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Working Paper Adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Patients with Binge Eating and Bulimia Nervosa Disorders(2019) Yacoub, Moustafa"It has been shown that Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an effective treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), suicidal, and self-injuries behaviors. However, it extends to involve treating various disorders. Studies that conducted on patients with binge eating and bulimia nervosa have demonstrated promising findings in adapting DBT to treat patients with binge eating and bulimia nervosa. This article provides an overview for DBT philosophy and applying this therapeutic approach for patients with binge eating and bulimia nervosa, moreover, it introduces some intriguing studies that offered critical results for DBT interventions."Working Paper Fishful Thinking: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Sea Before Us (2010) Pitcher, Tony J.; Lam, Mimi E."Fisheries science and management have been shrouded in controversy and rhetoric for over 125 yrs. Human reliance on fish through history (and even prehistory) has impacted the sea and its resources. Global impacts are manifest today in threatened food security and vulnerable marine ecosystems. Growing consumer demand and subsidized industrial fisheries exacerbate ecosystem degradation, climate change, global inequities, and local poverty. Ten commonly advocated fisheries management solutions, if implemented alone, cannot remedy a history of intense fishing and serial stock depletions. Fisheries policy strategies evaluated along five performance modalities (ecological, economic, social, ethical, and institutional) suggest that composite management strategies, such as ecosystem-based management and historically based restoration, can do better. A scientifically motivated solution to the fisheries problem can be found in the restorable elements of past ecosystems, if some of our present ideology, practices, and tastes can be relinquished for this historical imperative. Food and social security can be enhanced using a composite strategy that targets traditional food sources and implements customary management practices. Without binding laws, however, instituting such an ethically motivated goal for fisheries policy can easily be compromised by global market pressures. In a restored and productive ecosystem, fishing is clearly the privilege of a few. The realities of imminent global food insecurity, however, may dictate a strategy to deliberately fish down the food web, if the basic human right to food is to be preserved for all."Working Paper Coronomics and Global Economy(2020) Balogu, Ikechukwu Eric"The global economy is at the verge of total collapse due to the unabating coronavirus pandemic. The negative impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy is termed 'Coronomics'. The impacts of COVID-19 is imposing a global transition to a 'new normal' characterized by economic, health and humanitarian crisis. According to the United Nations’ report (2020 p.1), the best approach to mitigate the pandemic economic risks is through a coordinated and comprehensive multilateral response that will account for over 10% of global GDP."Working Paper Merits and Limits of Ecosystem Protection for Conserving Wild Salmon in a Northern Coastal British Columbia River(2010) Hill, Aaron C.; Bansak, Thomas S.; Ellis, Bonnie K.; Stanford, Jack A."Loss and degradation of freshwater habitat reduces the ability of wild salmon populations to endure other anthropogenic stressors such as climate change, harvest, and interactions with artificially propagated fishes. Preservation of pristine salmon rivers has thus been advocated as a cost-effective way of sustaining wild Pacific salmon populations. We examine the value of freshwater habitat protection in conserving salmon and fostering resilience in the Kitlope watershed in northern coastal British Columbia—a large (3186 km2) and undeveloped temperate rainforest ecosystem with legislated protected status. In comparison with other pristine Pacific Rim salmon rivers we studied, the Kitlope is characterized by abundant and complex habitats for salmon that should contribute to high resilience. However, biological productivity in this system is constrained by naturally cold, light limited, ultra-oligotrophic growing conditions; and the mean (± SD) density of river-rearing salmonids is currently low (0.32 ± 0.27 fish per square meter; n = 36) compared to our other four study rivers (grand mean = 2.55 ± 2.98 fish per square meter; n = 224). Existing data and traditional ecological knowledge suggest that current returns of adult salmon to the Kitlope, particularly sockeye, are declining or depressed relative to historic levels. This poor stock status—presumably owing to unfavorable conditions in the marine environment and ongoing harvest in coastal mixed-stock fisheries—reduces the salmon-mediated transfer of marine-derived nutrients and energy to the system’s nutrient-poor aquatic and terrestrial food webs. In fact, Kitlope Lake sediments and riparian tree leaves had marine nitrogen signatures (δ15N) among the lowest recorded in a salmon ecosystem. The protection of the Kitlope watershed is undoubtedly a conservation success story. However, 'salmon strongholds' of pristine watersheds may not adequately sustain salmon populations and foster social and ecological resilience without more holistic and risk-averse management that accounts for uncertainty and interactions between ecosystem fertility, harvest, climate dynamics, and food web dynamics in the marine and freshwater environments encompassed by the life cycle of the fish."Working Paper Genetic Theory – A Suggested Cupping Therapy Mechanism of Action(2017) Tamer, S. Aboushanab; Munir, Ravalia"The Cupping Therapy mechanism of action is not clear. Cupping may increase local blood circulation, and may have an immunomodulation effect. Local and systemic effects of Cupping Therapy were reported. Genetic expression is a physiological process that regulates body functions. Genetic modulation is a reported acupuncture effect. In this article, the authors suggest genetic modulation theory as one of the possible mechanisms of action of cupping therapy."Working Paper Community-Based Conservation in Action: What does it Really Imply in Terms of Investment?(2009) Ernaoul, Lisa; Mathevet, Raphael; Beck, Nicolas; Legeaya, Laurianne"Community-based conservation is generally implemented on public land and aims to empower local people in the management process. Within the Biosphere Reserve of Camargue (Rhone river delta, southern France), a private research centre on Mediterranean wetland conservation has changed this structure and has attempted to implement a community-based conservation project on its private land. The motivation behind this decision is based on the need to improve wetland conservation and the local public acceptance of the wetland research centre. The project methodology has been adapted from the integrated coastal zone management framework, with the aim of balancing conservation, local development, and social adhesion objectives. This article analyses the results of this project and the cost-benefits of such an endeavour from a private landowner’s perspective. This study can help other private landowners or organisations developing future community-based conservation projects on private lands."Working Paper The Role of Intelligence in Countering Modern Terrorism(2019) Kulungu, Mustapha"Terrorism is an international issue, and it is no longer a one-nation issue. Intriguingly, terrorists of all kinds operate secretly; thus, there is a need to formulate and implement strategies to counter their actions (Richelson, 2018). Due to rapid technological advances and changes, the terrorists have also learned innovative ways of conducting their heinous acts within and outside the country."Working Paper India after the End of Corona Lockdown(2020) Vridhi, Dhamija"A pandemic is kind of a once in a life time low probability situation. But currently we are in this once in a life time low probability situation which is spreading rapidly. This report will talk about the effect on the India after the end of the coronavirus lockdown This paper will identify the effects of the coronavirus of different sectors of the country. The paper is bases on early April 2020 and so it assumes the effect on India after the end of lockdown."Working Paper The Moonstone: A British Imperial Project(2019) Elsayed, Ibrahim Hamdy"This paper makes a reading of Collins' novel The Moonstone through the lens of imperialism. It has been found out that many aspects of imperialist works can be traced in this novel. First, the representation of the West as the domain of rationality and the East as the place of irrationality and superstition give clear proof of the impact of imperialism. Second, the 'othering' of various characters makes it clear that imperialism depicts the colonised or those who are outside its sphere as exotic or strangers. Other signs of imperialism include technological superiority, economic supremacy and British domesticity. Even its end proposes a continuation of imperialism; perhaps it is the new form of economic imperialism, which is the inevitable outcome of the application of capitalism."