Objective: To illustrate successful strategies in working with American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) communities in aging and health research by emphasizing access, local relevance, and decision-making processes. Methods: Case examples of health studies involving older AIs (≥50 years) among Eastern Band Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized reservation; the Cherokee Nation, a rural, no...

expressionism movement, members of the group establish a strong relationship with politics and the social issues of the time. Principal artists include José Balmes, Gracia Barrios and Alberto Pérez.

The presentation concerns the “Minerva” project co-financed by E.U. aiming at identifying and promoting “good practice” in the design and delivery of e-learning courses (i.e., activities that teachers/tutors may use to foster social dynamics allowing participants to advance in knowledge construction). Accordingly to the principles of action-research, the project has been implemented in four sub...

"Countries," nations, nation-states, and national economies are in fact collections of spaces (regions), each with its own society and its own economic, social, political and power structure. The degree to which these spaces are integrated into a unified national economic, social, political and administrative system varies a great deal from country to country, and these variations go a long way...

techniques and methodology it has vindicated the parish registers as the prime pre-census record of English demography after two generations of growing doubts about their flaws. Only the very highest technical sophistication has allowed this to be done and the harvest of further "reconstitutions" is yet to come. Relatively little space, and much less technical sophistication, has gone into the ...