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Solution Focused Model Applied To Clinical Supervision, Robin G. Gayle

Robin G. Gayle

Sperm And Liberal Feminism: A Scientific Fantasy, Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.

Conceptual Analysis: A Method For Understanding Information As Evidence, And Evidence As Information, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

The utility of conceptual analysis for archival science is assessed by means of an exploratory evaluation in which the concept of evidence is analyzed. Usage of the term “evidence” in the philosophies of science, law, and history is briefly reviewed; candidates for necessary conditions of evidentiariness are identified and examined; and taxonomies are built of evidentiariness and of archival inference. Correspondences are shown to exist between the concepts of evidentiariness and relevance, and between the domains of archival science and social epistemology, thereby pointing in promising directions for further research. The tentative conclusion is reached that conceptual analysis may profitably …

Building Peace Through The Political Processes Of The United Nations, Courtney Smith Ph.D.

Courtney Smith

No abstract provided.

The Role Of "Marriage Agencies" In The Sexual Exploitation And Trafficking Of Women From The Former Soviet Union, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

Each year, tens of thousands of women leave the countries of the former Soviet Union for destinations all over the world. Driven by poverty, unemployment, and media images of Western lifestyles, women accept risky offers of employment and marriage in hope of finding a better life,

Homeless Persons' Residential Preferences And Needs: A Pilot Survey, Russell K. Schutt

Russell K. Schutt

The 2003 Pilot Survey of Residential Preferences and Needs sampled individuals with psychiatric difficulties at three large generic shelters for adult individuals in Boston and one of four transitional shelters funded by the Metro Boston Region of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.  The survey measured: homeless persons’ residential preferences; the residential recommendations of shelter-based clinicians for these homeless persons; clinicians’ assessments of these persons’ living skills and safety.  Respondents at the DMH shelter were somewhat more satisfied with their shelter and with the people who stayed there than were those at the generic shelters. The DMH shelter …

Review Of Multinational Strategic Management: An Integrative Entrepreneurial Context-Specific Process By Robert J. Mockler, Marc Vinyard

Marc Vinyard

Book review of Multinational Strategic Management: An Integrative Entrepreneurial Context-Specific Process by Robert J. Mockler.

Modeling Health Insurance Expansions: Effects Of Alternate Approaches, Dahlia Remler, Joshua Graff Zivin, Sherry Glied

Joshua Graff Zivin

No abstract provided.

Community Building, Community Bridging: Linking Neighborhood Improvement Initiatives And The New Regionalism In The San Franciscio Bay Area, Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, Rachel Rosner, Martha Matsuoka, Julie Jacobs

Martha Matsuoka

No abstract provided.

Outcomes And Costs Of Day Hospital Treatment And Nonmedical Day Treatment For Chemical Dependency, Michael T. French, Jane Witbrodt, Lee Ann Kaskutas

Michael T. French

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to estimate the outcomes and costs of day hospital and nonmedical community-based day treatment for chemical dependency. METHOD: A community sample of 271 adults (179 men) dependent on alcohol and/or drugs was recruited and randomized to either a hospital-based (medical) day treatment program or to a community-based (nonmedical) day treatment program. The day hospital (DH) program lasted for 3 weeks. One community-based program (CP2) lasted for 4 weeks, and the other (CP1) lasted for 6 weeks but with shorter treatment days and more criminal justice clients. Because of our concerns regarding treatment fidelity, …

A Model Of Consumption And Environmental Degradation: Making The Case For Sustainable Consumer Behavior, Bahram Adrangi, Kathy K. Dhanda, Ronald Hill

Kathy K Dhanda

No abstract provided.

An Educational Pamphlet Changes Help-Seeking Attitudes For Depression And Suicidality In South Asian Women., D Bhugra, M H. Hicks

Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks

South Asian women suffer disproportionately high rates of suicide and attempted suicide. Yet few intervention studies on this group have been done. A total of 180 British South Asian women were sampled to pilot test an educational pamphlet about depression and suicidality. After reading the pamphlet, significantly more women assessed themselves as willing to confide in their clinicians, friends, and spouses if they felt depressed or suicidal, rather than not telling anyone. Also, more women reported that they felt that antidepressants were helpful for depression after they read the pamphlet. These changes remained four to six weeks later. The pamphlet …

Creating Caregiver Identity: The Role Of Communication Problems Associated With Dementia, Marie Y. Savundranayagam, M. L. Hummert

Marie Y. Savundranayagam

No abstract provided.

The Expulsion Of The Jews From France In 1306: A Modern Fiscal Analysis, Stéphane Mechoulan

Stéphane Mechoulan

In 1306, at the peak of a severe financial and monetary crisis, Philippe the Fair expelled the Jews from his kingdom, declared himself creditor of their debts, seized their property and auctioned it off. Was this a clever move, financially speaking? Did Philippe gain more, by killing the goose that laid the golden egg, than by securing a steady flow of taxes? Taking discounting into account, conservative bounds on the sum collected through the seizures over the years that followed the expulsion challenge the traditional view that it was a bad deal. Still, the windfall brought by the relative success …

The Two Schools Of American Political Development, Brian J. Glenn

Brian J. Glenn

No abstract provided.

Ephemeral To Enduring: The Internet Archive And Its Role In Preserving Digital Media, Eli Edwards

Eli Edwards

The Internet was first created as a communications network, but it has produced myriad effects in many sectors of technology, business, and society. Among these important changes are the growth of electronic publishing and the increasing use of the Internet as a medium for disseminating diverse documents, literature, art, journalism, commentary, and miscellaneous expressions of information and thought. Digital media, and the rise of Internet distribution of it, has caused profound changes in librarianship as well.

In Harmony: Sheet Music From Indiana, Kristine R. Brancolini

Kristine R. Brancolini

No abstract provided.

Russian Periodical Index Digital Project (Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei, 1956-1975, Kristine R. Brancolini, Michelle Dalmau, John A. Walsh

Kristine R. Brancolini

No abstract provided.

Digital Libraries Education Program, Kristine R. Brancolini

Kristine R. Brancolini

No abstract provided.

Asserting Celtic Roots-- The Use Of Celtic Culture In The Nationalist Campaigns Of The Lega Nord And The League Of The South, Benito Giordano, Euan Hague, Edward H. Sebesta

Euan Hague

No abstract provided.

Political Advertising In Canada, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Jonathan Rose

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.

Transformations: A Region In The Making, Vicente C. Reyes Phd, Tamara Shie, Marcelino Lizaso

Dr. Vicente C Reyes Jr

No abstract provided.

Guilds, Laws, And Markets For Manufactured Merchandise In Late-Medieval England, Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson

The prevailing paradigm of medieval manufacturing presumes guilds monopolized markets for durable goods in late-medieval England. The sources of the monopolies are said to have been the charters of towns, charters of guilds, parliamentary statutes, and judicial precedents. This essay examines those sources, demonstrates they did not give guilds legal monopolies in the modern sense of the word, and replaces that erroneous assumption with an accurate description of the legal institutions underlying markets for manufactures in medieval England.

Learning To Decode Cognitive States From Brain Images, Tom M. Mitchell, Rebecca Hutchinson, Radu S. Niculescu, Francisco Pereira, Xuerui Wang, Marcel Adam Just, Sharlene D. Newman

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

Syllabus For Congress And Presidency, Richard M. Skinner

Richard M. Skinner

No abstract provided.

Transfer Agents And Global Networks In The ‘Transnationalisation’ Of Policy, Diane L. Stone

Diane L Stone

This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/knowledge transfer processes to suggest that a dynamic for the transnationalisation of policy results. The paper seeks to redress the tendency towards methodological nationalism in much of the early policy transfer literature by bringing to the fore the role of international organisations and non-state actors in transnational transfer networks. Secondly, attention is drawn to ‘soft’ forms of transfer – such as the spread of norms – as a necessary complement to the hard transfer of policy tools, structures and practices and in which non-state actors play a more prominent role. …

Kansas Politics In The Bigger Picture: A Review Essay Of What’S The Matter With Kansas?, Brian J. Glenn

Brian J. Glenn

No abstract provided.

Alcohol And Marijuana Use Among College Students: Economic Complements Or Substitutes?, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, J Williams, Frank J. Chaloupka, Henry Wechsler

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

No abstract provided.

Social Capital, Christopher Prendergast

Christopher Prendergast

No abstract provided.

Noble, But Not Savage: Difficulties In Racial-Mythic Conception Of Media Stereotypes., Rick Clifton Moore, John R. Fisher

Rick Clifton Moore

To overcome conceptual difficulties in earlier media stereotype research, Seiter (1986) and Gorham (1999) propose that we think of stereotypes in ideological terms, especially as perpetuators of racial myths. Racial myths reinforce negative views of oppressed groups and positive views of the powerful. In this study, however, empirical data about preconceptions and film portrayals of Native Americans suggest that in some instances powerless groups can be “stereotyped” much more positively than powerful ones are.