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.
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.
It has been reported that if a shear flow is applied to the nematic phase of 8CB, some dynamical structure are induced. To clarify these structures is more detail, transient dielectric response after ...the application of the shear flow was measured. In the flow alignment region the dielectric permittivity decreased monotonously, while in the precession region a damped-oscillation of the dielectric permittivity was measured with critical increases in the oscillating frequency and damping faster when approaching to the nematic to smectic A phase transition point. These results will be discussed based on the fluctuation of smectic A structure.
Nonlinear dielectric permittivities in the quiescent state and under shear flow ware measured in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystal 5CB in rest state and. In the quiscent state ...nonlinear effects related to an electrode polarization ware observed in low-frequency region (below several ten Hz) in both the isotropic and the nematic phases with the effect in the nematic phase affected by its order. On the other hand, under shear flow larger and more clearer nonlinear effects ware observed. On the basis of these results, relationship between the nonlinear dielectric property and the nematic order will be discussed.
When a steady shear flow is applied to the nematic phase of 5CB, nonlinear dielectric properties are observed. In the dielectric spectra, dielectric dispersions are recognized in the nonlinear ...dielectric constants but not in the linear one. These shear-induced nonlinear dielectric properties under the shear flow will be discussed based on the orientational change of the director under the shear and the electric fields.
Daniel Lesser, senior managing director at CB Richard Ellis, addressing nearly 400 hoteliers during JMBM's annual Meet the Money hotel financing conference in May, was optimistic about the continued, ...albeit slower, growth within the lodging industry. He told hoteliers that 2008 is a great time to grow their portfolios. One Meet the Money panel, "Who's funding now?" featured six representatives from financial organizations who said their companies are actively lending and discussed what type of projects they are targeting. As far as new-build projects, lenders were nearly as optimistic, echoing the statement that more equity will be needed to find construction loans.
