Injuries are among the leading causes of child morbidity and mortality worldwide [1]. Because injuries typically are incurred by healthy children engaging in daily activities, they can be particularly devastating to the injured child and his or her family, disrupting otherwise mentally and physically healthy lives with tragic short- and long-term consequences. Despite the implication of the lay…
The World Health Organization recognizes that injuries are the leading cause of death and disability to children after their first birthday. There is also high morbidity associated with injuries sustained in childhood, often affecting people for the rest of their lives. For every child who dies from injury, there are several thousand who require medical care, many who live with varying degrees …
However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks to make basic judgments concerning tonal music, such as identifying the tonic of a scale or the quality of a musical chord, the networks revealed formal musical properties that differ dramatically from those typically presented in music theory
Children learn to walk, speak, and think at an astonishing pace. The D-score presents a unified framework that places children and their developmental milestones from different tools onto the same scale, enabling comparisons in child development across populations, groups and individuals. This pioneering text explains why we need the D-score, how we construct it, and how we calculate it. It wil…
The rise of women’s transatlantic reform activism from the mid-nineteenth century through World War I coincided with transformative changes in communication and transportation
In the present volume, we collected state-of-the-art chapters on diagnosis, treatment, and social implications. The first section describes diagnostic processes. It describes a reevaluation of projective techniques, a new clinical tool in psychotraumatology, the foundations of the framing technique, and an overview on integrative approaches. The second section focuses on new developments in the…
"La storia dell’infanzia è una storia ininterrotta di abusi e ancora oggi, inorriditi spettatori, assistiamo a episodi raccapriccianti di bambini sottoposti a violenze fisiche e psicologiche, senza percepire la vera portata di una realtà spesso inconfessata. Il fenomeno dell’abuso sui minori è una piaga destinata a restare drammaticamente sommersa se nei professionisti chiamati ad ascolt…
Noch nie zuvor gab es so viele Fernsehserien mit so vielen schönen neuen Heldinnen. Mädchen und Frauen wie Ally McBeal, Buffy, Carrie Bradshaw, Daria, die Gilmore Girls, Joey Potter, Nikita und Xena regieren in der Serienwelt. Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach, wie es zu diesem medialen Trend gekommen ist und was ihn ausmacht. Die Popularität all dieser »Chicks« beruht vor allem auf ihrer Un…
L’on peut se demander si l’étude du « sexe » est pertinente pour le champ des études de « développement » et des « relations internationales ». Au delà des politiques et interventions de développement liées à la « population », au « planning familial » et à la « prévention des maladies sexuellement transmissibles et du VIH », cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur les t…
Urban histories tend to be dominated by large, global cities. But what does the history of the modern, colonial era look like from the perspective of smaller cities? By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary city of Chiang Mai, this study provides an alternative narrative of the formation of the modern Thai state that highlights the overlap between European, American, and Siame…