I his 2004 address to the World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders, in Auckland, American psychologist George Albee opened with ‘I wrote my first paper emphasizing the necessity of prevention of mental disorders nearly 50 years ago’. After demonstrating in some detail the numerical and economic impossibility of trying to provide mental...

We present ANNISVis, a webapp for comparative visualization of geographical distribution of linguistic data, as well as a sample deployment for a corpus of Middle High German texts. Unlike existing geographical visualization solutions, which work with pre-existing data sets, or are bound to specific corpora, ANNISVis allows the user to formulate multiple ad-hoc queries and visualizes them on a ...

Prior research on stratification beliefs has investigated individuals’ understandings regarding the causes of poverty in America. These past studies have uncovered demographic characteristics associated with individualist and structuralist explanations for poverty. In the current study, we will argue that Americans, like social scientists, envision poverty as a heterogeneous and complex phenome...

What does ‘doing family while poor’ teach us about agency, resilience and care under COVID-19? Set against a dual backdrop of increasing economic hardships expanding inequalities, in light shifting perspective poverty studies, we employ David Morgan’s practices approach to study the lived realities life through everyday relationships. Our research, led by team comprised academics activists who ...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper analyses the multidimensional child poverty status and its dynamic changes in China from 1989 to 2009 using the China Health and Nutrition survey data. Built on the Alkire–Foster methodology, the adjusted child poverty headcount ratio is calculated which measures not only the traditional headcount ratio of child poverty but also the average deprivation intensity...

In the opening lines of The Other America, Michael Harrington’s classic study of mid-twentieth-century poverty in the United States, the author acknowledges that it was through “Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement that I first came into contact with the terrible reality of involuntary poverty and the magnificent ideal of voluntary poverty.” His eye-opening portrait revealed a depth of ...

irony is a tool that implicitly treats social realities by drawing upon wit. such wit is backed up with silent thought and contemplation that would quietly yet effectively shriek man out of his slumber of oblivion. thus, irony is a means to an end and a weapon aimed at certain individuals or groups of people. among the features of ibrahim touqan’s poetry is the sincere and passionate obsession ...

human has always been trying to become familiar with different parts of the eye. it seems that in the beginning of his efforts he has become familiar with the functions of the pupil of the eye, using these data, he was able to make the dark room and use the hole to relieve the refractive errors. it can be said that the human in the pre-history and post-history periods had been able to solve his...

THE UNITED STATES is rich in material and human resources. In 1968, the gross national product will probably reach $846 billion; the average income of families will approach $8,500. Moreover, abundance is growing. In the 1960’s alone, some $350 billion has been added to the GNP, and median family income has risen by about $2,8’75. There is every reason to expect that the technological advances ...