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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
  • Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
  • New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity
  • Edited by Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar
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  • Expected online publication date: July 2021
  • Print publication: 31 July 2021
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    The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's “success” in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues.
  • Chapter 5 - The Future of Rome in Three Greek Historians of Rome
  • Edited by Jonathan J. Price, Tel-Aviv University, Katell Berthelot, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  • Book: The Future of Rome
  • Published online: 24 September 2020
  • Print publication: 08 October 2020, pp 85-111
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    Summary

    A historical theory of uncertain origin is directly relevant to how Roman historians, particularly those who wrote in Greek, understood the future of Rome: four empires have dominated the world, Rome is the fifth, signifiying either the continuation of a natural process or the end of the historical cycle. This 4+1 model of world empires occurs also in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic, deriving ultimately from the Book of Daniel, where it may be a reworking of a Zoroastrian tradition.1 So compelling was the idea for the Jews and Christians living in the Roman Empire, nursing messianic dreams, that its absence in a major Jewish thinker of the first century requires explanation.2 Among historians of Rome the model first appears as a tool of explanation and prediction in Polybius’ Greek history of Rome, then in Latin Aemilius Sura3 and Pompeius Trogus – in each of these first cases, indirectly, or in quoted fragments – then certainly in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and later Greek writers. Thus, the 4+1 scheme appears in Greek prose literature from as early as the second century BCE, around the time that the Book of Daniel was being redacted.

  • Introduction
  • Edited by Jonathan J. Price, Tel-Aviv University, Katell Berthelot, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  • Book: The Future of Rome
  • Published online: 24 September 2020
  • Print publication: 08 October 2020, pp 1-16
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    Summary

    This volume brings together studies from diverse academic disciplines around a central, unifying question: how was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined by different populations living under the Roman Empire? The volume originates in a conference in Tel Aviv (2013), titled “The Future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Perspectives.” Scholars of Greek and Roman history and literature, Jewish history and thought, and early Christian history and thought, were asked the question about the future of Rome in relation to the people and texts they study; thus it was refracted through contemporary but disparate (and not perforce mutually informative or interactive) literary and religious traditions. One of the remarkable results of the conference was the realization that practically no one living under Rome’s rule, including the Romans themselves, did not think about the question in one form or another.

The Future of Rome
  • The Future of Rome
  • Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions
  • Edited by Jonathan J. Price, Katell Berthelot
  • Published online: 24 September 2020
  • Print publication: 08 October 2020
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    How was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined by different populations living under the Roman Empire? It emerges from this collection of essays by a distinguished international team of scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians had strikingly different answers to that question, revealing profound differences in their conceptions of history and historical time, the purpose of history, the meaning of written words and oral traditions. It is also argued that practically no one living under Rome's rule, including the Romans themselves, did not think about the question in one form or another.
  • Low-intensity sleep intervention in a youth mental health service: a case series analysis
  • Rebecca Rollinson, Isabel Price, Brioney Gee, Jonathan Lyons, Ben Carroll, Jonathan Wilson, Tim Clarke
  • Journal: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 49 / Issue 1 / January 2021
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 August 2020, pp. 62-75
  • Print publication: January 2021
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    Background:

    There is increasing evidence of a strong association between sleep and mental health in both adolescents and adults. CBT for insomnia is being applied to good effect with adults with mental health difficulties but there are few studies examining its applicability to adolescents within mental health services.

    Method:

    We carried out a case series analysis (n = 15) looking at the feasibility, accessibility and impact of a low-intensity sleep intervention for young people (14–25 years) being seen by a secondary care Youth Mental Health team in the UK. The intervention was based on cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTi) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) approaches and involved six individual sessions delivered on a weekly basis by a graduate psychologist. Routine outcome measures were used to monitor insomnia, psychological distress and functioning with assessments at baseline, session 3, session 6 and at 4 weeks after end of intervention. All participants scored in the clinical range for insomnia at the start of the study.

    Results:

    High uptake, attendance and measure completion rates were observed. Large effect sizes were observed for insomnia, psychological distress and functioning. Twelve of the fifteen participants (80%) no longer scored above threshold for insomnia at follow-up. All seven under-18s no longer met threshold for clinical ‘caseness’ on the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) at follow-up.

    Discussion:

    The findings suggest that the intervention was well accepted by young people and feasible to apply within a secondary care setting. Strong effect sizes are encouraging but are probably inflated by the small sample size, uncontrolled design and unblinded assessments.

  • 5 - Peatland restoration and hydrology
    • from Part I - Peatland ecosystems services
  • Edited by Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, University of Manchester, Martin Evans, University of Manchester, Hans Joosten, Rob Stoneman
  • Book: Peatland Restoration and Ecosystem Services
  • Published online: 05 June 2016
  • Print publication: 23 June 2016, pp 77-94
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    Summary

    Peatlands and water

    Hydrological processes strongly control the form and function of peatlands, since the flow of water, dissolved minerals and nutrients dictates the biodiversity and nature of the plant community (Bridgham and Richardson 1993; Zoltai and Vitt 1995) and production and decomposition dynamics (Moore et al. 2002) that result in the accumulation of peat. Vegetation and peat, in turn influence the hydrology through their effect on surface flow (Quinton and Hayashi 2005), groundwater (Siegel and Glaser 1987) and evapotranspiration (Lafleur et al. 2005). The functional links between plants, peat and water constitute a strongly coupled eco-hydrological feedback system.

    There are many approaches to peatland classification (Moore 1984), reflecting in part the closely coupled plant–soil–water system. Because of the fundamental link between peat formation and hydrological conditions, it may be argued that hydrological status is a primary criterion in the classification of peatlands. The most basic distinction between two main mire types, bogs and fens, is based on water source. Fens receive minerogenous (rich in dissolved minerals) surface- and groundwater inputs in addition to precipitation. Bogs are peatlands that are entirely ombrogenous (fed only by precipitation) and often develop over fens (Kuhry et al. 1993), as the accumulating peat raises the elevation of the surface and the water table, isolating them from minerogenous water inputs. Further subdivisions of fen and bog are commonly identified through their hydrogeomorphic setting (Brinson 1993; Charman 2002), which is arguably a proxy for water source and water-table regime. In North America, minerogeneous systems are commonly further divided into swamps and fens (NWWG 1997). This distinction is drawn based on vegetation cover (swamps are forested while fens support graminoid and brown moss species), but, in fact, because of the strong plant–water coupling this reflects varying hydrological status with swamps characterised by a strongly variable water table (that allows tree growth), while fen systems have stable high water tables. In maritime climates, such as that of the British Isles and in Newfoundland, very high rainfall supports the development of ‘blanket’ bogs particularly in upland areas. Blanket bogs are laterally extensive, blanketing the pre-existing topography. Consequently, they typically include both true bog and areas where upslope drainage is a significant component of the water budget (although that drainage in intact mires may be nutrient-poor waters sourced from upslope bogs).

  • Psychiatric assessment of mood instability: qualitative study of patient experience
  • Amy C. Bilderbeck, Kate E. A. Saunders, Jonathan Price, Guy M. Goodwin
  • Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 204 / Issue 3 / March 2014
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018, pp. 234-239
  • Print publication: March 2014
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    Background

    Mood instability is a common reason for psychiatric referral. Very little is known about how patients with unstable mood experience assessment and diagnosis.

    Aims

    To investigate the experiences of assessment and diagnosis among patients with mood instability and to suggest improvements to this process.

    Method

    Qualitative study, gathering data through individual interviews with 28 people experiencing mood instability and receiving a psychiatric assessment in secondary care.

    Results

    Participants described the importance of receiving an explanation for their symptoms; the value of a good interpersonal relationship with their clinician(s); being listened to and acknowledged; and being involved in and informed about clinical decisions. These needs were not, however, consistently met. Receiving a psychiatric diagnosis, including a diagnosis of bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder, evoked both positive and negative responses among participants, relating to stigma, personal understanding and responsibility, prognosis and treatment.

    Conclusions

    Patients with mood instability seek explanation for their symptoms and difficulties, empathetic care and consistent support as much as cure. Clinicians may incorrectly assume what patients' attitudes towards diagnosis are, a mismatch which may hamper the development of a strong therapeutic relationship. Clear, patient-centred communication, which acknowledges the patient's experience, may result in greater patient engagement and satisfaction.

  • Prioritizing conservation of tropical dry forests in the Pacific
  • Thomas W. Gillespie, Kristin O'Neill, Gunnar Keppel, Stephanie Pau, Jean-Yves Meyer, Jonathan P. Price, Tanguy Jaffré
  • Journal: Oryx / Volume 48 / Issue 3 / July 2014
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2014, pp. 337-344
  • Print publication: July 2014
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    To identify forests of high priority for conservation in tropical dry forests of New Caledonia, Fiji, the Marquesas and Hawaii, we examined patterns of woody plant species richness (total, native and endemic) and threatened species (IUCN categorization and density) at the stand level, using Gentry's transect method. There were associations between total, native and endemic plant species richness in all four Pacific dry forest regions but we found no significant association with the presence or density of species listed on the IUCN Red List. Dry forests in New Caledonia and Hawaii merit the highest conservation priority in the Pacific, based on level of endemism and number of threatened species. The study sites that merit high conservation priority are Metzdorf, Nekoro and Pindai, in New Caledonia, Kokee and Kaupulehu, in Hawaii, and Vatia, in Fiji. New Caledonia and Fiji have a small dry forest extent and protected area extent compared with other dry forests in biodiversity hotspots. Although we identified priority areas for dry forest conservation, more comparative plot data, presence/absence data in fragments and regional geographical data are needed to adequately manage and protect dry forests in the Pacific.

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