AIM To evaluate the effect on recurrent admission for alcohol-induced pancreatitis (that can be up to 48%) of a brief social work intervention for alcohol dependence in a single center in Ireland METHODS Retrospective cohort study of patients admitted with acute alcohol-induced pancreatitis to a tertiary hospital in Ireland from January 2009 to December 2012. RESULTS The relapse rate in the...

The aim of the Project is to develop a Virtual Platform of e -Learning using New Technologies, offering a qualityeducation and a social inter-relationship with resident children and their educational centers, colleagues, etc. Children that reside in hospitals have a mayor predisposition towards school failure because, among other reasons, they are somehow excluded from their natural environment...

We describe a quantitative methodology to characterize the vulnerability of U.S. urban centers to terrorist attack, using a place-based vulnerability index and a database of terrorist incidents and related human casualties. Via generalized linear statistical models, we study the relationships between vulnerability and terrorist events, and find that our place-based vulnerability metric signific...

Nonprofit Management & Leadership, vol. 25, no. 1, Fall 2014 © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/nml.21110 Journal sponsored by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University. Authors’ Note: We gratefully acknowledge fi nancial support from the Aspen Institute Nonprof...

Chickens from lines selectively bred for either a high-antibody (HA) or low-antibody (LA) response to sheep erythrocytes were injected intravenously with Mycobacterium avium while being held in low, medium, or high levels of social stress for 5 days (first environment). During the remaining 6 weeks, they were held under either low or medium levels of social stress (second environment). Infectio...

Pain is a common word used to refer to a wide range of physical and mental states sharing hedonic aversive value. Three types of pain are distinguished in this article: Physical pain, an aversive state related to actual or potential injury and disease; social pain, an aversive emotion associated to social exclusion; and psychological pain, a negative emotion induced by incentive loss. This revi...