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Objective: The patient perspective workshops at the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials have included daily measures of health status (patient diary) and use of electronic tools for data collection in the research agenda. The objective of this study was to compare daily and weekly registrations of self-reported health status measures between personal digital assistant (PDA) and paper-pencil (PP) format regarding scores, variation, and feasibility., Methods: Thirty-eight patients with stable rheumatoid arthritis recorded their health status during 84 days in a repeated crossover design, using PDA or PP format during four 21-day periods. Visual analog scales (VAS) for pain, fatigue, and global disease and the Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index were scored daily; the Short Form 36 and Modified Health Assessment Questionnaire were scored weekly., Results: The average scores and measures of variation of the 4 daily health status measures over 21 days did not differ significantly between PDA and PP formats in either of the 2 crossover periods. The values for the average range between the maximum and minimum values for daily measures were similar between the 2 formats, but showed considerable variation (e.g., range for pain VAS was 19-28 mm over each 21-day period). The time to complete the instruments was similar between the 2 formats. Missing daily data entries were generally low for both periods and somewhat higher for PDA. The majority of patients (82.9%) preferred using PDA., Conclusion: Daily assessments with PDA may be efficiently used for frequent data collection because this format performs similarly to the traditional PP format.

Focuses on the book "Papers in Ethics and Social Philosophy," by David Lewis. Contents of the book; Papers in metaphysics and epistemology.

Reports on the efforts of Health Secretary John Reid to publish the book "White Paper" in England. Concerns over the need of reducing the prevalence of obesity in the country; Way of responding to several public health issues; Availability of the book.

This feature provides a critical reappraisal of a well-known book that was published some time ago in order to asses how far it is still relevant to current thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a list of books and materials in German language.

Presents a list of books received by 'Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, as of June 2003. 'Personal States: Making Connections Between People and Bureaucracy in Turkey,' by C. Alexander; 'Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves,' by K. A. Ali; 'Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania,' by D. R. Allen.

Lists several books. "Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America," by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf; "Pashtun Tales From the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier," by Aisha Ahmad and Roger Boase; "On the Banks of the Ganga: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River," by Kelly D. Alley.

A list of books received is presented. They include "Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia," by Kathleen M. Adams, "Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women: The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan," by Amineh Ahmed and "Powers of Blessing From the Wilderness and From Heaven: Structure and Transformation in the Religion of Toraja in the Mamasa Area of South Sulawesi," by Kees Bujis.

Presents a list of books about anthropology. "New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times," by Göran Aijmer; "Legal Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia," by Claire Anderson; "Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North," edited by David Anderson and Mark Nuttall.

Presents a list of books received the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" as of March 2004. "The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community," end edition, by Catherine J. Allen; "Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France," by Jean-Loup Amselle; "The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers," by Juan Luis Arsuaga; "The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas," edited by Pat Caplan.

Presents a list of books related to anthropology.

A list of books related to anthropology is presented, which include "Health Care in Maya Guatemala: Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country," edited by Walter Randolph Adams and John P. Hawkins, "Iraqi Women: Untold Stories From 1948 to the Present," by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, and "Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies," by William G. Axinn and Lisa D. Pearce.

A list of the books received for the September 2007 issue of the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" is presented. Included are "Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana," by Michael Amoah, "The Voice of Prophecy and Other Essays," by Edwin Ardener and "The Incas," by Nigel Davies.

Presents a list of several books related to anthropology. "Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India"; "Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag"; "Rethinking the Mediterranean"; "Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community."

Presents a list of books received by the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute," as of June 2005. "Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy," by Joseph A. Alter; "Culture on Tour," by Edward M. Bruner; "The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India," by C. J. Fuller; "Beach Crossings: Voyaging Across Times, Cultures, and Self," by Greg Dening; "The Miskitu People of Awastara," by Philip A. Dennis; "Female Ascetics in Hinduism," by Lynn Teskey Denton; "A Species in Denial," by Jeremy Griffith; "Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader," edited by June Nash; "Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Demography," by Eric Abella Roth; "The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: A Reader," edited by James I. Watson and Melissa I. Caldwell.

A list of the books and films received is presented including "Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World" edited by Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalyns, "Colonialism, Maasina Rule and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom" by David W. Akin and "Greed and Grievance: Ex-Militants' Perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands" by Matthew G. Allen.

During the summer of 2006, over four hundred Catholic ethicists from around the world gathered for four days in Padua, Italy. About sixty of the conference papers have become available in two edited collections, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church: The Plenary Papers from the First Cross-cultural Conference on Catholic Theological Ethics, and Applied Ethics in a World Church: The Padua Conference. As the conference was marked by a distinctive and creative tension-between the diversity which characterized the nationalities and cultural identities of the participants, on the one hand, and the commonness of their religious heritage, on the other-these essays can tell us much about contemporary Catholic ethics in its response to global pluralism. The following develops four reflections. First, the conference papers pursue a style of scholarship that is at once critically creative and ecclesially rooted. Second, the conference raises new concerns about the importance that Christian formation must have in a pluralist world. Third, the participants affirm and defend the ultimate universality of moral goods while also arguing that these goods are expressed and embodied in unavoidably particular ways. Finally, the most important contribution that Catholic ethics can make to public conversations about issues of common concern is through its articulation and defense of key human values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of the books about anthropology which were received by the Royal Institute of Anthropological Institute is presented.

Presents a list of books related to anthropology.

The article lists several publications received by the February 1997 issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Some of the books received by the journal are: The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution, by Jean Aitchison; Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian Atoll, by Niko Besnier; Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, edited by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulhard; Keywords in Language and Literacy, by Ronald Carter; The German Language in a Changing Europe, by Michael Clyne; Talking Difference: On Gender and Language, by Mary Crawford; Focus on South Africa, edited by Vivian De Clark; Media Discourse, by Norman Fairclough; The Discourse of Negotiation: Studies of Language in the Workplace, edited by Alan Firth; Cognitive Science: An Introduction, by David W. Green; Rethinking Linguistic Relativity, edited by John J. Gumperz and Stephen C. Levinson; Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, edited by Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz; Literacy to Society, edited by Ruqaiya Hasan and Geoff Williams; etc.

A list of books received in a 2010 issue of "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" is presented including "Folk-Tales of the Coast Salish," edited by Thelma Adamson, "Island of Demons," by Nigel Barley, and "A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java," by Andrew Beatty.

A list of books about anthropology is presented. It includes "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination," by Anne Allison, "Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico," edited by Vered Amit and Noel Dyck, "The World of an Anthropologist," by Marc Augé and Jean-Paul Colleyn and "The Language and Sexuality Reader," edited by Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick.

A list of books related to family therapy is presented. These include "How to Survive the Loss of a Parent: A Guide for Adults," by Lois F. Akner and Catherine Whitney, "Odyssey: A Psychotherapist's Journey Along the Cutting Edge," by Victor Bogart and "Theory and Practice of HIV Counseling: A Systemic Approach," by Robert Bor, Riva Miller and Eleanor Goldman.

Lists books and related resources on animal nutrition, which appeared in the December 2004 issue of the "Journal of Animal Physiology & Animal Nutrition."

Presents a list of books received by the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute." "Modern Indian Kingship"; "African Savannas: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change"; "The Time at Darwin's Reef: Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History"; "The Viking World."

The article lists the books received by the "Canadian Public Administration" including "The Supply of Government Services," by Douglas Auld and Harry Kitchen, "Lexicon of Economic Thought," by Walter Block and Michael Walker and "The Market for Legal Services," by David Gill.

The article presents a list of books on sociolinguistics. They include "Language Change in the Works of Kruszewski, Baudouin de Courtenay and Rozwadowski," by Arleta Adamska-Salaciak, "Speaking Through the Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions and Power in Java," by Laine Berman, "Debating Diversity: Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance," by Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren "Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature," by Gene Bluestein and "Language Wars and Linguistic Politics," by Louis-Jean Calvet.

The article lists the books for review including "Mündlich: Mündliche Produktion und Interaktion Deutsch," "Abenteuer Alltag: Menschen in Deutschland. Texte für Deutsch als Fremdsprache," and "Wirtschaftsdeutsch von A-Z."

Presents a list of books received by the March 2003 issue of the 'Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.'

The article lists several books received by the journal, which includes, titles like: "Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movement," by Nancy Abelmann, "The professional stranger: an informal introduction information to ethnography," 2nd edition, by Michael H. Agar, and "The development of the Inca state," by Brian S. Bauer.

The article presents list of books received by the November 1976 issue of the journal "Criminology." Some of the books are: "Insanity Defense," by Richard Arens; "Deviance and Control in Europe," edited by Herman Bianchi, Mario Simondi, and Ian Taylor; "Rehabilitation Evaluation: Some Application Guidelines," by James A. Bitter and Don L. Goodyear; "Helter Skelter," by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry; "The Victims," by Frank G. Carrington; "Where Do You Draw the Line?," edited by Victor B. Cline; "Provo, Living With Terrorism," by Richard Clutterbuck; "Police Social Work," by Edward M. Colbach and Charles D. Fosterling; "The World of the Burglar: Five Criminal Lives," edited by Pedro R. David; "Riot Control," by A. Deane-Drummond; "Deviance: A Cross-Cultural Perspective," by Robert B. Edgerton; Process and Impact of the Juvenile Justice System," by Edward Eldefonso and Alan R.Coffey; "Control, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders," by Edward Eldefonso and Walter Hartinger; "Politics and Crime," by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; and "We Are the Living Proof...," by David Fogel.

The article lists several books on politics, including "The Canadian Political Tradition: Basic Readings," edited by R.S. Blair and J.T. McLeod, "Social Policy in the 1990s: Agenda for Reform," by Thomas J. Courchene, and "The Decline of Urban Politics: Political Theory and the Crisis of the Local State," M. Gottdiener.

The article presents a list of books on public administration including " Public Sector Wage Inflation and the Ontario Controls Program," by Douglas Auld and David Wilson, "Controlling Public Enterprise in Europe," by M.E. Beesley, A. Likierman and S. Bloomfield and "Industrial Policy in Ontario," by Richard M. Bird.

List several books about philosophy.

In the humanities and social sciences, bibliometric methods for the assessment of research performance are (so far) less common. This study uses a concrete example in an attempt to evaluate a research institute from the area of social sciences and humanities with the help of data from Google Scholar ( GS). In order to use GS for a bibliometric study, we developed procedures for the normalization of citation impact, building on the procedures of classical bibliometrics. In order to test the convergent validity of the normalized citation impact scores, we calculated normalized scores for a subset of the publications based on data from the Web of Science ( WoS) and Scopus. Even if scores calculated with the help of GS and the WoS/ Scopus are not identical for the different publication types (considered here), they are so similar that they result in the same assessment of the institute investigated in this study: For example, the institute's papers whose journals are covered in the WoS are cited at about an average rate (compared with the other papers in the journals). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a list of books including "The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism," by Keith G. Banting, "Some Psychological Consequences of Striking," by Julian Barling and Jill Milligan, and "Battered Women," by Micheline Beaudry.

Presents a list of books about philosophy. `Re-Defining Community,' by Edmund Aku; `Thinking From the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation,' edited by Linda Martin Alcoff and Eduardo Medieta; `Michel Foucault: An Introduction,' by Philip Baker.

Presents the list of the forthcoming papers related to medicine. Titles; Authors; Countries.

The article lists several books including "A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good," by Robert Merrihew Adams, "Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others," by Sara Ahmed, and "Decadence of the French Nietzsche," by James Brusseau.

This article presents a list of books and papers related to personnel psychology. Some of the books enlisted are--"The American Management Associations' Management Development Guide: July-December 1977," "Personnel Administration: An Experiential Skill-Building Approach," by Richard W. Beatty and Craig Eric Schneier; "Psychology and Consumer Affairs," by Milton L. Blum; "How to Develop Dynamic Leadership: A Short Course for Professionals," by Michael V. Fiore and Paul S. Strauss; "Management: An Organizational Perspective," by Martin J. Gannon; "Decision Making: A Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice and Commitment," by Irving L. Janis and Leon Mann; "Contrasts in Management," by Rosemary Stewart; and "Business and Society: A Managerial Approach," by Frederick D. Sturdivant.

Reviews `A Revisionist Chronology of Papers,' by T.A. Hieronymus.

The article lists several books received including "What is an Apparatus," by Giorgio Agamben, "The Mystical in Wittgentein's Early Writings," by James Atkinson and "The Six Ways of Atheism: New Logical Disproofs of the Existence of God," by Geoffrey Berg.

The article presents a list of books including "Life Spaces: Gender, Household, Employment," edited by Caroline Andrew and Beth Moore Milroy, "Overtime: Legislative and Collective Bargaining Issues," by David J. Arrowsmith, and "Canada: Its Framework, Its Foibles, Its Future," by Allan E. Blakeney.

The article lists the books received by this journal for review which includes ""Without the Law": Administrative Justice and Legal Pluralism in Nineteenth-Century England," by H. W. Arthurs, "Canadian Cases in Business-Government Relations," by Mark C. Baetz and Donald H. Thain, and "Established Program Financing: Evolution or Regression in Canadian Fiscal Federalism?" by Malcolm C. Brown.

Features the book 'The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods and Findings,' by B.E. Wampold. Key issues concerning educational psychology that were explored by the book; Key applications in education; Publisher information.

Features the book 'Helping Parents Help Their Kids: A Clinical Guide to Six Child Problem Behaviors,' by E. Cipani. Key issues concerning educational psychology that were explored by the book; Key applications in education; Publisher information.

The article lists several papers, symposiums and books to be published in the upcoming issues of the periodical including the paper Political discussion in China's English language press, the book ''English in Japan in the Era of Globalization,'' and the Symposia World Englishes in world Religions.

This article presents a list of books related to industrial relations. Some of the books enlisted are "Attendance Management Programs: Doing it Right," by Daniel F. Wong, "Business Economics," by Maria Moschandreas, "Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation," by Robert A. Paton and James McCalman, "British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79," edited by John Mcllroy, Nina Fishman and Alan Campbell, "Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation," by Robert A. Paton and James McCalman, "Coalitions Across the Class Divide: Lessons From the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements," by Fred Rose, "Doing Critical Management Research," by Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz, "The Emergent Organization: Communication As Its Site and Surface," by James R. Taylor and Elizabeth J. Van Every, "Employee Relations in the Public Services: Themes and Issues," edited by Susan Corby and Geoff White, "Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace," edited by Adrienne E. Eaton and Jeffrey H. Keefe and others.

The article lists the books received which includes the "Canadian Tax Policy," by Robin W. Boadway and Harry M. Kitchen, the "Eldorado: Canada's National Uranium Company," by Robert Bothwell, and the "Oceans From Space: Towards the Management of our Coastal Zone," by Frank E. Bunn.