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"Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider's view into the lived experience of immersion in the world of methamphetamine. In-depth interviews were conducted with 33 adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing. Detailed accounts bring insight into the intoxicating aspects of the lifestyle including sex, money, power, and the ability to create methamphetamine. Social networks and environment play an important role in shaping and influencing drug-related decisions. The transformation of the lifestyle from one that is intoxicating to one that becomes risky and ultimately dark explains the unsustainability and the challenges exiting the life"--Provided by publisher.

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Part I Objects, Images and Meanings: Methodological Interventions -- 1 Negotiating the Visibility of 'Habitus' of 'the Nagas' and their Photographers -- Introduction -- Pierre Bourdieu, 'Habitus' and 'Hexis' -- The Nagas and Their Photographers -- Visual Sources of the Nineteenth Century -- Imagery After the Turn of the Century -- Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf -- Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann -- Photography After World War II and in the New Millenium -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 'We Were the Others': Visuality in Colonial Writings -- Anecdote from the 'Others' -- Construction of the 'Other' -- Colonial Writings and the Nagas -- Photo Analysis and Photo-Elicitation -- The 'Other' Needs to Be Objectified in Order to Construct the 'Self' -- Interpretations and Contextualisation -- When the 'Others' Spoke Up -- Final Word: Reflexivity -- References -- 3 Conversation Pieces: How Digital Technologies might Reinvigorate and reveal the Social Lives of Objects -- Introduction -- Source Communities -- Who Owns Naga Heritage? -- Combined/Collaborative Methodologies -- Exhibition -- How Did We Get Here? -- The Body and Agent of Human Experience -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Material and Visual as Vehicles of Power and Hegemony: Adaptations and Negotiations -- 4 Mai-Baaps and Minis: Spatiality, Visuality and Materiality in Assam's Tea Gardens -- Introduction -- Constructing the 'Garden' -- Understanding the Gendered Plantation -- Plantation: Time, Work and Representation -- Beyond the Plantations: Representation of Minis in Advertisements -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Mapping Power and Domination: Studying State Making in Arunachal Pradesh through Old Official Photographs -- Introduction -- The Coming of the State.

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times, especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, as well as the exploration of race, gender, politics and conflicts, urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Morocco, India and the USA. It also asks the question whether, along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities, a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social, cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies, media, popular culture, digital culture, sociology, digital sociology and anthropology, and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki.

Malware Outbreaks are pervasive in today's digital world. However, there is a lack of awareness on part of general public on how to safeguard against such attacks and a need for increased cooperation between various national and international research as well as governmental organizations to combat the threat. On the positive side, cyber security websites, blogs and newsletters post articles outlining the working and spread of a malware outbreak and steps to recover from the same as well. In this project, an effective approach to predicting the spread of malware outbreaks is presented. The scope of the project is 15 Malware Outbreaks and the approach involves collecting these cyber aware articles from the web, assigning them to the 15 Malware Outbreaks using Topic Modeling and Similarity Analysis and along with Spread information of the Malware Outbreaks, this is input to auto encoder neural network for learning latent space representations which are further used to predict the spread of malware outbreak as either high or low spread outbreak, achieving a prediction accuracy of 75.56. This work can be used to process large amount of cyber aware content for effective and accurate prediction in the era of much-needed cyber security.

Abstract: Can a primitive society set a public agenda? Are there some advantages for a religious society in setting an agenda? From a critical study of the communicative perspective of the Bible and hermeneutic reading of its texts, it can be said that certain elements in primitive societies succeeded in influencing the political and social agendas. They did so by exploiting specific public assemblies or appearing in crowded places in attempts to impact local and national agendas. This notion is significant because it suggests that in countries that do not have developed communication infrastructures or established religious institutions (e.g., churches, mosques, and synagogues) that serve as public arenas, indeed even in seemingly closed religious communities, there may well be attempts to use venues other than mass media to influence the public agenda. Keywords: agenda setting, religion, Bible, New Testament***Résumé : Bien que la notion d'agenda setting n'a émergé dans l'analyse des politiques publiques qu'au début des années '70, une lecture de la Bible dans une approche herméneutique critique dévoile le fait que déjà dans l'antiquité biblique il était possible d'influencer les programmes politiques et sociaux, grâce à l'exploitation d'assemblées publiques d'ordre religieux, comme plateformes médiatiques. Cette thèse est pertinente car elle affirmerait que bien avant le développement des infrastructures modernes de communication, les différentes manifestations religieuses servaient de facto comme tribunes publiques et passerelles médiatiques en plus de leur rôle cultuel de jure. Mots-clés : agenda setting, religion, Bible, Nouveau Testament

The commentary of Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak, b. Troyes 1040, d. 1105), part of the Jewish core curriculum, is reprinted here together with the Hebrew biblical text. This study takes selected portions to investigate citations of the Hebrew bible and the Masorah in Rashi's commentary, thus providing an introduction to medieval Jewish biblical interpretation and the Ashkenazi tradition of reading the Hebrew bible.

"This book is a collection of autobiographical narratives by leading social scientists working across South Asia. It explores the linkages between their personal experiences and academic pursuits, and analyses how personal, political and professional choices shape knowledge production and effect social transformation. The narratives revisit long standing debates on objectivity, subjectivity, self and other, and attempt to collapse the binaries that have informed the social sciences till now. Highlighting the state of research and pedagogy in the social sciences in the region, the book questions the conventional understanding of the task of the social scientist, and in doing so, blurs the distinction between theory, research, pedagogy and activism. A unique and compelling contribution, this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, creative writing, education, politics, biography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers"--

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jimmy Carter -- Introduction -- Part I The Early Years 1900-1965 -- 1 The Educational and Scientific Revolution: Higher Standards and Changing Priorities -- 2 The Consumer Revolution: Increasing Accessto Medical Care -- Part II In the Wake of Medicare and Medicaid 1965-1985 -- 3 Emerging Tensions between Regulation andMarket Forces: Dealing with Growth -- 4 Education for the Health Professions:The Impact of Growth -- Part III Moving to the Present 1985-2005 -- 5 The Entrepreneurial Revolution: A Changing Face for Medicine -- 6 Beyond the Dollars: Progress in Health and theRole of Public Health -- Part IV Anticipating the Next Revolution 2005 and Beyond -- 7 Medical Challenges and Opportunities -- 8 Increasing Equity: Achieving Universal Health Insurance -- Notes -- Index.

Not Available ; The study, for the first time, reports the occurrence of the genus Neonoemacheilus from rivers of Mizoram, namely Langkaih and Tlawng rivers,. The study provides descriptions of N. assamensis giving additional characters other than outlined in the original description, such as, number of unbranched dorsal and anal fin rays; intestine arrangement and numbers of vertebrae ; Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi (Sanction No. BT/388/NE/TBP/2012 dated 11-12-2014 under DBT's Twinning Programme)