Recent changes in psychoanalysis and substance abuse treatment are healing long-standing rifts that had kept these two fields apart. This article elaborates the historical positions that contributed to the schism and describes how the harm reduction model of substance abuse treatment and the relational orientation in psychoanalysis can bring them together. Three clinical examples illustrate how...

this study focused on the optimization of al—mg to cuzn34 friction stir lap welding (fslw) process for optimal combination of rotational and traverse speeds in order to yield favorable fracture load using grey relational analysis (gra). first, the degree of freedom was calculated for the system. then, the experiments based on the target values and number of considered levels, corresponding orth...

This paper follows three student-educators’ journey with clay. Embedded in the contextual space of studio, considers complexities and processes involved cultivating curriculum thinking idea art as a language. Inspired by relational materialist approach, Erin, Roselyn, Colleen enter into dialogue clay—embodying one another, entangling each other, intra-actively doing unto reaffirming that knowin...

nowadays, in order to reach minimum production cost in machining operations, various optimization methods have been proposed. since turning operation has different parameters affecting the workpiece quality, it was selected as a complicated manufacturing method in this paper. to reach sufficient quality, all influencing parameters such as cutting speed, federate, depth of cut and tool rake angl...

The paper presents a concept for analysing the quality of relational descriptions of digital images. The investigations are based on the relational description automatically derived by a new coherent procedure for feature extraction providing a feature adjacency graph containing points, edges and segments and their relations. A new notion of scale (integration scale) is introduced, relating to ...

This article explores the role that technology plays in creating and fostering transparency global supply chains. Transparency is deemed vital creation of sustainable resilient chains overall effective corporate governance. There are two distinct orientations toward use by multinational corporations (MNCs) sustainability within their chains: control relational. A orientation views as a tool to ...

Purpose The ethics literature has focused on the influence of self-construal dimensions unethical decision-making. However, is unclear about why these (Independent-self, Relational-self, Collective-self) impact differently Based theory cooperation and competition, this study empirically examines mediating role competitive orientation addresses theoretically unexplained question Design/methodolo...

A key tenet of Bourdieu's project is his rejection of what he refers to as "substantialist" approaches to social science which he identifies with positivistic formal methodologies. In place of this, Bourdieu makes a compelling case for the use of a relational methodology in analyzing social life. His theorization of relationism is both sophisticated and far-reaching and it provides the foundati...