Divorcing Threats and Offers

Threats and offers in community mental healthcare.

Making threats and offers to patients is a strategy used in community mental healthcare to increase treatment adherence. In this paper, an ethical analysis of these types of proposal is presented. It is argued (1) that the primary ethical consideration is to identify the professional duties of care held by those working in community mental health because the nature of these duties will enable a...

HMO's, cost containment, and early offers: new malpractice threats and a proposed reform.

Divorcing Money from Monetary Policy

onetary policy has traditionally been viewed as the process by which a central bank uses its influence over the supply of money to promote its economic objectives. For example, Milton Friedman (1959, p. 24) defined the tools of monetary policy to be those “powers that enable the [Federal Reserve] System to determine the total amount of money in existence or to alter that amount.” In fact, the v...

Radar interferometry offers new insights into threats to the Angkor site

The conservation of World Heritage is critical to the cultural and social sustainability of regions and nations. Risk monitoring and preventive diagnosis of threats to heritage sites in any given ecosystem are a complex and challenging task. Taking advantage of the performance of Earth Observation technologies, we measured the impacts of hitherto imperceptible and poorly understood factors of g...

1 Divorcing Strain 1 Classification From Species

15 16 Confusion about strain classification and nomenclature permeates modern 17 microbiology. Although taxonomists have traditionally acted as gatekeepers of order, the 18 numbers of and speed at which new strains are identified has outpaced the opportunity for 19 professional classification for many lineages. Furthermore, the growth of bioinformatics and 20 database fueled investigations have...