Neil Alexander McCrie Somerville

Retooling Food Service for Early Elementary School Students in Somerville, Massachusetts: The Shape Up Somerville Experience

BACKGROUND Changes in the school food environment are a logical target to prevent childhood overweight. We describe the food service component of a 2-year research intervention to prevent excess weight gain in children. CONTEXT The goals of the food service component were to improve the presentation and nutrient quality of school meals and to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into studen...

Neil Turnbull

This paper examines the way in which ‘authority’ and ‘authoritarianism’ have been confl ated in contemporary philosophical thought. More specifi cally, it will show how the psycho-social critique of political authority developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s established a paradigm for the critique of political authority as ‘authoritarian irrationalism’. The paper goes on to explore the l...

Walter Somerville-notre ami britannique.

Le rapprochement entre les societes francaise et britannique de cardiologie que Walter Somerville a encourage de toute sa forte personnalite et qui s'est a plusieurs reprises concretise en depassant la simple "entente cordiale" pour devenir une solide amitie entre collegues cardiologues, qui n'ont plus ete separes ni par le Channel ni par la langue, m'inci;e a exprimer au President sortant de l...

Vulnerability W . Neil Adger

This paper reviews research traditions of vulnerability to environmental change and the challenges for present vulnerability research in integrating with the domains of resilience and adaptation. Vulnerability is the state of susceptibility to harm from exposure to stresses associated with environmental and social change and from the absence of capacity to adapt. Antecedent traditions include t...

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