39 research outputs found
The Governance of Global Industry Associations:The Role of Micro-Politics
No full textThis insightful book examines the role of micro-politics in the life of global industry associations. Karsten Ronit addresses the various rules and norms required to administer these associations, highlighting the importance of managing variations in complex member demands and responding to expectations in their institutional environment. Posing a variety of empirical and theoretical challenges, the author charts the state of the art in the study of industry associations, evaluating the current condition of research in the field. Ronit offers a systematic approach to the role of global industry associations, identifying, classifying and analysing the diverse population of industry associations and the expressions of micro-politics that occur within them. Addressing key dilemmas such as leadership, resource allocation and regulation, Ronit examines the many policy areas in which industry associations are active and the areas in which their activities overlap with other policy actors. Offering a critical conceptual exploration of the significance of industry associations, this cutting-edge book is crucial reading for scholars and students researching business and politics, particularly those interested in associational governance in global industries. It will also benefit practitioners working in business associations and consulting firms, as well as policymakers addressing industry association
Outcomes Monitoring and Implementing Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in 2 Middle Eastern Countries
No full textWOS: 000209552800005Use of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy) evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines has not been tested internationally. The International Diabetes Outcomes Study explored implementation of the Academy evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines in Turkey and Israel by registered dietitians. The mean hemoglobin A(1c) levels decreased from 7.6% to 9.1% at baseline to 6.2% to 7.4% for participants in Turkey and Israel, respectively. Patients at goal increased from baseline to 12 months for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride. Most subjective ratings for lifestyle behavior changes improved and were positively correlated with hemoglobin A(1c) change. Outcomes suggest that Academy evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines could be adopted internationally with resources for training, translation, and adaptations.Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation; Abbott Laboratories; Academy of Nutrition and DieteticsEsther Myers received grant funding from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation (formerly named the American Dietetic Association Foundation) with support from Abbott Laboratories, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics provided in-kind support for additional salary beyond grant funding. Abbott Laboratories provided glucometers and glucose strips for the research project. Naomi Trostler, Ronit Endevelt, Hillary Voet, and Emel Alphan were supported by the grant funding from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
אהב (to love) in the Bible:a Cognitive Evolutionary Approach
No full textThis chapter is based on Merlin Donald’s theory about the three stages of human cognitive evolution — the mimetic, mythic, and theoretic cognitive strategies. The author will show how these three concepts help understand and describe the use of the verb “to love” (אהב) in the Bible. The concepts help categorize the various biblical texts into text of mimetic, mythic, and theoretic cognitions, and this categorization helps to understand how the meaning of the verb develops by blending its meaning from the mimetic (Song of Songs) through mythic (biblical narratives) to theoretic cognition (legal texts) . Ignoring this developing and the effect of ratcheting these cognition one after the other skews the understanding of the verb. Understanding biblical love as hierarchical ignores the date in the Song of Song, and mourning its one-sidedness is reading modern notions into the biblical verb. emotions cultural evolution Merlin Donald culture and cognition..
The Effects of an Urban Forest Health Intervention Program on Physical Activity, Substance Abuse, Psychosomatic Symptoms, and Life Satisfaction among Adolescents
No full textBackground: At-risk adolescents have been defined as youth who are or might be in physical, mental, or emotional danger. An Urban Forest Health Intervention Program (UFHIP) was formed at a center for at-risk adolescents in Israel, in order to promote physical activity and reduce risky behavior. Objective: To evaluate the intervention’s effect on physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption, psychosomatic symptoms, and life satisfaction. Methods: From 2015 to 2016, at-risk youth were nonrandomly selected to participate in the UFHIP. Questionnaires were administered to both intervention and control groups before and after the intervention. Univariate and multivariable analyses evaluated the intervention’s effect. Results: The study participants (n = 53) showed 0.81 more sessions per week of 60 min of physical activity than did the control group (n = 23; p = 0.003). Among the intervention group, smoking frequency reduced from a mean of 2.60 (SD = 1.30) to 1.72 (SD = 1.08), whereas that in the control group increased from 3.17 (1.03) to 3.39 (1.03). In both groups, there was a reduction in alcohol consumption, with a greater change among intervention participants: −1.08 (SD = 1.30), compared with −0.09 (SD = 1.79) in the control group. Conclusions: Findings indicate that the environmental intervention was efficacious in increasing physical activity and reducing risky behaviors among youth. The effectiveness of this intervention among larger samples is warranted in future prospective studies
From Egypt to Israel: Silenced and Explosive Footsteps According to The Sound of Our Footsteps, by Ronit Matalon
No full textA complexidade da vida de imigrantes judeus que foram obrigados a deixar o Egito e se instalaram em Israel há mais de meio século não significou para muitos deles uma possibilidade de ascensão na vida; ao contrário, a antiga posição de acomodamento foi substituída por um rebaixamento inesperado que somente atingiria um desejado equilíbrio na geração seguinte. Neste romance semiautobiográfico, Kol tseadeinu (O som de nossos passos, Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2008), Ronit Matalon – filha de pais oriundos do Egito -, expõe a própria situação familiar. O verdadeiro ou fictício abonado padrão da família é substituído pelas duras condições de sobrevivência de tripla jornada de trabalho da mãe, ao qual se acresce o quase total abandono por parte do pai jornalista e ativista político marxista, insatisfeito com os moldes que o Israel de então lhes proporcionou na categoria de imigrantes mizrachim, ou seja, judeus provenientes de países árabes. O pai embarca em lutas para denunciar o modelo discriminador do país. A narrativa não linear do romance, conduzida pela filha - alter ego da autora, no papel de testemunha – da tenra idade à idade adulta, se concentra principalmente na mãe, Lucette, e sua atuação de lutadora para se sobrepor ao pequeno mundo a que fora restringida no novo país e à sua condição de esposa semiabandonada. Inconformada, “a mãe” abala a casa – um precário barracão pré-fabricado -, com suas movimentações. “A casa” – a vida da família – praticamente é sinônimo de “a mãe”. O propósito desse texto, além de situar a posição do romance na literatura hebraica contemporânea, é delinear o enfrentamento da mulher que conduz a sua vida e a de seus familiares para a frente, dos seus passos silenciosos, como se lê no primeiro capítulo, aos passos de toda a família, como expostos quase no final do alentado romance.The complexity of Jewish immigrants’ life who were forced to leave Egypt and settled in Israel more than half a century ago did not mean for many of them a possibility of advancement in life; rather, the old position of accommodation was replaced by an unexpected demotion that would only reach a desired equilibrium in the next generation. In this semi-autobiographical novel, Kol tseadeinu (The Sound of Our Footsteps, Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2008), Ronit Matalon – daughter of Egyptian parents - exposes the family situation itself. The true or fictitious family standard is replaced by harsh conditions of survival of the mother\u27s triple work day, to which is added the almost total abandonment by the journalist and Marxist political activist father, dissatisfied with the molds that Israel then provided for them in the category of mizrachim immigrants, that is, Jews coming from Arab countries. The father embarks on struggles to denounce the country\u27s discriminating model. The non-linear narrative of the novel, conducted by the daughter - the author\u27s alter ego, in the role of witness - from an early age to adulthood, focuses mainly on the mother, Lucette, and her performance as a fighter to overcome the small world to which she was restricted in the new country and her condition of semi-abandoned wife. Dissatisfied, “the mother” shakes the house – a precarious prefabricated shed - with her movements. “The house” – the family life – is practically synonymous with “the mother”. The purpose of this text, in addition to situating the position of the novel in contemporary Hebrew literature, is to outline the confrontation of the woman who leads her and her family’s life forward, from her silent steps, as we read in the first chapter, to the steps of the whole family, as exposed towards the end of this lively romance
The Internal Morality of Conscience
No full textThis essay challenges the relevance of the primary analogy in Ronit Stahl and Ezekiel Emanuel’s article “Physicians, Not Conscripts: Conscientious Objection in Health Care.” The author then proposes an alternative, classically inspired model of conscience based on the work of E. Christian Brugger, Edmund Pellegrino, and Alasdair MacIntyre. This teleological model enables a more robust analysis of conscience claims than does Stahl and Emanuel’s social-constructivist framework.</jats:p
Beyond Black & White : Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest
No full textEdited by Stephanie Cole & Alison M. Parker [College at Brockport faculty member] ; introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt [College at Brockport alum].
“The complex, changing and oppressive ‘multiracisms’—to use Ronit Lentin\u27s term—of the U.S. South and Southwest are brilliantly captured in this powerful collection of linked essays. So too are the ways in which differing but overlapping experiences of race, citizenship and terror created both common ground and grounds for division among racialized groups.”--David Roediger, University of Illinois, and author, Colored White: Transcending the Racial Pasthttps://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/bookshelf/1279/thumbnail.jp
Exploring Persian Lore in the Hebrew Book of Asaf
No full textThe Hebrew medical text referred to as Sefer refu’ot or Sefer Asaf (“Book of Asaf”) has long been considered one of the greatest mysteries of the Hebrew sciences with regards to fundamental questions such as the date and place of its composition and the identity of its author or authors. It has been dated anytime between the third and the eleventh centuries, and its composition has been located anywhere between Persia and southern Italy.
This paper explores some of the Persian lore in Sefer Asaf: the figure of Asaf himself, the similarity with other Persian or Persian-influenced accounts of the origins of the sciences; the appearance of the Indo-Iranian motif of the trees of medicine; the central importance given to Indic medical knowledge and the form and usage of the Persian months as they appear in the text.
Key contributions to the study of Sefer Asaf to date have argued for a Syriac connection while a number of other important studies have linked the text to a Persian cultural milieu. The data I present here links those two together and argues for dependence on material deriving from the Church of the East in Persia
Global Business Associations
No full textGlobal business tends to be perceived as a number of individual but powerful multinational corporations, capable of controlling markets and influencing political decisions; in fact, global business is highly organized through a plethora of associations that bring together competing companies and conflicting national businesses. Indeed, global business associations have a long history and, with accelerated globalization, further opportunities emerge for unified business action.This book fills a significant gap in the current literature, examining the pivotal role of global business associations and providing a concise and accessible overview of their different functions in a range of institutional contexts. Beginning by clarifying the concept of global business associations, the author puts their role into a historical and contemporary context in which their economic, social and political functions are sketched. Their historical origin is outlined, including the proliferation of global associations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He then moves on to explore and analyse the different types of actors, explaining key categories and their place in the organization of global business with chapters on peak associations (e.g. ICC and WEF), industry associations, alliances, as well as clubs and think tanks, and facilitators.Covering the history, current role and future evolution of this dynamic category of associations, this work will be essential reading for students and scholars of international political economy, international relations, international organizations and global governance
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No full text"Global business tends to be perceived as a number of individual but powerful multinational corporations, capable of controlling markets and influencing political decisions; in fact, global business is highly organized through a plethora of associations that bring together competing companies and conflicting national businesses. Indeed, global business associations have a long history and, with accelerated globalization, further opportunities emerge for unified business action. This book fills a significant gap in the current literature, examining the pivotal role of global business associations and providing a concise and accessible overview of their different functions in a range of institutional contexts. Beginning by clarifying the concept of global business associations, the author puts their role into a historical and contemporary context in which their economic, social and political functions are sketched. Their historical origin is outlined, including the proliferation of global associations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He then moves on to explore and analyse the different types of actors, explaining key categories and their place in the organization of global business with chapters on peak associations (e.g. ICC and WEF), industry associations, alliance associations, as well as clubs and think tanks, and facilitators. Covering the history, current role and future evolution of this dynamic category of associations, this work will be essential reading for students and scholars of IPE, international relations, international organizations and global governance"-
