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This open access book brings together decades of research and practice on the intersections among financial and behavioral health concerns. By framing financial health as comprised of financial precarity, financial efficacy, and financial well-being, this new addition to the field of behavioral health helps readers understand and address the surge of interest in financial health and wellness from a holistic, psychosocial perspective. The text explores not only how financial difficulties impose hardship on individuals, couples, and families, but also how these concerns shape our feelings, perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors and thereby our health. Case examples throughout illustrate the concepts and provide a basis for engaging, assessing, and intervening. Beyond providing an overview of the financial domain of behavioral health from multiple theoretical frameworks, the chapters explore: Trauma, financial anxiety, and financial stressors affecting mental health Barriers to physical health care, financial toxicity, and medical debt Behavioral disorders including problem gambling and spending addiction Social relationship concerns involving financial enabling, infidelity, violence, and abuse A framework to guide professionals from basic financial awareness to client interventions Diagnostic and billing considerations to integrate financial concerns into clinical practice An enhanced SMART Goals approach specifically designed for financial behavior change Financial and Behavioral Health for Helping Professionals, through its exploration of money's role in intra- and interpersonal well-being, is an essential resource for professionals in social work, public health, counseling and therapy, health care, and financial planning, counseling, and coaching, and provides an enhanced perspective for research and policy. The book also would benefit professors and graduate students of these disciplines.

The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective of the dynamics that govern the human–climate ecosystem is becoming one of the main focuses of interest in biological and earth system sciences. Multidisciplinary bio-geo-archaeo investigations into the underlying processes of human impact on the landscape are crucial to envisage possible future scenarios of biosphere responses to global warming and biodiversity losses. This Special Issue seeks to engage an interdisciplinary dialog on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, focusing on long-term environmental data as an essential tool for better-informed landscape management decisions to achieve an equilibrium between conservation and sustainable resource exploitation.

Everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion are powerfully present in Istanbul. This volume analyzes landscapes of music, community, and exclusion across a century and a half. An interdisciplinary group of scholars and artists presents four case studies: the rembetika, the music of the Asiks, the Zakir/Alevi tradition, and hip-hop, in Beyoglu, Üsküdar, the gentrifying Sulukule neighborhood, and across the metropolis.

Es inevitable interactuar con otras personas en muchos ámbitos, situaciones y aspectos de la vida, sobre todo en los niveles personal y profesional. Manejar, dominar y sobrellevar nuestras habilidades interpersonales nos ayudan a tener una comunicación más beneficiosa con los demás, a expresar mejor lo que necesitamos decir y a entender lo que se nos quiere comunicar;, por lo tanto, a relacionarnos mejor y efectivamente con otro ser humano; es decir, con otro profesional, autoridad, compañero de trabajo y hasta amigo y familiar. Las habilidades interpersonales forman un conjunto de comportamientos y hábitos necesarios para garantizar una adecuada interacción, mejorar las relaciones personales y alcanzar los objetivos de la comunicación; es decir, transmitir o recibir correctamente un mensaje, una información o una orden; son útiles para construir equipos de trabajo eficientes y mejorar las bases de la comunicación interna. Por otro lado, saberse desenvolver en estas habilidades interpersonales, sobre todo en el plano de la educación superior posibilita enormemente el trabajo de aprendizaje por el efecto de bienestar en el desarrollo de su actividad, de su quehacer diario. En ese entender, nos permite establecer vínculos y relaciones estables y efectivas con las personas; es así que su desarrollo implica la capacidad de reconocer nuestras emociones y las de los demás, así como la posibilidad de saber regularlas en las relaciones con los otros. Para los fines señalados, este texto permitirá conocer, de manera muy práctica, a través de la propuesta de sesiones de aprendizaje y marco teórico respectivo, cómo trabajar, aporta, desarrollar habilidades interpersonales en la comunidad educativa universitaria.

This work brings together research relating to the two constitutions that were enacted and came into force in the state of Michoacán during the 19th century: the Political Constitution of the Free Federated State of Michoacán, enacted on 19 July 1825, and the Political Constitution of the State of Michoacán, issued by the Constituent Congress on 21 January 1858. The book comprises eleven chapters which analyse the context of the city of Valladolid de Michoacán during the period of independence; the freedoms and rights proclaimed in the first of these constitutions; the prohibition of slavery in the state; the composition and actions of the parliamentary factions within the first Constituent Congress; the constitutional framework established in the original Constitution; public education; the militia, army and military contingent; the birth and development of the Judiciary; the proposed reforms to the 1825 Constitution; and concludes with a study of the constitutions of Michoacán in the 19th century.

La chute du communisme et l’effondrement économique des pays de l’Est ont donné au Plan Marshall du relief, voire de l’actualité : les responsables économiques et politiques ne se lassent pas d’interroger, à la lumière de la nouvelle donne mondiale, ce transfert financier et idéologique qui contribua, en grande partie, au redressement de l’Europe d’après-guerre. Quarante-cinq ans plus tard, il était plus que temps de dresser un état sérieux de cette question, jamais traitée dans son ensemble. Les spécialistes - historiens, économistes, responsables politiques - qui ont participé au colloque international qui lui fut consacré à Bercy sous l’égide du Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière, livrent ici leurs études et leurs réflexions. Ne se limitant pas à l’Europe et aux États-Unis, mais débordant aussi sur l’Extrême-Orient, celles-ci couvrent tous les aspects du Plan Marshall : économiques, industriels, financiers, mais aussi politiques, diplomatiques ou idéologiques...

Power converters and electric machines represent essential components in all fields of electrical engineering. In fact, we are heading towards a future where energy will be more and more electrical: electrical vehicles, electrical motors, renewables, storage systems are now widespread. The ongoing energy transition poses new challenges for interfacing and integrating different power systems. The constraints of space, weight, reliability, performance, and autonomy for the electric system have increased the attention of scientific research in order to find more and more appropriate technological solutions. In this context, power converters and electric machines assume a key role in enabling higher performance of electrical power conversion. Consequently, the design and control of power converters and electric machines shall be developed accordingly to the requirements of the specific application, thus leading to more specialized solutions, with the aim of enhancing the reliability, fault tolerance, and flexibility of the next generation power systems.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Marion K. Poetz and Henry Sauermann provide concise and invaluable instruction for researchers in this informative How to guide. Exploring the opportunities and challenges of involving crowds in all stages of the scientific process, they outline research strategies that organizers can implement for success.

This doctoral thesis analyses the recognition of restructuring plans under the MLCBI, focusing on two jurisdictions: England and the US. It contrasts the Gibbs rule with the approach followed under Chapter 15 and seeks to develop a balanced framework that reconciles the interests of the debtor and dissenting foreign creditors. Unlike the Gibbs rule, this framework does not make the recognition of a debt discharge in foreign restructuring proceedings conditional upon the debtor’s restructuring being conducted under the law governing that debt. Instead, it focuses on the assessment of substantive fairness at the recognition stage as part of the “adequate protection” safeguard under the MLCBI to ensure the fair treatment of foreign creditors. This Title is also Available as Open Access.

"In Pursuing Truth, Mary Oates considers the history of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (now Notre Dame of Maryland University), the first Catholic college in America to award the four-year baccalaureate degree to women. This book adds needed depth to the historiography of gendered higher education in the United States by exploring the struggle for equal access to Catholic higher education" Provided by publisher.

By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and Wallenstein’s Death, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller’s collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Across the three plays, which are now commonly performed and printed together, Schiller charts the thwarted rebellion of General Albrecht von Wallenstein. Based loosely on the events of the Thirty Years’ War, the trilogy provides a unique perspective on an army’s loyalty to their commander and the machinations and intrigues of international diplomacy, giving insight into the military hero who is placed on the threshold between these forces as they are increasingly pitted against one another. The Wallenstein trilogy, formally innovative and modern beyond its time, is a brilliant study of power, ambition and betrayal. In this new translation—the latest in a long line of distinguished English translations starting with Coleridge’s in Schiller’s lifetime—Flora Kimmich succeeds in rendering what is often a difficult source text into language that is at once accessible and enjoyable. Coupled with a complete and careful commentary and a glossary, both of which are targeted to undergraduates, it is accompanied by an authoritative introductory essay by Roger Paulin. Kimmich’s translation will be an invaluable resource for students of German, European literature and history, and military history, as well as to all readers approaching this important set of plays for the first time.

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Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This study considers the full range of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the major themes to which he returns, including: memory and history, narrative, language and translation, mapping, violence, and power. It argues that the singularity of Carson’s writing is to be found in his radical imaginative engagements with ideas of space and place. The city of Belfast, in particular, occupies a crucially important place in his texts, serving as an imaginative focal point around which his many other concerns are constellated. The city, in all its volatile mutability, is an abiding frame of reference and a reservoir of creative impetus for Carson’s imagination. Accordingly, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon geography, urbanism, and cultural theory as well as literary criticism. It provides both a stimulating and thorough introduction to Carson’s work, and a flexible critical framework for exploring literary representations of space.

The Coombs Building at The Australian National University is a Canberra icon. Named after one of Australia’s greatest administrators and public intellectuals—‘Nugget’ Herbert Cole Coombs—for more than forty years the building has housed two of the University’s four foundational Schools: the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the Research School of Social Sciences. This volume of recollections is about the former. It looks at life in the building through the prism of personal experience and happenstance. Part memoir, part biography, and part celebration, this book is about the people of Coombs, past and present. Through evocative and lucid reflections, present and former denizens of the building share their passions and predilections, quietly savour their accomplishments and recall the failings and foibles of the past with a kindly tolerance.

Probability distributions are a fundamental topic of statistics and data science that is highly relevant in both theory and practical applications. There are numerous probability distributions that come in many shapes and with different properties. In order to identify an appropriate distribution for modeling the statistical properties of a population of interest, one should consider the shape of the distribution as the crucial factor. In particular, the symmetry or asymmetry of the distribution plays a decisive role. This reprint is a collection of articles on a wide range of topics in the field of symmetrical and asymmetrical distributions that are relevant in statistics and data science. The proposed methods and concepts are discussed in detail and illustrated with several real-life data examples.