This chapter discusses the move to modern meteorology, the science of weather. As meteorology has moved from antiquity through modernity, as we’ve sliced and diced the various aspects of weather into measurable, quantifiable units, we have demystified and changed our thinking about weather altogether. Without question, this conceptual slicing and dicing has increased our understanding of weather phenomena and improved the predictive validity of our forecasts, but it has also in many ways removed us from the most hazardous front lines of weather. The objective of this chapter is more epistemic than practical, to suggest that our relationship with weather has changed as we’ve learned to conceptualize weather differently. The final section of the chapter discusses the ways in which the demystification and quantification of weather has been adapted to characterize weather and its impacts as risk.

Relationship science spans multiple disciplines of inquiry, ranging from neuroscience to demography, and is a dynamic enterprise, rich with ongoing discovery. The field’s breadth and pace thus present both challenges and opportunities to those who introduce it to others. This chapter draws on surveys and interviews of instructors to consider their choices of the topics they teach, comparing the content of relationships courses from one discipline to another. Substantial similarities and disciplinary distinctiveness are both found to exist. Then, we focus on the partnerships between teachers and their students, examining how specific relationship processes (such as self-disclosure) and qualities of instructors (such as empathy and immediacy) contribute to student engagement and learning. We also address new challenges in the teaching of relationship science that include the remote nature of online instruction, the increasing diversity of our students, and the emergence of generative artificial intelligence. Finally, the value of relationships courses to the students who take them is assessed.

This chapter explores the pivotal role of DJs in shaping electronic dance music through their dual function as curators and innovators in the genre’s evolution. The discussion traces the DJ’s influence from the early days of synthesised music, through the post-disco era, to contemporary digital practices. It emphasises how DJs, through their record collections and live performances, drive genre formation and preservation. Examples include the archival work of Frankie Knuckles and Sven Väth, and the establishment of the Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM). Fiketscher argues that DJs’ extensive music collections and their role in curating and presenting music are crucial in documenting and defining dance music history. This comprehensive view highlights DJs as both historical archivists and genre-defining artists in electronic dance music.

This chapter provides an overview of major empirically supported approaches to treating relationship distress among committed couples based upon criteria proposed by Chambless and Hollon (1998). Based on these criteria, we discuss behavioral couple therapy and its derivatives, including cognitive behavioral couple therapy and integrative behavioral couple therapy; emotionally focused couple therapy, and insight-oriented couple therapy. Each approach’s underlying theory and empirical support are described. We also note the development of a trans-theoretical model emphasizing central factors across theoretical approaches. This chapter also examines theoretical and empirical work on couple interventions beyond treatment of general distress to applications with specific, difficult-to-treat relationship problems, such as intimate partner violence (IPV). We also review couple-based interventions for individual problems, with an overview of some empirically-supported conjoint treatments for psychopathology. In addition, we address the importance of ensuring that interventions are sensitive and appropriate for couples traditionally underrepresented in empirical studies of couples (e.g., older couples, same-sex couples). Finally, we briefly discuss teletherapy and internet-based interventions to assist couples.

The appropriation of black creativity has long driven the development of electronic dance music. While the electronic aspect of EDM, its distinctive relation to audio and computer technology, may seem an exception, a coherent discourse based in Afro-futurism sees black appropriation of technologies usually coded ‘white’ as itself creative, a form of bricolage that repurposes obsolete or deprecated technologies through transformative misuse. Tracking the evolution of this ‘secret technology’ requires careful attention to both dance music’s black roots and its silicon-coloured offshoots. Focusing on the technological underpinnings of acid house, UK rave, and breakbeat hardcore, this survey uses historical sources, technical manuals, and first-hand accounts to explore in detail how micro-generations of EDM producers built upon each other’s mistakes, turning the weaknesses of obsolete devices like the Roland TB-303 bassline synth, the Akai S950 digital sampler, and the Commodore Amiga PC into spurs for sonic innovation.

This chapter traces the factional conflict over ministerial participation in the SFIO from 1925 to 1933, focusing on how the distinction between “doctrine” and “tactics” was discursively mobilized within this conflict in relation to the changing balance of forces between the factions. Although initially both sides of the conflict agreed that it pertained to a “tactical” and not “doctrinal” question, as the minority favoring socialist ministerial participation grew in strength, their factional rivals began to reinterpret the conflict as a “doctrinal” one in order to delegitimate the minority. While the participationist minority at first rejected this interpretation of the conflict, as a schism came to appear inevitable, they embraced the label of doctrinal heretic that had been imposed upon them. It was thus through the schismatic dynamic itself that “neo-socialism” emerged as a distinct doctrine differentiated from the socialism of the SFIO.

Chapter 4 explains the key parameters of the Court’s adjudication and the role ‘democratic society’ plays in the Court’s reasoning. I explain the rise of ‘procedural review’ as a facet of subsidiarity and highlight implications for the proportionality analysis of the Court and their relevance in the populist context. It also explains how ‘democratic society’ can be used heuristic device to explore the Court’s interpretive equipment and identify the principled link between proportionality and democracy.

As far back as Aristotle, humans have been recognized as social animals. Most scholars, regardless of their theoretical background, agree that social connections are the basis of the human condition. From birth, and even before, our relationships with others are key to survival (Reis et al., 2000). Infants who have close social bonds with their primary caretakers are more likely to thrive during their lives than those who do not (Groh et al., 2017). As children grow, their primary dyadic relationships proliferate into webs of social connections (Weeks & Asher, Chapter 8, this volume). These social connections, in turn, give rise to the creativity, structure, and ingenuity that allow us to improve society. Clearly, the advances that humans have made depend heavily on collective action.

The chapter examines the concept of acting in concert in the EU Takeover Directive and the way in which it has been implemented in the Member States, highlighting the diversity and uncertainty that result from the low level of harmonisation. Acting in concert basically performs an anti-elusive function. But some Member States have expanded the role of acting in concert beyond the Takeover Directive requirement, by imposing the mandatory bid even when no acquisition of shares takes place, but only an agreement or understanding among shareholders for the common exercise of their voting rights. The main practical function of this extension of the mandatory bid system is to avoid the difficulties of proving a concert in relation to the acquisition of shares. But it also creates legal uncertainty for investors who engage in ordinary forms of cooperation on corporate governance matters. The chapter concludes that the concept of acting in concert, which originated as an anti-circumvention rule, has been subject to a process of expansion that may jeopardise situations of shareholder collaboration that do not affect the control and management of the company.

Chapter 9 explores what the transregional system excluded. Algerian novelist al-Tahir Wattar’s novel al-Lāz (The Ace, 1974) was rejected by Mashreq publishers in the 1970s for its purported denigration of the Algerian War of Independence. Refusing the elevation of the war to a sacred origin in Algerian state nationalism, Ace also broke transregional literature’s taboos. In this corpus, Algeria’s revolution is a quasi-mythic zone of noble deeds, honorable men, and utile language. Transregionalism evacuates moral and political ambiguity to secure the war as the ground from which it can narrate the emotional unities of Arab collectives. Ace’s deconstruction of the war as national, founding myth had a domestic target: to unmask what historian Benjamin Stora called the Algerian state’s “faceless” revolution and repopulate the war’s memory with living, disagreeing Algerians. Yet this account of the war also rendered Ace disruptive to transregional circuits and unlikely, in the eyes of publishers, to find a reading market. Wattar’s undisputed prominence in Algerian literature thus contrasts with his marginality in the corpus of transregional Arabic literature and Arabic literary studies. Transgressing the conventions transregional literature erected around Algeria, Ace figures an interpretive sensibility to come, merging thought and emotion to explore new imaginaries of emancipation.

Daily hassles and critical life events cause stress not only to individuals but also to close others, particularly partners in committed relationships. This chapter covers an overview of theoretical models and empirical studies on the effects of stress on couples and dyadic coping (DC; how couples cope with stress together). In the 1990s several theoretical innovations expanded individual coping to include both members of the couple. These theoretical models are briefly reviewed and synthesized in a general model of DC, the Systemic Transactional Model (STM), which is the most frequently used in research. We provide a current overview of empirical studies about couples dealing with daily hassles, major life events, and chronic stress, like physical health issues and disability or mental disorders. DC has been established internationally as a highly relevant construct in many disciplines. Recent developments are addressed and implications given for future research and clinical applications.

This chapter addresses issues in genre classification of electronic dance music. The discussion is particularly focused on how the genre negotiation of the techno genre is shaped by socio-cultural contexts and processes as it developed from specific localities and spaces to current online community-building and tagging practices. After locating the research context in genre theory, the chapter first evaluates historical narratives of the development of techno and argues that genre histories and categories are forged by the dynamic between genre cultures and the music industry. The engagement with genre definitions in the online world is addressed through a case study of an automatic genre classification and clustering algorithm that predicts stylistic repertoires of techno labels on the music distribution platform Bandcamp. The discussion leads to an understanding of how user-generated folksonomies enable DJs and producers to destabilise industry-prescribed taxonomies while remaining distinct from dominant forms of techno.