporate responsibility for childhood physical activity promotion in the UK.

The alarming epidemic of obesity and physical inactivity at paediatric age urges societies to rise to the challenge of ensuring an active lifestyle. As one response to this, business enterprises are increasingly engaged in promoting sport and physical activity (PA) initiatives within the frame of corporate social responsibility (CSR). However, comparative analyses among industry sectors of CSR strategies for PA promotion with a particular focus on children are still lacking. This study aimed to explore (i) what are the CSR strategies for PA promotion adopted in different industry sectors and (ii) whether corporate engagement in promoting PA for children is supportive of children's rights to play and be physically active. Corporate pledges pertaining to CSR initiatives to promote PA were analysed. The hypothesis was that companies from different sectors employ different CSR strategies and that companies with a higher profile as regard to public health concerns for children tend to legitimate their action by adopting a compensatory strategy. Results show that the issue of PA promotion is largely represented within CSR commitments. CSR strategies for PA promotion vary across industry sectors and the adoption of a compensatory strategy for rising childhood obesity allows only a limited exploitation of the potential of CSR commitments for the provision of children's rights to play and be physically active. Actors within the fields of public health ethics, human rights and CSR should be considered complementary to develop mainstreaming strategies and improve monitoring systems of PA promotion in children.

Glacier volume estimation from ice-thickness data, applied to the Muz Taw glacier, Sawir Mountains, China

In this work, ground penetrating radar (GPR) data, global position system (GPS) data, Landsat remote sensing images and digital elevation model (DEM) SRTM were used to study the Muz Taw glacier in the Sawir Mountains. By a variety of interpolation methods, spatial pattern of thickness of the Muz Taw glacier was obtained. The results show that there are obvious differences between the available GPR transverse profiles. The lower transverse profile has typical “U”-type topographic feature, the maximum glacier thickness is up to 116.4 m; glacier thickness distribution in the higher profile is relatively flat, with an average about 70–90 m. The longitudinal profile forms a ladder-like distribution, which in the middle of the ice bedrock topography has obvious depression. The average longitudinal ice thickness is about 80.89 m; the maximum ice thickness is up to 122.61 m. In addition, the preliminary estimation of the average thickness and total terminus ice volume were approximately 60.5 m and 0.195 km3, respectively.

Stability of Language and Literacy Profiles of Children With Language Impairment in the Public Schools.

The present study focused on the identification and stability of language and literacy profiles of primary school children receiving school-based language therapy over the course of one academic year. Participants included 272 early elementary school-age children (144 boys, 128 girls) who had been clinically identified as having a language impairment. A latent profile analysis was used to identify distinct profiles on the basis of a battery of language and literacy assessments in the fall and spring of the academic year. Four profiles were identified in both fall and spring that could be best described as representing high, average, and low overall abilities. Two average groups were identified that differentiated according to phonological awareness abilities. Children's profile membership was variable from fall to spring with nearly 60% of children shifting into a higher profile. The results of t tests comparing children who shifted into higher profiles from those who remained stable in profile membership revealed group differences regarding language severity, socio-economic status, and proportion of therapy sessions received in the classroom. These results provide further evidence regarding the heterogeneity of children with language impairment served in the public schools, indicating that differences may be best conceptualized along a continuum of severity.

Social Policy Context of Alternative Care in Sri Lanka

Research into alternative care in Sri Lanka indicates the absence of an organised family support mechanism for children who move into the three legal forms of alternative care – fostering, residential care and adoption. The underlying cause for this is to be found beyond the relevant laws and within the social policy structure that houses them. While the ostensible rationale for social policy is a commitment to equality its full attainment at the structural level could be frustrated by historical factors. The welfare state that crystallised in the 1940s pioneered universal services in health and education whilst making residuary social welfare provision to grant entitlements and placements to select categories of social casualties like aged, disabled or needy children and families, orphans and unemployed. The social services and probation and child care services that administered them were office based with limited outreach capacity and they were not resourced to provide social care or social work services. This limited commitment to the most vulnerable was capped by reliance on a large private and voluntary residential care sector that admitted the aged, children, disabled and others who could not be cared for within the community. The combination of administrative relief and institutional care disables and functions as a disincentive to casework to provide community-based solutions for socio-economic problems. Finally the close bond between criminality and poverty completes the relationship between the state and the marginalised in society. This legacy stems directly from the British Poor Law philosophy, based in turn on capitalist considerations that seek to maintain the poor at the least expense to the state and also lays down an ideology of social control for ensuring their conformity. The post-1977 era of neo-liberal economics and illiberal politics – what has been referred to as the change ‘from politics of welfare to warfare’ has rendered the picture more complex. This period has strengthened rather than weakened the hold of Poor Law in society by fragmenting social welfare measures within the poorer half of the new dual economy. Several sectoral initiatives acquired a higher profile than the regular social welfare services and these included targeted poverty alleviation services, rural development initiatives that included participatory development, services for migrant labour etc. The centrifugal thrust was completed by the establishment of ‘rights based’ bodies at national level, especially for children which struggled to connect positively with child related in public and curative health, pre-schools, education, probation and child care and social services that were devolved to the nine provinces after 1987. The post-Tsunami social care centres that provided custom built facilities for divisional officers in affected divisions sought to arrest this trend with some success. Policy makers need to move away from concepts and relate more directly to the experience of poor law for children. This can be achieved by following case work for children than through a continuation of top down capacity-building projects.

Palestinian agriculture and the Israeli separation barrier: the mismatch of biopolitics and chronopolitics with the environment and human survival

Academic scholarship on Israel’s Separation Barrier has focused upon its legality and political impacts. United Nations agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations have been left to document its other actual/potential infringements. The natural environment has been secondary to higher profile issues, such as the intentions behind the structure and its implications for any future peace agreement. Yet, since environmental impediments can have serious long-term implications for natural resources and human subsistence, it is necessary to examine the barrier’s impacts after a decade of existence. This paper focuses upon the main human-environment system of agriculture. A multi-method approach reveals that the impacts constitute much more than the ‘population here, natural resources there’ thesis that has dominated narratives about the barrier’s environmental impediments. In fact, the barrier appears to be having dramatic and perhaps unexpected socio-ecological consequences.

Allergic rhinitis in pediatric practice

Allergic rhinitis (AR) in children is one of the most widespread diseases. children suffering from AR have to be under allergist and otorhinolaryngologist observation as well. there is a variety of medicine groups for AR treatment, but not all of them are preparations of choice from a position of evidential medicine. the most effective are intranasal glucocorticosteroids, especially from the last generation, having clinical efficiency and higher profile of a safety.

Similar but not the same: the teaching of veterinary and medical ethics

THE inclusion of veterinary ethics as a discrete and recognisable subject in veterinary curricula has been a creeping progression rather than a huge leap. In comparison to medical ethics, the...

A well-deserved higher profile.

The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) fellows programme is sponsored by the Department of Health. It acknowledges 150 health visitors invited to participate in a leadership programme.

War, peace and Northwest Coast complex hunter-gatherers

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to question the assumptions behind the aggressive competitive image of Northwest Coast (NWC) forager societies, given that their most reflective descendants emphasize sharing and paying back as constant peacemaking actions through history. Also to seek data that help ascertain whether this contemporary view might predate today's sensibilities colored by life as post-foragers encapsulated in nation states.Design/methodology/approach– Historical, ethnographic and ethnohistorical documentary sources are studied, together with regional archeological findings. These are considered against the author's own ethnographic work among various foragers on the edge of, but integrated with higher profile coastal peoples. Some historical context for regional war and peace is provided.Findings– The archeology indicates that evidence for violent warlike activity appears clearly about three times in 10,000 years, the most extensive being contiguous with Europe's economic and political influence on the continent in the past half millennium. Even in this latter period, extended family foragers managed and sought to control aggression/competition by social sharing and cooperation between like units and by upholding established peacemaking processes and protocols.Research limitations/implications– Since the region and its literature are vast, this theme requires extensive long-term investigation. Findings given here from a limited number of locations are tentative and require detail from other parts of the region; however, they do suggest an existing ethic of sharing and peacemaking reflected back in time through oral history and archeology.Practical implications– The literature of the NWC's bellicosity, its slavery, war-making and agonistic giving is based on events reported from a very short span of contact history. If these conditions had been endemic over time, there would have been insufficient peace to allow these foragers to hunt, gather, fish, barter and prepare foods and goods with which to survive between annual growing and spawning seasons.Social implications– Instead of finding ways to cooperate with each other to seek better living conditions, some NWC post-foragers now assume competition and aggression to be endemic features of their relations with each other. Such persons, perhaps from a sense of inferiority engendered by history, cite the bellicose literature and the glories of the fur trade period as more typical of their heritage than the wisdom and peaceful teachings of their own elders about the past, the future, human relations and the natural world.Originality/value– The findings from the NWC suggest analogies in the emphasis on sharing as a mechanism for making and maintaining peace in the broader comparative context of hunter-gatherer studies. Sharing remains central whether one examines complex hunter-gathers or their more egalitarian colleagues.

Challenges for India’s new naval chief

Over the past decade, India's navy has acquired a higher profile and adopted a more robust posture, due largely to India's economic growth, which relies to a large extent on ship-borne energy imports. Its new chief, Admiral Rabinder (Robin) Kumar Dhowan, must attempt to improve capabilities and fulfil an expanded strategic remit amid equipment and manpower shortfalls

Learning criteria weights of an optimistic Electre Tri sorting rule

Multiple criteria sorting methods assign alternatives to predefined ordered categories taking multiple criteria into consideration. The Electre Tri method compares alternatives to several profiles separating the categories. Based on such comparisons, each alternative is assigned to the lowest (resp. highest) category for which it is at least as good as the lower profile (resp. is strictly preferred by the higher profile) of the category, and the corresponding assignment rule is called pessimistic (resp. optimistic). We propose algorithms for eliciting the criteria weights and majority threshold in a version of the optimistic Electre Tri rule, which raises additional difficulties w.r.t. the pessimistic rule. We also describe an algorithm that computes robust alternatives׳ assignments from assignment examples. These algorithms proceed by solving mixed integer programs. Several numerical experiments are conducted to test the proposed algorithms on the following issues: learning ability of the algorithm to reproduce the DM׳s preference, robustness analysis and ability to identify conflicting preference information in case of inconsistencies in the learning set. Experiments show that eliciting the criteria weights in an accurate way requires quite a number of assignment examples. Furthermore, considering more criteria increases the information requirement. The present empirical study allows us to draw some lessons in view of practical applications of Electre Tri using the optimistic rule.

Investigating Classroom Management Profiles of Pre-service Teachers (Cukurova University Sample)

The main purpose of this research is to detect classroom management profiles of pre-service teachers and investigate whether these profiles show significant differences in terms of some variables. Classroom Management Profile (CMP) by Santrock (1996) was used to collect data. The data was gained from 1238 pre-service teachers from different departments of Faculty of Education during 2012-2013 year. At the end of the study, it was found that pre- service teachers have high Authoritative and Laissez-faire classroom management profile. There was no significant difference among Laissez-faire, Indifferent and Authoritarian classroom management profiles, however, female pre- service teachers have higher profile in Authoritative dimension.

Introduction to the Special Issue—Imaging-Based Screening: Radiology's Increasing Role in Preventive Medicine

Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act fundamentally shifts priorities for US health care, with an increased focus on preventive medicine, in which screening asymptomatic individuals will identify the most deadly and costly of diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular disease, at their earliest stages, when intervention can decrease both patient mortality and the higher costs of treating advanced disease. Given tremendous technological advances over the past decade, radiology now stands to take on a higher profile and central role in US population-based screening. Nevertheless, if history serves us well, imaging-based screening will continue to be met with a host of controversies and challenges. Furthermore, both the Affordable Care Act and programs to comply with its requirements may lead to unintended consequences. No other US preventive medicine topic generates more controversy and emotional charge as breast cancer screening. The heavily debated revised recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in 2009 for biennial mammography starting at 50 years of age, rather than annual mammography starting at age 40, is just one example of the historically complex interpretation of the available evidence linking image-based screening to long-term patient outcomes. Reducing the divisiveness requires representation of all stakeholders, giving voice to the myriad points of view. Some of the most powerful and influential voices are those of patients. The advocacy group Are You Dense has spearheaded state-level and national-level legislation to mandate that patients with dense breasts on mammography be directly informed about their increased risk for developing breast cancer. This special issue begins with an overview of the state of these density reporting legislative efforts across the United States by Dehkordy and Carlos [1] .W ith a unique perspective on the matter, Cappello [2] ,t he founder and president of Are You Dense, accounts both her personal and professional journeys in seeing her density reporting legislative goals come to fruition. Smith [3], the cofounder of the Research Advocacy Network, provides a contrasting perspective as both a patient and a patient advocate, highlighting

Body image concern among Australian adolescent girls: The role of body comparisons with models and peers

This study investigated the potential mediating roles of body comparisons with peers and models in the relationship between the internalization of thinness norms and body image concern. A total of 224 Western Australian girls aged 14–15 completed questionnaires assessing their endorsement of thinness norms, body image concerns, and frequency of body comparisons with peers and with models. Both targets of body comparisons were found to significantly mediate the relationship between the endorsement of thinness norms and body image concern, with body comparison with peers a stronger mediator than comparison with models. These findings show that body comparison with peers, in particular, plays a significant role in the experience of body image concerns among adolescent girls, and should be given a higher profile in programs designed to prevent or reduce body image concern.

Césaire at the Crossroads in Haiti: Correspondence with Henri Seyrig

Césaire at the Crossroads in Haiti: Correspondence with Henri Seyrig