IUCr visiting professor program

Visiting Professor March 29 - 30 , 2012

Overview of the federal home visiting program.

On March 23, 2010, the President signed into law the Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), which included an amendment of Title V of the Social Security Act authorizing the creation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. Authorized and funded at $1.5 billion for 5 years, the MIECHV represents a large investment in health and development outcomes for at-...

Prices of IUCr journals.

The subscription rates as from 1 January 2016 are given in Table 1. There will be a 5% discount on the prices of the individual sections for subscribers taking out any of the combined subscriptions. The reduced-rate (personal) subscriptions are ordinarily only available to members of recognized scientific societies, and applications must be accompanied by a written undertaking that the journal ...

60 years of IUCr journals.

In the 60 years since its birth in 1948, the number of journals published by the International Union of Crystallography has risen from one to eight. A brief account of the history of the forerunner of the IUCr journals, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, is given. The context of the birth of the IUCr and the first of its journals, Acta Crystallographica, is recalled. The circumstances which led ...

Components associated with home visiting program outcomes: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND Although several systematic reviews have concluded that home visiting has strong evidence of effectiveness, individual evaluations have produced inconsistent results. We used a component-based, domain-specific approach to determine which characteristics most strongly predict outcomes. METHODS Medline and PsycINFO searches were used to identify evaluations of universal and selective...