Using D/MT to Elicit Social Change for the Incarcerated: A Literature Review

This literature review focuses on dance/movement therapy and other creative arts interventions that will help the incarcerated during and after incarceration. The incarcerated do not receive the help they need to successfully reintegrate into society, leading to increased recidivism rates. This population is often stigmatized as subhuman, and it is important for them to build self-worth and develop appropriate coping skills to better themselves. Creative arts programs display promising results, for they allow the incarcerated a break in their routine and an opportunity for creativity. Studies show that art and music therapy can help the incarcerated with emotional regulation, self-expression, and depression. Dance/movement therapy is effective for this population based on its core principles of kinesthetic empathy, nonverbal communication, and validation. However, evidence for these programs is scarce because not enough research studies display consistent results through mixed methodologies. Arts-based research conveys the best results for this population by encouraging the researchers to collaborate with the incarcerated. The incarcerated want to share their stories to empower themselves and others, and this is most successful when they have an outlet to take control. Future research should concentrate on arts-based research with dance/movement therapy as the primary artistic intervention

Car-free cities: urban utopia or real perspective?

The appalling conditions of many 19th century industrial cities, brought by the Industrial Revolution, triggered numerous ideas and concepts looking for a better form of urban environment. Although most of the ideas may be today categorized as utopian, they had nevertheless significantly influenced urban development and heralded, at that time, the emergence of the Modernist City. With time, the Modernist City grew increasingly car-dependent. The crisis of the contemporary “Automobile City” stimulates, yet again, efforts to develop visions for a new, better city, free from ill-effects of car traffic. These visions may also fall into category of urban utopia, but they hopefully will, like in the past, set new directions in urban development and contribute to emergence of a new city form. Numerous research, planning and design works up today allow to speculate on the emerging new urban design paradigm. The visions of a future “Post Automobile City” go generally in two directions: a radical Car-free City model entirely devoid of automobile and – less radical - a Sustainable Mobility City, offering diverse modes of movement and related diverse life styles. The latter concepts would comprise both city forms: entirely car-free zones and “ordinary” urban areas accessible for cars, but more habitable due to priorities for pedestrian, bike and transit movement. We already observe growing number of car-free neighborhoods, mostly in the cities of Western Europe. They usually do not differ physically from ordinary housing complexes, other than added car- free arrangements. However, like in the past, we can expect that new urban forms will start to evolve following ongoing changes in urban transport. The paper attempts to answer the question if, and how, future changes towards sustainable mobility, may influence urban form, and in particular, how car-free residential areas in future cities may look like

Jorge H. Evans Civit (ed.), Antología del Index Aristotelicus de H. Bonitz, Buenos Aires, Santiago Arcos, 2010. Colaboradores del área de Lenguas Clásicas: L. Sardi de Estrella, E. Driban, E. Cecco, M.E. Guevara de Álvarez, C. Silventi, M.G. Barandica. Colaboradores del área de Filosofía: J.H. Evans Civit, D. Lema Sarmento, T. Squizzato, I. Anton Mlinar; ISBN 978-987-1240-53-1; 640 pág.

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Self-Esteem in Relation to Casual Sex Behavior, Attitudes, and Affect.

Casual sex is common on college campuses and is potentially relevant to a person\u27s self-esteem. Unfortunately, data are mixed regarding how self-esteem is influenced by casual sex. This thesis is an attempt to understand how casual sex influences women\u27s self-esteem through a series of questionnaires. Three hypotheses were of interest. The first predicted that sociosexuality and desire would explain casual sex engagement. Second, that casual sex behaviors and attitudes would predict self-esteem. Third, looking only at those who engaged in casual sex; casual sex attitudes and affect would predict self-esteem. Using hierarchical regression, results indicated that there was a curvilinear effect for sociosexuality on number of casual sex partners. Results for the second hypothesis showed an interaction between behavior and attitudes to predict selfesteem. Finally, for hypothesis three, results showed a moderation effect for attitudes on negative affect regarding overall casual sex experience and self-esteem

Socrates’ opinion on the art of Evenus from an oblique optative in Plato’s Apology 20b8-c1

At the beginning of Plato’s Apology Socrates says: καὶ ἐγὼ τὸν Εὔηνον ἐμακάρισα εἰ ὡς ἀληθῶς ἔχοι ταύτην τὴν τέχνην καὶ οὕτως ἐμμελῶς διδάσκει (20b8-c1). In this text we find the syntactic phenomenon known as “oblique optative”, but coordinated with another verb in indicative mood. The only coincidence regarding this use of the optative is that the main verb has to be a past tense. But there is little coincidence around the semantic reasons for this use of the optative. In the present paper we will try to show the specific semantics of the oblique optative and its importance for the interpretation of the text

Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Approach Used for Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from Monazite Material, Considering Uncertainty

This study describes the development of life cycle inventory (LCI) to rare earth elements (REEs) based on the secondary sources, conducted according to ISO 14040 (2006) guidelines. Monte Carlo (MC) simulation with the Crystal Ball (CB) spreadsheet-based software was employed to stochastic modeling of life cycle inventory. The number of simulations was set at 10,000. The study scope considered LCI associated with REE concentrate production from New Kankberg (Sweden) gold mine tailings production (input gate) to the final delivery of rare earth elements (end gate) to reprocessing/beneficiation for rare earth element recovery. For the presented case, lognormal distribution has been assigned to scandium (Sc), dysprosium (Dy), yttrium (Y), lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), terbium (Tb), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and lutetium (Lu). The MC simulation (10,000 trials) for the sum of analyzed REEs used for CB is presented in the form of statistics. Sensitivity analysis (SA) presented in the form of tornado charts and spider charts was performed. The results from this study suggest that uncertainty analysis is a powerful tool that should support and aid decision-making and is more trusted than the deterministic approach

Export performance and potential of Singapore

The growth of Singapore as a city started only in the nineteenth century when Sir Stamford Raffles landed there in search of a commercial centre for the (British) East India Company which acquired the whole island in 1824. The island had then only a few traders and fishermen. Shortly, however, it became an important trading and also an administrative centre first for the Straits Settlement, and later also for the Malay States. For its rapid subsequent growth Singapore had literally nothing but: (a) a good port in a good location, on the crossroads of the seas; (b) free port status; (c) a higher degree of security than prevailed in the region (provided by the British power). These meagre assets proved quite adequate to produce an important commercial centre. Until a few years ago Singapore was nothing but an entrepot trade base. Traders of many nations have found it convenient to use Singapore for receiving and handling goods in transit from, and to, all parts of the world, but especially goods moving in the region. This entrepot trade involves buying, e.g., various grades of rubber in small lots from various small producers or traders in the area, putting the lots together, grading them, packing them, and then re-exporting them to any part of the world. For many years, and even now, the local handling of those materials was slight so that the value added per dollar of sales was also slight. The volume of such trade was very high, however, and this gave the island its economic viability. The other element of this entrepot trade consisted in the practice of Singapore merchants buying manufactured goods in large lots in the advanced countries and then breaking-down these lots into small ones convenient for the small business firms in the whole of Southeast Asia, but especially the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia.

Cyberspace: A Venue for Terrorism

This paper discusses how cyberspace has become a venue for terrorists groups for recruiting and proliferating propaganda and terrorism. Moreover, this study explores how the low cost Internet infrastructure and social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube) have contributed to their networking and operations due to the convenience, in terms of availability, accessibility, message redundancy, ease of use, and the inability to censor content. Concepts such as cyber-weapons, cyber-attacks, cyber-war, and cyber-terrorism are presented and explored to assess how terrorist groups are exploiting cyberspace