A Fungus by Any Other Name: Slovene Mycological Loan Translations

One aspect of the generally acknowledged historical influence of German on Slovene is extensive lexical borrowing. The natural world represents a semantic field in which substantial borrowing occurred, and previous studies have demonstrated that analysis of plant names of foreign origin can shed light on the otherwise obscured meanings of these names in Slovene. One sub-field of the natural world that has received relatively little linguistic attention is mycology; specifically, the names of individual species of fungus. Because of the popularity of mushrooms in the cuisine and folklore of all Slavic nations, investigations in this area have particular cultural significance. A multi-language comparison of designations for various fungus in Slavic and geographically adjacent languages makes it possible to identify which names are likely the result of loan translation and which names are likely the result of chance similarity due to salient features of the fungus. This analysis identifies not only a robust number of Slovene names that are likely of foreign origin, but also sets of names limited to a sprachbund of German and German-adjacent Slavic languages. In addition to uniquely German-Slovene pairs of fungal names, this article also identifies German-Slovene/croatian and German-Slovene/croatian-West Slavic correspondences.     

Entrepreneurship by Any Other Name: Self-Sufficiency Versus Innovation

Entrepreneurship has been promoted as an innovative strategy to address the employment of people with disabilities. Research has predominantly focused on the self-sufficiency aspect without fully integrating entrepreneurship literature in the areas of theory, systems change, and demonstration projects. Subsequently there are gaps in services, policies, and research in this field that, in turn, have limited our understanding of the support needs and barriers or facilitators of entrepreneurs with disabilities. A thorough analysis of the literature in these areas led to the development of two core concepts that need to be addressed in integrating entrepreneurship into disability employment research and policy: clarity in operational definitions and better disability statistics and outcome measures. This article interrogates existing research and policy efforts in this regard to argue for a necessary shift in the field from focusing on entrepreneurship as self-sufficiency to understanding entrepreneurship as innovation.     

A Rose by Any Name Would Smell as Sweet

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The Psychological Contract of Volunteers: A New Research Agenda

This paper considers the ways in which research into the psychological contract of volunteers have been constrained by the direct transfer of measures from the study of employees, and more generally by the assumptions in the dominant psychological contract discourse. After examining these assumptions the paper proposes a revised research agenda, open to the possibility that the psychological contract of volunteers is affected by expectations arising from socio-cultural influences beyond the volunteer/manager relationships, and in particular, from the expectations of relative freedom in volunteering and from subjective perceptions of volunteering as (variously) serious leisure, unpaid work, or activism. Understanding the contract as socially constructed reveals the need to juxtapose the expectations of managers and volunteers in order to understand the contract as a social relationship.     

Revitalizing Families: A Communitarian Agenda for Social Work

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As the conservative tidal wave sweeps away the remaining vestiges of our national welfare state, another social movement of the 1990s, known as communitarianism, is gaining the moral attention of those who work for the rejuvenation of families and communities in our society. This paper explains the social philosophy of the communitarian movement and shows how this philosophy, when applied to social programs, can lead to a revitalization of American families, however those social, economic and nurturing units may be defined in a pluralistic society. The intention is to link communitarianism with social work values so that social workers may find additional professional sanction both to join in the movement and to apply a communitarian philosophy to their work with families and communities.     

Psychoanalytic Challenges: A Contribution to the New Sexual Agenda

Behind its conservative facade and the rigidityof much of its clinical practice, psychoanalysis retainsa disruptive attitude toward conventional discourses ongender and sexuality. This attitude derives from psychoanalysis capacity to look awry atexperience and consequently to undermine notions offixed identity, including sexual identity. Incontemporary work, much of the debate on psychoanalysisdisruptive consciousness, particularly among feminists,has centered on the contribution of Lacanian thinkingand in particular on the question of whether Lacanoffers a more rigorous alternative to object relational accounts of gender identity and sexualdifference. In this paper, the debate on psychoanalysiscontribution to the new sexual agenda isintroduced and furthered by exploration of the notion ofidentification as used first in some non-Lacanian work byJessica Benjamin, and then in a classic seminar of Lacans. It is suggested that both Benjamin and Lacan offerinsights into the provisional nature ofadoption of specific sexual identities and that acontinuing critical contribution from psychoanalysis canbe found in this work.     

A National Agenda for Elder Abuse and Neglect Research:

Ten researchers from a wide variety of disciplines met to formulate an elder abuse national research agenda. Their specific purpose was to identify, organize, and prioritize the most important research questions in the field of elder abuse and neglect that remain to be answered reliably. Despite extensive preparation and experience, the researchers disagreed over such basic issues as how abuse should be defined and the types of maltreatment to consider. Inconsistencies in resolving these issues are a root cause of many flaws in current research studies. Resolutions are presented that might serve as a guide to others in improving research designs. Recommendations for improving research methodology are also included.     

A Note on CBD: It's All in a Name

I recently saw an article with the following title: “Medical cannabis relieves symptoms in children with autism.” On reading it, I realized that the Drug Target Review was talking about cannabidiol, otherwise known as CBD, not THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis). I also realized the words cannabis and marijuana are no longer useful in talking about marijuana now that CBD has been moved to Schedule V of the Controlled Substances Act when manufactured by GW Pharmaceuticals. Still, it is common to see CBD lumped with the hundreds of other cannabinoids, especially if not produced by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved pharmaceutical company where it is still classified as Schedule I by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). I think this has implications for popular understanding and clinical utility.     

The Community Asset Transfer of Leisure Facilities in the UK: A Review and Research Agenda

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - This paper reviews recent work on community asset transfers (CAT): a transfer of management of facilities from the public...     

Assessing the Role of Tourism in Poverty Alleviation: A Research Agenda

Understanding the tourism‐poverty link is critical if tourism is to be used as a mechanism for reducing poverty. Yet, the available empirical analysis is insufficient for this. This article proposes a research agenda for closing this gap in the literature. It argues that, while analysing the link poses peculiar challenges, models exist to do so. Second, it contends that the key question is not whether the link exists but under what conditions it is strongest. Finally, it maintains that the best way to analyse the link is to incorporate accurate diagnosis and evaluations into tourism projects, using the approaches and concepts of the literature on impact evaluation.     

The College Mental Health Center: A Report After Ten Years

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The College Center is a unique mental health facility providing care for thousands of students from many colleges in the Greater Boston area. The authors report on data collected during the 1975–76, 1976–77 school years regarding patient variables such as: gender, year in school, academic major, presenting problem, and others. The center's handling of these patients is reported in terms of diagnoses, treatment recommendations, and numbers of visits. Several commonly held staff assumptions and hypotheses are tested, and from the data available in this study, are not generally confirmed. The impressions, however, of a more recent decrease in antisocial acting out behavior and drug abuse (other than alcohol) and an increase in patients presenting with more classical neurotic and adjustment symptoms are confirmed.     

Childhood Career Development in Mainland China: A Research and Practice Agenda

Career development in adolescence and adulthood has been widely researched; however, less is known about childhood career development, particularly in non‐Western cultures. This is especially the case in mainland China, where children grow up in a unique context. The Confucian tradition of emphasizing education as an important social ladder and parents' role in their children's development may restrict children's development of career‐planning skills. By contrast, the shift from a planned economy to a market economy enables individuals to choose careers and demands that individuals have career‐planning skills. The elementary school years could be a starting point to develop such skills by providing career guidance for children. This article considers childhood career development in mainland China, discusses the status quo of childhood career development research and practice, and considers an agenda for future research and practice.