Presents a short biography of one of the co-recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology. One of the 2012 winners is Daniel Landis for his unparalleled contribution to the field of intercultural research in a distinguished academic career spanning almost half a century. Landis has shaped the field of ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which studies used to support empirically supported treatments for asthma, cancer, diabetes, and obesity address issues of cultural diversity. METHOD We chose original articles (71) of treatments used to support empirically supported treatments (ESTs) published as part of a special series on ESTs in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. Trained coders reviewe...

for libraries, government establishments and research institution. ?3 10s. for individuals.) It is a pleasure to welcome a journal which quite evidently will play a major part in the development of psychiatric research in this and other countries. The eight papers in its first number (October 1961) deal with a variety of subjects, but are all alike in using rigorous statistical design and prope...

Background: Molecular signatures for predicting breast cancer prognosis could greatly improve care through personalization of treatment. Computational analyses of genome-wide expression datasets have identified such signatures, but these signatures leave much to be desired in terms of accuracy, reproducibility, and biological interpretability. Methods that take advantage of structured prior kno...

Sex and gender have been demonstrated to influence all domains of health, from basic mechanisms of disease development to health service utilization. It is therefore no longer acceptable to ignore sex and gender issues in health research reports if these reports are to be deemed accurate. Funding agencies and journals have been identified as primary change agents in health research systems. Can...

At the last annual meeting of the International Academy of Nursing Editors, held in July, Dr. Margaret Freda reported on progress made in getting the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to include more nursing journals in its rankings. At the moment, CINAHL lists 547 nursing journals, only 39 of which are ranked by the ISI, and these generally have low impact factors. Does this mean that...

Philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and biologists have debated the existence of altruism in humans for years. Two predominant views across these fields explained altruistic behavior in terms of reinforcement or evolutionary genetics. Today, psychology still adheres to the notion that pure altruism cannot be demonstrated and is better explained through other egoistic models (e.g., reinfor...

A Guide to Internet Resources in Anthropology (Plattsburgh State University of New York). A large and well-organized site with links to numerous cultural anthropology sites, physical anthropology and linguistics resources on the web, archaeological sites/digs and web resources, e-journals, organizations, museums, and email discussion listservs. http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/leg...