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In the plains of north-eastern Syria, not far from the course of the Tigris, is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat, a centre famous in the course of the second millennium for the presence of the temple of the god of the storm and for the palace of Tukulti-Ninurta II, an Assyrian sovereign of the ninth century BC. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches from the start of the third millennium up to the fourteenth century AD. From the Sumerian, Accadian, Paleo-Babylonian and Assyrian evidence through to the Achemenidian, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid-Byzantine and finally mediaeval occupation. The book illustrates the results of the seventeenth excavation campaign, carried out by the group from the University of Florence and from the "Federico II" University of Naples. - Nelle pianure della Siria nord-occidentale, non lontano dal corso del Tigri, si trova il sito di Tell Barri, identificato con la città di Kahat, centro noto nel corso del II millennio per la presenza del tempio del dio della tempesta e per il palazzo di Tukulti-Ninurta II, sovrano assiro del IX secolo a.C. La sequenza archeologica portata alla luce va dall'inizio del III millennio sino al XIV secolo d.C. Dalle testimonianze sumeriche, accadiche, paleobabilonesi, assire fino all'occupazione achemenide, ellenistica, partica, sasanide-bizantina ed infine medioevale. Il volume illustra i risultati dello scavo della diciassettesima campagna condotta dall'Università di Firenze e dall'Università "Federico II" di Napoli.

In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the third millennium up to the fourteenth century AD. This report records the results of the eighteenth excavation campaign, carried out by the group from the University of Florence and from the "Federico II" University of Naples. In Area G, the excavation of the chapel dating to the third millennium proceeded, bringing to light a palatine building that can be attributed to the Mid Assyrian King Adad-Nirari I. In Areas A and J, the Parthian, Hellenistic and Achemenidian layers were excavated up to the level of the Neo-Babylonian reoccupation of the Assyrian palace of Tukulti-Ninurta II. As regards the Parthian phase, investigation has proceeded on the Great Defensive Wall and on the large edifice in the lower city. The text, delivered for printing in July 2005, was published following the tragic death of Paolo Emilio Pecorella, which took place on 29 August in Tell Barri, in the course of the excavation campaign. - Nelle ondulate pianure della Siria nord-orientale si trova il sito di Tell Barri, identificato con la città di Kahat. La sequenza archeologica portata alla luce va dall'inizio del III millennio sino al XIV secolo d.C, senza soluzione di continuità. La presente relazione dà ragione dei risultati della diciottesima campagna di scavo ad opera del gruppo dell'Università di Firenze e dell'Università 'Federico II' di Napoli. Nell'Area G è proseguito lo scavo del sacello del III millennio e si è messo in luce un edificio palatino attribuibile al re medio assiro Adad-Nirari I; nelle Aree A e J sono stati scavati gli strati partici, ellenistici ed achemenidi, sino al livello della rioccupazione neobabilonese del palazzo assiro di Tukulti-Ninurta II. Per la fase partica è proseguita l'indagine sia del Grande Muro di Difesa sia del grande edificio della città bassa. Il testo, consegnato per la stampa a luglio del 2005, vede la luce dopo la tragica scomparsa di Paolo Emilio Pecorella, avvenuta il 29 agosto a Tell Barri, nel corso della campagna di scavo.

In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the third millennium up to the fourteenth century AD. This report records the results of the seventeenth excavation campaign, carried out by the group from the University of Florence and from the "Federico II" University of Naples. Layers from the end of the third millennium have been brought to light, the passage between the Mid- and Neo-Assyrian periods. In the palace of Tukulti-Ninurta II the reception hall was discovered. For the later periods, investigation has proceeded on the Great Defensive Wall of Parthian age, and on the large edifice in the lower city. - Nelle ondulate pianure della Siria nord-orientale si trova il sito di Tell Barri, identificato con la città di Kahat. La sequenza archeologica portata alla luce va dall'inizio del III millennio sino al XIV secolo d.C., senza soluzione di continuità. La presente relazione dà ragione dei risultati della diciassettesima campagna ad opera del gruppo dell'Università di Firenze e dell'Università 'Federico Il' di Napoli. Sono stati messi in luce strati della fine del III millennio, il passaggio tra periodo medio e neoassiro. Nel palazzo di Tukulti-Ninurta II è stata scoperta la sala di rappresentanza. Per i periodi tardi è proseguita l'indagine del Grande Muro di Difesa d'età partica e del grande edificio nella città bassa.

AbstractChild protection work is one of the most difficult and complex areas of human services practice. Working within a trauma-laden environment often means that practitioner susceptibility to trauma-related mental health issues is an occupational hazard. However, many practitioners are reluctant to seek support when they start to experience symptoms of traumatic stress. This paper considers current literature relating to child protection workers' exposure to work-related traumatic material, resulting traumatic stress symptomology and organisational responses to practitioner distress. Results from a recent doctoral study that explores the experiences of child protection practitioners based in Queensland will be presented. Findings from the study were derived from qualitative in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The study findings indicate that the organisational culture within statutory child protection agencies creates an environment where practitioners are labelled as incompetent or not suitable for child protection work when they disclose experiencing symptoms of traumatic stress. The experience of bullying and retribution by supervisors and colleagues and the fear of rejection by the workgroup were also found to be significant barriers for workers seeking support.

This paper accomplishes two objectives. First, it provides simulation results from a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model that have helped focus the debate about the potential effects of agricultural trade liberalization on developing countries. The aggregate numbers show modest net positive effects over a medium-term period (five years out). First, when developed countries fully remove their subsidies and trade barriers, welfare and GDP of the developing countries rise, as do value added in agricultural production and agro-industries, and agricultural exports. Focal point estimates that we provide are increases in welfare and GDP of $10 billion and $15 billion, respectively, while agricultural value added increases $23 billion and agricultural exports by $37 billion. Second, when developing countries also eliminate their subsidies and trade barriers, there is an additional net gain in aggregated developing country welfare and GDP—which now increase by nearly $20 billion and $38 billion. Thus, developing countries gain from developed country liberalization, but there are also gains from reform of their own policies. Our results suggest a fairly even balance between these sources of gains. The second and equally important contribution of the paper is to describe the heterogeneity among developing countries in terms of their agricultural resources, and to disaggregate the simulated results among 40 developing countries or regions. The basic model includes the innovation of assuming there is unemployed labor in developing countries, so growth in agricultural production has a modest "multiplier" effect. The basic model also allows for a slight positive effect of increased trade on productivity—the focal results cited above include this impact. Effects are distinguished between elimination of subsidies and trade barriers by the US, the EU, Japan and Korea, and all developed countries simultaneously. Effects on different developing countries and regions differ due to differences in the subsidy and trade barrier instruments utilized by the developed countries, the commodities affected, and the trade patterns and volumes evident in the initial baseline data." -- Authors' Abstract ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP32; Theme 9; GRP2; Theme 2 ; MTID

This paper in revisiting stigma as a barrier to mental healthcare discusses the challenge of stigma and the burden mental illness places on its sufferers many of who do not speak out when the early tell tale signs of mental ill-health are noticed because of corporate labeling and stigmatization. The objective of the study among others is to ascertain the adequacy or otherwise of Nigerian mental health legislations vis-a -vis gross human right abuses. The paper adopts doctrinal methodology for the study which reveals that stigma and discrimination of the mentally ill continues unrestrained because mental illness is not expressly addressed as a disability issue in Nigerian laws. It concludes by opining that when relevant laws are reformed, government partnership with unorthodox healers strengthened among other suggested recommendations, recurring issues will be laid to rest.

This hermeneutic, interpretive case study reflects on an experience with the placement of a student in a specialized classroom who did not want to be there and had informed educators around her of this prior to her placement. She claimed she would "do anything to get kicked out of the placement" and ultimately, this happened. Through this case study I argue that Special Education policy and its infusion into psychology, especially through the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, conceals or limits the possible ways for such students to be because of how we use that language to frame them. Special Education diagnosis and coding are more than labels, I suggest: they are constitutive and we play a role in that constituting action, I argue. Richard Kearney's Diacritical Hermeneutic approach reveals possibilities for seeing differences outside of the binary of normal / abnormal. Such an approach could allow us to value such students outside the exteriority of Special Education's framing. We may more openly see their rights as human beings, thus allowing them the space to tell their stories so that we hear them. Concurrently, I suggest we might also critically reflect on our roles in supporting students.Key words: Discourse, psychology, mental health, special education, subject, democracy, phronesis, experience, pedagogy ; Cette étude de cas interprétative et herméneutique renvoie à une expérience concernant le placement d'une élève dans une classe d'inclusion scolaire qui ne voulait pas se retrouver là et en avait informé les éducateurs autour d'elle avant son placement. Elle a affirmé qu'elle allait «. tout faire pour se faire expulser de ce placement» et c'est, finalement, ce qui est arrivé. Grâce à cette étude de cas je soutiens que les politiques de l'éducation spécialisée et son infusion dans la psychologie, notamment avec le manuel diagnostique et statistique des troubles mentaux, dissimulent ou limitent les moyens possibles pour ces élèves d'être, en raison de la façon dont nous utilisons ce langage pour les ...

While there has been a great deal of research on younger people using Social Networking Sites (SNSs), there has been less work on older people and non-users. We present a mixed-methods design with a technology-acceptance survey and focus-group interviews to study older Norwegian non-users' perceptions of SNSs. Our study reveals that most non-users in our sample deliberately do not use SNSs. They perceive SNS communication as cold and narcissistic and view the usefulness of SNSs to be low. This finding indicates a generational culture gap in how young versus older people experience SNSs. Privacy and security concerns are also prevalent. Non-users, expressing an interest in SNSs, believe SNSs could increase contact with family and friends, but perceive lack of competence to be a barrier.

"Barrie Ireton tells the unique history of Britain's international development efforts from colonial times to the present day set in a global context. He brings together original research material as well as his personal knowledge over a 40 year career in government. He argues that the Department, led by successive Ministers, continued to pursue its basic mission of poverty reduction in the poorest countries. He also acknowledges important deviations from this trend, particularly during the 1980s when the Aid and Trade Provision became an aggressive use of aid to win export orders at the behest of the interventionist Department of Trade and Industry under an otherwise not interventionist conservative government"--

International audience ; Le mariage franco-marocain ou le choc des civilisations Isabelle Barrière Brousse, Professeur agrégé des facultés de droit, Faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille (AMU) Publié in Le mariage et la loi. Protéger l'enfant. Institut Famille et République, 2016 p.53-63 La Cour de cassation a reconnu le 28 janvier 2015 la validité du mariage homosexuel contracté entre un Français et un Marocain, au mépris de la loi marocaine dont l'application est garantie par la Convention franco-marocaine du 10 août 1981. Bien que la loi du 17 mai 2013 ait assuré le rayonnement international du nouveau droit au mariage entre personnes de même sexe, le recours à l'exception d'ordre public international pour surmonter l'obstacle représenté par la Convention ne se justifie pas. L'inscription dans cette notion, chargée de défendre les principes essentiels du droit français, du droit au mariage des homosexuels est contestable et attise les oppositions entre les systèmes juridiques, tout en multipliant les situations boîteuses. L'onde de choc que produit ainsi une jurisprudence peu responsable pourrait encore être résorbée, à la faveur de la réforme de la loi Taubira, en réfléchissant tout particulièrement à la possible requalification en partenariat enregistré des unions déjà célébrées, tant en France qu'à l'étranger, entre personnes de même sexe. La prédiction pessimiste de Samuel Huntington 1 ne serait-elle pas en train de se réaliser, à l'échelle des relations de famille, à travers la question désormais emblématique du mariage homosexuel conclu entre un français et un marocain? A l'automne 2013, René, 56 ans, de nationalité française, et Mohamed, 22 ans, de nationalité marocaine, forment le projet de s'épouser, la récente loi Taubira les y autorisant. Le procureur de la République forme opposition à ce mariage, mais le Tribunal de grande instance de Chambéry en ordonne la mainlevée 2. Sur appel du Ministère public, la cour d'appel de cette ville confirme le 22 octobre cette décision 3. Enfin, la première chambre civile de la cour de cassation rejette le 28 janvier 2015 le pourvoi formé contre cet arrêt: le mariage est définitivement validé, à tout le moins en France. Il ne sera évidemment pas reconnu au Maroc, où l'on cultive une conception plus traditionnelle, et aussi plus consensuelle du mariage. De fait, une vingtaine de pays de par le monde admettent l'union conjugale homosexuelle. Mais la France en fait désormais partie et le législateur, avec le zèle des nouveaux convertis, a accompagné les dispositions relatives au mariage de règles de droit international privé destinées à en assurer la promotion internationale. En cela, elle a d'ailleurs suivi la tendance manifestée par plusieurs législateurs voisins (Belgique, Pays-Bas, Espagne), qui ont fait en sorte de ne pas restreindre l'accès au mariage à leurs ressortissants: le choix a été fait de passer outre l'interdiction formulée par la loi nationale des intéressés. Le mariage franco-marocain de Chambéry ne se borne pas à illustrer cette situation, il nécessite d'accomplir un pas supplémentaire: surmonter l'obstacle que constitue la Convention franco-marocaine du 10 août 1981 relative au statut des personnes et de la famille et à la coopération judiciaire. Les conséquences néfastes d'une telle solution, que le législateur lui-même n'avait pas osé endosser, appellent dans le cadre d'une réforme de la réforme, l'abandon de la position adoptée par une jurisprudence qu'on peut qualifier d'irresponsable. En effet, le régime de faveur octroyé au mariage international entre personnes de même sexe comportait, dans l'intention du législateur des limites, que les intéressés n'ont eu de cesse de faire repousser. Ce que le législateur n'avait pas explicitement accordé, voire implicitement refusé, ils l'ont obtenu des autorités judiciaires. L'arrêt du 28 janvier 2015 rendu par la première chambre civile 4 emploie à cet effet l'arme de l'ordre public international, portée par la Convention franco-marocaine elle-même, mais dans une interprétation des plus discutables, au

BACKGROUND: The Sahrawi people fled their homes in 1975 as the conflict in Western Sahara escalated and settled down near Tindouf, Algeria, where they still live. High prevalence of overweight and obesity and type 2 diabetes had been found in this protracted refugee setting. Scaling up national policy efforts to promote physical activity (PA) is critical to reducing the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the near future. One possible barrier to the inclusion of PA in NCD prevention strategies is the lack of research on PA level, which may reduce political support and policy development for PA. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the PA level among adults living in Sahrawi refugee camps and socioeconomic factors associated with PA. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2014 in five refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria. A total of 180 women and 175 men were included. PA was measured using the international physical activity questionnaire short form (IPAQ-SF). RESULTS: There was a large amount of variance in reported PA for both genders, ranging from 10 min of total PA per week to above 40 h. Forty-three percent of the participants had a low PA level (defined as not meeting the PA recommendations of 150 min of moderate to vigorous PA per day). The chi-square test of independence showed that males, those aged ≥ 60 years and people with higher education were more likely to be in the low PA level category. No significant relationship was found between PA level and BMI status. Most of the participants thought that engaging in PA would be wise, valuable, right and good but thought to a lesser degree that PA would be easy, comfortable and interesting. CONCLUSIONS: Almost half of the participants were categorised as insufficiently physically active, however, most of the Sahrawi refugees express a positive attitude towards PA. PA is a low-cost approach to reducing deaths and NCDs, government initiatives to increase PA levels in refugee camps are advised. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ...

Background: The Sahrawi people fled their homes in 1975 as the conflict in Western Sahara escalated and settled down near Tindouf, Algeria, where they still live. High prevalence of overweight and obesity and type 2 diabetes had been found in this protracted refugee setting. Scaling up national policy efforts to promote physical activity (PA) is critical to reducing the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the near future. One possible barrier to the inclusion of PA in NCD prevention strategies is the lack of research on PA level, which may reduce political support and policy development for PA. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the PA level among adults living in Sahrawi refugee camps and socioeconomic factors associated with PA. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2014 in five refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria. A total of 180 women and 175 men were included. PA was measured using the international physical activity questionnaire short form (IPAQ-SF). Results: There was a large amount of variance in reported PA for both genders, ranging from 10 min of total PA per week to above 40 h. Forty-three percent of the participants had a low PA level (defined as not meeting the PA recommendations of 150 min of moderate to vigorous PA per day). The chi-square test of independence showed that males, those aged ≥ 60 years and people with higher education were more likely to be in the low PA level category. No significant relationship was found between PA level and BMI status. Most of the participants thought that engaging in PA would be wise, valuable, right and good but thought to a lesser degree that PA would be easy, comfortable and interesting. Conclusions: Almost half of the participants were categorised as insufficiently physically active, however, most of the Sahrawi refugees express a positive attitude towards PA. PA is a low-cost approach to reducing deaths and NCDs, government initiatives to increase PA levels in refugee camps are advised. ; This project received funding from Norwegian Church Aid (https://www.kirkensnodhjelp.no/en/) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (http://www.fao.org/home/en/). ; publishedVersion

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The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It's also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It's also the only international landmark without a suicide barrier. Weaving drama, tragedy, and politics against the backdrop of a world-famous city, The Final Leap is the first book ever written about Golden Gate Bridge suicides. John Bateson leads us on a fascinating journey that uncovers the reasons for the design decision that led to so many deaths, provides insight into the phenomenon of suicide, and examines arguments for and against a suicide barrier. He tells the stories of those who have died, the few who have survived, and those who have been affected--from loving families to the Coast Guard, from the coroner to suicide prevention advocates.

A language barrier prevents us from understanding how other cultures look at public administration, as "semantic fields" differ between languages. These differences can never be fully grasped, but what we can do is study what happens when a particular concept crosses the border. In this article we select a concept, public–private partnership, that in recent times migrated from one administrative order, the United States, to another, Poland. We follow this concept on its migration to see how it changes and to find out what these shifts in meaning tell us about the differences between the two social realities involved.