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Depression is one of the most common mental health problems facing
older people, and it is often unrecognised and usually
under-treated. Integrated Management of Depression in the Elderly
provides an entirely new approach to understanding late-life
depression, by using a series of case studies with commentaries
from practitioners internationally. The book covers the
epidemiology, presentation and diagnosis of depression in older
people and outlines current evidence for effective management
drawing on recently published work. The substantive part of the
book presents ten case studies of increasing complexity, each case
has a commentary from a primary care clinician and a health or
social care professional, to outline how professionals should work
together to manage the patient within their community.
Contributions from world experts give the book an international
appeal. It will appeal to a wide audience of health and social care
professionals together with psychiatrists-in-training.
Hugh P. Possingham Landscape-scale conservation planning is coming
of age. In the last couple of decades, conservation practitioners,
working at all levels of governance and all spatial scales, have
embraced the CARE principles of conservation planning -
Comprehensiveness, Adequacy, Representativeness, and Efficiency.
Hundreds of papers have been written on this theme, and several
different kinds of software program have been developed and used
around the world, making conservation planning based on these
principles global in its reach and influence. Does this mean that
all the science of conservation planning is over - that the
discovery phase has been replaced by an engineering phase as we
move from defining the rules to implementing them in the landscape?
This book and the continuing growth in the literature suggest that
the answer to this question is most definitely 'no. ' All of
applied conservation can be wrapped up into a single sentence: what
should be done (the action), in what place, at what time, using
what mechanism, and for what outcome (the objective). It all seems
pretty simple - what, where, when, how and why. However stating a
problem does not mean it is easy to solve.
Volume 72 addresses the role of peptide backbone solvation in the
energetics of protein folding. Particular attention is focused on
modeling and computation. This volume will be of particular
interest to biophysicists and structural biologists.
*Challenges the longstanding and basic assumptions of structural
biology
*Discusses how to solve the problem of protein structure
prediction
*Addresses the quantitation of the energetics of folding
Hugh P. Possingham Landscape-scale conservation planning is coming
of age. In the last couple of decades, conservation practitioners,
working at all levels of governance and all spatial scales, have
embraced the CARE principles of conservation planning -
Comprehensiveness, Adequacy, Representativeness, and Efficiency.
Hundreds of papers have been written on this theme, and several
different kinds of software program have been developed and used
around the world, making conservation planning based on these
principles global in its reach and influence. Does this mean that
all the science of conservation planning is over - that the
discovery phase has been replaced by an engineering phase as we
move from defining the rules to implementing them in the landscape?
This book and the continuing growth in the literature suggest that
the answer to this question is most definitely 'no. ' All of
applied conservation can be wrapped up into a single sentence: what
should be done (the action), in what place, at what time, using
what mechanism, and for what outcome (the objective). It all seems
pretty simple - what, where, when, how and why. However stating a
problem does not mean it is easy to solve.
Between 1977 and 1997, there was a precipitous decline in the
proportion of US workers with median education (12 years or less)
who were represented by a labor union-from 29 to 14 percent; the
unionization proportion declined much less among workers with
above-median education (19 to 13 percent). The union wage premium
also declined for workers with basic education, from 58 to 51
percent, whereas it rose slightly for better-educated unionists,
from 18 to 19 percent. Thus, whatever safety net American unions
provide was disproportionately lost by the less-educated workers
who, arguably, need it the most. In this study, Robert E. Baldwin
investigates the role of changes in US imports and exports in
explaining this dramatic decline. The main analysis (which includes
workers in manufacturing as well as service sectors) relates
changes in the number of union workers across industries to changes
in domestic spending, imports, exports, and the intensity with
which labor is used across these industries for both union and
nonunion workers. Baldwin finds that although globalization (i.e.,
increased trade) seems to have contributed only modestly to the
general decline in unionization, it has, more importantly,
contributed to the decline in unionization among workers with less
education. The study concludes with a discussion on the implication
of this and the other findings for governmental policy and for the
policy position of unions toward globalization.
The unwillingness of the US House of Representatives to renew
fast-track authority in 1997 and 1998 means that further trade
liberalization for the United States is likely to slow down or
grind to a halt, since negotiators elsewhere know that any
agreements reached could be modified by the US Congress. This
political impasse raises several overarching questions: Does the
status of fast track represent a temporary or a permanent setback
in the postwar trend toward freer trade? Is it due simply to lax
efforts in mobilizing groups that support trade liberalization, or
is US trade policy becoming more protectionist? More generally,
what were the most important economic and social factors shaping
congressional voting on trade legislation in the 1990s? How do
these factors differ for the various trade bills Congress
considered over this period?Baldwin and Magee attempt to answer
these questions by analyzing three key trade bills: NAFTA in 1993;
the legislation implementing the Uruguay Round agreements in 1994;
and the House bill seeking to renew fast-track authority in 1998.
The authors provide a brief legislative history of each, and then
outline a conceptual framework for their analysis. Focusing on
district and state economic conditions, ideological leanings, and
campaign contributions, they find both predictable and surprising
relationships in the data.
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Robert Baldwin Ross, Aubrey Beardsley, Vincent O'Sullivan
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Robert Baldwin Ross, Aubrey Beardsley, Vincent O'Sullivan
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