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From Generation to Generation explores what we know about the development of white, black, Hispanic, and Asian children and youth from numerous countries of origin. Describing the status of immigrant children and youth as "severely understudied," this work both draws on and supplements existing research to characterize the current status and outlook for immigrant children. The book discusses the many factors - acculturation, conditions in their receiving communities, parent employment and income, fluency in English, delivery of health and social services, and public policies - that shape the lives of these children and youth. The committee makes recommendations for improved research and data collection designed to advance knowledge about these children and, as a result, their visibility in current policy debates

"175 years ago our forebears brought forth a new nation, conceived in trust and dedicated to the proposition that all New Zealanders would be one people, living under the same law. But for the last 40 years we have been under relentless pressure to divide the country into two groups - iwi and the rest of us. Back in 1975 Waitangi Day and the Treaty of Waitangi Act were set up to foster a sense of nationhood and a greater awareness of the Treaty as a symbol that embraces us all. What we got instead was years of protest and vitriol while billions of dollars have been taken from everyone and handed over to private tribal trusts. How did we get to this? Eight authors from a variety of political backgrounds Hugh Barr, Don Brash, Mike Butler, Reuben Chapple, Peter Cresswell, Bruce Moon, John Robinson and David Round - explain it in this new, groundbreaking book - One Treaty, One Nation. They say: -Before 1840 was a veritable shambles -There is only one Treaty -Colonisation brought benefits and not disaster -Treaty "partnership" and "principles" are pure fiction Maori sovereignty is the enemy of democracy and equality -The country's name is being changed by stealth Indoctrination is closing the nation's mind -The Maori seats in Parliament have long passed their use-by date -The Waitangi Tribunal is causing such harm that it must be abolished -Treaty settlements enrich the pale-faced tribal elite without helping others -We are losing our beaches to the tribal elite -Wealthy and commercial tribes pay no tax -Local government is being tribalised by stealth"--Publisher information

This is a publication of the Q&A session that followed Quentin Skin­ner's lecture. He was asked to reflect on variations of dependence (as an alternative to using a general notion of dependence); to comment on the application of his (positive) notion of freedom to cases where the outcome of the struggle for freedom is a different kind of unfreedom; to clarify rela­tionships between the concepts of nondependence and noninterference and self-realization and noninterference. Настоящая публикация является расшифровкой обмена вопросами и ответами, последовавшего после лекции Квентина Скиннера. В частности его попросили ответить на вопросы о вариантах зависимости как альтернативе использования обобщенного понятия зависимости, о трактовке "свободы" применительно к ситуациям, когда борьба за свободу приводит к новому состоянию несвободы, об отношениях между концепциями независимости и невмешательства, самореализации и невмешательства.

PURPOSE: Psychological stress is a significant health problem in veterans and their family members. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stress lead to onset, progression, and worsening of several inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases in the veterans and civilians. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive irreversible neuroinflammatory disease that causes problems with memory, thinking, and behavior. TBI and chronic psychological stress cause and accelerate the pathology of neuroinflammatory diseases such as AD. However, the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms governing neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration are currently unknown, especially in the veterans. Therefore, the purpose of this review article is to advance the hypothesis that stress and TBI-mediated immune response substantially contribute and accelerate the pathogenesis of AD in veterans and their close family members and civilians. METHODS: The information in this article was collected and interpreted from the published articles in PubMed between 1985 and 2020 using the keywords stress, psychological stress, Afghanistan war, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Iraq War, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation New Dawn (OND), traumatic brain injury, mast cell and stress, stress and neuroimmune response, stress and Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's disease. FINDINGS: Chronic psychological stress and brain injury induce the generation and accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptide, amyloid plaques (APs), neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) and phosphorylation of tau in the brain thereby contributing to AD pathogenesis. Active military personnel and veterans are under enormous psychological stress due to various war-related activities, including TBI, disabilities, fear, new environmental conditions, lack of normal life activities, insufficient communications, explosions, military-related noise, and health hazards. Brain injury, stress, mast cell, and other immune cell activation can induce headache, migraine, dementia, and ...