In 2014, International Psychogeriatrics (IPG) for the first time introduced a "paper of the month" category as part of the 25th year's milestone celebrations. Papers of the month were chosen through an internal selection process by the IPG editorial team. Each month, the seven editors ranked suitable accepted papers from the categories "original research articles" and "reviews" according to sci...

This paper analyses three important popular cultural manifestations in the struggle for Mexican-American identity: clothes, cars and music. The paper argues that from the 1940s all three have provided canvasses for the expression of Chicano cultural assertion and resistance, while provoking a range of negative reactions from the dominant Anglo-U.S. political culture. Although the Zoot Suited Pa...

This research examines why consumers desire unusual and novel consumption experiences and voluntarily choose leisure activities, vacations, and celebrations that are predicted to be less pleasurable. For example, consumers sometimes choose to stay at freezing ice hotels and to eat at restaurants serving peculiar foods, such as bacon ice cream. We propose that such choices are driven by consumer...

Parents who use donor gametes should feel firm and entitled to say they are this child's parents. Health care providers (doctors, nurses, and social workers) must help these parents. Their decision to bring a child into the world creates continuous consequences for the whole family. The parents' responsibility is to attach, parent, and educate, and the child's responsibility is to ask questions...

Applications of electron microscopy, stand-alone and in combination with other microscopy methods, in diverse fields of biological and medical research as well as in medical diagnosis will be one of the main topics at the Microscopy Conference (MC 2007), to be held from 2 to 7 September 2007 at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken (Germany). This is the 33rd Conference of the Deutsche Gesells...

This detailed case history traces the first 5 years of a psychosocial support group intervention aimed to improve adherence to individualized drug regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru. A total of eight groups were established in metropolitan Lima and two provinces of Peru led by teams of psychiatrists and nurses. The intervention consisted of bi-monthly support groups,...

Hermann Weyl (1885 – 1955) was one of the greatest and most versatile mathematicians of the 20th century. His work had a vast range, encompassing analysis, algebra, number theory, topology, differential geometry, relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and mathematical logic. He was also unusual among mathematicians in possessing acute literary and philosophical sensibilities — sensibilities to w...

HE DITORS of the Dictionary o] American Slang (1, p. 652) report that "the concept having the most slang synonyms is drunk." The Dictionary lists 353 terms, with more added in the Appendix. In 1737 Benjamin Franklin compiled a list of 228 terms for being drunk (2). The American Thesaurus o] Slang (3) lists dose to 900 terms. 3 Obviously, Americans, like many other peoples of the world, have tak...

I am not big on celebrations, nor do I accept many invitations to receive awards. There is much work to be done, and the reward is in the doing. I learned this lesson early from my parents, Martha and Robert Guyden. However, I am humbled that anyone would even mention my name in association with E. E. Just. I, like he, was born into a segregated America, and somehow we both found biology. I thi...

Biomedical health professionals express increasing concern that rising consumption of soft drinks and processed foods in Mayan and Latin American eating patterns may lead to detrimental nutritional and health consequences. Scholars debate whether the pervading presence of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in developing countries represents "Coca-Colonization," synonymous with cultural imperialism, or cultura...