Practitioner Profile: An Interview with Barbara Mitchell, LCSW

Barbara Mitchell, LCSW is a clinical social worker and certified Imago Relationship Therapist who has maintained a private practice in New York City for over 30 years. Her work in the addictions field, which is informed by self-psychology and a 12-Step approach, led her to the discovery that one’s relationship to money can be transformed from self-destructive to life-enhancing

Model and simulation development for the convective, hot-air drying of In-shell macadamia nuts

The drying of agricultural food crops is an essential process in ensuring the safe and reliable delivery of produce to consumers. This is no less true for cultivated nuts, grains and seeds, which have a certain vulnerability to degradation under moist conditions. The macadamia nut is particularly susceptible to this issue, due to its high oil content and markedly slow drying characteristics, providing rancidity and disease with an opportunity to spoil the produce. In recent decades, the design of efficient industrial drying schemes has become a large focus for researchers, with many studies aiming to better describe the underlying physical processes in food drying. This dissertation details the design and implementation of a fundamental model and accompanying simulation for the drying of nut-in-shell macadamias, intended to aid a future control system design study. Research is given toward the macadamia industry, as well as some of the relevant physical properties of the nut. An extensive review is given on modelling, with particular importance placed on techniques used for the deep-bed drying of nuts, grains and seeds. Control system architecture is briefly discussed, but is not the primary focus of this report. Verification of work done by prior researchers is carried out, before then deriving a comprehensive deep-bed drying model for macadamias. Crucial aspects toward how such a model is adapted into a MATLAB simulation is given, without intending to become an extensive review on software design. A robust and thorough model verification procedure is conducted, to prove that the final simulation does indeed successfully suit the purposes of control system design

Home, But Not Alone: Socio-Cultural and Economic Aspects of Canadian Young Adults Sharing Parental Households

This paper explores several socio-cultural and economic dimensions of intergenerational living arrangements. Data are drawn from a random sample of 1,907 Canadian young adults (aged 19-35) from four ethnocultural groups: British- , Chinese- , Southern European-, and Indo-Canadian. Issues germane to the prolongation of parental roles, midlife mothering, and unpaid work are also highlighted.Cet article explore plusieurs dimensions socio -culturelles et économiques des arrangements de co-habitation entre générations. Les données sont tirées à partir d'un échantillon aléatoire de 1907 jeunes adultes canadiens ( âgés entre 19 et 35 ans) venant de quatre groupes ethnoculturels : Britanniques, Chinois, Européens méridionaux, Indo –Canadiens. Les questions se rapportent à la prolongation des rôles de parents, être mère dans la quarantaine, et le travail non rémunéré est aussi souligné

Black working women and equal employment legislation

The research for this thesis is undertaken in order to examine whether or not equal employment legislation improved opportunities in the workplace for Black working women. The following areas will be focused on: - Legislation - Civil Rights Act of 1964, Equal Employment/Affirmative Action, Equal Pay Act, and Title IX. - Racism/Sexual Harassment - The Public and Private Job Sector - Unions - Academia/Education - Politics Some sources for examination will include studies by researchers from various universities on Black women and employment, statistics from the U.S. Labor Bureau, National Research Council and Joint Center for Political Studies, and reports and writings from the Women\u27s Bureau as well as authorities on the above topics. The final chapter will be devoted to reporting the results of interviews and a survey questionnaire of Black working women regarding their views on equal employment\u27s impact and contemporary workplace problems. Suggestions for improving Black women\u27s opportunities and status on the job will also be included in the final chapter