Past research suggests that small groups are self-organizing systems, and that social resilience may be measured as the meta-flexibility of group dynamics: the ability to shift back and forth from flexiblity to rigidity in response to conflict. This study extends these prior results, examining the impact of experimentally induced internal conflict and group-level conflict resolution on group dy...

This paper starts by mapping out the ways in which new private housebuilding may impinge on two of the key themes of contemporary urban policy, economic competitiveness and social cohesion. It then examines aspects of this relationship in more depth, drawing on evidence from the ESRC Cities programme Integrative Cities Study of Central Scotland. First, it considers the choice between higher den...

a r t i c l e i n f o Family-focused prevention programs for community samples have potentially broad, clinically relevant implications but few studies have examined whether any program benefits continue to be observed over the long term. Although benefits of a marital conflict focused parent education program, the Happy Couples and Happy Kids (i.e., HCHK) program, were supported in a study bas...

The sixteenth century is critical to our reading of Ireland’s subsequent colonial and indeed postcolonial geographies, yet has frequently evaded considered scrutiny for a variety of reasons, including the deficiencies of the evidence. Eschewing assumptions of colonialism as a ‘given’ and informed by postcolonial perspectives in geography and related disciplines, this paper interrogates the init...

IP multicast suffers from scalability problems for large numbers of multicast groups, since each router keeps forwarding state proportional to the number of multicast tree passing through it. In this paper, we present and evaluate aggregated multicast, an approach to reduce multicast state. In aggregated multicast, multiple groups are forced to share a single delivery tree. At the expense of so...

In this paper, we address the issue of dynamically allocating resources to a group of streams belonging to a distributed multimedia application that reserves a collective amount of resources to be shared by its streams. The traac characteristics of the streams are speciied using the M-LBAP (Modiied Linear Bounded Arrival Processes) model. The M-LBAP model provides tight characterization for the...

The concept of rapprochement, central to separation-individuation theory, is examined and reinterpreted from a transactional perspective. A range of naturally occurring confrontations and conflicts between toddlers and their caregivers is addressed to advance the idea that rapprochement is a continuing rather than phase-specific process of early development.

background: as an early step in the development of a decision aid for idiopathic trigger finger (tf) we were interested in the level of decisional conflict experienced by patients and hand surgeons. this study tested the null hypothesis that there is no difference in decisional conflict between patients with one or more idiopathic trigger fingers and hand surgeons. secondary analyses address th...

This paper investigates the nexus among poverty, ethnicity and conflict in Sri Lanka. The ethnicised conflict in Sri Lanka is embedded in and is an expression of existing social, political, economic and cultural structures. The civil war is thus not a temporary crisis, but a long-enduring feature. Rural societies in the war -affected areas are characterised by ‘distressed livelihoods’ or ‘livel...