Book review: Fortress Europe: dispatches from a gated continent

"Fortress Europe." Matthew Carr. Hurst. October 2012. --- For nearly thirty years the Berlin Wall symbolised a divided Europe. In the euphoric aftermath of the Cold War, the advent of a new borderless world was hailed, one in which such barriers would become obsolete. Today these utopian predictions have yet to be realised. An inspiring and thoroughly researched book, not afraid of communicating a clear political message and expressing severe criticism, Fortress Europe provides much room for discussion not only on EU immigration policies, but also on the norms, values and principles on which Europe builds itself and against which it is measured, writes Inez von Weitershausen

State-related electroencephalographic deviances in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Objective: This study aimed to provide more insight into the functional significance of electroencephalographic (EEG) deviances in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by evaluating quantitative EEG during performance on a task with a low activation level and a task tapping top-down executive control. Method: Behavioral performance and EEG activity were compared between 24 adults with ADHD and 20 typically developing adults during a simple slow-paced 2-choice reaction time (2-CRT) task and a moderately paced flanker task. Results: During the slow 2-CRT task, adults with ADHD responded slower, more variably, and tended to make more errors of commission. Although being slower, adults with ADHD showed equally large congruency effects during flanker task performance, indicating intact interference inhibition. In the slow 2-CRT task, (midline) theta and beta power were higher in the ADHD group than in the control group, whereas no significant EEG group differences were observed in the flanker task. A moderate positive correlation between theta power and errors of commission was found in the 2-CRT task for adults with ADHD. Conclusions: Adults with ADHD performed worse on a task inducing a low activation level but showed intact interference inhibition. The EEG findings are in accord with this, showing an abnormal EEG pattern in ADHD only when a low activation level was induced, not when top-down executive control load was high. Time-on-task effects could not explain the group deviances. The findings indicate that EEG deviances in ADHD are task-dependent and may be related to a suboptimal energetic state, rather than impaired top-down executive control

A study of psychiatric social work with dementia praecox patients: twenty-fice cases of veterans of World War II on trial visit from the Veterans Administration Hospital at Bedford, Massachusetts

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

PENGARUH SISTEM BERKINERJA TINGGI TERHADAP PERAN KEGELISAHAN YANG BERLEBIHAN DAN DAMPAKNYA PADA KEINGINAN UNTUK KELUAR DI PERBANKAN BANDA ACEH DENGAN KONTROL KERJA SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERASI

ABSTRACTThis study aimed to analyze the influence of High Performance Work System on Anxiety Role Overload and Turnover Intentions with Job control as a moderating variable. The sample used in this study is Banking Employees in Banda Aceh. Data collection tool used in this study was a questionnaire. The sampling technique used in this study is proportionate stratified random sampling with a total of 135 questionnaires were distributed and only 131 can be collected. Methods of data analysis are Moderate Regression Analysis (MRA) and Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) which were used as methods of analysis to determine the effect of all the variables involved. The results showed that: 1) High Performance Work Systems has significant effect on the Anxiety role overloadon Banking Employees in Banda Aceh. 2) High Performance Work Systems has significant effect on Turnover Intentions on Banking Employees in Banda Aceh. 3) Anxiety role overload has significant effect on Turnover Intentions on Banking Employees in Banda Aceh.4) Job control has significant effect on role overload Anxiety on Banking Employess in Banda Aceh. 5) Based on simultaneous testing, it isshown that all the studied variables have significant effect on role overload Anxiety on Banking employees in Banda Aceh, but for Job control (Z2) as moderating variable does not have moderating effect on the model. 6) Anxiety role overload has a partially mediation on the effect of High Performance Work Systems on Turnover Intentions effect on Banking employees in Banda Aceh.Keyword: High Performance Work System, Anxiety Role overload, Job control, Turnover IntentionsABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh Sistem Berkinerja Tinggi terhadap Peran kegelisahan yang berlebihan dan Dampaknya pada Keinginan untuk Keluar dengan Kontrol Kerja sebagai variabel moderasi. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini Pegawai Perbankan di Banda Aceh. Peralatan pengumpulan data yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah kuisioner. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah proportionate stratified random sampling, sebanyak 135 kuisioner disebarkan dan 131 yang dapat terkumpulkan. Metode analisis data menggunakan Analisis Regresi Moderate (MRA) dan Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM) digunakan sebagai metode analisis untuk mengetahui pengaruh dari semua variabel-variabel yang terlibat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: 1) Sistem Berkinerja Tinggi berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Peran yang berlebihan pada karyawan Perbankan Banda Aceh. 2) Sistem Berkinerja Tinggi berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Niat Berpindah pada karyawan Perbankan Banda Aceh. 3) Peran yang berlebihan berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Niat Berpindah pada karyawan Perbankan Banda Aceh. 4) Kontrol kerja berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Peran yang berlebihan pada karyawan Perbankan Banda Aceh. 5) Berdasarkan pengujian secara simultan menunjukkan bahwa semua variabel yang diteliti berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Peran yang berlebihan pada karyawan Perbankan Banda Aceh, tetapi untuk efek moderasinya variabel Kontrol kerja (Z2) tidak memoderasi. 6) Peran kegelisahan yang berlebihan memediasi secara parsial (partial mediation) pengaruh HPWS terhadap Niat Berpindah pada karyawan Perbankan Banda AcehKata kunci: Sistem Berkinerja Tinggi, Kontrol Kerja, Peran Kegelisahan yang Berlebihan, Keinginan untuk Keluar.ABSTRACTThis study aimed to analyze the effect of High Performance Work System on Anxiety Role Overload and Turnover Intentions with Job control as a moderating variable. The sample used in this study is Banking Employees in Banda Aceh. Data collection tool used in this study was a questionnaire. The sampling technique used in this study is proportionate stratified random sampling with a total of 135 questionnaires were distributed and only 131 can be collected. Methods of data analysis are Moderate Regression Analysis (MRA) and Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) which were used as methods of analysis to determine the effect of all the variables involved. The results showed that: 1) High Performance Work Systems has significant effect on the Anxiety role overload on Banking Employees in Banda Aceh. 2) High Performance Work Systems has significant effect on Turnover Intentions on Banking Employees in Banda Aceh. 3) Anxiety role overload has significant effect on Turnover Intentions on Banking Employees in Banda Aceh.4) Job control has significant effect on role overload Anxiety on Banking Employess in Banda Aceh. 5) Based on simultaneous testing, it is shown that all the studied variables have significant effect on role overload Anxiety on Banking employees in Banda Aceh, but for Job control (Z2) as moderating variable does not have moderating effect on the model. 6) Anxiety role overload has a partially mediation on the effect of High Performance Work Systems on Turnover Intentions effect on Banking employees in Banda Aceh. Keyword: High Performance Work System, Anxiety Role overload, Job control, Turnover Intention

Belonging on the Borders

A personal essay by a novelist in response to the theme of borders and belongings, which sparks thoughts about what belonging is, a life-long sense of outsiderness and its gifts, the pernicious appeal of national identity, and the useful and valuable notion of Transcultural, where non-belongers can belong

The difference between the Nuremberg Trials and the TRC: a lesson to be learnt?

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 199