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Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social workers are expected to use research to inform their practice and to contribute to the production of research. Yet many social workers are reluctant to integrate research into their practice and into field education. Transforming Social Work Field Education encourages the adoption of research and scholarship into the practice of social work, especially field education. It offers current theoretical concepts and perspectives that shape social work field education and provides case studies of practice research grounded in the experiences of diverse communities and countries. Highlighting cutting-edge research and scholarship, each chapter addresses critical issues in social work practice and their implications for field education. Bringing together scholars at various stages of their careers, this book fosters a meaningful dialogue on the dynamic, complex, and multi-faceted nature of social work practice, research, and innovation in the critical area of field education. A vivid and original work, it stimulates interest and discussion on the integration of research and scholarship in social work field education in Canada and around the world. With contributions by: Wasif Ali, Helen Asrate Awoke, Kelemua Zenebe Ayele, Afework Eyasu Aynalem, Nicole Balbuena, Morgan Jean Banister, Natalie Beck Aguilera, Sheila Bell, Heather M. Boynton, Janice Chaplin Mailing, Emmanuel Chinlanga, Jill Ciesielski, Alise de Bie, Emma De Vynck, Cyerra Gage, Anita R. Gooding, Zipporah Greenslade, Annelise Hutchinson, Christine Anne Jenkins, Vibha Kausik, Ermias Kebede, Edward King, Kaltrina Kusari, William Lamar Medley, Karen Lok Yi Wong, Alexandra Katherine Mack, The Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative, Endalkachew Taye Shiferaw, Richardio Diego Suárez Rojas, Margaret Janse van Rensburg, Jennie Vengris, and Courtney Larissa Weaver

Philosophy of time travel is a fast-growing branch of philosophy, encompassing issues from metaphysics and epistemology through to the philosophy of science and philosophy of action. This Special Issue of Philosophies offers eight original contributions to the philosophy of time travel from expert practitioners in the field. Topics covered include causal loops, Grandfather Paradoxes, the dimensionality of time, attitudes to different times, foreknowledge, and the possibility of changing the past.

Multimedia technology will play a dominant role during the 21st century and beyond, continuously changing the world. It has been embedded in every electronic system: PC, TV, audio, mobile phone, internet application, medical electronics, traffic control, building management, financial trading, plant monitoring and other various man-machine interfaces. It improves the user satisfaction and the operational safety. It can be said that no electronic systems will be possible without multimedia technology. The aim of the book is to present the state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications. All chapters represent contributions from the top researchers in this field and will serve as a valuable tool for professionals in this interdisciplinary field.

This volume reflects on the significance of nostalgia in the construction of traumatic pasts, both on an individual and a collective level. By employing an interdisciplinary approach, the volume enhances our understanding of how the entanglements of trauma and nostalgia influence the construction and development of identity. Scholars from a range of academic disciplines and contexts explore the integration of nostalgic memories in discussions of trauma, attending to their interactions in public spaces, patriotic symbolism and rituals, popular culture, cinema, religion, museums, and memorials. The contributors emphasize the role of media and other mass-cultural technologies in disseminating images and narratives related to traumatic and nostalgic experiences. These essays ultimately bring to light the frequently overlooked role of nostalgic longing in shaping the discursive, visual, and material aspects of collective trauma.

Цель исследования состоит в том, чтобы показать области, в которых польские женщины включились в работу по восстановлению независимости после периода разделов. Основные переломные моменты охватывают период с 1914 г. до окончания польско-большевистской войны. Однако, чтобы в полной мере показать подоплеку оборонной деятельности польских женщин, в тексте упоминается ряд событий периода, предшествовавшего началу Первой мировой войны. Обсуждается также деятельность комбатантов, сражавшихся за независимость и границы во время Второй Польской Республики. Текст состоит из двух частей. В первой части автор представил участие женщин в военизированных организациях и вооруженной борьбе в годы Первой мировой войны, их участие в Великопольском восстании и в боях в Восточной Галиции за Львов. Обговаривается также деятельность женщин в легионах, Польской военной организации и Женском добровольческом легионе. Во второй части исследования представлен вклад гражданских женских организаций, в частности Польского Белого Креста, в работу по оказанию помощи солдатам и гражданским лицам, пострадавшим в ходе боевых действий. Автор подчеркивает ту роль, которую сыграли Женская лига Военной скорой помощи и Женский союз Галиции и Тешинской Силезии в обеспечении материальной базы армии. Перед лицом угрозы большевистского вторжения женщины не только активно поддерживали бойцов, но и запустили отлаженную машину оборонной пропаганды на страницах десятков газет. Автор обсуждает агитационную кампанию за вступление в Добровольческую армию. Активистки женских объединений устраивали лотереи, фестивали, конкурсы, в ходе которых собирали средства для поддержки бойцов. Источниковой базой исследования являются мемуары, периодическая печать и современные монографии и научные статьи.

This book is a collection of feature articles published in Risks in 2020. They were all written by experts in their respective fields. In these articles, they all develop and present new aspects and insights that can help us to understand and cope with the different and ever-changing aspects of risks. In some of the feature articles the probabilistic risk modeling is the central focus, whereas impact and innovation, in the context of financial economics and actuarial science, is somewhat retained and left for future research. In other articles it is the other way around. Ideas and perceptions in financial markets are the driving force of the research but they do not necessarily rely on innovation in the underlying risk models. Together, they are state-of-the-art, expert-led, up-to-date contributions, demonstrating what Risks is and what Risks has to offer: articles that focus on the central aspects of insurance and financial risk management, that detail progress and paths of further development in understanding and dealing with...risks. Asking the same type of questions (which risk allocation and mitigation should be provided, and why?) creates value from three different perspectives: the normative perspective of market regulator; the existential perspective of the financial institution; the phenomenological perspective of the individual consumer or policy holder.

Revisiting Africa’s Flagship Universities: National, International, and Local Dynamics offers a compelling exploration of Africa’s large, public higher education institutions. The book delves into the evolving roles of these universities, examining how they navigate their responsibilities at national, international and local levels. The book uncovers the tensions between global aspirations, national relevance and local realities. In doing so, this insightful work sheds light on the unique challenges and opportunities faced by African flagship universities, revealing their potential as forces for local, national and international collaboration and development. Revisiting Africa’s Flagship Universities provides rigorous evidence on the relevance of higher education at the local and national level, and the interrelation between these and the burgeoning international roles of universities. This book makes for important reading for university staff, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future of higher education in Africa.

How can the Army help make key civilian agencies more capable partners in stability, security, transition, and reconstruction (SSTR) operations? The authors identify the civilian agencies that should be involved in such operations, then locate the necessary skill sets. They then assess the capacity of the civilian agencies to participate in SSTR operations and analyze the recurring structural problems that have plagued their attempts to do so.

Tour à tour symptôme, syndrome ou maladie, la douleur chronique reste un phénomène encore mal élucidé et trop souvent difficile à soulager. On ne parle donc pas d'une douleur mais plutôt de douleurs, non pas d'une stratégie mais bien de stratégies de prise en charge.Actuellement, on ne fait encore que peu de place à des disciplines comme la physiothérapie, l'ergothérapie ou la kinésiologie pour soigner ou contrer la douleur chronique. Ces trois disciplines font toutes appel au mouvement, et c'est dans cette optique que les auteurs ont choisi de traiter de la douleur. Ils présentent la prise en charge de la douleur chronique dans la pratique d'une activité physique régulière encadrée par des professionnels de la santé. En parallèle aux témoignages qui illustrent le rôle destructeur de la douleur, on aborde avec espoir les diverses avenues envisagées par les patients et les professionnels de la santé pour y remédier.

Fine Middle Palaeolithic sites between Montereau (Seine-et-Marne) and Troyes (Aube) were excavated over large areas during the construction of the A5 motorway : these researches have allowed a renewed approach to this type of open-air deposit. the detailed analysis of the stratified lithic material and the pedo-seditnentary phases have supported the chronostratigraphical attributions : the successions of archaeological levels lie between 200 000 and 40 000 years B.C. The Micoquian industry is recognised at Vinneufl/Les Hauts Massous (Yonne) whilst the Mousterian industries carry on on the sites of the Vanne valley (Aube). This volume constitutes the first survey of the Middle Palaeolithic occupation of this part of the Paris basin, placed in its geological context.

Originally published in 1976. Representing years of critical reflection, The Theory of Criticism attempts to construct a poetics of "presence." Within a wide range of critical terminology, Murray Krieger has sought to create a new vision. In language that is passionate and often dramatic, he looks at the multidimensionality of the poetic world through the lens of Western poetics. His work clearly addresses itself to post–New Critical questions: how to preserve the literary object as a thing to be perceived, valued, and enjoyed and yet to account for its presence in, and interaction with, our culture as a whole, always in danger of being dissolved into man's language-making and -forming activity in general. Our awareness of the poem as object must be modified by our awareness that it is an "intentional" object. Krieger develops his balanced vision in three parts. Part 1 defines the problem and defends the very activity of theorizing both in its own terms and in terms of the critic's function throughout the history of Western criticism. By asking at the outset whether criticism is vain or valuable, Krieger already confronts the basic tension between system and world and the need to account for both. By creating a heuristic system that examines the possibility of form, the critic serves also the world of history and thought as a whole. Part 2 pursues that history from the classical encounter with mimesis in Greek thought to the Romantic and post-Romantic elevation of consciousness as a main criterion of poetic art. Defining a "humanistic aesthetic" as it has been viewed since Aristotle, the author shows how, during and after the eighteenth century, form was opened up under the impact of a Kantian and post-Kantian view, epitomized finally by Coleridge's imagination and its consequences for recent theorists. Part 3 deals with the image of the world struggling against its enclosure within a poetic context. It expands our view of metaphor as a reflection of the dual nature of poetic language, simultaneously locked into the poem and referring to history and nature outside. Our reading of the poem, Krieger concludes, must be double: we must see the poem as a linear and chronological sequence reflecting real life, and we must read it as a circular, imitative, mutually implicative mode.

Travesia and permanence is the first title of the migratory aesthetic collection in contemporary art, a compilation of the theoretical contributions made by different investigators invited to participate, during the 2010/2011 academic year, in the homonymous subject belonging to the official master's degree in production and production andArtistic management of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia.

This volume deals with recent advances in and applications of computational intelligence and advanced machine learning methods in power systems, heating and cooling systems, and gas transportation systems. The optimal coordinated dispatch of the multi-energy microgrids with renewable generation and storage control using advanced numerical methods is discussed. Forecasting models are designed for electrical insulator faults, the health of the battery, electrical insulator faults, wind speed and power, PV output power and transformer oil test parameters. The loads balance algorithm for an offshore wind farm is proposed. The information security problems in the energy internet are analyzed and attacked using information transmission contemporary models, based on blockchain technology. This book will be of interest, not only to electrical engineers, but also to applied mathematicians who are looking for novel challenging problems to focus on.

Des travaux pratiques d'anatomie et de dissection – plaçant les jeux autour du sexe et de la mort au principe même de cet apprentissage – aux « revues » et post-revues » spectaculaires des salles de garde en passant par les rituels qui rythment le temps de l’internat sur le modèle des « grands » passages biographiques – « baptême » et « enterrement » du néophyte, se dessine un parcours coutumier indissociable de l’acquisition des savoirs propres à la discipline médicale. Conduite majoritairement auprès d’anciens internes des hôpitaux français à Toulouse, Montpellier, Strasbourg et Paris, la recherche d’Emmanuelle Godeau n’exclut ni le comparatisme (U.S.A, Suisse, Scandinavie), ni la profondeur historique.

Is energy efficiency in buildings worth pursuing? Of course! But not at the expense of air quality or thermal comfort! Scientists from around the world have taken up this topic in this Special Issue of Energies, entitled "Internal Environment and Thermal Performance of Buildings".