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Publication date: 12 November 2008

Infant mental health: an emerging field for children with developmental disabilities

Casey A. Holtz and Robert A. Fox

Behavior problems are common in toddlers and preschoolers. Richman, Stevenson, and Graham (1975) identified difficulties with eating, sleeping, toileting, temper, fears…

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Behavior problems are common in toddlers and preschoolers. Richman, Stevenson, and Graham (1975) identified difficulties with eating, sleeping, toileting, temper, fears, peer relations, and activity as typical in this young population. While all young children should be expected to experience behavior problems as part of their normal development, an ongoing challenge in the field has been to determine when these “normal” developmental problems rise to the level of being considered “clinical” behavior problems (Keenan & Wakschlag, 2000). For example, when does a two-year-old child's tantrum behavior, a three-year-old's urinary accidents, and a four-year-old's defiance become clinically significant? To answer these questions, clinicians must examine the frequency, intensity, and durability of these difficulties, their potential to cause injury to the child or others, the extent to which they interfere with the child development, and the degree to which they disrupt the lives of their siblings, caregivers, peers, teachers, and others.

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Autism and Developmental Disabilities: Current Practices and Issues
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0270-4013(08)18009-6
ISBN: 978-1-84855-357-6

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Article
Publication date: 21 August 2009

Library in the clouds

Robert Fox

This paper aims to examine the issue of cloud computing and how it relates to digital library service provisioning.

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Purpose

This paper aims to examine the issue of cloud computing and how it relates to digital library service provisioning.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper adopts a viewpoint approach.

Findings

The paper is exploratory, and looks at the pros and cons of cloud computing for digital libraries.

Practical implications

The subject of cloud computing has been a hot topic for the past year or so. There are many implications regarding this for service provisioning for libraries. Several issues involving cloud computing are explored, and the advantages and disadvantages concerning this technology need to be seriously considered by digital library technology professionals.

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The paper explores the issue of cloud computing technology, its relation to current internet business practices and the implications for providing library services over the next five years.

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OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, vol. 25 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750910982539
ISSN: 1065-075X

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  • Digital libraries
  • Computer applications
  • Computer software
  • Information services

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Publication date: 12 November 2008

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Autism and Developmental Disabilities: Current Practices and Issues
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0270-4013(08)18014-X
ISBN: 978-1-84855-357-6

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Book part
Publication date: 9 November 2006

Chapter 5: Medical Ethics and Epidemics: A Historical Perspective

Robert Baker

Karl Marx could only pen the memorable line, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” because he was heir to the sanitary and…

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Karl Marx could only pen the memorable line, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” because he was heir to the sanitary and public health reforms of the nineteenth century (Marx [1848] 1972, p. 335). The Black Death, which had wiped out much of fourteenth-century Florence and which had regularly decimated sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London, was now but a faint memory. Yet had a historian of some earlier period of European history thought to pen a line as presumptuous as Marx's, it might have read: “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of struggle with plague or pestilence.” Epidemics and pandemics have haunted human societies from their beginnings. The congregation of large masses of humans in urban settings, in fact, made the evolution of human infectious disease microorganisms biologically possible (McNeill, 1976; Porter, 1997, pp. 22–25). Epidemics have been as determinative of the course of economic, social, military and political history as any other single factor – emptying cities, decimating armies, wiping out generations and destroying civilizations.

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Ethics and Epidemics
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3709(06)09005-4
ISBN: 978-1-84950-412-6

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Publication date: 4 July 2019

Religion and the State: The Politics of Social Control in Myanmar and the United States

Robert Edward Sterken

This chapter provides a cross-cultural look at the intersection of religion and the state with a focus on social control, social movements, political authority, and…

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This chapter provides a cross-cultural look at the intersection of religion and the state with a focus on social control, social movements, political authority, and legitimacy. To better understand the complexities of governance, this chapter examines state social control of religion with a specific focus on the effects of that control on society. State leaders often seek to control and use the power of religion to gain legitimacy, authority, and control over citizens. Conversely, religious leaders sometimes seek to engage and even control the power of the state. This chapter highlights some of what happens when religious leaders directly engage in politics and challenge the social control mechanisms of political authority.

At times religious majorities seek not only to participate in the public square, to make policy, but also to exercise complete control of political and cultural institutions. In many nations, from Christians in the United States to Buddhists in Myanmar, some religious and government leaders share the goal of complete religious control over their societies. What happens to the religions and to the society when these religious and government leaders are successful? What happens to the religion when a state controls, supports, and promotes that religion? This chapter uses the case histories of the repression of the Muslim minority by the Buddhists nationalists in Myanmar and the desires of the United States Christian Dominionists goals to illustrate and highlight the way that the twin powers of the state and religion serve as direct agents of social control by transmitting values of each institution through law, policy, and by punishing those who deviate.

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Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2053-769720190000031008
ISBN: 978-1-78756-049-9

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  • Religion
  • state control
  • religious nationalism
  • dominion theology
  • Buddhist state
  • Christian state

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Article
Publication date: 1 March 1947

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS OF FRIENDS' BOOKS UP TO 1750: A supplement to Plomer's Dictionary

R.S. MORTIMER

It is now forty years since there appeared H. R. Plomer's first volume Dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from…

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It is now forty years since there appeared H. R. Plomer's first volume Dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. This has been followed by additional Bibliographical Society publications covering similarly the years up to 1775. From the short sketches given in this series, indicating changes of imprint and type of work undertaken, scholars working with English books issued before the closing years of the eighteenth century have had great assistance in dating the undated and in determining the colour and calibre of any work before it is consulted.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 3 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026113
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 19 January 2005

Sales Taxation in a Global Economy

William F. Fox and Matthew N. Murray

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Taxing the Hard-to-tax: Lessons from Theory and Practice
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0573-8555(04)68811-0
ISBN: 978-1-84950-828-5

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Article
Publication date: 1 February 1988

The Classics Will Circulate—On Videocassette

Joseph W. Palmer

The classics will circulate wrote a public librarian several years ago. She found that new, attractive, prominently displayed editions of literary classics would indeed…

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The classics will circulate wrote a public librarian several years ago. She found that new, attractive, prominently displayed editions of literary classics would indeed find a substantial audience among public library patrons.

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Collection Building, vol. 9 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023235
ISSN: 0160-4953

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Article
Publication date: 1 January 1994

Escalation of Commitment in Groups and the Moderating Effects of Information Framing

Robert W. Rutledge

A manager who is responsible for making the initial decision to invest in a project will typically have a tendency to “over‐commit” additional resources to the project…

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A manager who is responsible for making the initial decision to invest in a project will typically have a tendency to “over‐commit” additional resources to the project (Staw, 1976, 1981; Staw and Fox, 1977; Staw and Ross, 1978, 1980). This increased total investment can occur even when the project shows poor economic performance. The terms “escalation of commitment” or “escalation effects” are used to describe such investment tendencies.

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Management Research News, vol. 17 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028334
ISSN: 0140-9174

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 30 December 2020

Trump could shake up US conservative media post-office

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Conservative broadcast news media in the United States will be reshaped after January 20 by a combination of Trump’s departure; a backlash from his supporters against Fox…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB258443

ISSN: 2633-304X

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