The articles by Loren Marks and Mark Regnerus provide useful opportunities for readers to think about the current state of research on children with gay and lesbian parents. These articles raise two sets of issues. One involves the scientific status of research on this topic, and the other involves concerns about law, social policy, and civil rights. My comments focus on both sets of issues, be...

projects are encouraged to express freely their professional judgment. This paper, therefore, does not necessarily represent the positions or the policies of the Canadian government, and no official Almost every scholarly or scientific discipline is, in part, defined by the activities, including the methods and instruments, which systematically advance the teaching, research, and practice withi...

On a recent trip to China and India, I had the opportunity to discuss with many young researchers at various universities about the expectations that they must meet in order to succeed professionally. Many of them thought that the road to success was measured in various forms of “scientometric” data, such as h-index factors and the number of publication citations. I do think that scientometric ...

Cognitive therapists who treat drug-dependent patients are likely to lose at least 50 percent of their patients to dropout. This chapter has presented a cognitive model for conceptualizing missed sessions and dropout, along with strategies for reducing the likelihood of missed sessions and dropout. The following should serve to highlight these strategies. 1. Therapists are encouraged to offer w...

Why do gig workers perceive work practices as aspirational in spite of their precarity? Selling beauty products through networks appeals to many women a convenient way earn an income. Drawing on interviews and observations with distributors network marketing company, this article shows how messaging that appears spiritual is used encourage these think feel they are charge own destiny while maki...

This project explored how an audience response system (clickers), combined with case-based questions, resulted in increased student engagement, attention, and participation in an introductory clinical nursing course. Clicker questions and ensuing discussion were designed to enable students to practice reasoning through patient situations before entering the clinical setting. Findings suggest th...

A sincere thank you to my advisors, Professor Michael Munger and Professor Ken Rogerson for their willingness, guidance, and expertise. Without their support and leadership, this project would not be possible. To my mom, dad, sister, and friends who encouraged me to set far-reaching goals and challenge myself. And To the Sanford School of Public Policy, who makes it possible for students to per...

The group found a variety of sources of literature that related to these kinds of structure. Some of the members of the group were familiar with some of these approaches and shared their experiences with the group. The group also did some new investigations of its own. The industrial representatives encouraged the group to keep discussion open-ended, open-minded and not too focused in order to ...