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First published in 1998, this study investigates the effectiveness
of services for helping women who are survivors of domestic
violence. Looking at a sample from Western and Central Oregon, it
examines the utilization and perceived effectiveness of resources
for survivors and, in doing so, it systematically assesses the
efficacy of community and professional services. This book will be
of particular interest to social work students and practitioners,
but will also be helpful to those studying healthcare and law.
For women and other marginalized groups, the reality is that the
laws regulating estates and trusts may not be treating them fairly.
By using popular feminist legal theories as well as their own
definitions of feminism, the authors of this volume present
rewritten opinions from well-known estates and trust cases.
Covering eleven important cases, this collection reflects the
diversity in society and explores the need for greater diversity in
the law. By re-examining these cases, the contributors are able to
demonstrate how women's property rights, as well as the rights of
other marginalized groups, have been limited by the law.
This book presents attitudes, information, and tools for a holistic
approach to medicine, health, and mental health of Americans. It is
based on a report prepared by the Institute of Noetic Sciences for
the National Institute of Mental Health.
This book evolved from a panel entitled "Psychological Operations:
East and West", presented at the annual meeting of the
International Studies Association, Section on Military Studies, at
the Naval Postgraduate School in the Fall of 1983. The panel
focused on the use of propaganda as an instrument of foreign policy
by the Soviet Union and its alli
This is a college algebra-level textbook written to provide the
kind of mathematical knowledge and experiences that students will
need for courses in other fields, such as biology, chemistry,
business, finance, economics, and other areas that are heavily
dependent on data either from laboratory experiments or from other
studies. The focus is on the fundamental mathematical concepts and
the realistic problem-solving via mathematical modeling rather than
the development of algebraic skills that might be needed in
calculus. Functions, Data, and Models presents college algebra in a
way that differs from almost all college algebra books available
today. Rather than going over material covered in high school
courses the Gordons teach something new. Students are given an
introduction to data analysis and mathematical modeling presented
at a level that students with limited algebraic skills can
understand. The book contains a rich set of exercises, many of
which use real data. Also included are thought experiments or what
if questions that are meant to stretch the student s mathematical
thinking.
Animal Locomotion: Physical Principles and Adaptations is a
professional-level, state of the art review and reference
summarizing the current understanding of macroscopic metazoan
animal movement. The comparative biophysics, biomechanics and
bioengineering of swimming, flying and terrestrial locomotion are
placed in contemporary frameworks of biodiversity, evolutionary
process, and modern research methods, including mathematical
analysis. The intended primary audience is advanced-level students
and researchers primarily interested in and trained in mathematics,
physical sciences and engineering. Although not encyclopedic in its
coverage, anyone interested in organismal biology, functional
morphology, organ systems and ecological physiology, physiological
ecology, molecular biology, molecular genetics and systems biology
should find this book useful.
This book evolved from a panel entitled "Psychological Operations:
East and West", presented at the annual meeting of the
International Studies Association, Section on Military Studies, at
the Naval Postgraduate School in the Fall of 1983.
This book presents attitudes, information, and tools for a holistic
approach to medicine, health, and mental health. In our discussions
among ourselves and with the contributing authors we defined three
aspects of a holistic approach. First, such an approach involves
expanding our focus to include the many personal, familial, social,
and environmental factors that promote health, prevent illness, and
encourage healing. Second, a holistic approach views the patient as
an individual person, not as a symptom-bearing organism. This
attitude emphasizes the self-responsibility of the person for his
or her health and the importance of mobilizing the person's own
health capacities, rather than treating illness only from the
outside. Third, the holistic approach tries to make wise use of the
many diagnostic, treatment, and health modalities that are
available in addition to the standard materia medica- including
alternative medical and healing systems as well as psychological
techniques and physical modalities. Some of these methods of
treatment and health practices are already accepted, others are
accepted but not applied in practice, and still others need further
research to explore the range of their uses.
Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge
describes an innovative methodology for investigating the
conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work
explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns
of planning behavior that people recognize across a broad range of
real world situations. With a sense of scale that is rarely seen in
the cognitive sciences, this book catalogs 372 strategies across 10
different planning domains: business practices, education, object
counting, Machiavellian politics, warfare, scientific discovery,
personal relationships, musical performance, and the
anthropomorphic strategies of animal behavior and cellular
immunology. Noting that strategies often serve as the basis for
analogies that people draw across planning situations, this work
attempts to explain these analogies by defining the fundamental
concepts that are common across all instances of each strategy. By
aggregating evidence from each of the strategy definitions
provided, the representational requirements of strategic planning
are identified. The important finding is that the concepts that
underlie strategic reasoning are of incredibly broad scope. Nearly
1,000 fundamental concepts are identified, covering every existing
area of knowledge representation research and many areas that have
not yet been adequately formalized, particularly those related to
common sense understanding of mental states and processes. An
organization of these concepts into 48 fundamental areas of
knowledge and representation is provided, offering an invaluable
roadmap for progress within the field.
Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge
describes an innovative methodology for investigating the
conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work
explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns
of planning behavior that people recognize across a broad range of
real world situations. With a sense of scale that is rarely seen in
the cognitive sciences, this book catalogs 372 strategies across 10
different planning domains: business practices, education, object
counting, Machiavellian politics, warfare, scientific discovery,
personal relationships, musical performance, and the
anthropomorphic strategies of animal behavior and cellular
immunology. Noting that strategies often serve as the basis for
analogies that people draw across planning situations, this work
attempts to explain these analogies by defining the fundamental
concepts that are common across all instances of each strategy. By
aggregating evidence from each of the strategy definitions
provided, the representational requirements of strategic planning
are identified. The important finding is that the concepts that
underlie strategic reasoning are of incredibly broad scope. Nearly
1,000 fundamental concepts are identified, covering every existing
area of knowledge representation research and many areas that have
not yet been adequately formalized, particularly those related to
common sense understanding of mental states and processes. An
organization of these concepts into 48 fundamental areas of
knowledge and representation is provided, offering an invaluable
roadmap for progress within the field.
For women and other marginalized groups, the reality is that the
laws regulating estates and trusts may not be treating them fairly.
By using popular feminist legal theories as well as their own
definitions of feminism, the authors of this volume present
rewritten opinions from well-known estates and trust cases.
Covering eleven important cases, this collection reflects the
diversity in society and explores the need for greater diversity in
the law. By re-examining these cases, the contributors are able to
demonstrate how women's property rights, as well as the rights of
other marginalized groups, have been limited by the law.
John A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of
strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first
century. Strategic warning-the process of long-range analysis to
alert senior leaders to trending threats and opportunities that
require action-is a critical intelligence function. It also is
frequently misunderstood and underappreciated. Gentry and Gordon
draw on both their practitioner and academic backgrounds to present
a history of the strategic warning function in the US intelligence
community. In doing so, they outline the capabilities of analytic
methods, explain why strategic warning analysis is so hard, and
discuss the special challenges strategic warning encounters from
senior decision-makers. They also compare how strategic warning
functions in other countries, evaluate why the United States has in
recent years emphasized current intelligence instead of strategic
warning, and recommend warning-related structural and procedural
improvements in the US intelligence community. The authors examine
historical case studies, including postmortems of warning failures,
to provide examples of the analytic points they make. Strategic
Warning Intelligence will interest scholars and practitioners and
will be an ideal teaching text for intermediate and advanced
students.
After 25 years of expansion and liberalisation in the post-war
period, social security policies in industrial countries have been
encountering stresses and strains in the 1970s and 1980s in an
environment of slower economic growth, concern over inflation and
high unemployment. This has led to intensified controversy between
conservatives, who blame economic instability on the generosity of
the welfare state and liberals who defend the role of social
security programmes in contributing to economic stability and
preventing people from falling into poverty. The discussion focuses
on questions such as the relative merits of earnings-related,
income-tested and universal benefits; who bears the financial
burden; and the impact of social security benefits on incentives to
work. Among the controversial issues receiving considerable
attention are the arguments over the persistence of high
unemployment in Western Europe, the attacks on 'entitlements' that
benefit the middle class and the growing problem of disadvantaged
youth, especially in the ghetto areas of large cities in some of
the Western European countries and in the United States.
After 25 years of expansion and liberalisation in the post-war
period, social security policies in industrial countries have been
encountering stresses and strains in the 1970s and 1980s in an
environment of slower economic growth, concern over inflation and
high unemployment. This has led to intensified controversy between
conservatives, who blame economic instability on the generosity of
the welfare state and liberals who defend the role of social
security programmes in contributing to economic stability and
preventing people from falling into poverty. The discussion focuses
on questions such as the relative merits of earnings-related,
income-tested and universal benefits; who bears the financial
burden; and the impact of social security benefits on incentives to
work. Among the controversial issues receiving considerable
attention are the arguments over the persistence of high
unemployment in Western Europe, the attacks on 'entitlements' that
benefit the middle class and the growing problem of disadvantaged
youth, especially in the ghetto areas of large cities in some of
the Western European countries and in the United States.
The structure, functions, and interactions of myeloid cells have
long been the focus of research and therapeutics development. Yet,
much more remains to be discovered about the complex web of
relationships that makes up the immune systems of animals.
Scientists today are applying genome-wide analyses, single-cell
methods, gene editing, and modern imaging techniques to reveal new
subclasses of differentiated myeloid cells, new receptors and
cytokines, and important interactions among immune cells. In
Myeloid Cells in Health and Disease: A Synthesis, Editor Siamon
Gordon has assembled an international team of esteemed scientists
to provide their perspectives of myeloid cells during innate and
adaptive immunity. The book begins by presenting the foundational
research of Paul Ehrlich, Elie Metchnikoff, and Donald Metcalf. The
following chapters discuss evolution and the life cycles of myeloid
cells; specific types of differentiated myeloid cells, including
macrophage differentiation; and antigen processing and
presentation. The rest of the book is organized by broad topics in
immunology, including * the recruitment of myeloid and other immune
cells following microbial infection * the role of myeloid cells in
the inflammation process and the repair of damaged tissue * the
vast arsenal of myeloid cell secretory molecules, including
metalloproteinases, tumor necrosis factor, histamine, and perforin
* receptors and downstream signaling pathways that are activated
following ligand-receptor binding * roles of myeloid cells during
microbial and parasite infections * contributions of myeloid cells
in atherosclerosis * myeloid-derived suppressor cells in tumor
development and cancer Myeloid Cells in Health and Disease: A
Synthesis will benefit graduate students and researchers in
immunology, hematology, microbial pathogenesis, infectious disease,
pathology, and pharmacology. Established scientists and physicians
in these and related fields will enjoy the book's rich history of
myeloid cell research and suggestions for future research
directions and potential therapies.
CasebookPlus Hardbound - New, hardbound print book includes
lifetime digital access to an eBook, with the ability to highlight
and take notes, and 12-month access to a digital Learning Library
that includes self-assessment quizzes tied to this book, leading
study aids, an outline starter, and Gilbert Law Dictionary. This
textbook takes a learner-centered and experiential approach to
trusts and estates law, which makes it well suited to teaching both
online and face-to-face. The opening chapters introduce students to
key concepts in intergenerational wealth transfer and planning for
incapacity and death. The remainder of the book highlights
inheritance law concepts from both a forward-looking
(planning/drafting) and backward-looking (litigation) perspective.
The second edition continues to feature some of the most teachable
trusts and estates cases, to focus on issues of gender, race,
class, and sexuality, and to offer online student resources. New
features of this edition include learning outcomes at the beginning
of each chapter to help with ABA compliance and student focus, a
broad and varied array of formative assessments, a glossary of
terms, highlight boxes containing practice notes, connection notes,
and language notes, and final chapter take-aways to link topics
together. Some examples of assessments include; role playing
exercises; drafting client letters and testamentary instruments;
writing policy papers, legislation, and judicial opinions; and
preparing community and client presentations. Each chapter also
features more traditional hypotheticals, fact patterns, and
discussion questions, extensive notes designed to help lead
students through the major issues, and an appendix of sample
documents.
"What sets this text apart from many others is its focus on the
socioeconomic, political, and cultural milieu in which a new
religious movement was born and has thrived; its discussion of the
origins of Islamic law, spirituality and theology, mysticism,
philosophy, and culture; and an appendix of individual page-length
biographies of important figures. Also included is a helpful
glossary of terms, a 'photo essay,' selections from primary
sources, and an annotated bibliography. . . . Gordon's discussion
of the sociocultural origins and authority of the Qur'an is very
good. He also highlights an area of Islamic studies often ignored
in general introduction, the role of urbanization in the
development of Islamic civilization worldwide. . . . [T]his is a
very useful and informative general introduction." -- The Historian
A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine
pioneer presents the first evidenced-based program to reverse the
psychological and biological damage caused by trauma. In his role
as the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine
(CMBM), the worlds largest and most effective program for healing
population-wide trauma, Harvard-trained psychiatrist James Gordon
has taught a curriculum that has alleviated trauma to populations
as diverse as refugees and survivors of war in Bosnia, Kosovo,
Israel, Gaza, and Syria, as well as Native Americans on the Pine
Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, New York city firefighters and
their families, and members of the U. S. military. Dr. Gordon and
his team have also used their work to help middle class
professionals, stay-at-home mothers, inner city children of color,
White House officials, medical students, and people struggling with
severe emotional and physical illnesses. Transforming Trauma
represents the culmination of Dr. Gordon's fifty years as a
mind-body medicine pioneer and an advocate of integrative
approaches to overcoming psychological trauma and stress. Offering
inspirational stories, eye-opening research, and innovative
prescriptive support, Transforming Trauma makes accessible for the
first time the methods that Dr. Gordon-with the help of his faculty
of 160, and 6,000 trained clinicians, educators, and community
leaders-has developed and used to relieve the suffering of hundreds
of thousands of adults and children around the world.
Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical
space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and
through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle
Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in
which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to
this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through
war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression
by these same polities; control of extensive trade networks; and
the emergence and dominance of religious ecumenes. Attention is
also given to the idea of how theories of violence are relevant to
the specific historical circumstances discussed in the volume's
chapters. A final section on the depiction of violence, both visual
and literary, demonstrates the ubiquity of societal efforts to
confront meanings of violence during this longue duree.
Commonsense psychology refers to the implicit theories that we all
use to make sense of people's behavior in terms of their beliefs,
goals, plans, and emotions. These are also the theories we employ
when we anthropomorphize complex machines and computers as if they
had humanlike mental lives. In order to successfully cooperate and
communicate with people, these theories will need to be represented
explicitly in future artificial intelligence systems. This book
provides a large-scale logical formalization of commonsense
psychology in support of humanlike artificial intelligence. It uses
formal logic to encode the deep lexical semantics of the full
breadth of psychological words and phrases, providing fourteen
hundred axioms of first-order logic organized into twenty-nine
commonsense psychology theories and sixteen background theories.
This in-depth exploration of human commonsense reasoning for
artificial intelligence researchers, linguists, and cognitive and
social psychologists will serve as a foundation for the development
of humanlike artificial intelligence.
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