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Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

"Tel Aviv Is Not Foreign to You": Urban Incorporation Policy on Labor Migrants in Israel,

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, Issue 1 2004
Adriana Kemp
This article addresses the growing disjuncture between urban and national policies regarding the incorporation of labor migrants in Israel. Drawing on fieldwork, in-depth interviews with Tel Aviv municipal officials, and archive analysis of Tel Aviv municipality minutes, we argue that urban migrant-directed policy elicits new understandings of membership and participation, other than those envisaged by national parameters, which bear important, even if unintended, consequences for the de facto incorporation of non-Jewish labor migrants. The crux of the Tel Aviv case is that its migrant-directed policy bears especially on undocumented labor migrants, who make up approximately 16 percent of the city's population and who are the most problematic category of resident from the state's point of view. In demanding recognition for the rights of migrant workers in the name of a territorial category of "residence," and by activating channels of participation for migrant communities, local authorities in Tel Aviv are introducing definitions of "urban membership" for noncitizens which conflict sharply with the hegemonic ethnonational policy. We suggest that the disjuncture between urban and national incorporation policies on labor migrants in Israel is part of a general process of political realignment between the urban and the national taking place within a globalized context of labor migration. [source]

SCG0018-4854: A young and dynamic compact group

ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN, Issue 9-10 2009
V. Presotto
Abstract It is widely recognized in the literature that processes taking place within the group environment are among the main drivers of galaxy evolution. SCG0018-4854 is a compact group of galaxies located at a distance of v , 3200 km s,1. It is composed of four galaxy members, very close to each other on the sky: their median projected distance is only ,20 Kpc (H = 70 km s,1Mpc,1). The remarkably high local galaxy density coupled with the low velocity dispersion (,100 km s,1) characterizing this group, makes SCG001 8-4854 a test case to study in detail the interplay between the environment and the galaxy properties. We present here some of the properties of the group members that are related to their mutual interaction, as derived from our kinematical and morphological analysis (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]

Do community-based support services benefit bereaved children?

CHILD: CARE, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 6 2001
A review of empirical evidence
Abstract Aims To consider the evidence of effect from English language, empirically based quantitative evaluations of community-based interventions for bereaved children; community-based interventions being understood as those taking place outside a clinical setting. Methods MedLine, PsychInfo, Applied Social Sciences Index and Sociological Abstracts were searched for documents containing the words ,child', ,bereavement' and ,program', ,group', ,intervention', ,support' or ,evaluation'. The criterion for inclusion was that studies use a control group or pre- and post-test measurements using a standardized instrument. Results Nine relevant studies were identified. However, empirical evidence of positive outcomes for children was limited and compromised by methodological weaknesses in the design of the studies. Small sample sizes, irregular attendance, high levels of attrition, short time scales between pre- and post-testing and difficulty in developing appropriate instrumentation, including assessment of adherence to the agreed intervention programme, all created problems. Conclusions The case for universal inclusion of this group of children in such support programmes remains unproven, and further exploration of the outcomes of a range of different community interventions is required, with a specific focus on long-term and/or unwanted effects and evaluation of the basis for referral. [source]

Modeling How, When, and What Is Learned in a Simple Fault-Finding Task

COGNITIVE SCIENCE - A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, Issue 5 2008
Frank E. Ritter
Abstract We have developed a process model that learns in multiple ways while finding faults in a simple control panel device. The model predicts human participants' learning through its own learning. The model's performance was systematically compared to human learning data, including the time course and specific sequence of learned behaviors. These comparisons show that the model accounts very well for measures such as problem-solving strategy, the relative difficulty of faults, and average fault-finding time. More important, because the model learns and transfers its learning across problems, it also accounts for the faster problem-solving times due to learning when examined across participants, across faults, and across the series of 20 trials on an individual participant basis. The model shows how learning while problem solving can lead to more recognition-based performance, and helps explain how the shape of the learning curve can arise through learning and be modified by differential transfer. Overall, the quality of the correspondence appears to have arisen from procedural, declarative, and episodic learning all taking place within individual problem-solving episodes. [source]