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Issue of the University of Scranton student newspaper, The Aquinas. This edition includes a four-page arts feature, The Electric City Review.

Chapter 1: Understanding Drought: definitions, causes, assessments, forecasts, and managementJeongwoo Han and Vijay P. SinghChapter 2: Drought concepts, its characterization and indicatorsLatief Ahmad, Nimra Arain, Aisha Akber, Sameera Qayoom, Owais A. Bhat, Rohitashw Kumar Chapter 3: Spatial Assessment of Meteorological and Agricultural Drought in Northern IndiaDharmendra Singh, Darshana Duhan, Deepak JhajhariaChapter 4: Assessment of meteorological drought characteristics in BrazilRafael Pedrollo de Paes, Veber Afonso Figueiredo CostaChapter 5: Drought in Rio de Janeiro State, Southeast BrazilGivanildo de Gois, Jos©♭ Francisco de Oliveira-J©ðnior, Bruno Serafini SobralChapter 6: The Mexican drought (2011): an insight into the 29-month drought in AguascalientesMiguel Angel Gonz©Łlez-Gonz©Łlez, Osias Ruiz-©¹lvarez, Arturo Corrales-SuasteguiChapter 7: Investigating the relationship between the temporal distribution of precipitation and flow shortness volume over Lake Urmia Basin, IranMohammad Nazeri Tahroudi, Farshad Ahmadi, Yousef Ramezani, Mohsen Pourreza-Bilondi, Rasoul MirabbasiChapter 8: Long-Term Drought Study in Algeria based on Meteorological DataYoucef Himri, S. Rehman, L. M. Alhems, S. Himri, M. Merzouk, N. Kasbadji MerzoukChapter 9: Severe droughts over IndiaMilind Mujumdar, Preethi Bhaskar, Bhupendra Bahadur Singh, Goswami Mangesh, Naresh GaneshiChapter 10: Comparison of Bhalme-Mooley Drought Index with Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index: The Case of Okavango Delta, BotswanaMpaphi Major, B. P. ParidaChapter 11: Analysis of drought using a modified version of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration IndexMohammad Nazeri Tahroudi, Farshad Ahmadi, Yousef Ramezani, Rasoul MirabbasiChapter 12: Evaluation of an Evapotranspiration Deficit-based Drought Index and its Impacts on Carbon Productivity in the Levant and IraqKaram Alsafa, Shuoben Bi, Safwan Mohammed, Ali Mokhtar, Hazem Ghassan Abdo, Hongming HeChapter 13: Analysis of meteorological drought using Joint Deficit Index based on downscaled precipitation dataFarshad Ahmadi, Mohammad Nazeri Tahroudi, Yousef Ramezani, Rasoul MirabbasiChapter 14: Comparability Analyses of three Meteorological Drought Indices in TurkeyBabak Vaheddoost, Mir Jafar Sadegh SafariChapter 15: Trend identification in multi-scalar SPI over Uttarakhand, IndiaAnurag Malik, Anil Kumar, Zaher Mundher YaseenChapter 16: Temporal Trends of Aridity Index under Subtropical Highland Climate in Northeast IndiaPema Tshering Lepcha, Deepak JhajhariaChapter 17: Observed trends in annual aridity index in North-central MexicoOsias Ruiz-©¹lvarez, Arturo Corrales-Suastegui, Ronald Ernesto Ontiveros-Capurata, Reyna Cruz-Cruz, Vijay P. SinghChapter 18: Hydrological Drought Index based on Streamflow RegimeI Wayan YasaChapter 19: Meteorological drought assessment in mountainous regions based on outputs of general circulation modelsMustafa Nuri Balov, Babak Vaheddoost, Mir Jafar Sadegh SafariChapter 20: Climate Change Impact on Groundwater Droughts: Case study Groundwater-dependent Irrigation SystemMorteza Mohsenipour, Shamsuddin Shahid, Tarmizi Ismail, Mohamad Rajab HoumsiChapter 21: Impact of Climate Change on Occurrence and Severity of DroughtR. P. Pandey, R.V. Kale, J.P. Patra, R.V. GalkateChapter 22: Climate Change effect on Crop Water Stress: case study of SyriaMohamad Rajab Houmsi, Shamsuddin Shahid, Morteza MohsenipourChapter 23: Biodiversity and Functions of Alluvial System Facing Severe Droughts Induced by Global ChangeD. Mimoun, S. Gaur, D. Graillot, Mohit Kumar SrivastavaChapter 24: Climate change impacts on meteorological and hydrological droughts and their hazard propagations in ChinaJie Chen, Lei GuChapter 25: Climate Change may raise Physiology Disorders on the Grape (Vitis Vinifera l) and Pecan (Carya Illinoinensis) in the Sonoran Desert, MexicoGerardo Martinez-Diaz, Osias Ruiz-©¹lvarez, Arturo Corrales-SuasteguiChapter 26: Scientific evidence supporting the progression of climate change-induced drought from the historyBiplab Sadhukhan, R. K. Srivastava, Arun Chakraborty, R. K. PandaChapter 27: Climate Change, Drought and Water ResourcesSabah Parvaze, Rohitashw Kumar, Junaid Nazir Khan, Saqib ParvazeChapter 28: Climate Change and Gender Drudgery in Rice Based Mono-cropping System of Meghalaya State in North Eastern Hill Region of India: Impact EvaluationRam Singh, S. M. Feroze

.Part 1: Sustainability Beyond sustainability ⁰́₃ The meaningful tourism paradigmWolfgang Georg ArltEmerging themes is sustainable development through tourismJonathon DayTourism Great Reset: The inclusive, sustainable, and innovative realityEkaterina Glebova and Marko Peri♯⁷A dialogue for tourism, climate change and philanthropyKaitano Dube and Cin van ZylBaby boomers and sustainable tourism: The need for a new research agendaIan Patterson and Adela Balderas-CujudoSustainable tourist: How big is your footprint?Daisy KanagasapapathyWhale-watching tourism: Future sustainability trendsChaitanya Su©Łrez-Rojas, Carmelo J. Le©đn, Javier de Le©đn & Yen E. Lam-Gonz©ŁlezFair pricing in tourism: From profitability towards sustainabilityTomasz Napiera¿²a and Adam PawliczTourism sustainability is a big problem in the development of marine tourism in IndonesiaAhmad BaharPart 2: Planning and developmentVisitor (trader) harassment and why a global response is necessaryAnnemarie Nicely, Shweta Singh, Dan Zhu, Chutong Jiang, and Jihon ChoeCross-border tourism: The case of the Greater Bay AreaJinah Park, Haiyan Song, and Yeung KongTrends and issues with regional tourism partnership formationJens Thraenhart and Alastair M. MorrisonDisseminating small island destinations in the face of global challenges: A strategic analysisEduardo Parra L©đpez, Almudena Barrientos Baez, and Mar©Ưa de los ©¹ngeles P©♭rez S©ŁnchezIsland tourism development for inclusive growthNghia Huu LeCommunity-based rural tourism development: An intersectional exploration of possibilities and challengesNeha NimbleEvolving position of stray domestic animals in tourismPaul Tully and Neil CarrPart 3: ManagementWell-being and tourism employees: the important role of "freedom" in the future workplaceProkopis Christou, Alexis Saveriades, and Maria RigouResilient leadership in the tourism industryAdela Balderas-Cujudo, Marta Buenechea-Elberdin, Josune Baniandr©♭s, and George W. LeesonWomen education in tourism entrepreneurship: Trends and issues emerging from AfricaMagdalena Petronella (Nellie) Swart, Vanessa S. Bernauer, and Kailasam ThirumaranAn American labour revolutionSotiris Hji-Avgoustis and Alan YenThe resilience of the tourism and hospitality workforceThi Hong Hai Nguyen, Diep Ngoc Su, and Hanh My Thi HuynhThe hospitality workforce trendsAdesola Osinaike and Lorna ThomasDo customers really care about CSR reputation in the decision of hotel patronage?Suk Ha Grace Chan,Yue Yvonne He, and Binglin Martin TangPost-pandemic Chinese outbound tourism: Three trends to look out forMarine L⁰́₉HostisAll-inclusive holiday packages in the post-COVID19 eraLemonia Papadopoulou-Kelidou and Andreas PapatheodorouPart 4: TechnologyTourist-generated short videos arousing aspirations to visit the place: Perceiving authenticity?Lixian Zhou and Jing LiTravel vlogging and its role in destination marketingMaria Criselda Badilla, Adrian Lawrence Carvajal, Carl Francis Castro, and Maria Paz CastroAugmented reality and virtual reality in tourismEvrim ©⁷eltekTourist engagement throughout the customer journey: A service ecosystem approachRodoula H. Tsiotsou and Ronald E. GoldsmithPerspectives for communication in social media: The case of thermal spasVera Antunes, Gisela Gon©ʹalves, and Cristina Estev©ĐoUrban mobility and mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) trendsXu Zhao, China, Claire Papaix, and Yufang ZhangDigital nomads and destination characteristics: A conceptual analysisMuhammet Necati ©⁷elikGamification in museum tourism♯ʻge Pirnar, Duygu ©⁷elebi, and Muruvvet Deniz SezerThe influence of museum user generated content to improve the experience designJonatan G©đmez Punz©đn and Nuria Recuero-VirtoPresence in virtual hotel experience and purchase intention: The mediating role of decision comfortSima Rahimizhian, Farzad Safaeimanesh, Mobina Beheshti, and Olayinka AfolabiCo-designing the smart tourism experience for all-inclusive hotel as a new trend of staycation experienceNabila Norizan and Norhazliza HalimDigital safe-zone tourism network: Are we ready to travel again?Norhazliza Halim, Nabila Norizan, and Thinaranjeney ThirumoorthiReconstructing tourism development in China: The role of Internet industryLina Zhong and Mengyao Zhu

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1.Tetsuji Okazaki and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (1999), 'Japan's Present-Day Economic System and Its Historical Origin', in The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins, Oxford, UK and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 1-37[37] -- 2.Dwight H. Perkins (2015), 'The Historical Foundations of East Asian Development', in East Asian Development: Foundations and Strategies, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 14-47[34] -- 3.Louis Putterman (1992),'Dualism and Reform in China', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 40 (3), April, 467-93[27] -- 4.B.H. Farmer (1993), 'The British Period, the Coming of Independence and Partition', in An Introduction to South Asia: Second Edition, Chapter 3, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 26-46, 174-6[24] -- 5.Kaushik Basu (2018), 'A Short History of India's Economy: A Chapter in the Asian Drama', WIDER Working Paper 2018/124, United Nations University, World Institute for Developmental Research, i-ii, 1-26[28] -- 6.Michael Beckley, Yusaku Horiuchi and Jennifer M. Miller (2018), 'America's Role in the Making of Japan's Economic Miracle', Journal of East Asian Studies, 18 (1), March, 1-21[21] -- 7.Mushtaq H. Khan (2018), 'Institutions and Asia's Development: The Role of Norms and Organizational Power', WIDER Working Paper 2018/132, United Nations University, World Institute for Developmental Research, i-ii, 1-20[22] -- 8.Dwight H. Perkins (2004), 'Corporate Governance, Industrial Policy, and Rules of Law', in Shahid Yusuf, M. Anjun Altaf and Kaoru Nabeshima (eds), Global Change and East Asian Policy Initiatives, Washington DC: World Bank, 293-336[44] -- 9.Stephan Haggard (2004), 'Institutions and Growth in East Asia', Studies in Comparative International Development, 38 (4), Winter, 53-81[29] -- 10.Gustav Ranis (1995), 'Another Look at the East Asian Miracle', The World Bank Economic Review, 9 (3), September, 509-34[26] -- 11.Lawrence J. Lau, Yingyi Qian and Gérard Roland (2000), 'Reform Without Losers: An Interpretation of China's Dual-Track Approach to Transition', Journal of Political Economy, 108 (1), February, 120-43[24] -- 12.Chen Ling and Barry Naughton (2016), 'An Institutionalized Policy-Making Mechanism: China's Return to Techno-Industrial Policy', Research Policy, 45 (10), December, 2138-52[15] -- 13.Atul Kohli (1994), 'Where do High Growth Political Economies Come From? The Japanese Lineage of Korea's "Developmental State"', World Development, 22 (9), September, 1269-93[25] -- 14.Ha-Joon Chang (1993), 'The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Korea', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 17 (2), June, 131-57[27] -- 15.James Riedel (2015), 'Lessons for Last Comers from Vietnam's Transition', Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 32 (1), 125-39[15] -- 16.Ronald Findlay, Cyn-Young Park, Jean-Pierre A. Verbiest (2016), 'Myanmar: Building Economic Foundations', Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 30 (1), May, 42-64[23] -- 17.Sukhamoy Chakravarty (1987), 'Foundation of India's Development Strategy: The Nehru-Mahalanobis Approach', in (ed), Development Planning: The Indian Experience, Chapter 2, Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 7-18[12] -- 18.Arvind Panagariya (2018), 'India: Three and a Half Years of Modinomics', Working Paper 2018-01, Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies, New York, NY USA: Columbia University, i-ii, 1-34[36] -- 19.Amartya Sen (2005), 'Democracy and Secularism in India', in Kaushik Basu (ed.), India's Emerging Economy: Performance and Prospects in the 1900s and Beyond, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 35-47[13]

part PART I KEY THEORETICAL PAPERS -- chapter 1 J. David Hawkins and Joseph G. Weis (1985), 'The Social Development Model: An Integrated Approach to Delinquency Prevention', Journal of Primary Prevention, 6, pp. 73—97. -- chapter 2G.R. Patterson, Barbara D. DeBaryshe and Elizabeth Ramsey (1989), 'A Developmental Perspective on Antisocial Behavior', American Psychologist, 44, pp. 329—35. -- chapter 3 Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub (2003), 'Life-course Desisters? Trajectories of Crime among Delinquent Boys Followed to Age 70', Criminology, 41, pp. 555—92. -- chapter 4 Terrie E. Moffitt (2006), 'Life-course-persistent versus Adolescence-limited Antisocial Behavior', in D. Cicchetti and D.J. Cohen (eds), Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 3: Risk, Disorder, and Adaptation (2nd edn), New York: Wiley, pp. 570—98. -- chapter 5 David P. Farrington (2005), 'The Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory', in D.P. Farrington (edition), Integrated Developmental and Life-course Theories of Offending, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, pp. 73—92. -- chapter 6 Per-Olof H. Wikstrom, Dietrich Oberwittler, Kyle Treiber and Beth Hardie (2012), 'Situational Action Theory', in Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3—43. -- part PART II TESTS OF THEORY -- chapter 7 Christopher J. Sullivan and Paul Hirschfield (2011), 'Problem Behavior in the Middle School Years: An Assessment of the Social Development Model', Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 48, pp. 566—93. -- chapter 8 Ronald L. Simons, Chyi-in Wu, Rand D. Conger and Frederick O. Lorenz (1994), 'Two Routes to Delinquency: Differences between Early and Late Starters in the Impact of Parenting and Deviant Peers', Criminology, 32, pp. 247—76. -- chapter 9 David S. Kirk (2012), 'Residential Change as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Crime: Desistance or Temporary Cessation?', Criminology, 50, pp. 329—57. -- chapter 10 Victor van der Geest, Arjan Blokland and Catrien Bijleveld (2009), 'Delinquent Development in a Sample of High-risk Youth: Shape, Content, and Predictors of Delinquent Trajectories from Age 12 to 32', Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 46, pp. 111—43. -- chapter 11 Andre M. van der Laan, Martine Blom and Edward R. Kleemans (2009), 'Exploring Long-term and Short-term Risk Factors for Serious Delinquency', European Journal of Criminology, 6, pp. 419—38. -- chapter 12 Robert Svensson, Lieven Pauwels and Frank M. Weerman (2010), 'Does the Effect of Self-control on Adolescent Offending Vary by Level of Morality? A Test in Three Countries', Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37, pp. 732—43. -- part PART III DEBATES AND CHALLENGES -- chapter 13 Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub (2005), 'A Life-course View of the Development of Crime', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 602, pp. 12—45. -- chapter 14 Michael R. Gottfredson (2005), 'Offender Classifications and Treatment Effects in Developmental Criminology: A Propensity/Event Consideration', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 602, pp. 46—56. -- chapter 15 Hanno Petras, Paul Nieuwbeerta and Alex R. Piquero (2010), 'Participation and Frequency during Criminal Careers across the Life Span', Criminology, 48, pp. 607—37. -- chapter 16 Raymond Paternoster, Charles W. Dean, Alex Piquero, Paul Mazerolle and Robert Brame (1997), 'Generality, Continuity, and Change in Offending', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 13, pp. 231—66. -- chapter 17 Bianca E. Bersani, John H. Laub and Paul Nieuwbeerta (2009), 'Marriage and Desistance from Crime in the Netherlands: Do Gender and Socio-historical Context Matter?', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 25, pp. 3—24. -- chapter 18 Megan C. Kurlychek, Shawn D. Bushway and Robert Brame (2012), 'Long-term Crime Desistence and Recidivism Patterns — Evidence from the Essex County Convicted Felon Study', Criminology, 50, pp. 71—103.

Perspectives on advertising and advertising theory -- What does "theories of advertising" mean? / by Esther Thorson and Shelly Rodgers -- Coloring outside the lines : suggestions for making advertising theory more meaningful / by Ronald J. Faber, Brittany R. L. Duff, and Xiaoli Nan -- Agency practitioners? : theories about advertising / by Gergely Nyilasy and Leonard N. Reid -- Psychological processes in response to advertisements -- The elaboration likelihood model : a thirty-year review / by David W. Schumann, Michael Kotowski, Ho-Young (Anthony) Ahn, and Curtis P. Haugtvedt -- The role of emotion in processing advertising / by Larry Percy -- Theories of emotion and affect in marketing communications / by Jon D. Morris -- Psychological and psychophysiological theories of advertising / by Paul Bolls, Kevin Wise, and Sam Bradley -- Involvement / by Eric Haley -- Specific audiences -- A theory of advertising to children / by Russell Laczniak and Les Carlson -- Theory advancement in international advertising : drawing on theories from strategic management and international business / by Charles R. Taylor, Shintaro Okazaki -- How advertising works within a cultural context : theories and framework informing the process / by Carrie La Ferle and Wei-Na Lee -- The reflexive game : how target and agent persuasion knowledge influence advertising persuasion / by Michelle R. Nelson and Chang Dae Ham -- Different types of advertising messages -- Creativity and ad theory / by Sheila L. Sasser and Scott Koslow -- Creativity and risk theories of advertising by douglas c. west, university of london -- A rhetorical theory of the advertisement / by Edward F. McQuarrie and Barbara J. Phillips -- Narrative advertisements and narrative processing / by ChingChing Chang -- Working toward an understanding of persuasion via engaging narrative advertising : refining the transportation- imagery model / by Lu Zheng and Joseph E. Phelps -- Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs : consumers, physicians, messages and complexity / by Kim Bartel Sheehan -- Theory building for online health product advertising / by Jisu Huh and Wonsun Shin -- Political advertising / by Marjolein Moorman and Peter Neijens -- Media and media devices -- Media analysis and decision-making / by Hugh M. Cannon -- Managing non-traditional advertising : a message processing framework / by Rick T. Wilson and Brian D. Till -- Role of technology in online persuasion : a main model perspective / by S. Shyam Sundar, Qian Xu and Xue Dou -- Lessons learned for teaching mobile advertising : critical review and future directions / by Shintaro Okazaki -- In-game advertising and advergames : a critical review of the past decade?s research / by Seounmi Youn and Mira Lee -- Social media and advertising theory / by Harshavardhan Gangadharbatla -- Organizations -- Toward a social ecology of advertising / by Christine Wright-Isak -- Brand concepts and advertising / by Dean M. Krugman and Jameson L. Hayes -- I know it when i see it : the definability and consequences of perceived fit in corporate social responsibility initiatives / by Amanda B. Bower and Stacy Landreth Grau -- Contexts of advertising -- Ethics and advertising theory / by Minette E. Drumwright -- Theory and law / by Jef Richards -- Four theories of how imc works / by Sandra Moriarty and Don Schultz -- Theories about health and advertising / by Joyce M. Wolburg -- The future of advertising theories -- Human barriers to using theory and research on responses to advertising messages / by Ivan L. Preston -- Toward theories of advertising : where do we go from here? / by Marla B. Royne -- Advancing advertising theories and scholarship / by Hairong Li -- Adventures in misplaced theories / by Herbert Jack Rotfeld -- Imc, advertising research, and the advertising discipline / by Patricia B. Rose

Virtual globalization : virtual spaces / Tourist Spaces / edited by David Holmes -- The criminal spectre in law, literature, and aesthetics / Peter Hutchings -- Immigrants and national identity in Europe / Anna Triandafyllidou -- Constructing risk and safety in technological practice / edited by Jane Summerton and Boel Berner -- Europeanisation, national identities and migration : changes in boundary constructions between western and eastern Europe / Willfried Spohn and Anna Triandafyllidou -- Language, identity, and conflict : a comparative study of language in ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia / Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost -- Immigrant life in the U.S. : multi-disciplinary perspectives / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach -- Rave culture and religion / edited by Graham St. John -- Creation and returns of social capital : a new research program / edited by Henk Flap and Beate Völker -- Self-care : embodiment, personal autonomy, and the shaping of health consciousness / Christopher Ziguras -- Mechanisms of cooperation / Werner Raub and Jeroen Weesie -- After the bell : educational success, public policy, and family background / edited by Dalton Conley and Karen Albright -- Youth crime and youth culture in the inner city / Bill Sanders -- Emotions and social movements / edited by Helena Flam and Debra King -- Globalization, uncertainty, and youth in society / edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Erik Klijzing, Melinda Mills and Karin Kurz -- Love, heterosexuality and society / Paul Johnson -- Agricultural governance : globalization and the new politics of regulation / edited by Vaughan Higgins and Geoffrey Lawrence -- Challenging hegemonic masculinity / Richard Howson -- Social isolation in modern society / Roelof Hortulanus, Anja Machielse, and Ludwien Meeuwesen -- Weber and the persistence of religion : social theory, capitalism, and the sublime / Joseph W. H. Lough -- Globalization, uncertainty, and late careers in society / edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, and Dirk Hofäcker -- Bourdieu's politics : problems and possibilities / Jeremy F. Lane -- Media bias in reporting social research? : the case of reviewing ethnic inequalities in education / Martyn Hammersley -- A general theory of emotions and social life / Warren D. TenHouten -- Sociology, religion, and grace / Arpad Szakolczai -- Youth cultures : scenes, subcultures, and tribes / edited by Paul Hodkinson and Wolfgang Deicke -- The obituary as collective memory / Bridget Fowler -- Tocqueville's virus : utopia and dystopia in western social and political thought / Mark Featherstone -- Jewish eating and identity through the ages / David Kraemer -- The institutionalization of social welfare : a study of medicalizing management / Mikael Holmqvist -- The role of religion in modern societies / edited by Detlef Pollack and Daniel V. A. Olson -- Sex research and sex therapy : a sociological analysis of masters and Johnson /- Ross Morrow -- A crisis of waste? : understanding the rubbish society / Martin O'Brien -- Globalization and transformations of local socioeconomic practices / edited by Ulrike Schuerkens -- The culture of welfare markets : the international recasting of pension and care systems / Ingo Bode -- Cohabitation, family, and society / Tiziana Nazio -- Latin America and contemporary modernity : a sociological interpretation / José Maurízio Domingues -- Exploring the networked worlds of popular music milieu cultures / Peter Webb -- The cultural significance of the child star / Jane O'Connor -- European integration as an elite process : the failure of a dream? / Max Haller -- Queer political performance and protest / Benjamin Shepard -- Cosmopolitan spaces : Europe, globalization, theory / Chris Rumford -- Contexts of social capital : social networks in communities, markets, and organizations / edited by Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ronald Breiger -- Feminism, domesticity, and popular culture / edited by Stacy Gillis and Joanne Hollows -- Changing relationships / edited by Malcolm Brynin and John Ermisch -- Formal and informal work : the hidden work regime in Europe / edited by Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Lluis Flaquer, & Per H. Jensen -- Interpreting human rights : social science perspectives / edited by Rhiannon Morgan and Bryan S. Turner -- Club cultures : boundaries, identities, and otherness / Silvia Rief -- Eastern European immigrant families / Mihaela Robila -- People and societies : Rom Harré and designing the social sciences / Luk van Langenhove -- Social theory in contemporary Asia / Ann Brooks

"Target Group Monitoring is a regional approach to generate data to cover adequately the information needs of labour market actors. Approaches from different European regions are presented in this book, applied onto migrants as a target group of labour market politics. Furthermore, the central elements of these approaches are discussed with respect to their suitability for other target groups, such as older or young employees, low-skilled and skilled workers. Finally, methods and techniques are considered to provide a wide scope of information in combining target group and branch/ industry approaches." (author's abstract). Contents: Emma Hollywood, Ronald McQuaid: Educational Migration - Students Leaving a Region to Study Elsewhere: the Link to Religion in Northern Ireland (17-22); Sibel Kalaycioglu: Dynamics of Internal Migration in Turkey, its Stages of Development and Consequences for Labour (23-33); Marina Kargalova: Problems of Migrant Labour-Force on the Regional Labour-Force Markets in Russia (34-37); Atanas Chaushev: National Strategy of Bulgaria on Migration and Integration - 2008-2015 (38-42); Miguel Bernal: Immigration from a European and Social Point of View (43-45); Aftab Hladikova: Monitoring the Integration of Migrants in Regional Labour Markets. Report on Data and Experiences from the Czech Republic (46-53); Jean-Luc Malvache: Statistical Instruments for Optimised Description and a Better Understanding of the Role of Migrants in the Regional Labour Market of the District and City of Recklinghausen (Germany) (54-64); Franz Clément: Forecasting Skills and Labour Market Needs in Luxembourg: a Particular Transnational Context (65-71); Agnes Hárs, Katalin Nagy: Labour Market Monitoring in Border Regions (72-81); Waldemar Mathejczyk: Target Group Monitoring - A Concept for Regional Labour Market Monitoring with Special Emphasis on the Target Group of Persons with Immigration Background (82-95); Vera Neisen: A Web-Based Information Platform as Means for Communicating Information in the Process of Target Group Monitoring (96-98); Marc Bittner, Michaela Hudler-Seitzberger: Immigrants in the Vienna Labour Market (99-104); Jenny Kipper: The Implementation of a Regional Labour Market Monitoring Concept from the Perspective of Learning Theory (105-112); Dieter Schulze: Usage of Target Group Monitoring in the Process of Implementing a Regional Pact for a Better Labour Market Participation of Older Employees (113-114); Christina Stecker: A Perspective on Ageing Labour Forces in SMEs - Conclusions from the Projects "Smart Region" and "GeniAL" (115-124); Riccardo Romano: Older Employees as a Target Group for Labour Politics An Italian Perspective (125-132); Yvette Grelet, Bernard Hillau: Youth Transition from School to Work in France: National and Regional Aspects (133-139); Nils Beckmann: Monitoring the Involvement of Low-Skilled Employees in Life-Long-Learning in Germany (140-143); Silke Böttcher, Natalie Känel, Markus Lohr, Michael Morlok: Low-Skilled Employees as Target Group for Labour Politics (144-149); Alessia Cremonini, Patrizio Di Nicola: Semi-Skilled Employees as Target Group for Labour Politics. An Italian Perspective (150-152); lwona Kukulak-Dolata: Monitoring Skilled Employees in the Polish Labour Market (153-159); Markus Höhne, Carsten Kampe, Anja Walter: Skilled Employees as a Target Group for Labour Policies. A German Perspective (160-166); Jan Ulatowski: Access via Data on Branches and on Target Groups - Experiences of Regional Labour Market Monitoring in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (167-175); Roland Bieräugel, Marco Mevius: Challenges for Web-Based Regional Labour Market Monitoring Systems (176-183); Marco Ricceri: The Venice Action Statement - the Decentralisation of the Labour Market According to the OECD - 2008 (184-203); Alfons Schmid: Some Perspective Notes an Regional Labour Market Monitoring (204-207).

Walter Russell Mead has a nice essay in Tablet on California. This excerpt struck me. You too were probably dragged through "Grapes of Wrath" at some point in school, or you've seen the movie. But what happens next? Mead's insight hadn't occurred to me. Spoiler: Ma Joad might have ended up as the "Little Old Lady From Pasadena," leaving her garden of white gardenias to become the terror of Colorado Boulevard in her ruby-red Dodge. Rose of Sharon would be a Phyllis Schlafly-loving Reagan activist reunited with her husband, now owner of a small chain of franchise fast-food outlets. A longer excerpt:    John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath chronicled the suffering of a group of bankrupt former farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma to arrive, desperate and penniless, in an unwelcoming California. In Steinbeck's novel—carefully crafted, one must note, to check all the boxes that censorious communist and far-left writers used at the time to evaluate whether a given novel was genuinely proletarian and progressive—the Joad clan heads west in a broken-down Hudson sedan. Tough matriarch Ma Joad holds the clan together. Her unmarried daughter Rose of Sharon endures unspeakable suffering and, in the redemptive if melodramatic climax to the novel, feeds a starving father with the breastmilk she had hoped to give to her stillborn baby. Rose's brother Tom becomes a fearless defender of the oppressed, supporting unionization drives and risking imprisonment and death to stand up for the common man.The left saw those migrants as the harbingers of the socialist future of the United States. But the Okies of the Central Valley and the Southland did not become the foundation of a new Democratic majority. Instead, they became the core of Ronald Reagan's electoral base. By the 1950s they were living the American dream, and they liked it.The Grapes of Wrath remains a landmark of American literature, but if Steinbeck had returned to his characters 30 or 40 years later, he'd have had a very different story to write. Ma Joad might have ended up as the "Little Old Lady From Pasadena," leaving her garden of white gardenias to become the terror of Colorado Boulevard in her ruby-red Dodge. Rose of Sharon would be a Phyllis Schlafly-loving Reagan activist reunited with her husband, now owner of a small chain of franchise fast-food outlets. Tom Joad, converted at one of Billy Graham's Southern California evangelistic crusades, would be pastoring a megachurch in the Orange County suburbs. All of them would be worried about the new waves of desperate, penniless immigrants coming over the Pacific Ocean and the Rio Grande.The transformation of the 1930s migrant wave from desperate climate refugees to surfing suburbanites was an economic and social miracle that changed the trajectory of American life. The larger point of the article: The great question hanging over California and the future of the United States today is whether and how the same kind of change can happen to the latest wave of immigrants. Will the dusty, desperate migrants scuffing over the border someday become affluent homeowners and staunchly patriotic defenders of the American way? Can California's promise be renewed for a new generation? The truth is that we already have everything we need to make California golden once again. The highway to wealth that transformed the horizons of the Okies is still open. The obstacles to growth are mostly in our heads."

Wygrane przez Donalda Trumpa – dzięki odwołaniu do wartości i narracji konserwatywnej –wybory prezydenckie wywołały wstrząs w społeczeństwie amerykańskim. Nowy prezydent z powodzeniem ograniczył postępującą oligarchizację życia politycznego Stanów Zjednoczonych. Zdołał pokonać Hilary Clinton z jej wizją państwa – oligarchii wspieranej przez klienckie grupy tożsamościowe. Trump skoncentrował swoją retorykę i kierunki polityki na solidarności społecznej w ramach państwa narodowego opartego na wartościach republikańskich. Stanął w opozycji zarówno do liberałów, jak i do libertarian złączonych w walce przeciwko niemu. Widać tu konfl ikt dwóch modeli interesu wspólnotowego w ujęciu Vilfredo Pareto. Ponadto dostrzec można podobieństwa do prezydentury Ronalda Regana, jednakże trudno pominąć zasadnicze rozbieżności (Trump – człowiek wielkiego biznesu z ogromnym majątkiem osobistym, niemający doświadczenia politycznego i niepełniący wcześniej funkcji publicznych). Sama wizja "wielkiej Ameryki" jest stworzonym przez Trumpa zjawiskiem społecznym, opartym na retoryce wielkości i władzy wykorzystywanej jednak przy wdrażaniu rzeczywistych zmian polityki państwa (np. nominacje sędziowskie). Oprócz tego nowy prezydent zapewnił Partii Republikańskiej wyjście z kryzysu, dając szansę na gruntowną i zasadniczą reorientację systemu politycznego USA. Intuicja polityczna i doświadczenie przedsiębiorcy pozwalają Trumpowi na obalenie monopolu retoryki politycznej poprawności wraz z moralnym dyktatem nowomowy i rozproszonymi formami cenzury. Brutalna retoryka i specyfi czne poczucie humoru towarzyszące autentycznemu optymizmowi self-made man, wraz z biznesową mentalnością, pozwoliły Donaldowi Trumpowi na przetrwanie ostracyzmu elit oraz zaciętych ataków mediów liberalnych. Nowy prezydent zajął miejsce trybuna "twardej Ameryki" (Michael Barone) stając w opozycji do liberalnej pogardy dla "godnych pożałowania". Trump identyfi kuje się jako budowniczy, człowiek działania, doświadczony i ostry gracz świata wielkich interesów. Sama Ameryka dlań to naród budowniczych. Nowa prezydentura jest również symbolicznym zakończeniem porządku ustanowionego w USA i Europie Zachodniej po roku 1945. ; Donald Trump utilizes conservative values and narrative to gain power in elections, causing profound social turmoil (to hell with political correctness) and successfully attempts to limit oligarchization of American political life. He was able to defeat Hilary Clinton with her vision of liberal oligarchy supported by identity clientele groups. Trump focused his rhetoric and policies on social solidarity in a nation state fueled by republican values, thus opposing both liberals and libertarians joined against him in a confl ict of two models of common interest in V. Pareto's understanding. Some similarities to Ronald Regan's presidency are visible, albeit major diff erences (business background, massive personal wealth, lack of political experience or administrative career) must be noticed. Trump's vision "Great America" is a construed temporal social phenomenon, based on rhetoric of greatness and power, used however to implement real and profound policy changes (e.g. nominations to SCOTUS and federal courts). Moreover, Trump saves Republicans from political stalemate or even crisis, as they regain a chance to reorient the political system in a radical manner. His political intuition and business experience allowed Trump to overthrow the rhetoric of political correctness, liberal dispersed censorship and newspeak dictate of public morality. Brutal rhetoric and peculiar sense of humor combined with sincere optimism of a "self-made man" and entrepreneurial mentality allowed Trump to survive both ostracism of elites and ferocious attack of liberal media. He established himself as a representative and voice of "Hard America" (M. Barone), opposed to liberal despise for the "deplorable". Trump indentifi es himself as a man of action, rough business player and a builder, America to him is a nation of builders. Trump's victory is a symbolic ending of the American and Western order established after 1945.

Background: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and PSA-velocity (PSAV) have been used to identify men at risk of prostate cancer (PrCa). The IMPACT study is evaluating PSA screening in men with a known genetic predisposition to PrCa due to BRCA1/2 mutations. This analysis evaluates the utility of PSA and PSAV for identifying PrCa and high-grade disease in this cohort. Methods: PSAV was calculated using logistic regression to determine if PSA or PSAV predicted the result of prostate biopsy (PB) in men with elevated PSA values. Cox regression was used to determine whether PSA or PSAV predicted PSA elevation in men with low PSAs. Interaction terms were included in the models to determine whether BRCA status influenced the predictiveness of PSA or PSAV. Results: 1634 participants had 3 PSA readings of whom 174 underwent PB and 45 PrCas diagnosed. In men with PSA >3.0 ng ml−l, PSAV was not significantly associated with presence of cancer or high-grade disease. PSAV did not add to PSA for predicting time to an elevated PSA. When comparing BRCA1/2 carriers to non-carriers, we found a significant interaction between BRCA status and last PSA before biopsy (P=0.031) and BRCA2 status and PSAV (P=0.024). However, PSAV was not predictive of biopsy outcome in BRCA2 carriers. Conclusions: PSA is more strongly predictive of PrCa in BRCA carriers than non-carriers. We did not find evidence that PSAV aids decision-making for BRCA carriers over absolute PSA value alone. ; This research is coordinated by the Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK and is supported by grants from Cancer Research UK (Grant references (C5047/A21332, C5047/A13232 and C5047/A17528) and The Ronald and Rita McAulay Foundation. Mr and Mrs Jack Baker for the study in NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois and Myriad Genetics Laboratory, Salt Lake City, Utah, for providing research BRCA testing rates for NorthShore University HealthSystem participants. We acknowledge funding from the NIHR to the Biomedical Research Center at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, at Central Manchester Foundation Trust and the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Program. We acknowledge that in Australia, this project was co-funded by Cancer Council Tasmania and Cancer Australia, grant number 1006349 (2011–2013), Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, grant number PCFA PRO4 (2008) and Cancer Councils of Victoria and South Australia, grant number 400048 (2006–2008), The Victorian Cancer Agency Clinical Trial Capacity CTCB08_14, Cancer Australia & Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (2014–2016) grant number 1059423, and Translational grants EOI09_50. The Association of International Cancer Research funded data collection in The Netherlands (AICR 10–0596). We acknowledge funding from the Basser Center for BRCA (to S Domchek). We acknowledge funding from the National Cancer Institute [P30-CA008748], the Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers, and David H. Koch through the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Program in UK, Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden project no. 11–0624), and the Swedish Research Council (VR-MH project no. 2016–02974). We acknowledge funding from the Slovenian Research Agency, Research programme P3–0352. Elena Castro acknolwedges funding from a Juan de la Cierva' fellowship from MINIECO (grant reference IJCI- 2014–19129). We acknowledge the support of the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC), the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (organismo adscrito al Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) and 'Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), una manera de hacer Europa' (PI10/01422, PI13/00285, PIE13/00022, PI16/00563 and CIBERONC) and the Institut Català de la Salut and Autonomous Government of Catalonia (2009SGR290, 2014SGR338 and PERIS Project MedPerCan). ; Peer Reviewed

Negli anni Ottanta si assiste tanto nel vecchio quanto nel nuovo continente alla rinascita del movimento antinucleare. Mentre in Europa l'origine di questa ondata di proteste antinucleari è collegata alla "doppia decisione" NATO del 1979, negli Stati Uniti la genesi si colloca nel contesto dalla mobilitazione dei gruppi ambientalisti in seguito all'incidente alla centrale nucleare di Three Mile Island. Dopo l'elezione di Ronald Reagan, alle proteste contro le applicazioni pacifiche dell'atomo si affiancarono quelle contro la politica nucleare del Paese. La retorica di Reagan, il massiccio piano di riarmo, unitamente al rinnovato deteriorarsi delle relazioni tra USA e URSS contribuirono a diffondere nell'opinione pubblica la sensazione che l'amministrazione Reagan, almeno da un punto di vista teorico, non avesse escluso dalle sue opzioni il ricorso alle armi nucleari nel caso di un confronto con l'URSS. I timori legati a questa percezione produssero una nuova ondata di proteste che assunsero dimensioni di massa grazie alla mobilitazione provocata dalla Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (NWFC). Il target della NWFC era l'ampio programma di riarmo nucleare sostenuto da Reagan, che secondo gli attivisti nucleari, in un quadro di crescenti tensioni internazionali, avrebbe fatto aumentare le possibilità di uno scontro atomico. Per evitare lo scenario dell'olocausto nucleare, la NWFC proponeva «un congelamento bilaterale e verificabile del collaudo, dell'installazione e della produzione di armi nucleari». L'idea del nuclear freeze, che era concepito come un passo per fermare la spirale del riarmo e tentare successivamente di negoziare riduzioni negli arsenali delle due superpotenze, riscosse un tale consenso nell'opinione pubblica americana da indurre l'amministrazione Reagan a formulare una risposta specifica. Durante la primavera del 1982 fu, infatti, creato un gruppo interdipartimentale ad hoc, l'Arms Control Information Policy Group, con il compito di arginare l'influenza della NWFC sull'opinione pubblica americana e formulare una risposta coerente alle critiche del movimento antinucleare. ; At the end of the Seventies, the antinuclear movement in both Europe and in the United States experienced a resurgence, having lain dormant for much of the previous decade. In Europe, the origin of this fresh antinuclear wave is most often traced back to NATO's 'double track' decision of 1979. In America, environmental groups mobilized against the use of nuclear power following the accident at Three Mile Island, while at the same time the fear of nuclear war reinforced the movement for nuclear disarmament, which criticised the nuclear military build-up and the collapse of détente. In the early 1980s therefore the American antinuclear movement experienced a renaissance, due also to the convergence between the well-established pacifist tradition and the new political environmentalism. The organization through which the U.S. antinuclear movement became a mass phenomenon during Reagan tenure was the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (NWFC). The target of the NWFC was Reagan's nuclear build-up that, according to antinuclear activists, was increasing the peril of a nuclear confrontation. To avoid this scenario the movement proposed a bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons. At the same time the Reagan administration created an ad hoc interdepartmental group, the Arms Control Information Policy Group in order to face the NWFC's influence on public opinion and to shape the public debate on arms control issue. The interplay between the Freeze movement and the White House took the form of a competition to gain the support of American public opinion. In analyzing this interplay, this study try to understand how the resurgence of antinuclear activism in the Eighties how the fear of nuclear annihilation helped to elevate public awareness of peace and disarmament issues, how disarmament movements attempted to influence government decision-making, how the dialogue about nuclear weapons between antinuclear groups and policy-makers evolved.