Book Review of “At Risk: Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services” by Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan, 2009, Toronto: University of Toronto Press

The newest book by Canadian social work scholars Karen Swift and Marilyn Callahan is exemplary of how other disciplines can invigorate social work theory. “At Risk” uses child welfare practice as an entry point for exploring the continuing movement away from addressing needs and towards the management of risk in the human services.

Taking action against ocean acidification: A review of management and policy options

Ocean acidification has emerged over the last two decades as one of the largest threats to marine organisms and ecosystems. However, most research efforts on ocean acidification have so far neglected management and related policy issues to focus instead on understanding its ecological and biogeochemical implications. This shortfall is addressed here with a systematic, international and critical review of management and policy options. In particular, we investigate the assumption that fighting acidification is mainly, but not only, about reducing CO2 emissions, and explore the leeway that this emerging problem may open in old environmental issues. We review nine types of management responses, initially grouped under four categories: preventing ocean acidification; strengthening ecosystem resilience; adapting human activities; and repairing damages. Connecting and comparing options leads to classifying them, in a qualitative way, according to their potential and feasibility. While reducing CO2 emissions is confirmed as the key action that must be taken against acidification, some of the other options appear to have the potential to buy time, e.g. by relieving the pressure of other stressors, and help marine life face unavoidable acidification. Although the existing legal basis to take action shows few gaps, policy challenges are significant: tackling them will mean succeeding in various areas of environmental management where we failed to a large extent so far.

Systematic review of genetic risk score in coronary heart disease and other diseases

In order to better take advantage of the abundant results from large-scale genomic association studies, investigators are turning to a genetic risk score (GRS) method in order to combine the information from common modest-effect risk alleles into an efficient risk assessment statistic. The statistical properties of these GRSs are poorly understood. As a first step toward a better understanding of GRSs, a systematic analysis of recent investigations using a GRS was undertaken. GRS studies were searched in the areas of coronary heart disease (CHD), cancer, and other common diseases using bibliographic databases and by hand-searching reference lists and journals. Twenty-one independent case-control studies, cohort studies, and simulation studies (12 in CHD, 9 in other diseases) were identified. The underlying statistical assumptions of the GRS using the experience of the Framingham risk score were investigated. Improvements in the construction of a GRS guided by the concept of composite indicators are discussed. The GRS will be a promising risk assessment tool to improve prediction and diagnosis of common diseases.^

A review of thermochemical conversion of microalgae

Microalgae are very effective microorganisms for CO2 capturing and a promising source of lipids for biodiesel as well as other interesting compounds. Many different ways of exploitation of these organisms are being tested. This work presents a review of the state of the art of the research and development of thermochemical conversion of microalgae with a special focus on pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction. Aspects related to the type of reactors, the products obtained and the analytical applications are covered. The actual reaction scheme of pyrolysis of microalgae is extremely complex because of the formation of over hundreds of intermediate products. Various kinetic models reported in the literature and in a previous study with experimental validations are presented in this review to provide the current status of the study.

Interagency coordination in drug research and regulation. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session. Agency coordination study, pursuant to S. Res. 27, 88th Cong. Review of cooperation on drug policies among Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Veterans' Administration, and other agencies. Mar. 20-June 26, 1963.

Mode of access: Internet.

Review of recreation and other selected land use activities [of the] Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; report to the Congress of the United States by the Comptroller General of the United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mississippi River and tributaries project. Letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated April 6, 1963, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustrations, on a review of the Mississippi River and tributaries project, in response to a resolution adopted June 12, 1964, by the Committee on Public Works of the United States Senate, and to other resolutions by the committee and by the Committee on Public Works of the House of Representatives, listed in the accompanying report of the Mississippi River Commission, and to the Flood control acts of July 24, 1946 and May 17, 1950.

Stamped at head of cover title: Also issued as 88/2 H. doc. 308.

Observations on the management of the prevailing diseases in Great Britain, particularly in the army and navy; together with a review of that of other countries and arithmetical calculations of the comparative success of different methods of cure /

Mode of access: Internet.

Saginaw River, Michigan; letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers ... submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustrations, on a review of reports on Saginaw River, Mich., with a view to determining the feasibility of improving Saginaw River or its tributaries for flood control and other purposes ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The Providence plantations for two hundred and fifty years : an historical review of the foundation, rise, and progress of the city of Prividence ... Also, sketches of the cities of New Port and Pawtucket, and other towns of the state, for which Providence is the commercial centre, together with an account of the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Providence. Being an historical souvenir of this occasion /

Mode of access: Internet.

Gems from Petőfi and other Hungarian poets, [translated] with a memoir of the former, and a review of Hungary's poetical literature /

An enlarged and revised ed. of this work and "Magyar songs" (N.Y., 1887) was pub. under the title: Magyar poetry (N.Y., 1899).

Annual review of the iron mining and other industries of the upper peninsula of Michigan.

Mode of access: Internet.