This study examines differences between Blacks and Whites in the effect of widowhood on depressive symptoms and anxiety; in grief symptoms six months after spousal loss; and the extent to which these differences are explained by marital quality, social support from children and friends, and religiosity. Analyses are based on the Changing Lives of Older Couples, a prospective study of 1,532 marr...

Being well off and well connected is no barrier to a belief in nonsense. In fact, the more money you have, the easier it seems for healthcare professionals to liberate you from it. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s premier, created a new science post at cabinet level and is willing to explain quantum computing to a press pack. But even he undergoes cupping, an evidence-free complementary therapy used by...

In despair, as Deligne (2000) put it, of proving the Hodge and Tate conjectures, we can try to find substitutes. For abelian varieties in characteristic zero, Deligne (1982) constructed a theory of Hodge classes having many of the properties that the algebraic classes would have if the Hodge conjecture were known. In this article I investigate whether there exists a theory of " rational Tate cl...

About a decade ago we proposed the notion of late-onset stress symptomatology, to characterize the later-life emergence of symptoms related to early-life warzone trauma among aging combat Veterans. We hypothesized that aging-related challenges (role transition and loss, death of family members and friends, physical and cognitive decline) might lead to increased reminiscence, and possibly distre...

J-N the tropics ringworm infection of the body is not only common but difficult to avoid afld more difficult to cure. In any skin outpatient department the number of cases of der^atomycosis is quite large. In Calcutta, 20 Per cent of the total number of patients with skin disease come for the treatment of ringworm infection, i.e. about 2,000 new cases every year. To this may be added quite an A...

Godly sorrow and despair were spiritual rather than corporeal and could only be overcome through God’s grace. Here the author looks to devotional literature and spiritual autobiographies, including much welcomed writing by women. Protestant theologians characterised godly sorrow as a positive, even joyous, experience. The physical body, particularly the broken, softened heart, provided a langua...

In an effort to inform communication efforts to promote sexual health equity in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sought to explore African-Americans' perceptions of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) problem in their communities, reactions to racially comparative STD data and opinions about dissemination of such information. Semi-structured triads and indivi...

BACKGROUND 2002 Carl Taube Lecture at the NIMH Mental Health Economics Meeting. AIMS OF THE STUDY To analyze the contribution and process of clinician/economist collaboration. METHODS Personal scientific autobiography, using relationships with three economists as case examples. RESULTS In joint efforts by clinicians and economists, clinicians bring an interest in case examples and in resp...

KE VI N V AN A EL ST R OBERT GOLDBERG SAGS INTO HIS DESK CHAIR AND GESTURES AT THE AIR. “FRANKENSTEIN monsters, things crawling out of the lab,” he says. “This the most depressing thing I’ve ever dealt with.” Goldberg, a plant molecular biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, is not battling psychosis. He is expressing despair at the relentless need to confront what he sees as b...

Laboring to Learn: A Case Study of Learning and Labor/Community Organizing at the Bus Riders Union/Sindicato de Pasajeros in Los Angeles Paper presented at the University of California Institute for Labor and Employment Graduate Student Conference UC Santa Barbara, California, February 21-22, 2003 Introduction to the problem Almost certainly, few adult educators today have not had a close encou...