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Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms
No full textIn one of the first volumes assessing the full two terms of the George W. Bush presidency, Wroe and Herbert have gathered the work of leading American and European scholars. In fifteen succinct and incisive chapters, authorities such as Jim Pfiffner, John Maltese, Graham Wilson and Alan Gitelson offer assessments of the Bush administration's successes and failures. Extensive attention is paid to Bush's foreign policy, including 'The War on Terror' but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings as president with the other institutions of the U.S. political system. The result is a comprehensive guide to the Bush presidency and its legacy
Ed Wroe
No full textEd Wroe, bank clerk, shown leaving the Winfield Scott home, where he has lived for the past several years. The 18-room house was sold to the Girls Service League as a home for girls. Wroe is walking down the pathway away from the house, carrying two pieces of luggage. He is wearing a collared shirt, coat, hat and trousers.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/6481/thumbnail.jp
Barinya wangala Wroe 1999
No full text† Barinya SPECIES SCORED: † Barinya wangala (type species). GEOLOGICAL PROVENANCE OF SCORED SPECIMENS: Neville’s Garden, Bite’s Antennary and Upper sites (Riversleigh Faunal Zone B), and Henk’s Hollow and Jim’s Jaw sites (Riversleigh Faunal Zone C), Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia. AGE OF SCORED SPECIMENS: Based on biostratigraphy, Riversleigh Faunal Zone B is interpreted to be early Miocene (Archer et al., 1989, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2006; Creaser, 1997; Travouillon et al., 2006; Black et al., 2012b, 2013; Woodhead et al., 2014; Arena et al., 2015), and Faunal Zone C is interpreted to be middle Miocene (see † Nimbacinus above). Radiometric dates from Woodhead et al. (2014) are 17.72–18.53 Mya for Neville’s Garden Site and 16.84–17.38 Mya for Bite’s Antennary Site, but the other sites lack dates, so we have conservatively assumed the entire span of the early to middle Miocene (Aquitanian to Serravallian; Cohen et al., 2013 [updated]) for this taxon. ASSIGNED AGE RANGE: 23.030 –11.630 Mya. REMARKS: Wroe (1999) described † Barinya wangala as the oldest known dasyurid based on two relatively complete skulls (QM F31408 and F314089) plus additional dental specimens. Wroe (1999) identified a number of putative dasyurid apomorphies in the auditory region, but Murray and Megirian (2006a) subsequently argued that at least some of these features may have been secondarily lost in thylacinids. Among dasyuromorphians, † B. wangala is dentally autapomorphic in exhibiting a very large bulbous P3, somewhat reminiscent of the enlarged P3 seen in males of some Recent peramelemorphians (see Aplin et al., 2010: 26–31). A second species, † B. kutjamarpensis, was described by Binfield et al. (2016), based on a single partial right dentary (SAM P53348) from the the?early-middle Miocene Leaf Locality of the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna in the Wipajiri Formation, Lake Ngapakaldi, Tirari Desert, Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia (Woodburne et al., 1994; Archer et al., 1997; Travouillon et al., 2006; Megirian et al., 2010; Black et al., 2012b, 2013, 2014a; Gurovich et al., 2014); however, † B. kutjamarpensis has not been used for scoring purposes here. † Barinya was recovered as a dasyurid in the phylogenetic analyses of Wroe et al. (2000), Wroe and Musser (2001), and Murray and Megirian (2006a), but not in those of Archer et al. (2016) or Kealy and Beck (2017), and in only some of those by Rovinsky et al. (2019); we therefore follow Kealy and Beck (2017) in considering this taxon Daysuromorphia incertae sedis.Published as part of Beck, Robin M. D., Voss, Robert S. & Jansa, Sharon A., 2022, Craniodental Morphology And Phylogeny Of Marsupials, pp. 1-353 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (457) on page 324, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.457.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/697135
George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress
No full textBook synopsis: In one of the first volumes assessing the full two terms of the George W. Bush presidency, Wroe and Herbert have gathered the work of leading American and European scholars. In fifteen succinct and incisive chapters, authorities such as Jim Pfiffner, John Maltese, Graham Wilson and Alan Gitelson offer assessments of the Bush administration's successes and failures. Extensive attention is paid to Bush's foreign policy, including 'The War on Terror' but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings as president with the other institutions of the U.S. political system. The result is a comprehensive guide to the Bush presidency and its legacy
Social working without borders: challenging privatisation and complicity with the hostile environment
No full textSocial Workers Without Borders is a UK social work charity established in early 2016 to provide direct support to migrant children and families, and to scaffold this through the development of social work education and activism reflecting the principles of human rights and social justice. Reflecting on Social Workers Without Borders’ model of practice, Lauren Wroe, co-founder and trustee of Social Workers Without Borders, discusses the charity’s recent campaign against Capita and the implications of privatisation for asylum-seeking and migrant families, as well as for the ethical value base of the profession. Positioning Social Workers Without Borders as a voluntary network that ‘fills the gap’ in state services, the author discusses campaign strategies to defend the profession, and the families it supports, from the rolling back of state welfare and the rolling out of state hostility through the deregulated outsourcing of social care services
Changing Beliefs About Emotions in IBS: A Single Case Design
No full textBackground: Previous research suggests benefits of targeting beliefs about the unacceptability of emotions in treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Aims: The current study developed and tested an intervention focusing on beliefs and behaviours around emotional expression. Method: Four participants with IBS attended five group sessions using cognitive behavioural techniques focusing on beliefs about the unacceptability of expressing emotions. Bi-weekly questionnaires were completed and a group interview was conducted. This study used an AB design with four participants. Results: Averages indicate that participants showed decreases in beliefs about unacceptability of emotions and emotional suppression during the intervention, although this was not reflected in any of the individual trends in Beliefs about Emotions Scale scores and was significant in only one individual case for Courtauld Emotional Control Scale scores. Affective distress and quality of life improved during follow-up, with only one participant not improving with regard to distress. Qualitative data suggest that participants felt that the intervention was beneficial, referencing the value in sharing their emotions. Conclusions: This study suggests the potential for beliefs about emotions and emotional suppression to be addressed in cognitive behavioural interventions in IBS. That beliefs and behaviours improved before outcomes suggests they may be important processes to investigate in treatment for IBS
Relationship of trust and surveillance in the first national piloting of Contextual Safeguarding in England and Wales
No full textThis article analyses data collected as part of a three-year study supporting the implementation of Contextual Safeguarding across nine children’s social care teams in England and Wales as an approach to safeguarding adolescents at risk of harm in ‘extra-familial’ contexts. The article asks to what extent the first national testing of Contextual Safeguarding features relationships of trust or relationships of surveillance with young people, families and communities. Data collected for the National Scale Up study are analysed against the Watching Over Working With framework. Findings indicate that further guidance is required to support an uptake of Contextual Safeguarding that aligns with the framework’s values and with children’s rights
THE ORAL APPARATUS OF MARSUPIALS IS MORE INTEGRATED BUT NOT LESS MORPHOLOGICALLY DIVERSE THAN THAT OF PLACENTAL CARNIVORES
No full textDifferent clades can display extremely different levels of morphological, taxonomical, and
ecological variability. Understanding the factors promoting or decreasing organismal
variability is a central question for paleobiologists. To answer this question, researchers
have focused on identifying the key innovations that have determined patterns of radiation
in specific clades. In this context, developmental constraints can have a major impact on
morphological variability (e.g., disparity) and the evolutionary trajectories of shape change.
Phenotypic integration, or covariation among traits, has been shown to play an important
role in shaping organismal disparity at both micro- and macro-evolutionary scales. A
longstanding proposition in the field of mammalian evolution has been that morphological
variability among marsupials was limited by developmental constraints, in particular,
constraints on the marsupial oral apparatus linked to the need for the embryo to access the
mother’s teat early in its ontogeny. In this study, we apply a recently proposed Geometric
Morphometric approach (i.e., global integration) to investigate phenotypic integration
intrinsic to a particular structure, in order to compare morphological disparity in the oral
apparatus of marsupial and placental carnivores. Our results show that the marsupial oral
apparatus is significantly more integrated than that of placentals; however, at least when
fossil specimens are included, morphological disparity among marsupials was not
significantly different to that found in placentals. Our findings underscore the importance
of including fossil material in evolutionary studies and show that phenotypic integration
alone cannot explain the lower morphological variation of extant marsupials. We suggest
that extrinsic variables, such as habitat fragmentation, are likely to have played a key role in
limiting marsupial disparity
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