Case Study on Non-profit Organizations Supporting Social Participation of People with Disability at Hampton-Roads Area in Virginia State USA

本稿は、米国バージニア州ハンプトンローズ地域で、障がい者の社会参加を支援する非営利組織の事例研究を通じて、日本における同様の取り組みに新しいあり方を提案しようとするものである。知的障がい者の支援に取り組むこれらの組織では、リハビリテーションと業務コーチングのノウハウを組み合わせることにより、ビジネスライクな商業ベースでの業務に、支援対象者を取り組ませることに成功している。これらの業務に取り組むことは、支援対象者の具体的な仕事を通じた社会参加を促進するばかりでなく、経済的な自立性を高めることにも貢献している。日本における障がい者の同様の社会参加は、障がい者雇用促進法に基づく法定雇用率によって、私企業や行政機関での雇用促進によって取り組まれている。一方の米国では、ソーシャルワーカーを要する非営利組織が重要な役割を担っている。日本においてもその手法を取り入れることにより、これまでとは異なる障がい者の社会参加のあり方が実現できるのではないだろうか。departmental bulletin pape

A review of the Late Permian – Early Triassic conodont record and its significance for the end-Permian mass extinction

As a marine microfossil with a long-lasting fossil record stretching from the Cambrian to the Triassic, the tiny conodont plays an important role for the study of the end-Permian mass extinction. In the past few decades, numerous studies on Permian-Triassic conodonts have been published. This paper summarizes the progress made on high-resolution conodont biostratigraphy, timing of the mass extinction across the Permian-Triassic Boundary, conodont apparatus and phylogeny, conodont size variation, conodont oxygen isotope as well as other isotopes and chemical elements. Finally, future perspectives are also discussed

stenantha

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stenantha

Poa stenantha Triniusnarrow-flowered bluegrass;narrow-leaved bluegrass;northern bluegrassstenanthaCrandell MountainS. slope, damp dirt & rock6800 feetNatural Areas Data Bank, Alberta Forestry Lands and Wildlif

arguta

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Apology of Timothy the Patriarch before the Caliph Mahdi

Part of Alphonse Mingana’s Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni, edited and translated with a critical apparatus, of which the present book is volume 2, The Apology of Timothy the Patriarch before the Caliph Mahdi is accompanied in this volume by The Lament of the Virgin and The Martyrdom of Pilate. These three texts demonstrate the variety found in Mingana’s extraordinary collection. The namesake of the volume, Timothy’s apology for Christianity, is an eighth-century manuscript and one of the earliest documents concerning Christianity’s relationship with Islam. In it the “Nestorian” Patriarch Timothy I (780-823) presents his case for his faith to the third Abbasid Caliph Mahdi. The other two documents share a common Egyptian origin and Garshuni epigraphy. Neither The Lament of the Virgin nor The Martyrdom of Pilate claim a great antiquity and both works are pseudepigraphical. Mary’s lament, in the former work, is her sadness at the empty tomb, a piece in which she is conflated with Mary Magdalene. The latter piece presents Pontius Pilate as a saint and lays out his spiritual accomplishments that are crowned by his martyrdom. The texts are presented in their original languages as well as in English. Alphonse Mingana (1878-1937) was an educator at the Chaldean Seminary in Iraq. He was also a priest in the Assyrian tradition and a collector of ancient manuscripts. He is renowned for his Mingana Collection, a set of nearly 3000 early Syrian and Arabic documents which he acquired and preserved. Mingana eventually immigrated to England, where he spent 17 years in Manchester to continue his work on Oriental Studies