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Reviews the prevalence and serious consequences of poor adherence to medical regimens for children and adolescents. This text examines the nature of adherence problems, reasons for non-adherence, strategies for assessing and improving adherence to both acute and chronic disease regimens, and published research.

All concerned with teaching, practice and administration of clinical medicine, surgery, pharmacy, public health, clinical pharmacology, microbiology, infectious diseases and clinical therapeutics will find Antibiotic Policies: Theory and Practice essential reading.

An assembly scene There seems to be a small open place between the group of houses in the foreground and the store in the background". First of all, it can be stated that the image does not show an everyday scene. The image shows a snapshot of an assembly line.

The Fullerton Longitudinal Study, launched in 1979, chronicled the development of over 100 children and their families from the children's first birthday through their high school completion using a cross-informant/cross-context methodology.

Summarizing 25 years of research, the author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework.

The author presents a large comparative database derived from ethnographic and architectural research in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and other areas;

Surprisingl~ however, since 1969, when Rand McNally published Goslin's Handbook of Socialization, no comprehensive statement of the field has appeared in book form. Finall~ we thank Eliot Werner, Executive Editor at Plenum, for his willingness to publish and for his tolerance for the delays inevitable in the development of a large handbook.

Leading experts review the research on resilience and represent the diverse perspectives and opinions found among both scientists and practitioners in the field.

Instead, it is about the things that individuals - and the helping professionals who provide them with counsel and assistance - can do to prevent the preventable problems of advancing age, and to better manage those changes in functioning that cannot be prevented.

What is the role of leadership in society? Why do people surrender their political autonomy to the decision-making authority of leaders and rulers? The papers in this volume draw on the archaeological record of societies from around the world to address these critical issues in contemporary social science.

Artifacts linked to projectile technologies traditionally have provided the foundations for time-space systematics and cultural-historic frameworks in archaeological research having to do with foragers.

Alex McIntosh analyzes the relationship between food and nutrition and social factors, using a wide array of sociological theories. The author applies theories of social organization, culture, social stratification, social change, rural sociology, the sociology of the body, and social problems to empirical problems in food and nutrition.

Based on course material used by the author at Yale University, this practical text addresses the widening gap found between the mathematics required for upper-level courses in the physical sciences and the knowledge of incoming students.

This landmark treatise provides the first comprehensive review of basic health behavior research. In four volumes, multidisciplinary contributors critically assess every aspect of health behavior, giving special attention to the interrelationship between personal/social systems and risk behavior.

Division TEACCH, a statewide program in North Carolina, serves people with autism and their families through the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introduction to eurrent demographie methods. Finally, I have tried to make the principal methodologies of the book accessible, by offering explanations for formulas that are not obvious, by keeping examples to the forefront, and by placing relatively specialized topics in ehapter appendices.

The Plenum translations ofVygotsky' s texts are appearing at a moment when authentic and authoritative English versions of them are rare-a moment when the frequency of works about Vygotsky threatens to outstrip the availability of work by Vygotsky.

Presents research developments on personal control and self-regulation. This book provides a brief synopses of each chapter as introductions to its three major sections. These sections cover the person as an agent of control, affective and cognitive mechanisms of executive agency, and reactions to threatened control.

A few months after the conference, Poston and Michael Micklin discussed the possibility of asking the various authors of the Cornell conference papers to revise them for publication in a volume on sociological human ecology.

Chapters trace the growth of the movement as well as the various foundations, governments, and intergovernmental organizations which were an integral part of it from its beginning in the 1950s, through its growth during the 60s and 70s, to the present.

Contains papers from the October 1995 symposium, in sections on general aspects, transgenics, and immunology and infectious diseases. Topics include ultrastructure of the liver in piglets fed dietary oils, artificial surfactant as a vehicle for endotracheal epinephrine in pediatric porcine cardiopul

The reader should note that our use ofthe somewhat ambiguous term school consultant is intentional and recognizes that consultants working in schools today represent a variety of professional disciplines.

Proceedings of the Fifth Triennial Meeting of the International Basal Ganglia Society held in Nemuno-Sato, Japan, May 23-26, 1995

Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Spetsai, Greece, September 16-26, 1994.

Proceedings of a symposium held in Mallorca, Spain, April 5-10, 1992.

- Represents both sides of the problem of violence in the lives of girls - girls as victims of violence; and girls as perpetrators of violence. To fully understand the problem of violence it is essential to consider both sides of the 'violence coin'.

Volume 30 of this authoritative series provides detailed information about current advances in both fundamental and applied electrochemical research.