The purpose of this article was to increase awareness of an alternative presentation of narcissistic personality disorder, offer treatment strategies specifically geared toward such patients, and demonstrate how an understanding of object relations and defense mechanisms can guide interventions and improve diagnostic refinement. A case study was presented to illustrate this approach. This case ...

This article examines worker-client relationships in hairstyling. Data is drawn from interviews with 15 hourly-paid and 32 selfemployed hairstylists and a self-administered survey. Relations of employment are found to be central to the deployment of emotional labour. Self-employed owner-operators are highly dependent on clients, rely on deep-acting, enact favours, and are prone to emotional bre...

Historically, issues of gender, race and the environment have received little attention in mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship. Great strides have been made, however, in interrogating the inadequacies of the field in these areas and, similarly, in demonstrating the necessity of expanded definitions of security and violence in IR. Despite these strides, mainstream environmental s...

Behavioural typing and subtyping has proved to be a very useful concept for the support of incremental reuse in the area of object-oriented (O-O) languages. With the emergence of formalisms integrating the O-O approach and Petri nets, the question arises how behavioural subtyping may be supported by such formalisms. We present a formal framework for the definition of behavioural typing in CoOpe...

The state plays a central position in theoretical debates in International Relations (IR). Both Realists and Liberals see the state as the central actor in the international system and thereby follow a Western understanding of the state as the holder of the monopoly of force. In the IRsub discipline of security studies new categories such as weak state, quasi state or state failure have created...

The authors used an event-contingent daily recording strategy, the Rochester Interaction Record (RIR), to examine the motivational dynamics of interpersonal relations. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the authors demonstrated that social interactions were more pleasant when participants felt autonomous, competent, and related. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness consistently predicted inte...

Recent rhetoric surrounding the contemporary aid relationship between donors and African states is couched in terms of a high level consensus between western and African political leaderships, a central pillar of which is adherence to liberal principles of governance and economic management. The paper argues that an analysis of the nature of this consensus and its prospects requires that we nee...

-In the network-centric computing paradigm the net gains more importance. Software and hardware components, often abstracted as services, form an application that is distributed over the network and only loosely coupled. Clients that depend on those services communicate remotely and download the necessary code they need. Jini is a framework, based on Java that provides an infrastructure for net...