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Home-Based Parent-Child Therapy in Low-Income African American, Caucasian, and Latino Families: A Comparative Examination of Treatment Outcomes
This study examined parent and child treatment outcomes for a home-based Parent-Child Therapy (PCT) program for 66 children from families living in poverty. African American, Caucasian, and Latino families were examined to determine if an evidence-based program would produce similar results across different ethnic groups. The results showed that caregivers across the three ethnic groups reported improved child challenging behavior, increased positive parent-child interactions, improved parental expectations, higher levels of nurturing, and less reliance on verbal and corporal punishment as a form of discipline. Practical implications for these results are discussed
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Smadar Levie. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014
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Beyond Paralysis: The Reframing of Israeli Peace Activism Since the Second Intifada
This article looks at the transformation of Israeli peace activism since the Second Intifada. It does this by focusing on the collective action frames of Israeli peace activism, using framing processes from social movement theory to identify and explain shifts in the ideas and beliefs surrounding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Israeli peace activism did not reach a “dead-end point” following the Second Intifada but instead took on a new trajectory. While the moderate component of Israeli peace activism may have become paralyzed, unable and unwilling to respond to the prevailing realities, the radical and alternative components continued to act, transforming their ideas and presenting new ways to challenge the conflict. This article suggests that although these groups have not had an impact in the policy arena, their influence comes in the realm of norm entrepreneurship and therefore their efforts should not be overlooked
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Introduction
These are radical groups that act in solidarity with the Palestinians and human rights organisations and whose aim is to reveal the realities of the occupation and hold the government to account
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Framing and Foreign Policy—Israel’s Response to the Arab Uprisings
The eruption of the 2010 Arab uprisings has generated a great deal of academic scholarship. However, the foreign policy of Israel, a key power in the Middle East, amid the Arab uprisings, has received limited attention. Furthermore, as we demonstrate, the conventional wisdom purported by the current debate, which is that Israel adopted a “defensive, non-idealist” realist foreign policy posture (Magen 2015, 114) in the wake of the Arab uprisings, is wrong. Rather, utilizing an innovative approach linking foreign policy analysis (FPA) and the literature on framing, we demonstrate that Israel adopted a foreign policy stance of entrenchment. This posture is predicated on peace for peace not territory, reinforcing Israel's military capabilities, and granting limited autonomy to the Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Thus, the article demonstrates how framing can usefully be operationalized to uncover how binary discourse does not merely reflect foreign policy but is, in fact, constitutive of it. We demonstrate that diagnostic and prognostic frames helped to create a direct connection between the images held by a leader, his/her worldview, ideas, perceptions and misperceptions, and foreign policy actions. These frames constituted action-oriented sets of beliefs and meaning that inspired and legitimated certain foreign policy options and instruments while restricting others
Fractal Conductance Fluctuations of Classical Origin
In mesoscopic systems conductance fluctuations are a sensitive probe of
electron dynamics and chaotic phenomena. We show that the conductance of a
purely classical chaotic system with either fully chaotic or mixed phase space
generically exhibits fractal conductance fluctuations unrelated to quantum
interference. This might explain the unexpected dependence of the fractal
dimension of the conductance curves on the (quantum) phase breaking length
observed in experiments on semiconductor quantum dots.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PR
Resisting bare life : civil solidarity and the hunt for illegalized migrants
While European governments have pursued illegalized migrants for decades, the techniques through which they do so have taken a more radical turn since 2015. Focusing on the particular case of Belgium, this paper documents how its Federal government has increasingly tried to “police” migrants into the European refugee regime, while migrants and citizens have continued to resist these efforts through a series of “political” actions. Drawing on ethnographic work with the Brussels‐based Citizen Platform for the Support of Refugees, I pursue two aims: first, I demonstrate how the Belgian state has consciously produced a humanitarian crisis as part of a broader “politics of exhaustion”; and second, I explore the specific forms and types of humanitarian action that emerge from citizens’ response to these policies. I do so by describing three moments in which these opposing logics of policing and politicization conjure
First Calorimetric Measurement of OI-line in the Electron Capture Spectrum of Ho
The isotope Ho undergoes an electron capture process with a
recommended value for the energy available to the decay, , of about
2.5 keV. According to the present knowledge, this is the lowest
value for electron capture processes. Because of that, Ho is the best
candidate to perform experiments to investigate the value of the electron
neutrino mass based on the analysis of the calorimetrically measured spectrum.
We present for the first time the calorimetric measurement of the atomic
de-excitation of the Dy daughter atom upon the capture of an electron
from the 5s shell in Ho, OI-line. The measured peak energy is 48 eV.
This measurement was performed using low temperature metallic magnetic
calorimeters with the Ho ion implanted in the absorber.
We demonstrate that the calorimetric spectrum of Ho can be measured
with high precision and that the parameters describing the spectrum can be
learned from the analysis of the data. Finally, we discuss the implications of
this result for the Electron Capture Ho experiment, ECHo, aiming to
reach sub-eV sensitivity on the electron neutrino mass by a high precision and
high statistics calorimetric measurement of the Ho spectrum.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Prospects for measuring the 229Th isomer energy using a metallic magnetic microcalorimeter
The Thorium-229 isotope features a nuclear isomer state with an extremely low
energy. The currently most accepted energy value, 7.8 +- 0.5 eV, was obtained
from an indirect measurement using a NASA x-ray microcalorimeter with an
instrumental resolution 26 eV. We study, how state-of-the-art magnetic metallic
microcalorimeters with an energy resolution down to a few eV can be used to
measure the isomer energy. In particular, resolving the 29.18 keV doublet in
the \gamma-spectrum following the \alpha-decay of Uranium-233, corresponding to
the decay into the ground and isomer state, allows to measure the isomer
transition energy without additional theoretical input parameters, and increase
the energy accuracy. We study the possibility of resolving the 29.18 keV line
as a doublet and the dependence of the attainable precision of the energy
measurement on the signal and background count rates and the instrumental
resolution.Comment: 32 pages, 8 figures, eq. (3) correcte
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