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Many asylum-seekers arrive in this country in a traumatized state. Much psychic work, including mourning for the old lost life, has to take place before the individual can make use of the social and economic opportunities, such as they are, eventually afforded by the host culture. We describe a form of ongoing specialized psychoanalytic group therapy that addresses the psychological issues that can impede the individual's integration into a new country. The concept of 'emotional capital' is introduced as a way of summarizing those internal capacities we see as fundamental to the individual's capacity to make use of what Putnam (2000) has termed 'social capital'. Asylum-seekers from several countries with only extremely limited English in common are seen together in an ongoing therapy group, where they may remain for over a year, before they are ready (emotionally and linguistically) to join a heterogeneous psychoanalytic psychotherapy group within the same Department. Clinical material is presented from the two settings: the Refugees' Group, to illustrate the first steps in the rebuilding of a capacity to make emotional connections and the later Analytic Therapy Group where refugees' earlier developmental difficulties can be addressed within the new social context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

High resolution calorimetric studies have been carried out on the chiral compound methylheptyloxydifluorooctyloxybenzoyloxytolane (8BTF2O1M7). The tilt tendency is greater in this compound than in several other structurally similar fluorinated tolane liquid crystals, and it exhibits tilted chiral smectic C(SmC*) and tilted twist-grain-boundary (TGBC) phases but not the untilted SmA or TGBA phases. The data confirm the presence of two tilted TGBC phases denoted TGB1 and TGB2. The TGB1-TGB2 first-order transition exhibits considerable hysteresis and a very small latent heat. There is no rounded excess heat capacity peak in the cholesteric N* phase associated with the non-transitional evolution of a chiral line liquid N*L, although such a feature has been observed in other fluorinated tolanes with a smaller tilt tendency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A high resolution a.c. calorimetric study of a phenyl pyrimidine derivative with one alkyl and one perfluorinated end group shows that the excess heat capacity associated with the smectic A-smectic C transition exhibits critical fluctuation behaviour that is consistent with the three-dimensional XY universality class. This is in contrast to the usual mean-field SmA-SmC behaviour and the near tricritical fluctuation behaviour reported recently in several other compounds. It is speculated that smaller than usual correlation lengths are the cause for the wide fluctuation region in this compound. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experimental phase diagrams of several chiral systems are compared with a theoretical diagram based on the chiral Chen-Lubensky model, which predicts at least two kinds of twist-grain-boundary phase, TGBA and TGBC. Also shown for comparison are typical nonchiral phase diagrams that exhibit a nematic-smectic A-smectic C multicritical point. Several aspects of experiment and theory agree, but there appear to be common experimental features that differ from those predicted by current theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bulk heptyloxybenzylidene butylaniline (7O.4) undergoes first order nematic (N)-isotropic (I), nematic-smectic A (SmA), and smectic C (SmC)-crystal G(CrG) transitions as well as a mean-field second order SmA-SmC transition. The dispersion of 70A diameter hydrophobic silica aerosil particles in 7O.4 leads to doubling and significant temperature shifts for all three first order transitions, as determined with a.c. calorimetry. The SmA-SmC heat capacity peak merely shifts in position while remaining a single sharp Landau feature with an amplitude that decreases as the aerosil density increases. The behaviour of three 7O.4 + hydrophobic aerosil samples is discussed and compared to that of one 7O.4 + hydrophilic aerosil and previously reported results for 7O.4 + aerogel and 4O.8 + aerosil samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluates the status of broadcast education in higher learning. Types of departments in broadcast education; Relation between administrative organization and broadcasting curricula; Process of obtaining data.

This article presents information on the development of the minority enterprises in the U.S. Considering the circumstances under which existing minority enterprise has developed, there is an obvious need for moving in new directions or even taking a whole new approach to development preferably one based on systems theory. The generation of community spirit and cooperation through a program of total development would be the keynote to such an approach. If the emphasis were placed on total development, with all aspects being promoted simultaneously, the Afro-American industry community should be inspired to achieve to a high level of awareness and unity. Representation of minorities in manufacturing is insignificant at present, amounting to only 8,100 firms with gross receipts of $655 million. This represents only 2 per cent of the total number of firms and 0.1 per cent of the total gross receipts in the manufacturing sector. In short, the aim for minorities is to accumulate wealth from whatever source, so that they can invest more heavily in the future of their own communities.