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The main purpose of the volume Psychiatry and Biological Factors is to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the current research linked essentially to virus infections, immunity functions, and mental diseases.

These were some of the questions that a small number of psychologists, educators, and computer scientists attempted to answer when they gathered for the Symposium Literacy and Cognition, which was held at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada from 29th to 31st October, 1987.

A media campaign, intended to mobilize public opinion against the terrorists and garner mass support for the government and its control measures, is the linchpin of any antiterrorist campaign.

Proceedings of the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) Pilot Study initiated with Norway in April, 1984

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This may come as something of a shock to those who proselytize for equal rights for children, and to those adults (including some psychiatrists, attorneys, and judges) who advocate giving the child adult choices and/or responsibilities.

To be a corporate executive in America is to achieve a universally recognized measure of personal and professional success. Interest in the diversity of corporate management comes at a time of unprecendented challenge to United States success in the world economy.

Until the early to mid-1970s, social scientists in the fields of population and development were largely going their own ways.

It was first believed that the major function of this respiratory burst was to generate powerful antibacterial agents by the partial reduction of oxygen. Dr. Cohen and Dr. Britigan (Chapter 5) present some interesting data on the competition between the respiratory burst and bacteria for oxygen.

During the past 10 years, two phages have come into common use as reagents: A phage for cloning single copies of genes, and M13 for cloning and DNA sequencing by the dideoxy termination method.

The basis of all immunoassays is the interaction of antibodies with antigens. Indeed the last fifteen years have seen the development of a great number of ingenious non-isotopic labels in immunoassay so that a whole new industry capitalizing on the potential market for non isotopic immunoassays has appeared.

Another objective has been to examine how environmental constraints can limit the ways in which diffusion channels form, and can determine when diffusion can be truly organizational and when it will depend upon individuals.

After more than three decades of major breakthroughs in the development of psychotropic drugs, reactions to these medications are still frequently reported in the current liter ature, and information about well-known reactions is con stantly refined.

After the birth of my second son some 11 years ago, I was painfully torn by the timing of my reentry to work-my wish to return to a prestigious and stimulating position as chief psychologist of a large agency, or my equally powerful wish to enjoy fully my beautiful new son's infancy, undivided and untorn.

This book provides practical clinical guidelines and describes adherence enhancement techniques for health care professionals dealing with noncompliant patients.

On May 29 and 30, 1985, a workshop was held to explore the legal, ethical, social, scientific, and practical aspects of the use of the de minimis risk concept for health and safety regulation.

In August, 1985, the 2nd International Conference on Illness Behaviour was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The purpose behind this conference was to facilitate the development of a single integrated model to account for illness experience and presentation.

This book's title betrays at once that it belongs in the forecast literature. The entry "forecast" includes references to prediction and prophecy without differentiation, while "projection" is defined, among other things, as prediction or "advance estimate."

This tremendous discrepancy in actual clinical and research data between male and female adolescents led to the following myths: (1) Female adolescents are different only biologically from their male peers;

Entering a full-time private practice and forsaking the comforts of a regular paycheck was a difficult decision for me. By using my behavior skills for self-management and organization, I was then able to help my practice grow so that, with some trepidation, I moved into a full-time practice.

The perception that our nation's public schools are disorderly and unsafe is widespread, and the image of the public school is deteriorating. The public has given the schools low marks, and the Senate Judiciary Committee (1975) gave the schools an" A" in violence and vandalism.