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Hair analysis is a reliable and widely used tool to evaluate drug exposure in many fields, including workplace testing, drug abuse history and withdrawal control, post-mortem toxicology, doping control, therapeutic drug monitoring of pharmaceuticals and even environmental exposure to toxic agents. Compounds incorporated into the hair structure resist hair growth and regular washing for several months, leading to a potential chronological trace of exposure, with farther periods corresponding to the hair segments more distant from the hair root. The relentless improvement of analytical procedures and instrumental technologies, together with the continuous introduction of new psychoactive substances, have led to an increasing number of studies and practical applications of hair analysis. This book is a comprehensive guide to hair analysis from general concepts, ideal for students and those new to the field, to interpretation and advanced methods for experts working in the area. With contributions from world-leading scientists in each field, this book describes state-of-the-art, emerging issues and recent analytical approaches to hair analysis that will serve as an essential tool to clinical and forensic toxicology laboratories across the globe

This Handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars, consultants, military officers, and policymakers. The volume explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights, with substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture, analytic frameworks and approaches, levels of analysis, sources of strategic culture, and modalities of change in strategic culture. The chapters engage strategic culture at the civilizational, regional, supra-national, national, non-state actor, and organizational levels. Divided into five thematic parts, the volume will appeal both to students new to the subject and to scholars who wish to incorporate strategic culture into their toolbox of analytical techniques. Part I assesses the evolving theoretical strengths and weaknesses of the field. Part II lays out elements of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field, including sources and components of strategic culture. Part III presents a number of national strategic cultural profiles representing the state of contemporary strategic culture scholarship. Part IV addresses the utility of strategic culture for practitioners and scholars. Part V summarizes the key theoretical and practical insights offered by the volume's contributors. This handbook will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, defense studies, security studies and International Relations in general, as well as to professional practitioners.

This book explores a new repertoire for critique in the sociology of contemporary education, focusing on emerging social theories that respond to contemporary challenges in education, education policy and governance. Presenting a variety of approaches in the sociology of education including pragmatist critical sociology, neo-Marxism, post-digital sociology, new materialisms, affirmative critique of education, and post-colonial studies, the chapters in this book engage in a novel, collective dialogue and reflection on the affordances, limitations and challenges of emerging social theories in contemporary education. The book further justifies this novel approach through inclusion of a series of interviews with leading scholars and thinkers from within and outside the field of education on the subject of critique in contemporary society and education. he book offers relevant global and decolonial perspectives to study current transformations, drawing on innovations in theorizing and empirical illustrations from different countries. Highlighting alternative visions of these transformations in an era of globalization, fragmentation, and growing nationalism, this cutting-edge book will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of the sociology of education, the philosophy of education, social theory, political science and comparative policy and politics more broadly.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1. Introduction -- I. Key Terms and Definitions -- II. Measuring 'Extent' -- III. Northern Ireland as a Research Site -- IV. Framing the Analysis: Childhood, Agency and Youth Sexuality -- V. Methodological Design: A Brief Outline -- VI. Overview of the Book -- 2. Young People who DisplayHarmful Behaviours Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives -- I. Key Terms: Children, Childhood and Adolescence -- II. Constructions of Childhood -- III. Childhood and the Social Construction of 'Victim' and 'Offender' -- IV. Framing of 'Childhood', 'Deviance' and the 'Young Offender' -- V. Childhood and the Emergence of the 'Online' Offender: Sexting and Cyberbullying -- VI. Conclusion -- 3. Young People who Display Harmful Sexual Behaviour: A Review -- I. Conceptual Frameworks Influencing Youth Sexuality: The Northern Ireland Context -- II. Theoretical Influences -- III. Feminist Narratives: A Brief Introduction -- IV. Harmful Sexual Behaviour -- V. Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Children and Young People -- VI. Conclusion -- 4. Narratives on 'Cyberbullying' Among Young People -- I. Conceptualising (Cyber)Bullying: Definitional Issues -- II. On- and Offline Bullying: A Comparison -- III. Online Harms: Beyond Bullying -- IV. Gendered Dimensions to Online Harmful Behaviours -- V. The Role of the 'Bystander' -- VI. The Harmful Impact of Cyberbullying -- VII. Conclusion -- 5. Narratives on 'Sexting' Among Young People -- I. Conceptualising Sexting: Terminology and Definitional Issues -- II. Sexting: Emergence and Nature of the Behaviour -- III. Sexting: 'Harmful' Sexual Behaviour? -- IV. Gendered Dimensions to Sexting -- V. The Harmful Impact of Sexting -- VI. Conclusion -- 6. Peer-Based Sexting, Law and Issues of Consent.

Welcoming immigrants and refugees has become wildly controversial, and yet this isn't just a political issue--it's a biblical one. In Start with Welcome, Bri Stensrud answers your most frequently asked questions with thoughtful, honest answers from the starting point of compassion. Engaging this issue starts with one word: welcome.

Intro -- Preface -- Foreword to First Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Statutory Instruments -- Table of Cases -- PART 1: COUNCILLORS' CONDUCT -- A. Overview of Local Government Standards in England (James Findlay KC) -- B. Codes of Conduct (Including the Local Government Association Model Code) (Matt Lewin) -- C. Registration and Disclosure of Interests (Robin Green and Matt Lewin) -- D. Principal Councils (Andrew Lane and Matt Lewin) -- E. Parish Councils (Andrew Lane and Matt Lewin) -- F. Independent Persons (Matt Lewin) -- G. Complaints, Investigations, Decisions and Sanctions (Matt Lewin) -- H. Offences and Disqualification (Robin Green) -- I. Local Government Standards in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland (James Findlay KC, Clare Parry and Matt Lewin) -- PART 2: STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE -- A. The Ministerial Code (Sam Kharabanda Groom) -- B. Parliamentary Standards (Verity Bell and Matt Lewin) -- C. Other Elected and Public Offices: Directly Elected Mayors, 'Metro Mayors' and Combined Authorities, Police and Crime Commissioners etc (Jack Barber) -- D. Outside Appointments (Jack Barber) -- E. Civil Servants and Local Authority Officers (Alexander Campbell) -- F. Standards in the Senedd Cymru, Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly (James Findlay KC, Clare Parry and Matt Lewin) -- PART 3: CONDUCT ISSUES -- A. Official Capacity (Matt Lewin) -- B. Bias and Predetermination (Matt Lewin) -- C. Freedom of Expression (Matt Lewin) -- D. Lobbying (Rowan Clapp) -- E. Behaviour During Meetings (Rowan Clapp) -- F. Bullying and Respect for Others (Catherine Rowlands) -- G. Confidential Information (Catherine Rowlands) -- H. Bringing Office or Authority into Disrepute (Catherine Rowlands) -- I. Misuse of Resources (Alistair Cantor) -- J. Dishonesty and Abuse of Position (Alistair Cantor).

These exercises were suggested by the late Hirschman's self subversion phase of work that touched upon numerous aspects of his previous elaboration. Their ambition lies in helping the triggering of the cultural, economic and political potential and perspectives of late Hirschman's work.