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Tartaglia, Andrea, Roberto Bolici, and Matteo Gambaro, eds. La ricerca tra innovazione, creatività e progetto / Research among Innovation, Creativity and Design. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-160-7.
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In the current socio-cultural scenario, the implementation of the university reform aimed at boosting third-level education calls for meditation within the discipline of Architectural Technology (ICAR 12). This review must address the research topics and academic profiles of PhD courses in the Technological Area, also in terms of fostering actions consistent with European strategic lines for the promotion of a knowledge society. Research, innovation, creativity and design are the keywords of this scenario that PhD students and lecturers must bear in mind when considering three fields of study: environmental design and landscape, building production and construction and works and services strategic for the community. This book "Research among innovation, creativity and design" develops the topics addressed during the VII OSDOTTA workshop (the network of PhD courses in the field of Architectural Technology) held at the Mantua campus of Milan Polytechnic on 15th-16th-17th September 2011.
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L, Bennett Carole, ed. Process discipline: How to maximize profitability and quality through manufacturing consistency. New York: Quality Resources, 1998.
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Levchaev, Petr. Finance companies. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22549.
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The textbook describes theoretical, methodological and practical bases of Finance companies. Logical structure of presentation allows you to consistently learn as the basic material of the course and the topics corresponding to the conceptual higher level of knowledge.
For a comprehensive assimilation of the provisions of the course "Finance organizations" topics of the discipline are given control questions and tasks for self-examination of knowledge of students, thesis topics and modern research directions of Finance of organizations and themes of final qualification works, questions to prepare for the exam, and recommended reading. Set out the problematic situation of Finance companies in the innovation economy.
Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation.
For students, postgraduates and teachers of economic specialties. Be useful to a wide circle of readers interested in the problems of Finance companies.
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Borisova, M. Pedagogy of the camp. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/25002.
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Academic edition is a part of the educational complex consisting of a tutorial and workshop, which is designed to help the students in mastering of educational disciplines included in the undergraduate program, and teaching practice. The textbook discusses the history of the emergence and development of summer camps, presents materials that are necessary for the organization of work in children's camp: theoretical foundations of organizing the activities of counselors, guidelines for working with children of different age groups, the performance of the regime moments, forms and methods of organization of process of education in DOLLARS, etc. In the workshop the material presented on the organization of different activities of children and adolescents in the camp. The allowance is aimed at assisting the counselor in working with the temporary children's collective in the conditions of the camp.
The content of the textbook meets the requirements of Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation.
For students of higher educational institutions enrolled in the fields of study within the enlarged group "Education and pedagogy", as well as professionals of education and all those interested in problems of children's recreation and recuperation.
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Bizyuk, Aleksandr. Fundamentals of abnormal psychology. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/974663.
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The textbook is a Supplement to the course of lectures given at the faculties of psychology, where one of the sections of this discipline is clinical psychology. This publication has been updated to reflect the 11th International classification of diseases, changes in which also affect the classification aspects of mental disorders.
In order to implement the principle of consistency in mastering knowledge of pathopsychology, the material is given in the context of General and clinical psychology, which facilitates the holistic assimilation of the specifics of this science and understanding its place among other related Sciences.
In accordance with the requirements of didactics, the structuring of the material is based on the principle "from simple to complex"; at the end of each paragraph, test questions are offered, finding answers to which in the text of the book forms the core knowledge of the reader.
The Chapter devoted to disorders of specific mental functions, in addition to General theoretical data, provides brief descriptions of psychodiagnostic techniques designed to assess the qualitative and quantitative parameters of recorded changes. When writing the book, we used a rich domestic and foreign material published in numerous sources.
Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
It is intended for students of psychological, pedagogical and medical universities, primarily clinical psychologists, as well as for a wide range of specialists working in the information field of problems of the ratio of normal and altered psyche.
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Livingston, Edward. A system of penal law for the United States of America: Consisting of a Code of crimes and punishments, a Code of procedure in criminal cases, a Code of prison discipline, and a Book of definitions, prepared and presented to the House of Representatives of the United States. Buffalo, N.Y: W.S. Hein, 2000.
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Richardson, Allen. Personal Discipline: Tools for Consistent Success. BookSurge Publishing, 2006.
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Guarendi, Ray. Winning the Discipline Debates: Dr. Ray Coaches Parents to Make Discipline Less Frequent, Less Frustrating, and More Consistent. Franciscan Media, 2013.
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Guarendi, Dr Ray. Winning the Discipline Debates: Dr. Ray Coaches Parents to Make Discipline Less Frequent, Less Frustrating, and More Consistent. Servant Books, 2013.
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Miller, Tim, Jinzhong Niu, Martin Chapman, and Peter McBurney. An Overview and Evaluation of the Cat Market Design Competition. Edited by Shu-Heng Chen, Mak Kaboudan, and Ye-Rong Du. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844371.013.18.
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The rise of online commerce has led to an emerging discipline at the intersection of economics and computer science, a discipline which studies the properties and dynamics of automated trading in online marketplaces. The CAT Market Design Tournament was created to promote research into the design and deployment of economic mechanisms for such online marketplaces, particularly mechanisms able to adapt automatically to dynamic competitive environments. This research competition, which ran from 2007 to 2011), was won by four different teams and had entrants from thirteen countries. This chapter describes the motivation and history of the tournament and presents research that has arisen from it. The winners were experimentally “played off” to evaluate whether the state of the art in automated mechanism design improved during the CAT competition. The results show a clear and consistent improvement, supporting the belief that the competition has encouraged research in the field.
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Soderlund, Jean R. Quaker Women in Lenape Country. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814221.003.0013.
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This chapter examines the central role of Quaker women during the years 1675–1710 in developing the first colony founded by members of the Society of Friends in North America. As individuals, women Friends helped to fashion a multicultural society consistent with Quaker beliefs in religious liberty and pacifism by maintaining amicable relations with the Lenape Indians and non-Quaker European settlers. At the same time, however, Friends failed to acknowledge the inconsistency of exploiting enslaved African Americans with Quaker ideals. As leaders of the Salem, Burlington, Chesterfield, and Newton (later Haddonfield) monthly meetings, Quaker women also helped to shape West New Jersey society by strengthening rules of discipline to prevent their children and other Friends from marrying non-Quakers and adopting ‘outward vanities’.
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Pont, Antonia. Philosophising Practice. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429344.003.0002.
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Artists often explicitly consider themselves practitioners, acknowledging practising as the mode of doing from which work non-causally emerges. Practising recognises that novelty is best courted via a precise register of repetition, explored by Deleuze in Difference and Repetition. Linked to habit and unrelated to discipline (as impatience/compliance), practising mobilises consistent (sets of) behavioural forms along with intentional repetition via a relaxing that reinflects laziness. It generates a stability subtracted from identity, clarifying the directions of Deleuze’s thought concerning difference as that which precedes representation. Resonating with Deleuze’s dismantling of the dogmatic image of thought, practising intentionally harnesses the mechanisms of ‘miraculous’ repetition for a future constituted solely by time’s empty form. Via Deleuze’s exploration of repetition, difference and identity, their relation to habit and the paradoxical intentionalities of art-making, this chapter explores various aspects of practising’s operations, thereby unsettling common-sense understandings of agency, action, change, intention, capacity, difference and subjectivity
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South Africa. Public Service Commission. Branch: Investigations and Human Resource Reviews., ed. Evaluation of the consistency of sanctions imposed for misconduct in the public service. Pretoria: Public Service Commission, 2008.
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Coyne, Christopher J., and Peter Boettke, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199811762.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics provides an overview of the main methodological, analytical, and practical implications of the Austrian school of economics. This intellectual tradition in economics and political economy has a long history that dates back to Carl Menger in the late nineteenth century. The various contributions discussed in this book all reflect this "tension" of an orthodox argumentative structure (rational choice and invisible hand) to address heterodox problem situations (uncertainty, differential knowledge, ceaseless change).The Austrian economists, from the founders to today, seek to derive the invisible-hand theorem from the rational-choice postulate via institutional analysis in a persistent and consistent manner. The Handbook, which consists of nine parts, and 34 chapters, covers a variety of topics including: methodology, microeconomics (market process theory and spontaneous order), macroeconomics (capital theory and Austrian business cycle theory, and free banking), institutions and organizational theory, political economy, development and social change, and the 2008 financial crisis. The goals of the volume are twofold. First, to introduce readers to some of the main theories and insights of the Austrian school. Second, to demonstrate how Austrian economics provides a set of tools for making original and novel scholarly contributions to the broader economics discipline. By providing insight into the central Austrian theories, the volume will be valuable to those who are unfamiliar with Austrian economics. At the same time, it will be appealing to those already familiar with Austrian economics, given its emphasis on Austrian economics as a live and progressive research program in the social sciences.
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Munro, James. A Taxonomy of Prima Facie Violations of International Economic Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828709.003.0008.
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Having determined that carbon units are, to varying extents, subject to international economic law, Chapter 8 assesses the consistency of emissions trading schemes and their rules affecting carbon units with that body of law. In particular, Chapter 8 identifies and evaluates the rules in emissions trading schemes affecting the trade, use, and value of carbon units that constitute prima facie violations of that body of law. It considers: (i) the differential treatment of carbon units that engages disciplines on non-discrimination; (ii) the quantitative restrictions on external carbon units that engage disciplines on market access; and (iii) the kinds of governmental interference in carbon markets that engage disciplines on investment. Chapter 8 thereby identifies and catalogues numerous prima facie breaches embedded in the rules of most emissions trading schemes.
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Abernethy, Amy P. The principles of evidence-based medicine. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0192.
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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has transformed clinicians’ approach to the practice of medicine. In most disciplines, EBM is the fundamental component of decision-making driving expectations of the care received by patients and families. To improve outcomes, EBM blends science and compassion to provide personalized, effective treatments, and consistent application of interventions. The ever-increasing demand for palliative care will continue unabated due to longer lifespans and a shift in the approach to disease from primarily acute illnesses to predominantly chronic conditions. The adoption of EBM by palliative care providers will advance the knowledge and practice base, elevating its position amongst other medical disciplines that have adopted EBM as the dominant paradigm. The framework of EBM informs a systematic and manageable approach to the overwhelming amount of available evidence. Patients will benefit from EBM practices when palliative care practitioners provide the most effective and personalized care tailored each patient’s needs, characteristics, and preferences.
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González, Cecilia Zulema, and Horacio Caraballo. Matemática básica para ingeniería agronómica e ingeniería forestal. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (EDULP), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.35537/10915/32437.
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El propósito de este libro de cátedra es constituir un soporte para el desarrollo del curso de Matemática para Ingeniería Agronómica e Ingeniería Forestal de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. La Matemática puede considerarse una ciencia formal, utiliza la deducción para justificar sus enunciados y funciona como cualquier disciplina científica con sus problemas, métodos y temáticas propias; pero además tiene un gran valor instrumental ya que se constituye en lenguaje y herramienta de las ciencias fácticas. La Ingeniería Agronómica y la Ingeniería Forestal son disciplinas científico-tecnológicas y se desarrollan en ámbitos de conocimiento con una finalidad práctica actuando sobre la realidad, adoptan la metodología científica y presuponen conocimientos de otras ciencias como: Física, Química, Biología, Geología, Meteorología, etc. En este contexto, los temas presentados pretenden ser un aporte a la formación de los futuros ingenieros mostrando a la Matemática en sus facetas básica e instrumental. Para estas notas se ha decidido una transposición consistente en prescindir de las demostraciones formales de algunos teoremas y propiedades, además algunos tópicos se presentan de manera intuitiva, no formalmente. Al final de cada capítulo se proponen una serie de ejercicios con el objeto de reforzar los contenidos y una serie de problemas que resignifican el conocimiento en el marco de las aplicaciones.
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Anderson-Fye, Eileen. Cultural Influences on Body Image and Eating Disorders. Edited by W. Stewart Agras and Athena Robinson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190620998.013.9.
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Sociocultural factors have long been implicated in body image and eating disorders. Decades of data, drawn from multiple disciplines, consistently demonstrate the influence of culture on body image and eating disorders across several levels of analysis. This chapter engages the rich empirical literature on this subject to retheorize the role and importance of these contextual factors in light of anthropological and related social theories relevant to contemporary circumstances. Specifically, this chapter first analyzes and operationalizes what we mean by “culture” in body image and eating disorder scholarship, describes trends in salient sociocultural factors, and highlights the varying impacts of globalization where societies are increasingly interconnected. It also urges research that builds on current understandings by increasing collaborations among not only multiple disciplines within the social sciences but also biological and clinical sciences.
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Watts, Richard A., Philip G. Conaghan, Christopher Denton, Helen Foster, John Isaacs, and Ulf Müller-Ladner, eds. Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642489.001.0001.
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This thoroughly revised fourth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology reflects the changing face of the specialty and the many recent advances in the science, treatment, and understanding of rheumatic diseases. This resource investigates the presentation and management of rheumatic conditions at all ages. Where relevant, treatment approaches are evidence-based and cross-referenced to national and international guidelines. Each clinical chapter provides up-to-date treatment advice illustrated with clinical vignettes as appropriate, and the authors consistently emphasize the overlap of rheumatology with other disciplines.
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Rabin, Borsika A., and Ross C. Brownson. Terminology for Dissemination and Implementation Research. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190683214.003.0002.
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In order for a field to prosper and thrive, a common language is essential. As is often the case when many disciplines and numerous organizations converge in development of a field, dissemination and implementation research is still characterized by inconsistent terminology. While the “state-of-the-art” might still not be advanced enough to resolve all of the existing inconsistencies in terminology, this chapter represents the tremendous amount of development that happened over the past 5 years to create platforms and approaches for a more consistent, agreed upon language for dissemination and implementation research across topic areas, stakeholder groups, and geographical areas. As the dissemination and implementation field makes progress toward a shared terminology, we can expect to see higher quality dissemination and implementation research and greater contribution of dissemination and implementation science to improving public health and clinical practice.
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Eck, John E., and Tamara D. Madensen. Police and Offender Choices. Edited by Wim Bernasco, Jean-Louis van Gelder, and Henk Elffers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199338801.013.15.
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Police influence on offender choices has largely been described in terms of general and specific deterrence. This chapter expands this description by examining the quantity and quality of police influences. With regard to quantity, theory and research from environmental criminology have described a rich set of influences that have direct and indirect effects on offenders. Indirect influences operate through various third parties and by manipulating crime situations. With regard to quality, theory and research from a wide variety of disciplines show that how the police behave with offenders has an influence on offender choices. Four principles are particularly important for quality: the degrees to which the police appear to be reasonable, disarming, focused, and consistent. Expanding our understanding of how police can influence offender choices provides useful areas for research and opens a wide range of possibilities for improving police effectiveness and fairness in addressing crime.
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Moran, Michael. Theodore J. Lowi, “American Business, Public Policy, Case Studies and Political Theory”. Edited by Martin Lodge, Edward C. Page, and Steven J. Balla. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199646135.013.36.
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Lowi’s paper, considered in this chapter, is an acknowledged classic. But this begs the question of what “classic” status amounts to. The chapter examines competing conceptions of “classicism.” It then sketches the intellectual background to Lowi’s work, examines the impact of the piece in the conventional language of bibliometric analysis, and analyzes the intellectual coherence of Lowi’s arguments. It shows how Lowi’s intervention was a significant dissent from two dominant forms of political analysis: that popularized by Dahl and the behavioralists; and that associated with the institutional analyses of power promoted by Wright Mills. But it argues that the “classic” status of Lowi’s work consisted of its respectful recognition as a document in the history of the discipline, rather than amounting to any enduring influence on modern political analysis.
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Ishay, Micheline. Human Rights and History. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.212.
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As a focus of academic inquiry, human rights gained legitimacy only after World War II. While the subject received consistent attention within the field of international law, greater attention from other disciplines became more significant in the mid-1960s. Yet, it was after the Cold War, in the era of globalization, that human rights research became a well-entrenched interdisciplinary field. Even though no encompassing history of human rights was yet to be found in the late twentieth century, many important historical human rights studies had already appeared. Until the Cold War, the study of international relations had been grounded in efforts to integrate political theory and history. As ideological confrontation heightened during the Cold War, history became more descriptive, formalistic, and divorced from political theory, or from any normative or political purpose. With the end of the Cold War, the advance of globalization, the war on terror, and the current meltdown of the global economy, the past 20 years have sent a succession of electric shocks through the nervous system of the international order. The sense of being buffeted by unpredictable events stimulated new efforts to comprehend the direction of history, or, alternatively, to assert its timeless truths. Despite a significant body of enriching historical scholarship, however, it remains the case that both history and historiography have been widely overlooked, not only in the burgeoning human rights academic field, but also in most disciplines within the social sciences.
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Lalitha, N., and Amrita Ghatak. Quality of Publication in International Context. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199474417.003.0008.
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This chapter analyses the status of India’s social science research (SSR) publications in global context. The outputs chosen to assess India’s comparative performance is the articles written and published by Indians in the field of social sciences either individually or in collaboration with researchers outside India. The study analysed journal articles published during 2008–14 drawn from Scopus database to examine the publication status of India in social sciences in an international context. The study found that the six-year period, 2009–14, India consistently ranks among the top 15 countries in the world. Discipline-wise analysis shows that the share of pure social science articles was significant but is declining. Of the total 30938 articles, 28 per cent are published with international collaboration. The USA and the UK contribute 52 per cent of total international collaborations.
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Wieser, Renate. Deautomatization of Breakfast Perceptions. Edited by Roger T. Dean and Alex McLean. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226992.013.28.
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For the author of this chapter, art is a particular way of thinking: it implies the exploring of social and political conditions, not only with the means already provided by academic disciplines, but by finding out new ways to explore, conceptualize, and change them. The chapter describes an art project consisting of an ‘acoustic breakfast’. Sounds of breakfasting were recorded and transformed in real time to make communal interactive music. The author identifies the conflict between artists explaining algorithmic processes to participants and the desire for an informal social situation focussed on eating and drinking. Ideas from literary theorist Shklovsky are used to discuss automatized perceptions and the interest in defamiliarization. Was the acoustic breakfast deautomatizing the computational processes? The chapter discusses the same issue in relation to live coding.
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Adlung, Rudolf, and Marta Soprana. Trade Policy for SMEs from a GATS Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795650.003.0002.
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Unlike conventional trade agreements, the scope of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) extends beyond the treatment of products to cover that of suppliers (producers, distributors, etc) as well. Trade problems confronting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supplying services have thus been raised by WTO Members at different stages of the Doha Round negotiations and meetings of regular WTO bodies. However, such issues have rarely been explored in a systemic way. This chapter provides an overview of SME-related policies, whether reflected in schedules of services commitments or consisting of ‘non-schedulable’ measures, which are being pursued by WTO Members at multilateral (GATS) or regional level. It also seeks to identify the scope for further initiatives to promote SME-related interests, from fostering compliance with existing transparency disciplines under the GATS to advancing the Agreement’s liberalization and rule-making mandates with an SME focus.
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Bokstein, Boris S., Mikhail I. Mendelev, and David J. Srolovitz. Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Materials Science. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198528036.001.0001.
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This text presents a concise and thorough introduction to the main concepts and practical applications of thermodynamics and kinetics in materials science. It is designed with two types of uses in mind: firstly for one or two semester university course for mid- to - upper level undergraduate or first year graduate students in a materials-science-oriented discipline and secondly for individuals who want to study the materials on their own. The following major topics are discussed: basic laws of classical and irreversible thermodynamics, phase equilibria, theory of solutions, chemical reaction thermodynamics and kinetics, surface phenomena, stressed systems, diffusion and statistical thermodynamics. A large number of example problems with detailed solutions are included as well as accompanying computer-based self-tests, consisting of over 400 questions and 2000 answers with hints for students. Computer-based laboratories are provided, in which a laboratory problem is posed and the experiment described. The student can "perform" the experiments and change the laboratory conditions to obtain the data required for meeting the laboratory objective. Each "laboratory" is augmented with background material to aid analysis of the experimental results.
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Shadle, Matthew A. Neoconservative Catholicism in the United States. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190660130.003.0012.
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This chapter looks at neoconservative Catholicism, and in particular the work of Michael Novak. Neoconservative Catholics were critical of both progressive Catholics and the US Catholic bishops for not recognizing the benefits of the free-market economy. In his work, Novak provides a defense of what he calls democratic capitalism, consisting in a free-market economy, democratic political institutions, and a pluralistic culture. Novak offers a Catholic justification of democratic capitalism, appealing to human creativity and the social bonds created through commerce. The chapter also considers criticisms of Novak’s work, looking at issues such as the role of institutions and structures in the economy and the relationship between human creativity and the call to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
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Thomson, Alistair. Memory and Remembering in Oral History. Edited by Donald A. Ritchie. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195339550.013.0006.
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Memory is not a passive depository of facts, but an active process of creation of meanings. This article focuses on the importance of memory and remembering in oral history. The literature about memory ranges across several academic disciplines and is daunting in size and scope. This article also considers approaches to memory and remembering, which can enhance oral historians' understanding of the interview and its interpretation. It begins by charting the history of oral historians' approaches to memory and then distills current research about memory and remembering—from cultural studies, and narrative theory. It explores the idea of memory research by arguing that remembering is not like playing back a tape or looking at a picture; more like telling a story. The consistency and accuracy of memories is therefore an achievement, not a mechanical production. It also explains ideas of narrative theory, memory paradox and social relationships against the backdrop of oral history.
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Urban, Hugh, and Greg Johnson, eds. Irreverence and the Sacred. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190911966.001.0001.
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Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential and wide-ranging scholarship has consistently posed challenging, provocative, and often irreverent questions that have really pushed the boundaries of the field of religious studies in important, sometimes controversial ways. Retracing the history of the discipline of religious studies, Lincoln argues that the field has consistently championed a “validating, feel-good” approach to religion rather than posing more critical questions about religious claims to authority and their role in history, politics, and social change. A critical approach to the history of religions, he suggests, would focus on the human, temporal, and material aspects of phenomena that are claimed to have a superhuman, eternal, or transcendent status. This volume takes up Lincoln’s challenge to “do better” by engaging in critical analyses of four key themes in the study of religion: myth, ritual, gender, and politics. A reflexive volume, the book also interrogates the “politics of scholarship” itself, critically examining the relations of power and material interests at work in the study as well as the practice of religion. The scholars involved in this project include not only some of the most important figures in the American study of religion—such as Wendy Doniger, Russell McCutcheon, Ivan Strenski, and Lincoln himself—but also European scholars whose work is hugely influential overseas but not well known in the United States—such as Stefan Arvidsson, Claude Calame, Nicolas Meylan, and others.
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Nadler, Anthony, and A. J. Bauer, eds. News on the Right. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913540.001.0001.
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This volume seeks to initiate a new interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focused on the study of right-wing media and conservative news. To date, the study of conservative or right-wing media has proceeded unevenly, cross-cutting several traditional disciplines and subfields, with little continuity or citational overlap. This book posits a new multifaceted object of analysis—conservative news cultures—designed to promote concerted interdisciplinary investigation into the consistent practices or patterns of meaning making that emerge between and among the sites of production, circulation, and consumption of conservative news. With contributors from the fields of journalism studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies, history, political science, and sociology, the book models the capacious field it seeks to promote. Its contributors draw upon a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods—from archival analysis to regression analysis of survey data to rhetorical analysis—to elucidate case studies focused on conservative news cultures in the United States and the United Kingdom. From the National Review to Fox News, from the National Rifle Association to Brexit, from media policy to liberal media bias, this book is designed as an introduction to right-wing media and an opening salvo in the interdisciplinary field of conservative news studies.
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Dwan, David. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198738527.003.0007.
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This chapter reviews Orwell’s apparent contradictions—a disciple of brotherhood who loathed a good cross section of his brothers; a socialist egalitarian who decried ‘the personal inferiority of many individual socialists’; a revolutionary and an internationalist who also claimed that no ‘real revolutionary has ever been an internationalist’; an intellectual who despised intellectuals. Always keen to stand apart, he became a utopian when surrounded by ‘realists’ and a ‘realist’ when confronting utopians. In the face of other people’s moralism he could sound like an economic determinist, but confronted with the fatalism of others he stressed the importance of moral effort. These contradictions reveal some of Orwell’s limitations, but they raise a broader question about the role of consistency in moral life. It is this issue which the chapter sets out to address.
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Córdoba-Cely, Carlos, and María Cristina Ascuntar Rivera, eds. Investigación+creación a través del territorio. Editorial Universidad de Nariño, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22267/lib.udn.023.
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La Investigación+Creación es un nuevo enfoque de investigación que nace de las necesidades particulares para comprender la investigación desde las disciplinas artísticas, y cuya principal característica consiste en validar una hipótesis de investigación por medio de una experiencia creativa, la cual puede materializarse a través de un prototipo plástico-sensorial, como puede ser una pieza musical, una instalación artística, una cartografía social, un performance o una construcción arquitectónica, entre otros muchos ejemplos. Este libro cuenta con 19 capítulos, donde los autores que participan en este compendio exploran la Investigación-Creación desde sus experiencias particulares en diferentes partes del territorio colombiano. Se espera que este primer volumen de la colección I+C, sirva de referente para comprender y construir de manera colaborativa este enfoque alternativo de generación de nuevo conocimiento
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Ott, Walter, and Lydia Patton, eds. Laws of Nature. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746775.001.0001.
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The concept of a law of nature, while familiar, is deeply puzzling. Theorists such as Descartes think a divine being governs the universe according to the laws which follow from that being’s own nature. Newton detaches the concept from theology and is agnostic about the ontology underlying the laws of nature. Some later philosophers treat laws as summaries of events or tools for understanding and explanation, or identify the laws with principles and equations fundamental to scientific theories. In the first part of this volume, essays from leading historians of philosophy identify central questions: are laws independent of the things they govern, or do they emanate from the powers of bodies? Are the laws responsible for the patterns we see in nature, or should they be collapsed into those patterns? In the second part, contributors at the forefront of current debate evaluate the role of laws in contemporary Best System, perspectival, Kantian, and powers- or mechanisms-based approaches. These essays take up pressing questions about whether the laws of nature can be consistent with contingency, whether laws are based on the invariants of scientific theories, and how to deal with exceptions to laws. These twelve essays, published here for the first time, will be required reading for anyone interested in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the histories of these disciplines.
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Cianni, Juliana. Uma aventura pela respiração celular. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-454-8.
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The story contained in this book is the result of my inquiries as a teacher and as a student looking for an easier and more fun way to learn dense content from the disciplines contained in the so beautiful universe of Sciences. I believe that pleasurable and consistent learning is possible, if we have a little bit of imagination and a powder of pimpimpimpim, allowing the student to be enchanted with the mysteries of life, a life that pulsates in the macro and microcosm. So, one fine day, watching Professor Rita's Biotechnology class at USP in Lorena / SP, I asked myself: why not facilitate the high school content that is charged in entrance exams and turn them into something playful and made it easier for students to have more effective access to deeper knowledge of science? It was with this objective that this little book was born that, in addition to offering a new experience about cellular respiration, also offers some excerpts from books that have always enchanted my eyes and touched my heart. Thus, more than an adventure through cellular respiration, this book proposes an adventure for the human spirit itself, that everything can and is capable, reminding us that the material world is intrinsically linked to the world of ideas, the first being nothing more it is more than an adventure of the human spirit itself.
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Karothy, Rolando Hugo. La Mirada desde el psicoanálisis. Papel Cosido (FBA-UNLP), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35537/10915/56825.
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Antes de entrar directamente en el tema que nos convoca, ya que la cuestión de la mirada es un problema muy específico del psicoanálisis, quiero hacer una introducción acerca de aquello sobre lo que nuestra teoría y nuestra práctica se ocupan y luego realizar una breve referencia a las intersecciones del psicoanálisis con otras disciplinas, en particular con aquellas que se refieren a las manifestaciones artísticas. Si alguien me preguntara de qué se ocupa el psicoanálisis, daría una respuesta esquemática que, por supuesto, tiene el defecto de todas las respuestas esquemáticas. El psicoanálisis se ocupa de tres cuestiones que no son absolutamente originales porque han sido preocupación de distintos pensadores a lo largo de la historia del pensamiento humano. La originalidad del psicoanálisis reside en el modo de reflexionar sobre esos temas. La revolución psicoanalítica instaurada a partir de Freud consiste en la particular manera en que se piensan esas cuestiones pues nunca habían sido consideradas de ese modo en toda la historia.
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Bloxham, Donald. History and Morality. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858713.001.0001.
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Against majority opinion within his profession, Donald Bloxham argues that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important for historians to make value judgements about the past. History and Morality draws on a wide range of historical examples, and its author’s insights as a practising historian. Examining concepts like impartiality, neutrality, contextualization, and the use and abuse of the idea of the past as a foreign country, Bloxham’s book investigates how the discipline has got to the point where what is preached can be so inconsistent with what is practised. It illuminates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works of history, and how strange those histories would look if the judgements were removed. Bloxham argues that rather than trying to eradicate all judgemental elements from their work historians need to think more consistently about how, and with what justification, they make the judgements that they do. The importance of all this lies not just in the responsibilities that historians bear towards the past—responsibilities to take historical actors on those actors’ own terms and to portray the impact of those actors’ deeds—but also in the role of history as a source of identity, pride, and shame in the present. The account of moral thought in History and Morality has ramifications far beyond the activities of vocational historians.
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Andreas, Joel. Disenfranchised. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190052607.001.0001.
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Disenfranchised recounts the tumultuous events that have shaped and reshaped factory politics in China since the 1949 Revolution. The book develops a theoretical framework consisting of two dimensions—industrial citizenship and autonomy—to explain changing authority relations in workplaces and uses interviews with workers and managers to provide a shop-floor perspective. Under the work unit system, in place from the 1950s to the 1980s, lifetime job tenure and participatory institutions gave workers a strong form of industrial citizenship, but constraints on autonomous collective action made the system more paternalistic than democratic. Called “masters of the factory,” workers were pressed to participate actively in self-managing teams and employee congresses but only under the all-encompassing control of the factory party committee. Concerned that party cadres were becoming a “bureaucratic class,” Mao experimented with means to mobilize criticism from below, even inciting—during the Cultural Revolution—a worker insurgency that overthrew factory party committees. Unwilling to allow workers to establish permanent autonomous organizations, however, Mao never came up with institutionalized means of making factory leaders accountable to their subordinates. The final chapters recount the process of industrial restructuring, which has transformed work units into profit-oriented enterprises, eliminating industrial citizenship and reducing workers to hired hands dependent on precarious employment and subject to highly coercive discipline. The book closes with an overview of parallel developments around the globe, chronicling the rise and fall of an era of industrial citizenship.
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Erdos, David. European Data Protection Regulation, Journalism, and Traditional Publishers. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841982.001.0001.
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This book explores the interface between European data protection and the freedom of expression activities of traditional journalism, professional artists, and both academic and non-academic writers from both an empirical and normative perspective. It draws on an exhaustive examination of both historical and contemporary public domain material and a comprehensive questionnaire of European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs). Empirically it is found that, notwithstanding an often confusing statutory landscape, DPAs have sought to develop an approach to regulating the journalistic media based on contextual rights balancing. However, they have struggled to secure a clear and specified criterion of strictness as regards standard-setting or a consistent and reliable approach to enforcement. DPAs have appeared even more confused as regards other traditional publishers, largely abstaining from regulating most professional artists and writers but attempting to subject all academic disciplines to onerous statutory restrictions established for medical, scientific, and related research. From these findings, it is argued that balancing contextual rights has value and should be both generalized across all traditional publishers and systematically and sensitively developed through structured and robust co-regulation. Such co-regulation should adopt the new code of conduct and monitoring provisions included in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a broad guideline. DPAs should accord strong deference to any codes and monitoring bodies which verifiably meet the accredited criteria but must engage more proactively when these are absent. In any case, DPAs should also intervene directly as regards particularly serious or systematic issues and have an increasingly important role in ensuring a joined-up approach between traditional publishing and new media activity.
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Gerritsen, Anne, and Giorgio Riello, eds. Writing Material Culture History. 2nd ed. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350105256.
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Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history are just some of the issues addressed in a book that brings together distinguished scholars from around the world. This new edition includes: * A new wide-ranging introduction highlighting the role of material culture in the modern period and presenting recent contributions to the field. * A more balanced and easy-to-use structure, including 9 methodological chapters and 20 'object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies for classroom discussion. * 5 fresh 'object in focus' chapters showing greater engagement with 20th century material culture, non-European artefacts (particularly in relation to issues of power, indigenity and repatriation of objects), architecture (with pieces on industrial heritage in Europe and on heritage destruction in China) and the definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. * Expanded online resources to help students navigate the museums/institutions holding key artefacts. * Historiographical updates and revisions throughout the text. Focusing on the global dimension of material culture and bridging the gap between the early modern and modern periods, Writing Material Culture History is an essential tool for helping students understand the potential of objects to re-cast established historical narratives in new and exciting ways.
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Ruiz, Santiago, and Ximena Triquell. Fuera de Cuadro. Eduvim, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.52550/26ja9n.
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Este libro presenta una serie de artículos producidos en el marco del proyecto “Imágenes de lo real: Los discursos fotográficos y audiovisuales como soportes de representaciones sociales”, el que se desarrolla desde 2008 en el Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. El proyecto –actualmente en curso– tiene por objeto pensar las condiciones bajo las cuales ciertas representaciones sociales son producidas, aceptadas y reproducidas. De los muchos marcos teórico-metodológicos desde donde podría abordarse este problema, en estos trabajos elegimos hacerlo desde la semiótica ya que entendemos que los discursos no son fenómenos secundarios que vienen a agregarse sobre una realidad primera, sino que son la matriz misma en la que esta realidad se construye. En este sentido, la ruptura fundamental que esta disciplina –en este caso a partir de la teorización de Eliseo Verón– establece con planteos anteriores, consiste precisamente en pensar la producción de sentido no como algo en otro nivel (una superestructura), sino como una red que configura y da cuerpo a lo social. En el fondo de esta propuesta se encuentra la necesaria interrelación entre el sentido y lo social: la producción de sentido es la base de las “representaciones sociales” (cuyos soportes son los “actores sociales”) y por ende de la organización material de la sociedad, las instituciones, las relaciones y los comportamientos sociales. En otros términos, las operaciones de asignación de sentido a materias significantes (sean estas del tipo que sean) cuyo resultado son los discursos, se dan bajo determinadas condiciones sociales de producción.
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Miles, Simon. Engaging the Evil Empire. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751691.001.0001.
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In a narrative-redefining approach, this book dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US–Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, the book shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals. The book details the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow while at the same time excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities. The received wisdom in diplomatic circles is that the beginning of the end of the Cold War came from changing policy preferences and that President Reagan, in particular, opted for a more conciliatory and less bellicose diplomatic approach. In reality, the book demonstrates, Reagan and ranking officials in the National Security Council had determined that the United States enjoyed a strategic margin of error that permitted it to engage Moscow overtly. As US grand strategy developed, so did that of the Soviet Union. This book covers five critical years of Cold War history when Soviet leaders tried to reduce tensions between the two nations in order to gain economic breathing room and, to ensure domestic political stability, prioritize expenditures on butter over those on guns. The book shifts the focus of Cold War historians away from exclusive attention on Washington by focusing on the years of back-channel communiqués and internal strategy debates in Moscow as well as Prague and East Berlin.
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Garriga, Marcelo, and Walter Rosales. Finanzas públicas en la práctica. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (EDULP), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.35537/10915/30300.
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Las Finanzas Públicas presentan una evolución consistente con la Economía en general. La siguiente cita ilustra esta idea: “si este libro se hubiera escrito hace veinticinco años, se habría titulado Hacienda Pública y habría girado en torno a las fuentes de los ingresos fiscales. El título Economía del Sector Público y el mayor alcance que implica no son, sin embargo, accidentales. En los últimos años, el gasto público ha alcanzado niveles históricos y actualmente representa en países occidentales cifras próximas o superiores a un tercio del producto nacional bruto. […] Durante ese periodo, la teoría económica del sector público ha florecido” (Stiglitz, 1988). Los nuevos desarrollos de la disciplina han dado lugar a nuevas teorías y enfoques, sobre todo en el ámbito del gasto público y tributación óptima. Rosen y Gayer (2010) sostienen que uno de los logros más importantes en el campo de la Hacienda Pública ha sido precisamente la integración más estrecha del análisis del gasto público y de la imposición con la teoría económica básica. El estudio de las Finanzas Públicas comprende (i) el conocimiento de las actividades que realiza el sector público y la forma en que están organizadas; (ii) el entendimiento y la anticipación, en la medida en que ello sea posible, de las consecuencias de las actividades del gobierno; (iii) la evaluación de alternativas de política. Se espera que este libro contribuya con algunos de estos tópicos. Más allá de la teoría, el abordaje de problemas prácticos viene siendo cada vez más relevante, y se refleja en la enseñanza. Como señala Gruber (2010), refiriéndose a su libro, “esta publicación debería ayudar a los estudiantes a entender los problemas de finanzas públicas que son discutidos todos los días en la tapa de los diarios”. La vinculación de los aspectos conceptuales con los prácticos es algo que se viene realizando en la Cátedra Finanzas Públicas II (Argentina) en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, mediante la realización de trabajos prácticos que contrastan los tópicos teóricos con casos concretos y actuales, derivados de la implementación de políticas públicas. Por esta vía se busca ilustrar los conceptos y facilitar su mejor comprensión, y especialmente, motivar en el alumno el análisis crítico y la discusión de la realidad.
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Runcan, Patricia. Copilărie și parentalitate cu impact. Editura de Vest, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.51820/autentic.2020.vol.1.
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INCITANT ȘI INFORMATIV TOTODATĂ, titlul volumului Copilărie și parentalitate cu impact pune „în joc” trei cuvinte-cheie pentru problematica circumscrisă, gata să stimuleze curiozitatea, indiferent de vârsta, ocupația, statutul cititorului. „Paradisul pierdut al părinților” (copilăria), „misiunea” parentală – onorată sau nu, conștientizată ori ba – și, în fine, consecințele oricăruia dintre stiluri (exigent, autoritar, permisiv, neimplicat), urmări pe care le-am putea „boteza” drept amprentă fastă, „stâlp” al succesului personal și social, „marcă” a nereușitei, „dâră” adâncă în psihicul suferind al copilului, până departe, în viața de adult…, toate acestea „conviețuiesc” într-o „formulă” persuasivă care trimite la necesitatea abordării unei astfel de teme, la urgența dezbaterii ei (și sub formă editorială), la efectele (rezultatele) neapărat trăite de copil, sigur constatate de el însuși, de psiholog, învățător, medic etc., la o constantă preocupare de ordin științific, de ce nu, la un semnal de alarmă vizând decidenți de toate rangurile și responsabilitățile. „Pariul” asumat de coordonator (conf. univ. dr. Patricia Runcan) este autenticitatea, concept cu deschideri hermeneutice (din perspectivă teoretică) și provocări-capcane în privința trăirilor – mărturisirilor fiecărui subiect – actor al scrierii de față. Structurată pe trei secțiuni (părți), cartea debutează consistent prin 8 Interviuri cu profesioniști și oameni autentici, continuă cu 7 Eseuri descriptive aparținând unor masteranzi netemători de vulnerabilitatea asociată autodezvăluirii și se încheie cu Cercetări academice aplicate (rod al colaborării dintre un profesor și două absolvente cu disertații masterale pe tema tratată în Copilărie și parentalitate cu impact). „Misterul” aparent al preferinței „omului cu microfon” pentru anumiți interlocutori autentici – în pofida multor altora este măcar parțial „descâlcit” de atribute precum: deschiderea la conversații pe teme provocatoare, delicate, „spinoase”; experiența profesională de învățători, directori de școli, medici neurologi, psihoterapeuți, oameni ai bisericii, universitari; notorietatea și reputația în spațiul public; regăsirea unor valori comune (sau asemănătoare) în copilăria fiecăruia, dar și aplicate, mai apoi, în viața de părinte, profesor, terapeut, formator de opinii etc. Întrebările prestabilite (dar formulate nuanțat, pliindu-se pe structura de personalitate a „adversarului”), răspunsurile (mai concise sau mai ample), „trădând” copilării „zugrăvite” în multe culori, formulări confesive, dar și cu rol de exemplu, îndemn, dovadă, ilustrare, oglindire, lecție de viață, poveste cu tâlc, motto-ul – unul mai bine căutat decât altul – și, deloc de ignorat, ecoul fiecărei „întâlniri admirabile” în ființa „cetitorului”, laolaltă creează un „spectacol” aparte, demn de analiză. Ce este autenticitatea? (Cum să fii autentic ?) adună, din „zona” profesioniștilor, „definiții” într-un veritabil mozaic: „cu autoritate”, „stăpân pe sine”, „care acționează cum îi este sieși propriu”, „autenticitatea este grea; e singura cale de împăcare cu sine”, „în absența onestității nu există autentic”, „autenticitatea nu se determină pe axa natură-cultură”, „să fii adevărat”, „să fii original”, „să fii creativ”, „să fii valoros”. Într-un registru asemănător răspund masteranzii, formulările lor variind între: „a fi TU”, „a nu te preface”, „a-ți susține convingerile”, „a-ți cere drepturile”, „a nu-ți judeca părinții”, „a te accepta așa cum ești”, „a fi sincer mereu”, „a fi om serios”, „a inspira încredere”, „a trăi în scopul vieții, care e veșnicia”, „a fi ca mama”, „a fi același în viața privată și în cea publică”, „autenticitatea este comuniunea dintre gânduri, vorbe și fapte.” La rându-i, definirea copilăriei comportă sensibile diferențe de nuanță, esența rămânând aceeași. Dacă maturii oscilează între „copilăria este familie”, „bucurie, joacă în aer liber”, mediul în care nu trăim „hie încătro” (adică în lipsa rânduielii și a ritualurilor), „paradisul pierdut al părinților”, „poligon de încercare a duplicității, ipocriziei, snobismului, imposturii, lipsei de responsabilitate”, „poveste”, masteranzii numesc propria copilărie: „speranță”, „Nu există nu pot!”, „oglinda prin fața căreia treci ca să mai descoperi ceva din (în) tine”, „binecuvântare”, „liniște”, „colțul de rai pe pămînt”, „fundația vieții”, „o călătorie fericită într-o țară încărcată de emoție și culoare”… Observăm cu îngândurare că în discursul adulților experți – predomină bucuria, joaca, libertatea, în vreme ce o notă accentuată în „confesiunile” tinerilor masteranzi este reprezentată de maturizarea precoce, cu precădere în familiile „cu multe probleme”: părinți conflictuali, alcoolici, abuzivi, cu educație precară, indiferenți la nevoia de afectivitate și reguli rezonabile pentru buna alcătuire a caracterului copilului. Este și motivul pentru care autorul acestei prefețe nu se arată bucuros de confirmarea, în prima cercetare din finalul volumului Copilărie și parentalitate cu impact, a „armoniei” dintre stilul parental aplicat în copilăria cuiva și stilul parental internalizat de subiectul educației și exersat, la rându-i, asupra propriului descendent, după cum, nici de concluzia (ca validare a ipotezei celei din urmă cercetări) conform căreia relația de atașament din copilărie influențează în mare măsură relația de atașament a unei mame cu copilul său. Combinația fericită dintre parentalitatea autentică și copilăria ziditoare nu se constată la tot pasul. Chiar dacă valorile cultivate de familiile-nucleu sau extinse sunt dispuse într-un registru pozitiv generos (bunătate, siguranță, solidaritate, încredere, libertate, dragoste și justiție, limite raționale, principialitate, corectitudine, disciplină, partajare frățească, cinste, respect, bun simț, iubirea față de semeni, răbdare, adevăr, modestie, mediu creștin ș.a. – cum se vede în mărturiile din cartea în discuție) prea adesea, întâlnim fractura între ce e bine de făcut și răul care se petrece în relațiile interpersonale din universul familiei. Uneori, neștiința este cea dintâi cauză. Alteori, o „arhitectură” defectă a personalității părintelui. Nu rareori, influențe nepotrivite din afara mediului educațional primar. Traumele din copilărie ale genitorilor, nerezolvate la vreme, reprezintă un teribil element perturbator pentru copilăria și viitoarea viață de adult a celor mici. Incidența tot mai accentuată a familiilor disfuncționale face tot mai rar valabil adevărul: „Din familii rele ies copii buni” (însă cu o dublă condiție, echilibrul și selectivitatea dovedite de copil). Desigur, teoreticienii și practicienii avertizează și „repară”, colaborează și se luptă cu varii ipostaze ale ignoranței și stricăciunilor avându-i ca autori pe părinți. Nu-i deajuns. Nu-i mereu la timp. Nu e pentru „toată lumea” copiilor afectați. Nu e cu asumarea și sprijinul tuturor părinților. Nu e, în toată clipa, cu toate resursele (profesioniști, instrumente, bani) trebuincioase celor mai bune terapii și rezultate. Din păcate, în lumea reală, atât de multe nu se pot! Conf. univ. dr. Ștefania Bejan, Universitatea “Al. I. Cuza” din Iași