Onward! Canadian Expansionist Outlooks and the Photographs that Serve Them

Information Technologies That Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public and NonProfit Agencies That Serve Them

What are the prospective benefits for service providers and service recipients of decentralized access to information about populations and their needs, service systems, and operations? Will growing access to such information be, on the whole, enfranchising for community members, or will it subject them to increased centralized control? This chapter examines particular ways in which information...

Onward from the cradle

This essay records a voyage of discovery from the "cradle of cell biology" to the present, focused on the biology of the oldest known cell organelle, the cilium. In the "romper room" of cilia and microtubule (MT) biology, the sliding MT hypothesis of ciliary motility was born. From the "summer of love," students and colleagues joined the journey to test switch-point mechanisms of motility. In t...

The onward march of European public health.

The Eustress Concept: Problems and Outlooks

The concepts of eustress and allostasis are discussed in terms of their inter-relationship and penetration. Historical research on general adaptation syndrome is examined from the standpoint of an interdisciplinary approach in which the effects of stress are manifested in four areas: physiology, behaviour, subjective experience and cognitive functions. This article provides a review of eustress...

Cognitive Outlooks and Well-Being

The top-down approach to well-being focuses on how people attend to and construe information in their lives and how these processes affect their well-being. In this chapter, we review evidence that attention and construal, broadly conceived, influence well-being. We then discuss specific types of attention and construal (i.e., cognitive outlooks) that affect wellbeing. Such cognitive outlooks i...