Elder Abuse and the Law: New Science, New Tools Jogerst, Gerald J.; Brady, M. Jane; Dyer, Camel B. ...
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics,
December 2004, Volume:
32, Issue:
s4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
A panel discussion on elder abuse and the law, participated by Gerald J. Jogerst, M. Jane Brady, Carmel B. Dyer, and moderated by Ileana Arias, is presented. Arias discusses that although elder ...mistreatment is a problem that is generally ignored by researchers and practitioners, approximately 450,000 individuals who are sixty years old and older are mistreated every year in the US.
Our lab has used an optical coherence microscope (OCM) to assess both the structure of tissue-engineered corneal constructs and their transparency. Currently, we are not able to resolve cells versus ...collagen matrix material in the images produced. We would like to distinguish cells in order to determine if they are viable while growing in culture and also if they are significantly contributing to the light scattering in the tissue. In order to do this, we are currently investigating the use of immunogold labeling. Gold nanoparticles are high scatterers and can create contrast in images. We have conjugated gold nanoparticles to antibodies specific to the alpha/sub 5/beta/sub 1/ integrins expressed in some corneal cells. This choice of target should allow assessment of the phenotypic behavior of the cells in the tissue, as different integrins are expressed in different phenotypes. This study applies the immunogold technique to study cultured corneal cells using the OCM with the ultimate goal of monitoring cellular behavior in engineered tissue and corroborating results from standard histological methods.
After Collapse Schwartz, Glenn M; Nichols, John J
08/2010
eBook
From the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes, early complex societies have risen and fallen, but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these ...societies has focused primarily on emergence and collapse. This is the first book-length work to examine the question of how and why early complex urban societies have reappeared after periods of decentralization and collapse.Ranging widely across the Near East, the Aegean, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes, these cross-cultural studies expand our understanding of social evolution by examining how societies were transformed during the period of radical change now termed "collapse." They seek to discover how societal complexity reemerged, how second-generation states formed, and how these re-emergent states resembled or differed from the complex societies that preceded them.The contributors draw on material culture as well as textual and ethnohistoric data to consider such factors as preexistent institutions, structures, and ideologies that are influential in regeneration; economic and political resilience; the role of social mobility, marginal groups, and peripheries; and ethnic change. In addition to presenting a number of theoretical viewpoints, the contributors also propose reasons why regeneration sometimes does not occur after collapse. A concluding contribution by Norman Yoffee provides a critical exegesis of "collapse" and highlights important patterns found in the case histories related to peripheral regions and secondary elites, and to the ideology of statecraft.After Collapseblazes new research trails in both archaeology and the study of social change, demonstrating that the archaeological record often offers more clues to the "dark ages" that precede regeneration than do text-based studies. It opens up a new window on the past by shifting the focus away from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to their often more telling fall and rise.CONTRIBUTORSBennet Bronson, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Christina A. Conlee, Lisa Cooper, Timothy S. Hare, Alan L. Kolata, Marilyn A. Masson, Gordon F. McEwan, Ellen Morris, Ian Morris, Carlos Peraza Lope, Kenny Sims, Miriam T. Stark, Jill A. Weber, Norman Yoffee
We analyzed the Marangoni convection induced in the liquid crystalline material of 8CB in sandwich cells under temperature gradient. By using fluorescence photo-bleaching method, we measured the flow ...field near air interface. In the coexistence state of the smectic and the nematic phases, the direction of the observed flow was opposite from that expected from the temperature dependence of surface tension. Moreover, in the coexistence state of the nematic and isotropic phases, the flow field depended on the coating materials of the cell substrates. As for the formation of the flow field, these flow properties indicate the existence of another important physical factor in addition to the surface tension gradient.
Students from Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center (CB Tech) finished ninth in national competition at the annual FBLA National Leadership Conference.
Canadian Tire is also considering larger 'Metropolitan' stores such as its recently open 105,000-square-foot store in Kingston. The retailer is also building on the successful launch of its '20-20' ...format. "My remarks very much mirror my comments of last year (conference)," said John O'Toole, executive vice-president CB Richard Ellis, in his annual overview of the office market scene. "In terms of new (office) constructions... we don't see much of that. We have had 13 quarters of lackluster performance." There are some possible developments under way. Some investors will be attracted to accommodation construction because they need areas to invest and hotel occupancy rates are rising, said David Larone. Even so, the predicted occupancy rates for 2008 will only match 2000 levels. "That's not a very rosy scenario."
Adaptation from the keynote address to the Association for Childhood Education International Annual Study Conference held at Denver, Colorado in April, 1972. (CB)
