Water quality in Illinois.

"IEPA/WPC/90-168."

We depend on Illinois' environment.

Fifth grade.

United business service.

Mar. 22, 1920- "Confidential."

Bulletin /

No. 2 published in Chicago.

We, the Black Americans.

"March 1986"--P. [4] of cover.

We, the American women.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report - Auditor of State.

Report year irregular.

Official bulletin /

Mode of access: Internet.

Social security. Hearings before the Committee on Finance United States Senate Eighty-ninth Congress, first session on H.R. 6675

"H.R. 6675, an act to provide a hospital insurance program for the aged under the Social security act, with a supplementary health benefits program and an expanded program on medical assistance, to increase benefits under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance system, to improve the Federal-State public assistance programs, and for other purposes."

Scientific and technical aspects of the control of atomic energy; the full text of the First report of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, the background of the report, a glossary of scientific terms and biographical notes.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mental health in Appalachia; problems and prospects in the central highlands. A report based on a conference

"Prepared by Public Information Section, National Institute of Mental Health."

Metodologia adotada pela Secretaria de Estado da Saúde do Estado de São Paulo para avaliação dos hospitais administrados por organizações sociais de saúde na região metropolitana de São Paulo

O tema central deste estudo é descrever e analisar a metodologia de avaliação adotada pela Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo para avaliar os hospitais administrados por Organizações Sociais de Saúde (OSS), localizados na região metropolitana de São Paulo. O objetivo é descrever e analisar as dimensões selecionadas pela CGCSS – Coordenadoria de Gestão de Contratos de Serviços de Saúde e identificar os indicadores e as informaçoes geradas pelas OSS e encaminhadas rotineiramente para a CGCSS, além das ações tomadas em relação ao resultado dos indicadores e metas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória e descritiva, sendo analisados documentos técnicos e realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com técnicos da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo e com integrantes da Comissão de Avaliação da Execução dos Contratos de Gestão das Organizações Sociais. Conclui-se que a metodologia de avaliação de desempenho da OSS atende ao disposto na legislação estadual constante na lei nº 846/98, por meio do controle dos indicadores acordados previamente. Porém, a metodologia carece de indicadores capazes de avaliar a qualidade do serviço e o uso dos recursos financeiros. Um dos fatores relevantes em relação à pesquisa foi a falta de acesso aos dados, o que constitui a falta de publicização dos dados, por parte da SES/SP. Porém com a ajuda de alguns membros da comissão foi possível o acesso tardio, por entenderem ser informações públicas.

Comorbidity: Cannabis and complexity

Cannabis is one of the most commonly used illicit drugs, and its effects have traditionally been seen as less harmful than outcomes associated with the highly prevalent use of alcohol and other illicit substances (e.g., cocaine and amphetamines), and injecting drugs. Consequently, less attention has been focused on developing and evaluating interventions in this area. However, current research supports the idea that cannabis does pose a number of acute and chronic health risks to the individual and to society. The authors review findings concerning the physiological and neurological effects of cannabis, prevalence of use, and studies concerning its possible role as a "gateway" drug. Diagnostic criteria for cannabis dependence and abuse are discussed, with a focus on whether a cannabis withdrawal syndrome exists and if so how it can be diagnosed. There is strong support for a link between cannabis and the development and exacerbation of psychosis and other mental health conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression). Further research is needed to determine the underlying neurochemical processes and their possible contribution to etiology, as well as the social factors that contribute to the increasing use of cannabis by young people. In addition there is a need for systematic evaluation using randomized controlled trials to determine effective prevention and treatment strategies. A number of public health programs that address cannabis use are reviewed along with available evidence for their effectiveness.

The food superstore revolution:changing times, changing research agendas in the UK

This article considers the changing scope of research into UK food superstores over some three decades. Rather than catalogue changing market shares by format, we seek instead to show how such change links to national policy agendas. Academic research has evolved to address the growing complexities of the social, technological, economic and political impacts of the superstore format. We exemplify this by tracing the progression of retail change in Portsmouth, Hampshire, over 30 years. We discover that academic research can conflict with the preconceptions of some public policy makers. The position is exacerbated by a progressive decline in public information – and a commensurate rise in factual data held by commercial data companies – that leaves policy makers with a choice of which data to believe. This problem casts a shadow over the objectivity of macro-policy as currently formulated. Concerns currently arise because the UK Competition Commission (2006–2009 but ongoing) starts each inquiry afresh with a search for recent data. Furthermore, it has recently called for changes to retail planning – the very arena in which UK superstore research commenced.

Survival of a Perverse Nation: Sexuality and Kinship in Post-Soviet Armenia

Survival of a Perverse Nation traces the ways in which contemporary Armenian anxieties are congealing into the figure of the “homosexual.” As in other post-Soviet republics, homosexuality has increasingly become defined as the crisis of the times, and is understood by many as a destructive force linked to European encroachment. In Armenia, a growing right-wing nationalist movement since 2012 has been targeting LGBT and feminist activists. I suggest that this movement has arisen out of Armenia’s concerns regarding proper social and biological reproduction in the face of high rates of emigration of especially men in search of work. Many in the country blame this emigration on a post-Soviet oligarchy, with close ties to the government. This oligarchy, having quickly and massively privatized and liquidated industry and land during the war over the region of Nagorno-Karabagh (1990-1994) with Azerbaijan, created widespread un(der)employment. A national narrative attributing the nation’s survival of the 1915 Genocide and dispersion of its populations to strong morality preserved by institutions such as the Church and the family has now, in the post-Soviet era, ruptured into one of moral “perversion.” This dissertation is based on 15 months of ethnographic research, during which I participated in the work of two local non-governmental organizations: Public Information and Need for Knowledge, an LGBT rights organization and Women’s Resource Center, a feminist organization. I also conducted interviews with 150 households across Yerevan, the capital city, and did in-depth interviews with other activists, right-wing nationalists and journalists. Through psychoanalytic frameworks, as well as studies of kinship, I show how sovereignty – the longed for dream for Armenians over the last century – is felt to have failed because of the moral corruption of the illegitimate figures that fill Armenian seats of authority. I, thus, examine the ways in which a missing father of the household is discursively linked to the lack of strong leadership by a corrupt government, producing a prevalent feeling of moral disintegration that nationalists displace onto the “homosexual.”