Disturbed families, or families disturbed?

Disturbed families, or families disturbed?

Policing the emotionally disturbed.

In New YorkCity from 1971 to 1975, only 1.6 per cent of all police firearms discharges involved the class of people police have since come to call emo tionally disturbed persons (EDPs). Still, because po lice were comparatively unrestrained in those years, the number of such incidents was quite large: 46, or better than 9 per year.1 In theyears since then, police shootings have declined dramati...

Schooling the Disturbed Child

Analysis of disturbed images

MOTIVATION Images in cellular and molecular biology (from microscopy, blots, biochips, etc.) are often disturbed, so that the detection and analysis of the respective relevant geometrical objects may be difficult or error-prone. The disturbances are either caused by the detector, usually a CCD camera, or by the experimental setup. Furthermore, microtechnology experiments often require simultane...

Expansive reed populations—alien invasion or disturbed wetlands?

The tall-statured grasses in the genus Phragmites are dominant vegetation in wetlands worldwide and thus play a vital role in ecosystem functioning. As a result, Phragmites spp. are some of the most widely studied plants; particularly in areas where changes to their abundances have occurred, most notably in Europe and North America. In southern Africa a pattern of reed expansion has occurred in...