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Public Release: 17-May-2013

2013 APA Annual Meeting
Psychiatrist suggests that DSM-5 has some positives but a lot of negatives.
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5� explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource.

Public Release: 17-May-2013
American Psychiatric Association releases DSM-5
The American Psychiatric Association today announced the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The manual's publication marks an important milestone -- revising the classifications and criteria of mental disorders for the first time since 1994 to reflect nearly two decades of scientific advances and clinical experience.

Public Release: 16-May-2013
'One Health' paradigm for the future featured in medical school textbook
In the new medical textbook, Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health (Elsevier, 2013), Wildlife Conservation Society veterinarian and Director of Health Policy, Dr. Steve Osofsky, offers a holistic approach to meeting challenges that result from humanity's ongoing population growth, globalization trends, and unsustainable demand for earth's finite natural resources.

Public Release: 15-May-2013
Guide adds new voices to history of Gettysburg battle
For three days in July 1863, thousands of Gettysburg civilians and tens of thousands of soldiers were caught up in a battle that left often conflicting data and anecdotes. This makes writing about the Battle of Gettysburg both a dream and a nightmare for Civil War historians, according to a Penn State researcher.

Public Release: 15-May-2013
Rio Grande rift: From tectonics to groundwater, north to south
Extending from Colorado, USA, to the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, the Rio Grande rift divides the Colorado Plateau on the west from the interior of the North American craton on the east. The rift is named after the Rio Grande, the major river that flows through most of its extent, from southern Colorado, through New Mexico, and along the border between Texas, USA, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Le�n, and Tamaulipas.

Public Release: 15-May-2013
Continued world food supply depends on character, virtuous leadership, authors say
If the world's food supply and natural resources are to be sustained for future generations, visionary leadership is a must. And what better model to look to than the virtues known since antiquity? That's the gist of a new book, "Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation."

Public Release: 13-May-2013
He wrote the book of love
Shakespeare had it right, of course: the course of true love never has run smooth. But with this week's publication of The Developmental Course of Romantic Relationships, people who are baffled by love and its mysteries have a new source of wisdom.

Public Release: 10-May-2013
New, essential Guidelines for decision-making on treatment and end-of-life care
Oxford University Press publishes a revised and expanded Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care.

Public Release: 9-May-2013
Sexuality in the Muslim world
While women have witnessed a rising tide of discrimination and persecution from conservative groups, they have also strategized for and demanded more gender equality. These trends are documented in Sexuality in Muslim Contexts -- Restrictions and Resistance, the new book co-edited by Concordia University's Homa Hoodfar and her colleague Anissa H�lie from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York.

Public Release: 9-May-2013
OUP publishes advice from the CDC on travel and disease
CDC's user-friendly "Health Information for International Travel" (commonly known as the The Yellow Book) returns to provide the most up-to-date information on travel and disease.

Public Release: 7-May-2013
Hastings Center calls on health care professionals and organizations to meet standards for good care near the end of life
Updated and expanded edition of the Center's landmark guidelines is "the sourcebook" for ethical care of patients facing treatment decisions.

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Public Release: 7-May-2013
Kountakis is editor of first otolaryngology encyclopedia
Dr. Stilianos E. Kountakis, Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, is Editor-in-Chief of the first encyclopedia of otolaryngology.

Public Release: 6-May-2013
Boston College professor's book offers intimate look at the immigrant student
Boston College professor of education Lisa Patel spent six years immersed in a Boston high school. In her new book, "Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education and the Politics of Inclusion," Patel tells the story of those students, parents and teachers in a book that looks at immigration law, health and education.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
NIST issues major revision of core computer security guide: SP 800-53
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published the fourth revision of the government's foundational computer security guide, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal information Systems and Organizations. Better known to the federal computer security and contractor community as "SP (Special Publication) 800-53," this fourth revision is the most comprehensive update to the security controls catalog since the document's inception in 2005.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
New guide details steps from A-to-Z for preserving biological evidence
A new handbook by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice provides forensic laboratories, law enforcement agencies and the judicial system with state-of-the-art guidelines and recommended best practices for preserving biological evidence so that it is available at any time to solve "cold cases," confirm the guilt of criminals or exonerate the innocent.

Public Release: 29-Apr-2013
Template for peace
Focused between 1972 and 1975, the most violent and polarized years of the Northern Ireland conflict, this book challenges a number of persistent myths, including those concerning the role of the Irish government in the Northern Ireland conflict.

Public Release: 26-Apr-2013
Huddersfield researchers publish a book exploring the link between evolution and criminal behavior
Dr. Jason Roach of the University of Huddersfield, with co-author Professor Ken Pease, has published a new book addressing the controversial issue of linking evolutionary theory to criminal behaviour. UK criminologists have traditionally shied away from this approach to avoid being linked to less credible theories such as eugenics. Dr. Roach, writing alongside one of the world's most respected criminologists, is readdressing this balance and encouraging new researchers to consider the insights evolutionary theory offers.

Public Release: 26-Apr-2013
Spotlight on Africa's life source -- first 'Soil Atlas of Africa'
The European Commission has today presented the first Soil Atlas of Africa, highlighting a vital natural resource which provides food, fodder, fuel wood, reduces flood risk and protects water supplies. With full color maps and illustrations, the atlas explains in a simple and clear manner the diversity of soil across the African continent and emphasizes the importance of this non-renewable resource.

Public Release: 24-Apr-2013
ASU experts say raising the age of eligibility and other reforms will put Medicare on solid footing
Raising the age of eligibility and reforming some Medicare practices can go a long way to making it sustainable, according to three Arizona State University healthcare policy experts. "Given our demographics and the rapidly increasing costs of medical care, Medicare as we know it, is unsustainable. We are now eating away at our children's and grandchildren's futures," said Dr. Denis Cortese, M.D., director of ASU's Healthcare Delivery and Policy Program. "The time to fix Medicare is now."

Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
8th edition of LSUHSC faculty's textbook published
The 8th Edition of PULMONARY PHYSIOLOGY by Dr. Michael G. Levitzky, Professor of Physiology, Anesthesiology, and Cardiopulmonary Science at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, was published this month by McGraw-Hill in its Lange Physiology Series. Called the preeminent textbook for pulmonary physiology, this book has been the first choice and primary educational tool worldwide for this subject for more than 30 years.

Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Pride, prejudice and strategic thinking: Jane Austen wrote the book on game theory
Game theory is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But a UCLA political scientist contends that Jane Austen systematically explored the core ideas of game theory in her novels, nearly 200 years ago. In "Jane Austen, Game Theorist," forthcoming from Princeton University Press, Michael Suk-Young Chwe argues Austen's novels are an ambitious theoretical project with insights not yet superceded by modern science.

Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Is the media to blame for violent teenage crime?
A campus shooting. A gang assault. With each successive event, fingers are pointed at the usual suspects: violent films, bloody video games, explicit websites. But to what extent can the media be implicated in youth crime? Are today's sophisticated young people really that susceptible to their influence? These are the issues addressed in the new book Adolescents, Crime and the Media by Christopher Ferguson, an internationally recognized researcher of video game and other media effects.

Public Release: 18-Apr-2013
New book explores relentless evolution in a constantly changing world
In his new book, "Relentless Evolution," biologist John Thompson argues that species must be able to evolve constantly or they will not persist.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
Don't even talk about it: New book aims to break taboo over industrial policy in US
A new book co-written by a UCLA professor calls for a complete re-thinking of America's Industrial Policy. Disagreements between differing sides, the authors say, have become so bad that the subject has almost become taboo to discuss.

Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
Looking at food safety in Japan after the disaster at Fukushima
Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, a large volume of data was collected about the soil, air, dust, and seawater in the area. Data was also gathered about an immense number of foods supplied to the market. Little is known, however, about the effect of radioactive fallout on agriculture. Although more than 80 percent of the damaged area is related to agriculture, in situ information specifically for agriculture is scarce.


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