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This chapter reviews the most well-researched, evidence-based antibullying interventions: involvement of all the stakeholders in a school, prevention through life skills curricula, problem-solving approaches, and those that focus on rules and consequences. Two factors emerge with clarity: (1) the exact components of the program do not matter as much as the quality and thoroughness with which the interventions are implemented; and (2) given the potentially severe consequences of bullying, it is a moral imperative to continue to implement such programs and to formulate and revise the programs based on solid evidence. © 2008 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

In June of 2004, The New York Times reported that the fig trees in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn were dying.1 Accompanying this horticultural death was another transition. Like the fig trees, the elderly Italian-American people who tended them were also gradually disappearing from the neighborhood. The article demonstrated what most residents of the New York tri-state area already knew: The ethnic make-up of a neighborhood often may be "read" through the residential landscape choices of its inhabitants. For people of Italian descent, the fig tree (Ficus carica) is one of many ethnically significant components of the landscape. Throughout the New York City metropolitan region, the residential landscape plays a prominent role in the construction of Italian-American identity. With their symmetrical plans, sheared shrubs, religious statues, and fig trees, Italian-American landscapes proclaim the ethnicity of homeowners and knit neighborhoods together with a shared horticultural and design idiom. Despite the facility with which the denizens of the New York tri-state region discern and describe this "Italian look," no study concerned primarily with the visual analysis and historical precedents of these Italian-American residential landscapes yet exists. Copyright © 2011 Fordham University Press. All rights reserved.

The so-called Colonels' coup of April 21, 1967, was a major event in the history of the Cold War, ushering in a seven-year period of military rule in Greece. In the wake of the coup, some eight thousand people affiliated with the Communist Party were rounded up, and Greece became yet another country where the fear of Communism led the United States into alliance with a repressive right-wing authoritarian regime. In military coups in some other countries, it is known that the CIA and other agencies of the U.S. government played an active role in encouraging and facilitating the takeover. The Colonels' coup, however, came as a surprise to the United States (which was expecting a Generals' coup instead). Yet the U.S. government accepted it after the fact, despite internal disputes within policymaking circles about the wisdom of accommodating the upstart Papadopoulos regime. Among the dissenters was Robert Keeley, then serving in the U.S. Embassy in Greece. This is his insider's account of how U.S. policy was formulated, debated, and implemented during the critical years 1966 to 1969 in Greek-U.S. relations. © 2010 Robert V. Keeley All rights reserved.

We use SrTiO3/Si as a model system to elucidate the effect of the interface on ferroelectric behavior in epitaxial oxide films on silicon. Using both first-principles computations and synchrotron x-ray diffraction measurements, we show that structurally imposed boundary conditions at the interface stabilize a fixed (pinned) polarization in the film but inhibit ferroelectric switching. We demonstrate that the interface chemistry responsible for these phenomena is general to epitaxial silicon-oxide interfaces, impacting on the design of silicon-based functional oxide devices. © 2010 The American Physical Society.

In the Morgante through Margutte's death-by-laughter Pulci voices a caustic critique of Ficino's philosophical theories while obliquely denouncing Lorenzo de Medici's acceptance of them. The spectacle of the monkey wearing and taking off Margutte's boots follows Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous that ignites hilarity. It also retrieves Bergson's idea of a society that can be derided because of its attempts to disguise its true self. Most importantly, it reintroduces Petrarch's concepts of similitudo and identitas. Through the depiction of the giant's death Pulci reveals the dignity of a poet remaining true to his poetic discourse even while coming to terms with the negative turn his career has taken.

This chapter describes recent studies designed to generate data not only on the localization of reading-related brain activation, but also to examine patterns of interactions and dynamic trade-offs among these distributed reading-related systems. It begins with a review of relevant behavioral studies of component processing in fluent reading, with particular emphasis on the role of early (sublexical) phonology. It then discusses the current literature on the neurobiology of skilled and disabled reading, along with consideration of a series of recent studies that aim to capture brain correlates of component processing, again with an emphasis on phonological processing, adaptive learning, and complex trade-offs and interactions. Finally, it takes stock of what is considered to be crucial next steps (both technical and theoretical) in the emerging cognitive neuroscience of reading and its disorders. © Oxford University Press, 2014.

In this paper we describe an information system that we have designed for students and researchers to conduct atmospheric studies using data that they have collected from multiple atmospheric instruments including two laser radar (lidar) systems. The lidar systems available for research include a monostatic Micro Pulse Lidar System and a bistatic imaging CLidar system. Complementary instruments for data analysis and ground truth specification include a nephelometer, sunphotometers and a weather station. Information structures within the system allow users to 1) label, describe and archive raw and derived datasets from multiple atmospheric instruments with associated metadata using NetCDF format, 2) link together coincident and co-located datasets from different instruments and 3) identify owner and verify user access rights of raw and derived datasets. Data analysis software tools have been developed in MATLAB to characterize and remove instrument artifacts based on experimental lidar studies, to analyze clear sky data to determine variability in atmospheric aerosol content over time and altitude, and to investigate cloud and aerosol patterns.

In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change, Solodow charts Latin's course from classical times to the modern era, with focus on the first millennium of the Common Era. Though the Romance languages evolved directly from Latin, Solodow shows how every important feature of Latin's evolution is also reflected in English. His story includes scores of intriguing etymologies, along with many concrete examples of texts, studies, scholars, anecdotes, and historical events; observations on language; and more. Written with crystalline clarity, this is the first book to tell the story of the Romance languages for the general reader and to illustrate so amply Latin's many-sided survival in English as well. © Joseph B. Solodow 2010.

Learning objective: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) significantly affects quality of life, particularly when doing activities such as walking and climbing stairs. In addition, persons with PAD have an increased risk for heart disease, stroke, and limb amputations. This article will summarize PAD, address exercise benefits specific to the disease, and discuss exercise training for those with PAD in both the clinical and the health and fitness setting. © 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Las hogueras del fanatismo y la ortodoxia son una constante del siglo XXI, en el que ya estamos. Seguimos proyectando nuestro peor yo sobre los débiles, los pobres y los emigrantes. Necesitarí amos matar el yo racista que llevamos dentro y eso sólo se puede conseguir colocándonos en el lugar del otro, sintiéndote agredida. In the last twenty-five years, Jews have emerged as a literary figure as well as a literary theme in Spain. Catalan writers such as Maria Àngels Anglada (1930- 99), Carme Riera (1948–), and Vicenç Villatoro (1957–) approach the Jewish theme and the representation of the Jew as literary character in order to reflect on issues regarding identity and history in novels, such as El violí d‘Auschwitz (1994), Dins el darrer blau (1994), and Memòria del traïdor (1996), respectively. With Dins el darrer blau, written between 1989 and 1993, published in Catalan in 1994 and in Castilian in 1996, Riera starts a series of novels dedicated to the Majorcan xuetes (Jews who were converted to Christianity) which she finishes with Cap al cel obert in 1999. In this essay I will reflect on how Riera‘s Dins el darrer blau revisits the past in order to create a “culture of memory,” a process in which society confronts its traumatic past and the history of exile and repression, linking the history of the Jewish converts to the history of the Balearic island, Majorca. Riera‘s novel is based on historical events that occurred in the City of Majorca from 1687 to 1691. © 2013 Liverpool University Press.