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Religious and spiritual struggles (R/S struggles)—tension or conflicts regarding religious or spiritual matters—have been robustly linked to greater psychological distress and lower well-being. Most research in this area has rel...
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Religious and spiritual struggles (R/S struggles)—tension or conflicts regarding religious or spiritual matters—have been robustly linked to greater psychological distress and lower well-being. Most research in this area has relied on samples consisting predominantly of participants who believe in god(s). Limited research has examined R/S struggles among atheists, generally conflating them with agnostics and other nontheists. This study investigated the prevalence of R/S struggles among atheists and compared atheists to theists in two samples (3978 undergraduates, 1048 Internet workers). Results of a multilevel model showed that atheists experience less demonic, doubt, divine, moral, and overall R/S struggles than theists, but similar levels of interpersonal and ultimate meaning struggles. Correlation and regression analyses among atheists demonstrated links between moral, ultimate meaning, and overall R/S struggles and greater distress (depression and anxiety symptoms) as well as lower well-being (life satisfaction and meaning in life). Even after controlling neuroticism, ultimate meaning struggles continued to predict lower well-being and higher distress across samples; moral struggles also predicted distress independently. This study demonstrates the relevance of R/S struggles to atheists and reinforces the applicability of previous results to atheist samples, but also highlights substantial differences between atheists and theists in certain R/S struggles.
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The present study investigates students' struggles when encountering errors in problemsolving. The focus is students' problem-solving activities that lead to productive struggle and what the students might gain therefrom. Twenty-f...
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The present study investigates students' struggles when encountering errors in problemsolving. The focus is students' problem-solving activities that lead to productive struggle and what the students might gain therefrom. Twenty-four students between the ages of 16 and 17 worked in pairs to solve a linear function problem using GeoGebra, a dynamic software application. Data in the form of recorded conversations, computer activities and post-interviews were analyzed using Hiebert and Grouws' (2007. Second handbook of research on mathematics teaching and learning (Vol. 1). 404) concept of productive struggles and Schoenfeld's (1985. Mathematical problem solving: ERIC) framework for problem-solving. The study showed that all students made errors concerning incorrect prior knowledge and erroneously constructed new knowledge. All participants engaged in superficial, unproductive struggles moving between a couple of Schoenfeld's episodes.However, a majority of the students managed to transform their efforts into productive struggle. They engaged in several of Schoenfeld's episodes and succeeded in reconstructing useful prior knowledge and constructing correct new knowledge-i.e., solving the problem.
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Based on insights from peasant and indigenous communities' struggles for water in Andean Peru and Ecuador, in this article we argue that the defense of grassroots interests -and with it the advancement of more equitable governance...
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Based on insights from peasant and indigenous communities' struggles for water in Andean Peru and Ecuador, in this article we argue that the defense of grassroots interests -and with it the advancement of more equitable governance- greatly hinges on the capacity of these groups to engage in grassroots scalar politics. With increasing pressure on water resources in the Andes, the access to water of many rural peasant and indigenous communities is being threatened. The growing realization that their access to water and related interests are embedded in broader regional and national politics, legal frameworks and water policies, has led many communities and peasant water user associations to engage in networks and create alliances with other water users, governmental institutions and non-governmental actors. To better understand these (and other) grassroots struggles and strategies, in this contribution we develop the concept of grassroots scalar politics, which we use as a lens to analyze two case studies. In Ecuador we present how water users of the province of Chimborazo have defended their interests through the consolidation of the Provincial Water Users Associations' Federation Interjuntas-Chimborazo and its networks. Then we focus on how with the support of Interjuntas-Chimborazo the Water Users Association of the Chambo irrigation system defended their historical water allocation. In Peru we analyze the conformation and achievements of the federative Water Users Association of Ayacucho UUDRA) and present how the community of Ccharhuancho in the region of Huancavelica, managed to defend its waters and territory against the coastal irrigation sector of Ica. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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The remarkable men who created our national Constitution created a system of government consisting of three separate branches—each with discrete and specified powers—designed to ensure that governmental power could not be abused...
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The remarkable men who created our national Constitution created a system of government consisting of three separate branches—each with discrete and specified powers—designed to ensure that governmental power could not be abused. That system has served us well, though it may seem cumbersome and is not always wholly democratic. But in several crucial areas the Framers created shared or overlapping powers between the two political branches. The precise boundaries of that sharing between the President and Congress was left ambiguous, giving rise to an enduring tension that has ebbed and flowed throughout our history. One such area of shared power concerns waging war, where Congress was given the power to declare war and to appropriate funds for its support, but the President was appointed Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces. In the twentieth century, Congress and the President sparred repeatedly over the ability of the President to deploy military forces throughout the world without a declaration of war.~1 The constitutional standoff has continued, and the resolution in each case has remained firmly in the political arena.
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This article discusses the relation between Marx and the emerging labor law. The study shows that Marx points out the limitations of the legal arena, at the same time as he considers it as a stage of class struggle. According to M...
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This article discusses the relation between Marx and the emerging labor law. The study shows that Marx points out the limitations of the legal arena, at the same time as he considers it as a stage of class struggle. According to Marx, it is crucial to fight for the reduction of the working day, as well as for legal regulation. However, at best he sees such struggles as part of the preparation of the revolutionary terrain in order to suppress the capitalist society, the law, and the centrality of the productive activity in the life of the human in the bourgeois society. Therefore, when Marx advocates for a radical reduction of the working day, he is not referring to a struggle in the legal arena, but a substantive transformation of production.
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Technical services departments in academic libraries have long struggled to communicate effectively with other library departments, particularly public services departments. As academic libraries acquire large numbers of digital r...
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Technical services departments in academic libraries have long struggled to communicate effectively with other library departments, particularly public services departments. As academic libraries acquire large numbers of digital resources, technical services departments are increasingly responsible for providing current information about those resources to public services staff. The authors of this paper describe the process of creating, testing, and implementing LibGuides (pro-prietary software for building library portals and facilitating information sharing in libraries) as a new way of communicating much-needed information between technical services and public services staff at Miami University Libraries.
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After an introduction and views on inculturation (i.e. adapting the liturgy to the context within which it is ‘performed’ or the context influencing the liturgy), the focus shifts to ‘incarnation’ and ‘contextualisation’ in ...
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After an introduction and views on inculturation (i.e. adapting the liturgy to the context within which it is ‘performed’ or the context influencing the liturgy), the focus shifts to ‘incarnation’ and ‘contextualisation’ in a broader sense, to also include the transformation and adaptation of the ‘sacred’ for the secular or political sphere. Practices of performing faith through texts and music within diverse liturgical, spiritual, cultural and political contexts in South Africa are discussed. Aspects taken into account are the possible influence of landscape or seasons on the expression of faith and the possible sacro-soundscapes that could come from different contexts, such as the impact of the Karoo landscape on Khoisan descendants singing the sacred; performances in a contextualised music idiom, such as the Genevan Psalms in a Khoi music idiom; and celebrating the Church Year in different hemispheres. The discussion focuses also on contextualising within political contexts – that is, where political space is ‘sacralised’ through sacred songs and where sacred songs are given political meaning or changed for the political sphere. The article closes with the possibility of songs from Africa being sung in other countries and the meaning it could have, or could be given. It is argued that contextualisation from one context to another context of the sacred, or from a ‘secular’ to a sacred context, as well contextualising the sacred into the public (‘secular’) or political sphere, could lead to contexts and spaces being changed, enrich the performance of the sacred, stimulate creativity, allow for new processes of attributing meaning, change values and motivate people, form new identities and thus also could lead to changed communities.
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Purpose: To describe the perceptions and attitudes influencing individuals in a rural community in the self-management of their type 2 diabetes. The inquiry explored the meanings associated with diabetes related to past and presen...
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Purpose: To describe the perceptions and attitudes influencing individuals in a rural community in the self-management of their type 2 diabetes. The inquiry explored the meanings associated with diabetes related to past and present experience, the individuals' preferred method of obtaining information about self-care strategies, and the importance of social networks surrounding individuals with diabetes in this rural community. Design: Qualitative descriptive design. Sample: The participants for this study were 20 adult men and women with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus who receive their care in a rural family practice clinic. Results: Qualitative content analysis revealed three major themes that represent the range of thoughts and emotions the participants encountered: (a) psychological and cognitive negotiation of the emotional impact of the diagnosis of diabetes, (b) verbal information as the preferred method of receiving health education and instructions related to diabetes, and (c) preference to share disease information with other persons with diabetes. Conclusions: The complexity of emotional reactions to a diagnosis of diabetes and the inability to take in the necessary health information and guidance often interferes with the ongoing daily treatment regime for diabetes. Clinical Relevance: Health providers need to seek patients'perceptions of their diagnosis and ongoing care of their diabetes and the meaning this has for them. Health information related to diabetes and self-care management must be communicated in the patient's preferred method of receiving this information and guidance within a given community setting. Recognition of where patients with diabetes seek and receive support is important to the management of diabetes.
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As Thailand struggles to save Bangkok from perhaps the worst natural calamity to ever strike the city, neighbours Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines are facing massive flood bills; expected to reach billions of d...
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As Thailand struggles to save Bangkok from perhaps the worst natural calamity to ever strike the city, neighbours Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines are facing massive flood bills; expected to reach billions of dollars. In Singapore the number of flash floods have doubled since 2009.
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If you're struggling with your mental health, what are you meant to do about it? Thanks to many campaigns dedicated to it, 'awareness' of mental health concerns is rising all the time. And that's good. Awareness is only the beginn...
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If you're struggling with your mental health, what are you meant to do about it? Thanks to many campaigns dedicated to it, 'awareness' of mental health concerns is rising all the time. And that's good. Awareness is only the beginning, however. It's all well and good to tell people it's 'time to talk', or to insist there's no shame in asking for help, but what if that help isn't forthcoming?
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