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Intro -- THE YEAR MY POLITICS BROKE -- CONTENTS -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- 1 Carry on regardless -- 2 Rudd and the insiders -- 3 Soap before substance -- 4 Men and women of Australia -- 5 Class war -- 6 The hip pocket: Budget politics -- 7 Politics almost working -- 8 Truth in the Telstra pits -- 9 The moral dimension -- 10 Killing the planet -- 11 Sliding to the centre -- 12 Leadership: That's the thing -- 13 Abbott PM and Rudd redux.

Introduction: printing and prophecy -- The Sibyl's book -- Prophets in print -- Prophets and their readers -- Visions of visions: functions of the image in printed prophecy -- Practica teütsch -- Fear, floods, and the paradox of the practica teütsch -- Conclusion: the prophetic reader

"Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book—not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and known today only from a single page—over the next century were perennial best sellers for many printers, and they provide the modern observer with a unique way to study the history and inner workings of the print medium. The very popularity of these works, often published as affordable booklets, raised fears of social unrest. Printers therefore had to meet customer demand while at the same time channeling readers' reactions along approved paths. Authors were packaged—and packaged themselves—in word and image to respond to the tension, while leading figures of early modern culture such as Paracelsus, Martin Luther, and Sebastian Brant used printed prophecies for their own purposes in a rapidly changing society.

Based on a wide reading of many sources, Printing and Prophecy contributes to the study of early modern literature, including how print changed the relationship among authors, readers, and texts. The prophetic and astrological texts the book examines document changes in early modern society that are particularly relevant to German studies and are key texts for understanding the development of science, religion, and popular culture in the early modern period. By combining the methods of cultural studies and book history, this volume brings a new perspective to the study of Gutenberg and later printers."

In the above-mentioned article the dates in line 3 of the abstract should read as follows:"Theory and Practice" (1793) and his tract on Perpetual Peace (1795).

While many studies have examined the effects of therapeutic misconception on research participants, less is known about how the behavior of physician-investigators is affected. Requests for protocol exceptions submitted to the IRB at a major academic center over a three-year period were examined. These were classified into one of seven categories and analyzed based on the type of trial, the investigator, and the funding source. The results show that exceptions are frequent, are often motivated by therapeutic intent, and have the potential to adversely impact both participants and the validity of study data, leading to what we have termed therapeutic misdirection. Studies of exception requests may be an objective way to gauge the extent and impact of the physician-investigator conflict.

PACT, thérapie de communication pour enfants autistes d'âge préscolaire La thérapie de communication pour les enfants autistes d'âge préscolaire (PACT) est la seule méthode de traitement de l'autisme précoce à montrer un effet à long terme portant sur le symptôme de l'autisme sur un suivi de 6 ans. Elle a aussi permis de mettre en évidence le mécanisme par lequel ces effets sont produits. Le modèle PACT est conçu sur la base des modèles développementaux et transactionnels appliqués à l'autisme, afin de créer une intervention naturaliste d'intensité relativement faible pouvant être appliquée avec souplesse à domicile ou en clinique. Ce modèle fonctionne avec les parents, les éducateurs ou les enseignants en utilisant des méthodes de feedback vidéo pour améliorer la reconnaissance et la réactivité à la communication des enfants et optimiser le développement de leur communication sociale. À ce jour, cinq études de réplication portant sur l'effet central de cette intervention sur l'interaction parent-enfant et quatre sur l'évolution des symptômes chez l'enfant ont été réalisées. PACT a fait l'objet du plus long suivi après intervention dans le domaine, et le maintien de ses effets sur le développement de l'enfant a ainsi été démontré. Une formule adaptée s'est révélée efficace dans les pays à revenu faible et moyen, et une intervention préventive s'est avérée efficace chez les nourrissons présentant un risque d'autisme. La formation au modèle PACT est disponible grâce à une combinaison d'apprentissage en ligne, de formation en face à face et d'enseignement pratique supervisé. ( http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/pact/TrainingPACT/ ).

Causal inference and machine learning are typically introduced in the social sciences separately as theoretically distinct methodological traditions. This volume provides theoretical and practical introductions to machine learning for social scientists interested in applying such methods to experimental data.