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Rumination and Age: Some Things Get Better

Rumination has been defined as a mode of responding to distress that involves passively focusing one's attention on symptoms of distress without taking action. This dysfunctional response style intensifies depressed mood, impairs interpersonal problem solving, and leads to more pessimistic future perspectives and less social support. As most of these results were obtained from younger people, i...

Some Suggestions.........

I wish to bring a few issues to the attention of our fellow professionals for their consideration and further action through our professional body (of IPS) as may be deemed fit. The first three issues are about functional aspects of our Indian Psychiatric Society , which I consider have acquired unhealthy flavour; and, the fourth issue is about a policy that should actively and urgently be purs...

Mobile Libraries: Librarians' and Students' Perspectives

Noa Aharony is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University; e-mail: noa.aharony@ biu.ac.il. © 2014 Noa Aharony, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This study which is based on the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM), seeks to explore whether librarians and LIS students are familiar with the newest technologic...

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Some Suggestions for Modeling Legal Decision-making

Some Methodological Suggestions

Rather than providing a big picture about monetary policy, I appoint myself as a discussant of the two papers presented in this session, one on inflationary expectations by Galati, Poelhekke, and Zhou, and the other on the recent commodity boom by Erceg, Guerrieri, and Kamin. For each of the two papers, which I take to be the best industry practice, I will suggest an alternative methodology. My...