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Helen L. Tenney Correspondence
Get PDFEntries include brief biographical information, a brief typed biography with notes on a newspaper article (missing) with a biographical sketch and a photographic image, a handwritten letter from Tenney presenting her recent book of poems River of Golden Sands about her travel to China and a typed letter on receipt of her book gift for the Maine Author Collection
Hormones / Anthony W. Norman, Helen L. Henry.
No full textPrevious edition by Anthony W. Norman and Gerald Litwack. 1997.Includes bibliographical references and index.xv, 413 pages :The 3rd edition of Hormones offers a comprehensive treatment of the hormones of humans all viewed from the context of current theories of their action in the framework of our current understanding their physiological actions as well as their molecular structures, and those of their receptors. This new edition of Hormones is intended to be used by advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the biological sciences. It will also provide useful background information for first year medical students as they engage in studies which are increasingly problem-based rather than discipline-focused. As the field of endocrinology itself has expanded so much in the past two decades, the up to date presentation of the basics presented in this book will be a solid foundation on which more specialized considerations can be based.
New to this Edition: Hormones, 3rd Edition is organized with two introductory chapters followed by 15 chapters on selected topics of the molecular biology of the major endocrine systems operative in humans. Coverage, for the first time of the following hormones; ghrelin, oxyntomodulin, kisspeptin, adrenomedullin, FGF23, erythropoietin, VIP and extended coverage of NO. Coverage of the hypothalamus has been integrated with the anterior pituitary because of the intimate functional and relationship between the two. Consideration of the role of hormones in cancer has been integrated into the chapters on the relevant hormones. Each of these areas occupies a unique niche in our understanding of the biological world and is part of the universality of signaling systems and how they govern biological systems
Special edition of woman's ordination, in Practical Theology guest edited by Helen E. Walton
No full textMaking use of historical case material – the problems of looking back and the implications for service development in relation to research and evaluation activities
Get PDFThis methodological paper details the process of embarking on a follow-up study of young people with sexual behaviour problems who were known to services in the 1990s and who are now young adults in their twenties or early thirties. In the context of the importance of such follow-up work, the overall aim and objectives of the funded research project are specified and the challenges presented in setting up research partnerships with service sites, including the negotiation of access and ethical approval, are the subject of overview and reflection. The practicalities of beginning the fieldwork which comprised an initial analysis of historical case material held in the research sites are then detailed and the solutions to the problems encountered are explained. The article concludes by identifying the kinds of questions services and researchers need to consider when wanting to engender or enhance a research culture which is facilitative of this kind of outcome research. These relate to the resources necessary to support a research culture, the requirements of data protection and ethical approval processes, obtaining service user consent to participate in future research, secure but accessible storage of records, staff development and researchers’ obligations to minimise disruption to already hard pressed services
The Social Construction of the Child Sex Offender Explored by Narrative
Get PDFThe notion of "child sex offender" provokes aversion, but it may be that it is a social construction. We suggest that a Dominant narrative, in which child sex offenders are constructed as irredeemable, persists, despite the emergence of assumption challenging Alternative narratives. A story completion method was used to elicit themes of Dominant or Alternative narratives, theory-led thematic analysis was used to identify them. The use and analysis of narrative and free-form stories are well established in social research, but remain a novel concept in the study of offenders. The results support the persistence of the Dominant narrative with two notable exceptions. Conclusions centre on utility of the narrative method to examine offender constructions, and the pervasiveness of Dominant narratives. Key Words: Dominant and Alternative Narrative, Social Construction, Child Sex Offenders, and Thematic Analysi
The Social Tenant, the Law and the UK's Politics of Austerity
Get PDFThis paper considers current cuts to social housing provision in the UK made in the name of austerity. It focuses particularly on the ‘bedroom tax’ —the cut to housing benefit for working-age social housing tenants whose property is deemed to provide more bedrooms than they need. It begins by explaining the long-standing political project of social housing in the UK. This background is important to explain the emergence of a discursively ghettoized population within social housing. We then turn to the ‘bedroom tax’ itself. We consider the two quite separate rationales underpinning its introduction. One rationale —fairness— is the focus of the politicians; the other —under-occupation— provides the focus for policy analysts. Both offer different versions of truth about the social in social housing and both are unconvincing. For us, this is significant because the politics of austerity require the support of public opinion. We then consider some strategies of resistance to the ‘bedroom tax’ which harness the disruptive potential of fairness before concluding that the bedroom tax requires relatively little unpacking to reveal it as an ideological device which operates to increase inequality whilst deploying a rhetoric of fairness. Este artículo analiza los recortes en las prestaciones de viviendas sociales que se realizan actualmente en el Reino Unido en nombre de la austeridad. Se centra particularmente en el 'impuesto dormitorio' -el recorte en el subsidio de vivienda para inquilinos en edad de trabajar, cuya vivienda se considera que tiene más dormitorios de los que necesitan. Comienza explicando el proyecto político de viviendas sociales, de larga tradición en el Reino Unido. Estos antecedentes son importantes para explicar el surgimiento de guetos en las viviendas sociales. A continuación se centra en el "impuesto dormitorio” en sí mismo. Se analizan los dos diferentes motivos que sustentan su promulgación. Una es la razón esgrimida por los políticos -legitimidad-, la otra –baja ocupación-, la esgrimen los analistas políticos. Ambos ofrecen diferentes versiones de la verdad acerca de lo social en materia de vivienda social y ambos son poco convincentes. En nuestra opinión, esto es relevante porque las políticas de austeridad requieren del apoyo de la opinión pública. Después consideramos algunas estrategias de resistencia al "impuesto dormitorio" que aprovechan el potencial disruptivo de equidad, antes de concluir que es relativamente sencillo revelarlo como un instrumento ideológico que opera para aumentar la desigualdad, a la vez que utiliza una retórica de equidad. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2565733 </p
Correction to:Girls get by with a little help from their friends: gender differences in protective effects of social support for psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents (Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, (2018), 10.1007/s00127-018-1599-6)
No full textThe article Girls get by with a little help from their friends: gender differences in protective effects of social support for psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents, written by Eloise Crush, Louise Arseneault and Helen L. Fisher, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 25 September 2018 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 2 September 2018 to</p
Helen Knothe Nearing: A Biography
No full textThe following dissertation is a biography of the American author and homesteader Helen Knothe Nearing (1904- 1995). The study traces the chronology of Nearing\u27s life, beginning with her spiritual formation through the early twentieth century Theosophical Society in Europe, India and Australia. It follows her relationship with Old Left socialist Scott Nearing and their pioneering experiments in homesteading (voluntary, self-sufficient living) in Vermont and Maine. The Nearings co-authored The Maple Sugar Book (1950) and their seminal work L i v i n g the Good L i f e (1954) based upon their homesteading experience, along with several other autobiographical texts that, through Helen\u27s promotion, established the Nearings as spokespeople for a simple, rural life in the United States at mid-century. With the republication of both works in 1970, the Nearings would furthermore become the symbolic grandparents of the late twentieth century back-to-the-land movement in the United States. This study demonstrates that Helen Knothe Nearing made their project a public endeavor by publicizing and performing the Nearings\u27 homesteading narrative. In so doing, she served as a social catalyst, an agent for change making Scott Nearing\u27s Old Left radicalism accessible to a later generation of followers. She completed their dialectic of praxis, complementing Scott\u27s theories with her practices as she promoted their personal narrative. The researcher culled evidence for this argument from Nearing texts, secondary materials, manuscript collections, oral interviews and material artifacts. Furthermore, she considered the shortcomings of biography as a genre within the field of history, as well as the limitations of personal narratives as both historical resources and vehicles for social change
Narratives of social inclusion in the context of Roma school segregation
Get PDFDespite a series of judgements from the European Court of Human Rights and the enactment of the EU Racial Equality Directive, the educational segregation of Roma pupils persists in several European states. State action plans submitted pursuant to the European Framework for Roma Integration rarely provide clear targets and do not commit to inclusive schooling. Taking education as a principle indicator of social inclusion, this article identifies that structural inequality and entrenched discriminatory attitudes are the main obstacles to Roma inclusion. This can only be addressed through the diffusion of legal and social norms that mainstream equality. Focusing on the legal obligations, it is argued that the European Commission must be more decisive and effective in the enforcement of non-discrimination rules. A closer dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the EU institutions, grounded in a non-targeted social inclusion frame, could provide a platform for European consensus which may help to secure meaningful change
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