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This volume examines trajectories of drug use among ethnic minority youth in the United States with a focus on African Americans and Hispanics. It also highlights what research designs have been employed to address these differences as well as suggests strategies for moving this discourse forward by identifying potential targets for prevention and intervention with minority youth. This book features essays by leading experts in the field who have grappled with this issue for decades. Inside, readers will find an insightful dialogue that addresses such questions as: Why are African American and Hispanic youth more likely than their White peers to abstain from drug use during adolescence but are more likely to become problem users later in life? What impact does the stress caused by discrimination have on potential drug use? To what extent does religiosity protect minority youth from drug use as past research suggests that it protects White youth? What is the influence of neighborhood context on exposure to and use of substances among urban African American children? Taken together, the essays in this book identify underexplored risk and protective factors and gaps in the current state of knowledge that can be used to develop effective, culturally specific drug abuse prevention strategies. This book is for anyone with an interest in the initiation and escalation of drug use among African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos and factors that influence these patterns over the life course. It will also be an ideal resource for those interested in better understanding the mechanisms by which risk and protective factors are related to the development of drug use and addiction, particularly the ways in which such factors contribute to health differences and have disproportionately more negative consequences for ethnic minorities.

This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency - a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation. Using results from empirical studies of professional education programs, the book sheds light on practical ways in which the development of epistemic fluency can be recognised and supported - in higher education and in the transition to work.The book provides a broader and deeper conception of epistemic fluency than previously available in the literature. Epistemic fluency involves a set of capabilities that allow people to recognize and participate in different ways of knowing. Such people are adept at combining different kinds of specialised and context-dependent knowledge and at reconfiguring their work environment to see problems and solutions anew.In practical terms, the book addresses the following kinds of questions. What does it take to be a productive member of a multidisciplinary team working on a complex problem? What enables a person to integrate different types and fields of knowledge, indeed different ways of knowing, in order to make some well-founded decisions and take actions in the world? What personal knowledge resources are entailed in analysing a problem and describing an innovative solution, such that the innovation can be shared in an organization or professional community? How do people get better at these things; and how can teachers in higher education help students develop these valued capacities? The answers to these questions are central to a thorough understanding of what it means to become an effective knowledge worker and resourceful professional.

This new volume gives discursive shape to several key facets of the relationship among politics, theology and religious thought. Powerfully relevant to a wealth of further academic disciplines including history, law and the humanities, it sharpens the contours of our understanding in a live and evolving field. It charts the mechanisms by which, contrary to the avowed secularism of many of today's polities, theology and religion have often, and sometimes profoundly, shaped political discourse. By augmenting this broader analysis with a selection of authoritative papers focusing on the prominent sub-field of political theology, the anthology offsets a startling academic lacuna. Alongside focused analysis of subjects such as conscience, secularism and religious tolerance, the discussion of political theology examines the tradition's critical moments, including developments during the post-World War I Weimar republic in Germany and the epistemological imprint the theory has left behind in works by political thinkers influenced by the three major monotheistic traditions.

This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations.

Globalisation and National Identity in History Textbooks: The Russian Federation, the 16th book in the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, discusses trends in dominant discourses of identity politics, and nation-building in school history textbooks in the Russian Federation (RF). The book addresses one of the most profound examples of the re-writing of history following a geo-political change. Various book chapters examine debates pertaining to national identity, patriotism, and the nation-building process. The book discusses the way in which a new sense of patriotism and nationalism is documented in prescribed Russian history textbooks, and in the Russian media debate on history textbooks. It explores the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the state, globalisation and the construction of cultural identity in prescribed school history textbooks. By focusing on ideology, identity politics, and nation-building, the book examines history teachers' responses to the content of history textbooks and how teachers depict key moments in modern Russian history. This book, an essential sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policymakers in the fields of globalisation and history education, provides timely information on history teachers' attitudes towards historical knowledge and historical understanding in prescribed Russian history textbooks.

The final chapters of the book examine the relevance of experimentation to economic valuation, the transfer of existing nonmarket values to new settings, and assessments of the reliability and validity of nonmarket values. The book is relevant to individuals in many professions at all career levels.

Essays on Husserl's Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics sets out to fill up a lacuna in the present research on Husserl by presenting a precise account of Husserl's work in the field of logic, of the philosophy of logic and of the philosophy of mathematics.

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Auftraggeberhaftung nach § 14 des Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetzes und § 13 des Mindestlohngesetzes. Der Autor untersucht die Voraussetzungen und Rechtsfolgen der Auftraggeberhaftung sowie deren prozessuale Durchsetzung. In § 14 Satz 1 AEntG - auf den § 13 MiLoG verweist - hat der Gesetzgeber dabei auf Rechtsfolgenseite angeordnet, dass der Auftraggeber "wie ein Bürge" haften soll. Das wirft die Frage auf, wie diese Haftung rechtlich einzuordnen ist. Im Zentrum des Buches wird daher die Rechtsnatur der Auftraggeberhaftung untersucht. Nach der Darstellung, in welcher Form die Auftraggeberhaftung auf die Bürgschaft des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches Bezug nimmt und in das System der Bürgenhaftung einzuordnen ist, zeigt der Autor, inwiefern die Normen des Bürgschaftsrechts auf die Auftraggeberhaftung Anwendung finden.

It blends ethics withmentality to capture the interdependence of ethical life and social lifecreatively. By focusing on practical ethical behavior in today's economy,business, and society, Michela Betta has advanced an understanding of ethics freedfrom the burden of moral theory.

The aim of this edited volume is to introduce the scientific community to paleoenvironmental studies of estuaries, to highlight the types of information that can be obtained from such studies, and to promote the use of paleoenvironmental studies in estuarine management.

This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians' engagement with mobile gaming.

This book sends an important message as it delivers background information, intrinsic hypotheses, validation approaches and legal frameworks, all for balanced phosphorus fertilization in agriculture. Bottom line is that research delivers the tools for a sustainable phosphorus management while legal frameworks are insufficient.

This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.S. In 2013 1,520 children died from maltreatment. This book defines child maltreatment fatalities (CMFs) and discusses the prevalence of deaths in the U.S. over the last several decades. It addresses the known risk factors for maltreatment deaths including child, parent, the parent-child relationship, and household risk factors. The main focus of the book addresses the responses and interventions that have been put in place in order to prevent CMFs: the child welfare profession, child death review teams, safe haven laws, criminal justice responses, public education, and new, federal efforts in the U.S. to reduce CMFs in the U.S. The book finishes by making recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers about how to prevent fatal maltreatment among children in the U.S.

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the Holocene.

This volume recognizes and addresses the health care issues of prisoners, to establish best practices and to learn about approaches to these challenges from around the world. It presents new evidence on several emerging and classical prison health issues. The first goal of this volume is to address emerging issues related to health in prison. Second, it presents the most recent research-based evidence and translates it to the practice. The third goal, is that it allows for sufficient diversity while also incorporating updates of some important already recognized prison health. The volume discusses prisons and the life and well-being of prisoners and staff, after growing problems as drug misuse (incl. tobacco smoking), infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, STIs and TB), psychiatric problems, inadequate and unhealthy living conditions (incl. nutrition), overcrowding of prisons. These are addressed adequately in order to meet the international requirements of equivalence of health care.The scope of this volume is at the same type specific and diverse enough to cover the interests of a large audience that includes many types of practitioners involved in health-related issues in the field of prison health care, such as psychologists, nurses and prison administration officers responsible for health care, legal professionals and social workers.

The book offers an in-depth review of the materials design and manufacturing processes employed in the development of multi-component or multiphase polymer material systems.

Michael Sand gives the reader an overview ofcurrent techniques in expression profiling of miRNAs and their maturationmachinery in the skin. This book is a postdoctoral thesis on miRNAs incutaneous malignant melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer with a focus on themiRNA processing machinery and miRNA expression profiling.

David Jungbluth zeigt auf, dass zeitgleich mit dem Entstehen des Begriffs der "Wirtschaftsverfassung" die Auseinandersetzung um dessen Inhalt begann. Insofern wird herausgearbeitet, dass sowohl die von der Weimarer Nationalversammlung als auch die vom Parlamentarischen Rat getroffenen wirtschaftssystematischen Entscheidungen von Weimar bis heute im Rahmen der Verfassungsexegese immer wieder ignoriert wurden. Die Analyse gibt daher Anlass zu hinterfragen, inwieweit die Verfassungsinterpretation das erforderliche Mindestmaß an Zurückhaltung sowohl gegenüber dem Verfassungsgeber wie auch gegenüber dem Entscheidungsspielraum des wirtschaftspolitischen Gesetzgebers aufzubringen bereit ist, und inwieweit, losgelöst vom konkreten Sujet der Untersuchung, eine sich selbst als objektiv klassifizierende Verfassungsauslegung überhaupt als eine solche neutraler Provenienz bezeichnet werden kann.

In that field, the research activities aims to develop a deeper fundamental understanding of the mechanisms responsible for cracking and debonding in asphalt concrete and composite (e.g. asphalt overlays placed on PCC or thin cement concrete overlay placed on asphalt layer) pavement systems.

The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children's views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it.

The book seeks to encapsulate some of the major novelties of this fascinating new discipline and its contribution to the management, conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems as well as the cultural heritages of coastal communities in different parts of the world.

This book approaches the concept of adjustment to aging and endeavors to build reader understanding of this construct through a critical review and discussion.

This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China.

This volume presents the current state of knowledge on the osseous projectile weaponry that was produced by Pleistocene cultures across the globe.

This edited volume systematically reviews the evidence for early human presence in one of the most relevant geographic regions of Europe - the Balkans and Anatolia, an area that has been crucial in shaping the course of human evolution in Europe, but whose paleoanthropological record is poorly known.

Es fehlte bislang an einer Aufarbeitung der für Experten im produzierenden Gewerbe notwendigen Kompetenzen. Ariane Hillebrand hat sich dieser Forschungslücke angenommen und ein Kompetenzmodell entwickelt. Damit kann sie Experten erstmalig anhand der Kompetenzfacetten Fach-, Methoden-, Sozial- und Selbstkompetenzen beschreiben, ihre spezifischen Kompetenzen identifizieren und deren Wechselwirkungen eruieren. Dabei ergeben sich zum Teil überraschende Ergebnisse, da vor allem den Selbst- und weniger den Fachkompetenzen eine entscheidende Rolle zukommt. Die Ergebnisse werden vor dem Hintergrund aktueller HR-Trends für Theorie und Praxis diskutiert.Die Autorin Nach dem Psychologiestudium beschäftigte sich Ariane Hillebrand mit Themen des Kompetenzmanagements, der Qualitätsanalyse und mit arbeitsorganisatorischen Aufgaben innerhalb der Fertigung bei einem deutschen Automobilkonzern. Sie promovierte berufsbegleitend an der TU Braunschweig.

Christoph Kröger entwickelt den Lösungsansatz des stöchiometrischen Dieselbrennverfahrens, welches die Verwendung eines Drei-Wege-Katalysators ermöglicht, weiter. Dieser stellt eine Vereinfachung der dieselmotorischen Abgasnachbehandlung dar und kann die kostenintensiven und aufwendigen Speicherkatalysator- oder SCR-Systeme ersetzen. Der Autor bewertet das stöchiometrische Dieselbrennverfahren an einem seriennahen Vierzylinderdieselmotor am Motorprüfstand und in einem Versuchsfahrzeug - im stationären und auch im instationären Betrieb - in Bezug auf sein Emissionsminderungspotenzial und den Kraftstoffverbrauch. In den Prüfzyklen WHSC/WHTC, NEDC und WLTC werden die geforderten Grenzwerte der Emissionen für EU 6/VI eingehalten und teilweise sogar signifikant unterschritten. Der Kraftstoffmehrverbrauch und die Beladung des Partikelfilters sind vom untersuchten Prüfzyklus abhängig.Der AutorChristoph Kröger arbeitet in der Entwicklung eines namhaften Automobilherstellers im Bereich Thermodynamik V-Diesel-Motoren. Seine Industriepromotion erfolgte an der TU Braunschweig.

Martin Kumke entwickelt angepasste Konstruktionsprozesse sowie praxisnahe Methoden und Hilfsmittel zur Ausschöpfung konstruktiver Potenziale von additiven Fertigungsverfahren. Anhand von Beispielanwendungen, die die neuen Freiheiten und Restriktionen in der Konzeption und Gestaltung von Bauteilen berücksichtigen, zeigt der Autor, dass hierdurch die Entwicklung eigenschaftsoptimierter Produkte ermöglicht wird. Darüber hinaus stellt er in Form eines Wiki-basierten Konstruktionskompendiums eine Möglichkeit zum Transfer der Erkenntnisse in die industrielle Anwendung vor.Der Autor Martin Kumke promovierte im Fachgebiet Konstruktionstechnik an der Technischen Universität Braunschweig während seiner Tätigkeit in der Forschungsabteilung eines großen Automobilherstellers. Sein derzeitiges Aufgabengebiet umfasst die Einführung additiver Fertigungsverfahren in die Automobilproduktion und die Erforschung neuer Konstruktionsansätze.

Jan Hasenpusch beschreibt eine Methodik zur ganzheitlichen Beurteilung der Auswirkung von Parametervariationen auf die Eigenschaften und Merkmale eines Produkts am Beispiel von Karosseriekonzepten. Die Entwicklung wird systematisch unter Berücksichtigung von Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) und Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) durchgeführt, um die Komplexität zu beherrschen und die Vorteile beider Strategien zu nutzen. Grundlage ist eine Erweiterung des Characteristics Properties Modelling. Daraus resultiert eine Methodik, die aus den Prozessschritten Synthese, Analyse und Evaluation besteht. Diese laufen in einem MBSE-Gesamtsystem, bestehend aus wissensbasierten Teilsystemen, ab. Karosseriekonzepte werden aus geforderten Eigenschaften generiert, analysiert und ganzheitlich bewertet.Der Autor Jan Hasenpusch promovierte an der TU Braunschweig. Heute ist er bei einem deutschen Automobilhersteller für die Weiterentwicklung der virtuellen automatisierten Absicherung von Kundenfunktionen verantwortlich.