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External interventions and the duration of civil wars
No full textThe authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using"expected"rather than"actual"external intervention as an explanatory variable in the duration model. Unlike previous studies, they find that external intervention is positively associated with the duration of civil war. They distinguish partial third-party interventions that extend the length of war, from multilateral"peace"operations, which have a mandate to restore peace without taking sides - and which typically take place at war's end, or at least when both sides have agreed to a cease-fire. In a future paper, the authors will examine whether partial third-party interventions - whatever their effect on a war's duration - increase the risk of war's recurrence. If that proves true, then even if interventions reduce the length of civil war, they may do so at the cost of further destabilizing the political system, and sowing the seeds of future rebellion.Children and Youth,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Social Conflict and Violence,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs
The Great Recession and School District Property Tax Revenues in Georgia
No full textCSLF Policy Brief , Publication No. 9, Feb. 10, 2015, Nicholas Warner The author outlines how declines in property values post-recession have greatly affected Georgia school districts, most especially those located in metro Atlanta.To learn more about the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and Policy Briefs & Reports , visit https://aysps.gsu.edu/ and https://cslf.gsu.edu/research/
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Iambic elements in archaic Greek epic
No full texttextArchaic Greek poetry evinces an inherited Indo-European opposition
between praise and blame. Praise has traditionally been seen as the domain
of epic and epinician poetry, while blame was putatively confined to the
iambic genre. I contend that the defining characteristics of iambic
poetry—invective, sex, deception, misogyny, and scatological humor—are
vital elements of archaic Greek epic. In epic, just as in iambic, poetry, these
characteristics are important determiners of status for individual characters
and means by which bonds are formed and maintained among members
of social groups. Both individuals and groups use “iambic” tactics in order
to assert and enact their own social superiority and simultaneously to
marginalize their opponents, who are often women or men equated with
women. With these things in mind, I examine in-group invective, battlefield
flyting, and the Dios Apate in the Iliad and the Tale of Ares and Aphrodite,
psogos gunaikon in Agamemnon’s speeches to Odysseus and the newly-slain
suitors in the underworld, and Odysseus’ Cretan Tales in the Odyssey.Classic
'First-Class Evening Entertainments': Spectacle and Social Control in a Mid-Victorian Music-Hall
No full textFirst-Class Evening Entertainments was the title given to a variety programme presented at Hoxton Hall in East London when it first opened in 1863. In 2000 Nicholas Till and Kandis Cook were commissioned by Hoxton Hall and the English National Opera Studio to make a new music theatre piece for the Hall, which led to an investigation of the content and context of the original programme. In the following article Nicholas Till offers a reading of the 1863 programme as an example of the mid-Victorian project to exercise social control over the urban working classes. Nicholas Till is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at Wimbledon School of Art, and co-artistic director of the experimental music theatre company Post-Operative Productions. He is the author of Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart's Operas (Faber, 1992), and is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to Opera
'First-Class Evening Entertainments': Spectacle and Social Control in a Mid-Victorian Music-Hall
No full textFirst-Class Evening Entertainments was the title given to a variety programme presented at Hoxton Hall in East London when it first opened in 1863. In 2000 Nicholas Till and Kandis Cook were commissioned by Hoxton Hall and the English National Opera Studio to make a new music theatre piece for the Hall, which led to an investigation of the content and context of the original programme. In the following article Nicholas Till offers a reading of the 1863 programme as an example of the mid-Victorian project to exercise social control over the urban working classes. Nicholas Till is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at Wimbledon School of Art, and co-artistic director of the experimental music theatre company Post-Operative Productions. He is the author of Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart's Operas (Faber, 1992), and is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to Opera
Impacts of prescribed fire on water use efficiency and photosynthetic capacity in upland pine and oak forests
No full textA comparative analysis of the impacts of prescribed fire on an oak/pine and two pine dominated forest in the Northeastern US was conducted. Effects of prescribed fire on water use and photosynthetic capacity of overstory pines were estimated by sap-flux rates and photosynthetic measurements on Pinus rigida Mill. Study sites had two sap-flux plots, one experiencing prescribed fire and one control plot. Data were collected between 2011-2013. Control and burned plots were compared both before and after the fires. We found that photosynthetic capacity in terms of Rubisco-limited carboxylation rate (VCmax), carboxylation efficiency, and intrinsic water use efficiency were significantly greater in the burned vs. the control plot post-fire, while instantaneous internal to external CO2 concentration was significantly lower. Furthermore, pines in the pine dominated stands were less affected than pines in the mixed oak/pine stand, as δ13C and isotopic water use efficiency were significantly lower and water use efficiency and carboxylation efficiency were increased in the oak/pine stand post-fire compared to the control plot, but not in the pine dominated stands. Average daily sap-flux rates exhibited different patterns for each stand type due to differences in fuel consumption, increasing compared to control plots in pine dominated sites and decreasing in the oak/pine stand. Finally, when analyzed on the canopy scale, pines in pine-dominated forests were better suited to capitalize on available resources, as they were more sensitive to changes in vapor pressure deficit (VPD) in regards to transpiration, while pines in the oak/pine forest were unaffected in terms of stomatal responses to VPD. Therefore, prescribed fire affects physiological functioning and water use of pines, but many other factors can alter the degree to which these trees are affected, because results are dependent on stand type and fuel consumption differences, making broad-scale generalizations on the effects of prescribed fire difficult.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Nicholas J. Carl
Parution : C. Carman, « Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus. Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture », Routledge, 2021
No full textProviding a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than is typically accorded Alberti. Whether regarding his purpose in teaching the use of a geometric single point perspective system, or more broadly in rendering forms naturalistically,..
Post-conflict private sector development : promoting durable peace : What are the characteristics and short comings of economic development in post-independent, sub-Saharan Africa : examples from Mozambique?
No full textIncludes abstract.In times of war the private sector adapts, often to function informally, and can serve to either perpetuate conflict or to incentivize peace. Accordingly, the private sector is a powerful tool that can be utilized during post-conflict reconstruction to enable sustain- able peace and economic development. After a conflict, in an effort to establish a means of survival outside of the war economy, there is a pressing need for the population to have a means by which to provide a livelihood and productively contribute to society. Establishing sustainable economic exchange and developing social capital between various members of society is one mechanism by which to achieve restorative justice and disincentivize conflict. ...this paper argues for a hybrid approach to private sector development that includes both the investment climate and interventionist methods to disincentivize a return to conflict
Peer support and crisis-focused psychological interventions designed to mitigate post-traumatic stress injuries among public safety and frontline healthcare personnel: a systematic review
No full textPublic safety personnel (PSP) and frontline healthcare professionals (FHP) are frequently exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs), and report increased rates of post-traumatic stress injuries (PTSIs). Despite widespread implementation and repeated calls for research, effectiveness evidence for organizational post-exposure PTSI mitigation services remains lacking. The current systematic review synthesized and appraised recent (2008–December 2019) empirical research from 22 electronic databases following a population–intervention–comparison–outcome framework. Eligible studies investigated the effectiveness of organizational peer support and crisis-focused psychological interventions designed to mitigate PTSIs among PSP, FHP, and other PPTE-exposed workers. The review included 14 eligible studies (n = 18,849 participants) that were synthesized with qualitative narrative analyses. The absence of pre–post-evaluations and the use of inconsistent outcome measures precluded quantitative meta-analysis. Thematic services included diverse programming for critical incident stress debriefing, critical incident stress management, peer support, psychological first aid, and trauma risk management. Designs included randomized control trials, retrospective cohort studies, and cross-sectional studies. Outcome measures included PPTE impacts, absenteeism, substance use, suicide rates, psychiatric symptoms, risk assessments, stigma, and global assessments of functioning. Quality assessment indicated limited strength of evidence and failures to control for pre-existing PTSIs, which would significantly bias program effectiveness evaluations for reducing PTSIs post-PPTE.Peer reviewedpost-traumatic stress injuries; mental health services; occupational health; CISD; CISM; systematic revie
“This dapper hotty is working that tweed look”:Extending Workplace Affects on TubeCrush
No full textThis chapter analyse the website TubeCrush, where commuters share images of unsolicited attractive men on the London Underground. We define TubeCrush as a digital intimate public as it creates commonality in the desires of straight women and gay men. But TubeCrush also engages with and extends workplace affects through its location on the Tube, locating it in new urban post-Fordist economies. Our analysis brings together intimate publics and workplace affects by analysing love and romance, the celebration of financial masculinities and labours of the body. We argue that TubeCrush provides a sense of sociality and community, alleviating the alienation of the post-Fordist city. However, this is produced through an online distribution of images that orients the user to normative desires, closing down radical potential
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