Explored the hypothesis that the increased use, misuse, and abuse of drugs is one of the myriad explanations for the escalation in youth suicidal behavior during the past 25 years. Used clinical case ...histories and research results to exemplify the impact of heightened drug usage as an argument for the upsurge in youth suicide. (Author/LLL)
Although many studies have explored the impacts of political quotas for females, often with ambiguous results, the underlying mechanisms and long-term effects have received little attention. This ...paper uses nation-wide data from India spanning a 15-year period to explore how reservations affect leader qualifications, service delivery, political participation, local accountability, and individuals willingness to contribute to public goods. Although leader quality declines and impacts on service quality are often negative, gender quotas are shown to increase the level and quality of women's political participation, the ability to hold leaders to account, and the willingness to contribute to public goods. Key effects persist beyond the reserved period and impacts on females often materialize only with a lag.
Argues children are bearers of the story of the universe, on a mission to celebrate existence in the community of the universe. Finds in Montessori's philosophy the articulation of education as ...central in the telling of the story, and for the child to find the universal center of himself or herself with all things. (Author/SD)
Although girls are approximately half the youth population in developing countries, they contribute less than their potential to the economy. The objective of this paper is to quantify the ...opportunity cost of girls' exclusion from productive employment with the hope that stark figures will lead policymakers to reconsider the current underinvestment in girls. The paper explores the linkages between investing in girls and potential increases in national income by examining three widely prevalent aspects of adolescent girls' lives: early school dropout, teenage pregnancy and joblessness. The countries included in the analysis are: Bangladesh, Brazil, Burundi, China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Paraguay, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. The authors use secondary data to allow for some comparability across countries. They find that investing in girls so that they would complete the next level of education would lead to lifetime earnings of today's cohort of girls that is equivalent to up to 68 percent of annual gross domestic product. When adjusting for ability bias and labor demand elasticities, this figure falls to 54 percent, or 1.5 percent per year. Closing the inactivity rate between girls and boys would increase gross domestic product by up to 5.4 percent, but when accounting for students, male-female wage gaps and labor demand elasticities, the joblessness gap between girls and their male counterparts yields an increase in gross domestic product of up to 1.2 percent in a single year. The cost of adolescent pregnancy as a share of gross domestic could be as high as 30 percent or as low as 1 percent over a girl's lifetime, depending on the assumptions used to calculate the losses.
External migrations of scientists have always existed, however, scientists’ mobility, in the
sense of brain drain or brain gain, began in Europe only at the end of the 19th century. It
was then that, ...national economies were formed at a level where human brain power (intellect,
capacity, knowledge) started to be recognized as valuable in the race for progress and
wealth. Croatia experienced the problem of brain drain of its highly educated population
and of scientists in particular, during the past decades, while it was still part of the former
Yugoslavia. Today, when it has become a new member of the international community,
Croatia experiences the problem even more intensely. Social turbulence, caused by the
transformation of the socialist system into a free market society and a multiparty democracy,
intensified by the war outcome, have encouraged the scientists’ drain (as well as brain
drain) which now exceeds the tolerable limits for a country the size of Croatia and one at
its developmental level.
The inherited characteristics of national scientific system (poverty, extensiveness, egalitarianism,
autarchy) are undergoing a process of restructuring. An essential precondition for
qualitative change is to treat investment in science and education as capital investment and
not as a current expenditure. Such an attitude is the first step in creating a social environment
in which the initiation of economic and social development could change the social
position of Croatian science. An increase in funds and improved infrastructure allowing a
“technological leap” into the modern times (computer and communication networking
equipment) would enable Croatian science to be better connected to the global scientific
community and would reduce the need for (physical) departures into the world scientific
centres. International scientific cooperation is today, more than ever before, based on a dislocated
realization of scientific programmes and projects and it will eventually reduce the differences between the scientific centres and scientific periphery. Such a cooperation is also a precondition for the abolishment of brain drain as a historical feature of the 20th century.
Brings religion and natural science into a new whole, as the basis of religious trust and faith. Characterizes religion as mediating between nature and the individual, and provides examples from the ...major religious traditions. Explains the challenge of knowing the universe by linking the inner self with the natural world. (Author/SD)
Faces the development of group psychotherapy in the normal range of the population, highlighting certain significant psychological, social, and educational factors. Emphasizes the impetus behind ...forms of group therapy (t-groups, encounter groups, self-awareness groups, growth groups) associated with the human potential movement. Surveys pertinent research. (SB)
This paper examines some of the philosophical and scientific relationships involving self-control, voluntary control, and psychophysiologic self-regulation. The role of biofeedback in mediating ...conscious and unconscious processes is explored. Demonstrations of superior voluntary control and its relationship to belief, confidence, and expectation are examined. Biofeedback demonstrates the potential of control to oneself, creating confidence in one's ability to establish enhanced and peak performance in athletics, education, and psychophysiologic therapy. Emphasis is placed on the power of images in all human functioning, and in enhancing human potential.
Life in the E-Sphere Pelton, Joseph N.
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science,
April/May 2002, Letnik:
28, Številka:
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Journal Article, Trade Publication Article
Odprti dostop
Discusses the survival of the human race in the Third Millennium. Considers environmental issues; shifting from a focus on economic growth to human development; the rate of technological change; the ...e-sphere, which goes beyond a global village to a global brain; technology in education and in health care; and educational reform. (LRW)
The Esalen Institute is located on a scenic portion of the California Coast, about 40 miles south of the Monterey Peninsula. The location contains natural cliffside hot springs from which mineral ...water flows into the sea. The springs were used in early times by the now extinct Esselen Indian tribe (from which Esalen derives its name) and this usage has continued to this day. Esalen Institute was founded in the early 1960's by Michael Murphy (whose family owns the land on which it stands) and Richard Price. Its purpose from the beginning has been to provide a forum, far from the distractions of urban life (e.g. no radio, television, newspapers, etc.), where the various exponents of the human potential movement could present their ideas in weekend-long and week-long seminars and workshops. Esalen espouses no particular ideology of its own, but rather provides an eclectic forum for all schools of thought that identify with the phrase "Human Potential." In its own words, Esalen is a "center for experimental education," designed "to explore work in the humanities and sciences that promotes human values and potentials. Its activities consist of public seminars, residential work-study programs, invitational conferences, research, and semi-autonomous projects." Early major figures at Esalen were the psychologist Abraham Maslow and the Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls, but many other famous individuals have taught there. "The Esalen Catalog" describes the workshops and other kinds of sessions in which Esalen attendees may participate. It has been issued since 1962. Because Esalen has been the bellwether and longest running organization of its type, "The Esalen Catalog" in its entirety may be regarded as a running historical record covering 30 years of the major concerns and directions of the human potential movement. This document consists of a compilation of all extant editions (some 102 issues) of "The Esalen Catalog", 1962-1992. Examples of some of the specialties cited in this catalog provide a brief indication of Esalen's typical offerings: Acupressure/Acupuncture, Aikido, Alexander Technique, Arica, Biofeedback, Bodywork, Channeling, Cortical Reeducation, Encounter, Est, Feldenkrais, Gestalt Therapy, Holistic Health, Humanistic Psychology, Hypnotism, Integrative Body Psychotherapy, Leonard Energy Training, Life Energy Process, Lomi School of Bodywork, Massage, Meditation, Movement Therapy, Polarity, Psychodrama, Psychosynthesis, Radix, Reichian Bodywork, Ridhwan, Rolfing, Rubenfeld Synergy Method, Sensory Awareness, Tai Chi, T-Groups, Vipassana Meditation, Yoga, Zen Buddhism, and Zero Balancing. (WTB)
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