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... which is too narrow, and to a lesser extent this also applies to Swedes and some Norwegians The fall-rise tone is dif®cult for Scandinavian learners Norwegians (and some Swedes) tend to use too many ... leading to mistakes like *a books shop and *a ten-miles trip Students need to be told the difference between, for example, They'll all go to another university and They'll all go to other universities, ... branch of Indo-European, and as such is closely related to Frisian, English, German and the Scandinavian languages It is the standard language in the Netherlands and in Flanders, the northern part...

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... COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS THEORY, ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT This Page Intentionally Left Blank COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS THEORY, ASSESSMENT, AND TREATMENT ... survival and ability to adapt to changing environmental demands requires that we willfully and consciously direct attention toward critical internal or external stimuli and accurately appraise and ... about the future) may be driven to attempt to control their thoughts, both to reduce distress, and to remove or reduce threat associated with the thoughts On the other hand, people who generally believe...

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... system and differentiates between semi-automatic and fully automatic face recognizer The goal of an automatic face detector is to search for human faces in a still image and, if found, to accurately ... rectangular window from left -to- right and top -to- bottom and the observation vectors are extracted Step then the sequence of observation vectors is introduced in each EHMM model and its corresponding ... order, from top to bottom, and this sequence is 10 New Approaches to Characterization and Recognition of Faces immutable, even if the face is moderately rotated The first attempts to use HMMs...

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... would like to dedicate this book to his parents and especially to his late mother for her immortal softness and encouragements Swamy Laxminarayan would like to dedicate this book to his late ... hearts and have shown lots of love and care for me Swamy Laxminarayan would like to express his loving acknowledgements to his wife xv xvi PDE and Level Sets Marijke and to his kids, Malini and ... life and career, and to my late mother, who most unfortunately passed away a few days before my Ph.D graduation, and who so much wanted to see me write this book I love you, Mom I would like to...

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... system and differentiates between semi-automatic and fully automatic face recognizer The goal of an automatic face detector is to search for human faces in a still image and, if found, to accurately ... rectangular window from left -to- right and top -to- bottom and the observation vectors are extracted Step then the sequence of observation vectors is introduced in each EHMM model and its corresponding ... order, from top to bottom, and this sequence is 10 New Approaches to Characterization and Recognition of Faces immutable, even if the face is moderately rotated The first attempts to use HMMs...

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... Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice provides students in public health, urban planning, social work, and other professions with the critical knowledge and practical ... individual to stressors This response is marked by an increase in adrenaline production as well as immunologic and other biological changes.33 Long-term exposure to stress is believed to contribute to ... social and economic determinants of, 218–223 Health care systems: myth and reality of effectiveness of preventive, 244; myth and reality of immigrants and, 243; myth and reality of older adults and, ...

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... URBAN HEALTH AND SOCIETY URBAN HEALTH AND SOCIETY Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG SUSAN KLITZMAN SUSAN SAEGERT Editors Copyright © 2009 by ... or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores To contact ... Urban health and society: interdisciplinary approaches to research and practice/ Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert, editors p ; cm Includes bibliographical references and index...

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... interdisciplinary approaches to health research, our focus is more practical We want to help our colleagues and students to use these methods to improve their work and increase its relevance to improving ... were kind enough to read chapters and provide helpful suggestions to authors and editors These include Tom Angotti, Mimi Fahs, Sandro Galea, Mary Clare Lennon, Shirley Lindenbaum, and Amy Schulz ... us to compile this book At City University of New York, we have worked together to develop interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research, created new courses on interdisciplinary approaches...

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... geography, and other disciplines to the concepts of interdisciplinary approaches to urban health research and practice Our goals are to familiarize readers with the emerging concepts and principles ... reentry from jail, violence and crime, mothers’ and children’s mental health problems, and obesity and diabetes In each of these cases, our efforts to understand and reduce the health problems ... research joins investigators from different fields to bring their own methods and concepts to a common problem As Stokols and others have noted,19 fields such as public health and urban planning are...

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... all these players, but knowing who to invite to the table, when to make the invitation, what to serve to bring and keep guests at the table, and how to prevent food fights at the banquet are critical ... highlight is the value of interdisciplinary approaches to integrating and reconciling research and practice that aims to improve population health and that seeks to promote social justice Modern public ... understanding of its limitations, especially in regard to the particular problem under investigation No single researcher will be able to master all the disciplines and methods needed to understand...

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... institutional borders and regulatory boundaries to solve broader problems and incorporate social justice as a fundamental principle For example, in arguing for innovative approaches to housing and health, ... Indicators of Cumulative Impact and Socioeconomic Vulnerability into Regulatory Decision-making.”34 In addition to peer validation and respect from state agencies looking for guidance and research ... planning, public health, and other disciplines, and which incorporates professional expertise to achieve broad goals of social and environmental justice We discuss the opportunities and barriers encountered...

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... professional, and community arenas is a complicated process in which all teach and all learn from one another, as opposed to a top-down and hierarchial approach.39 ASIAN IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ORGANIZING ... garment industry in Oakland) as well as pragmatic tools (GIS mapping and how to research particular industries and corporations) According to Chang, “graduate, academic, and professional training ... practitioners and employers And government policy tends to focus on individual programs and agencies to solve specific issues and problems without necessarily looking at the whole picture Holistic approaches...

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... on facilitators and barriers to healthy eating and physical activity, observed: “You’ve got to go out into the suburbs now to get some decent food And therefore, it’s not available to us in this ... the time you get to that store and get some fresh fruits and vegetables, you’re going to pass about 30 fast food joints and about 100 liquor stores.”31 USING CBPR TO UNDERSTAND THE HEALTH IMPLICATIONS ... grocery chains took advantage of abundant and inexpensive land in the suburbs, which allowed them to build large store formats at a lower cost Scarcity of land to accommodate large store formats...

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... entering and leaving stores, deteriorated conditions inside and surrounding stores, and unfair treatment from store employees and owners Stress stemming from these conditions and experiences may ... both structure and individual agency New theoretical and methodological ideas have continued to emerge as we have expanded our literature reviews and research partners to include other disciplines ... M., and Johnston, L D Associations between access to food stores and adolescent body mass index American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 33 (2007): S301–7 18 Rose, D., and Richards, R Food store...

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... populations and neighborhoods and housing quality and type.33, 49–51 Urban populations are heterogeneous along the dimensions of ethnicity, income, and socioprofessional status, among other factors.33, ... housing conditions and health, Saegert and Evans25 described the powerful influence of housing location and its determinants in shaping the multiple social and physical risks low-income and minority ... instead to consider some ways this literature could be understood, and future research could be conducted, within an ecological framework Thus, we have identified key factors of the physical and social...

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... often its indicator The relationship between SES and poor health is usually mediated by other factors in the environment, such as decreased social support to assist single mothers to cope with their ... physical health and well-being They also studied children’s social knowledge and competence, emotional health and maturity, language and cognitive development, and communication skills and general ... modeling to investigate the influence of neighborhood factors on children’s health and other outcomes, and thus developed a two-level model with individuals nested in neighborhoods, similar to Bronfenbrenner...

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... child and adolescent outcomes Psychological Bulletin, 126 (2000): 309–337 51 Wandersman, A., and Nation, M Urban neighborhoods and mental health: Psychological contributions to understanding toxicity, ... Kessen, series ed., and P H Mussen, vol ed., Handbook of Child Psychology: Vol History, Theory, and Methods, 4th ed., pp 357–414 New York: John Wiley, 1983 39 Bronfenbrenner, U., and Evans, G W Developmental ... T D., and Corapci, F Environmental chaos, development and parenting across cultures In C Raeff and J Benson, eds., Social and Cognitive Development in the Context of Individual, Social, and Cultural...

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... pollute land in other ways From the 1970s to the 1990s, other areas of New York City were gentrifying, and city planners were changing industrial zones into areas zoned for residential and commercial ... to Manhattan, Queens, and Long Island with a total enrollment of more than 800 medical and PhD students and a full-time and voluntary faculty of more than 3,000 physicians and researchers Montefiore ... including churches and tenant, neighborhood, health, and civil rights groups, joined together to stop the operation 100 Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Justice, and Health Disparities...

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... and emitters of toxic substances In many communities, TRI facilities and other listed major stationary point sources represent just one component of the total environmental burden, and many other ... also emit contaminants to the air, but these emissions for the most part remain undocumented and, thus, are difficult to incorporate into the analysis Another major contributor to air pollution, especially ... production of toxic chemicals and, thus, are not required to report to the EPA) may contribute as much or more on a cumulative basis to the overall air emissions Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain...

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