The Oklahoma City bombing, intentional crashing of airliners on September 11, 2001, and anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 have made Americans acutely aware of the impacts of terrorism. These events and continued threats of terrorism have raised questions about the impact on the psychological health of the nation and how well the public health infrastructure is able to meet the psychological needs that will likely result. Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism highlights some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides possible options for intervention. The committee offers an example for a public health strategy that may serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated. The report includes recommendations for the training and education of service providers, ensuring appropriate guidelines for the protection of service providers, and developing public health surveillance for preevent, event, and postevent factors related to psychological consequences.

Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism : A Public Health Strategy

Goldfrank, lew

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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This Handbook picks up where the very important 1992 Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (edited by Douglas Grouws) ends, focusing on research contributions and trends during the past 15 years. Among the 58 researchers who contributed to the two-volume set are several of the most prominent researchers in the field -- Michele Artigue, Deborah Ball, Carmen Batanero, Michael Battista, Alan Bishop, Paul Cobb, Erik DeCorte, Jan de Lange, Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Brian Greer, Douglas Grouws, Guershon Harel, James Hiebert, Graham Jones, Richard Lesh, Mogens Niss, Norma Presmeg, Alan Schoenfeld, Michael Shaughnessy, Edward Silver, Judith Sowder, Lieven Verschaffel, Norman Webb, and Dylan Wiliam. The intent of the authors of this volume was to provide useful perspectives as well as pertinent information for conducting investigations that are informed by previous work. The Handbook should also be a useful textbook for graduate research seminars. In addition to the audience mentioned above, the present Handbook contains chapters that should be relevant to four other groups: teacher educators, curriculum developers, state and national policy makers, and test developers and others involved with assessment.

Second Handbook Of Research On Mathematics Teaching and Learning (2 Volume Set)

Science & Math

Frank K. Lester

Mathematics

This Handbook picks up where the very important 1992 Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (edited by Douglas Grouws) ends, focusing on research contributions and trends during the past 15 years. Among the 58 researchers who contributed to the two-volume set are several of the most prominent researchers in the field -- Michele Artigue, Deborah Ball, Carmen Batanero, Michael Battista, Alan Bishop, Paul Cobb, Erik DeCorte, Jan de Lange, Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Brian Greer, Douglas Grouws, Guershon Harel, James Hiebert, Graham Jones, Richard Lesh, Mogens Niss, Norma Presmeg, Alan Schoenfeld, Michael Shaughnessy, Edward Silver, Judith Sowder, Lieven Verschaffel, Norman Webb, and Dylan Wiliam.

Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Reference

In a product of the Classroom Research Group of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, seven researchers from around the world each describe a piece of research, another researcher in the field critically reviews the report, and sometimes the original author responds to the review. The topics include student-teacher in

Researching Mathematics Classrooms: A Critical Examination Of Methodology (INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON MATHEMATICS EDUCATION)

The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China

Bankers in Japan and China are masters of accounting, not risk management, and American-style rescue packages won't solve their banking crises. Cleaning up balance sheets and purging non-performing loans won't work either, say Arayama and Mourdoukoutas. The problem goes deeper. It stems from high growth environments and tight government regulation. The result has been to limit competition in Japan and eliminate it in China. And that led to the control of management behavior, which weakened incentives for Japanese and Chinese bank decision-makers to manage, hands-on, their traditional and nontraditional banking risks. Adding to the problem is rationed credit, reflecting MITI and MOF priorities in Japan and those set by the central planning authorities in China. Japanese bankers have been turned into experts on the abacus, the ancient calculator, but they have little experience with or understanding of the other more important aspects of the banking enterprise. Arayama and Mourdoukoutas lay it all out in a challenging, provocative, readable study and analysis. It is an essential resource for academicians and policymakers in business, government, and international finance and investment. Arayama and Mourdoukoutas make it clear that Japanese and Chinese bankers must learn how to behave as for-profit institutions, where managers are accountable to the owners and other stakeholders. Second, they must be freed from government directives (in China) and guidance (in Japan) that control their day-to-day operations, and which restrict freedom to develop new products and businesses. Third, Japanese and Chinese bank managers must learn to act as true bankers. They must learn how to manage credit risk and function as public trading corporations. They must also learn how to deal with transparency and full disclosure rules and regulations, just as their Western counterparts must and do. In other words, say the authors, bank managers must "escape the abacus mentality and learn how to use their brains rather than their fingers... and that may take much longer than anxious Western observers would have expected."

Business & Money

Arayama, Yuko

Economics

The major elements of environmental economics are clearly described and illustrated for the noneconomist in this timely work. Business practitioners, environmental scientists, planners and engineers, and students will gain a broad understanding of what economics may contribute to environmental assessment and decisionmaking. The presentation is largely nonmathematical. Emphasizing critical assumptions and intuitive logic, this overview of the theoretical foundations allows readers from a variety of backgrounds to develop and apply tools needed to function effectively in the increasingly important field of environmental management. In addition, this book is appropriate for one- and two-semester courses and professional development programs.

Fundamentals of Economics for Environmental Managers

Boland, John J.

Barron, William F.

Perlack, Robert D.

This volume offers a unique approach to understanding and managing today's organizations as they are governed by mathematical and scientific systems that underly evolutionary biology. This opens the prospect of managing by an organizational model that incorporates those same systems and principles, and gives us a powerful new way to view both the organization and the market it serves. The Ven Matrix Architecture is the newest systems approach to "seeing the terrain of a system" and its marketplace. All this is in a "five dimension economy, a digital internetworked, trans-planetary system of competing markets that mimics the behavior of a globally extended bacterial colony." Were it not for the author's impeccable credentials one might raise an eyebrow at all this, but Venerable has the academic background and practical corporate experience to make us take what he says seriously. The result is a fascinating work for executives throughout the organization and for their academic colleagues. The essence of Venerable's argument is that the "evolution" of a five dimension economy--the sort of economy we have now--is driven by a collective group consciousness, made up of the world's producers, consumers, and their governments. Venerable takes a view parallel to this in looking at organizations. He calls it the Ven Matrix of a system and describes it as an interactive paradigm for dealing with the change and uncertainty inherent in any five dimension economy. Moreover, by modeling the organization as a living system, one can dramatically improve one's competitive position. Such a model, combined with the Ven Matrix systems approach explained here, enables us to see the entire terrain in which our organizations function but with a third dimension, depth added to the others. Among the special features of this book is an expression of deeply abstract issues in a language and style that will be readily accessible to most college graduates. Well illustrated with figures, tables, and explanatory diagrams, the book also provides readers with a Ven Matrix worksheet to copy and use in the course of doing quick assessments of the condition and needs of any organization, department, or project.

Managing in a Five Dimension Economy

GREENWOOD

Venerable, G. D.

Management & Leadership

The last 25 years have witnessed extraordinary growth in the academic specialization variously described as composition studies or rhetoric and composition. What was noticeable about the field in its infancy was a preoccupation with practice, a lack of emphasis on theory, and an exclusive reliance on the writing process. As its disciplinary status has grown, the field has become far more theoretical. Composition studies has expanded its focus, reconceptualized the writing process, and embraced a wide range of critical perspectives. The result of this change is that terms such as poststructuralism, social construction, gender, and genre, which were largely unknown in 1965, now dominate discussion. This reference book is a guide to the multiplicity of theories that have emerged to form the disciplinary foundation of composition studies.
The volume consists of 66 entries, each of which is written by an expert contributor and focuses on a particular theory or group of theories. While the entries show how various individuals have contributed to theoretical movements, very few concentrate on the work of a single theorist. Each entry first provides a critical summary of a particular theory or group of theories, including key elements, basic concepts and claims, and information about seminal or particularly influential works. It then reviews the theory's critical reception in composition studies and discusses its significance in the field. The bibliography at the end of each entry lists primary texts and major scholarship related to the theory and provides additional suggestions for further reading. The volume closes with a selected bibliography of important works.

Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory And Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Collaborative writing has attracted much attention in the last 25 years, though it eludes clear definition. In its simplest sense, it is writing done by more than one person. But in a broader sense, even a work by one author involves collaboration. The author typically builds on the work of others and revises the writing in response to feedback. This feedback can come from a student's peers or teacher in a classroom setting, it can come from experts and editors who assess a scholar's writing, or it can come from colleagues and clients in the world of business. This bibliography is a guide to research on collaborative writing published from the early 1970s to 1997. Included are nearly 1000 annotated entries for books, articles, reports, bibliographies, and other materials. These entries are clustered in two broad parts, each of which contains numerous topical sections. The first part of the book is devoted to collaborative writing in academic settings and covers such topics as classroom issues, peer review and tutoring, the role of computers and technology, particular types of classes, and ethical and gender concerns. The second looks at collaborative writing in nonacademic settings. Included are works on corporate acculturation, group dynamics, policies and procedures, industry-university collaboration, and technical reports. Entries are arranged alphabetically in each section, and detailed author and subject indexes provide easy access to the material.

Collaborative Writing: An Annotated Bibliography

Speck, Bruce W.

"...addresses the most perplexing policy issues concerning higher education finance, college access and affordability, and student financial aid in layman's language....a well-written monograph." ~ Community College Journal of Research and Practice "Financing a College Education is an excellent resource for academics, policymakers, college leaders, and students of highers education. It is well written and accessible, yet provides detailed analyses that will be valuable for anyone who wishes to understand a very complex and rapidly changing topic that is critical to higher education today." ~ The Journal of Higher Education

Financing a College Education: How It Works, How It's Changing American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Educationgpg

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