S Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5413820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5499-6323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Profile of Current Trends in Family Mobility in Florida
This paper is divided into three parts. First, we analyze data from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to assess the demographic structure of Florida families. We find differences between Florida and other parts of the United States. These differences are the result of trends and patterns in migration to, from and within the state. Second, we examine the role that disasters in general and hurricanes in par…
Embers of War--Call It a Masterpiece
Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work
Social workers in adult social care are at particular risk of job-related stress, although the contribution of different organisational and policy changes to this phenomenon is subject to debate. This paper explores a theoretical framework from the occupational psychology literature (the Job Demand/Control Model) to identify the characteristics of those most at risk of stress, in a sample of 249 social workers and other care managers working in E…
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Modernizing Repression
Jeremy Kuzmarov is a prolific young historian. Just three years after the publication of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (2009), he has produced this ambitious work, which examines U.S. police training programs throughout the developing world over more than a century. He is to be commended for setting his sights high. The result, alas, disappoints, as his book suffers from repetitiveness, sanctimony, and turgid …
Personalisation through Individual Budgets
In England, ‘personal budgets’ are being implemented at a time of financial austerity. They are part of a growing trend internationally to give users of publicly funded social care and support more choice and control. In the individual budgets' (IB) pilot, people were allocated and had control over the way their IB was managed and spent, offering the opportunity to explore the potential of IBs to deliver better outcomes for people than convention…
Safeguarding and System Change
Cash for care or consumer-directed services are increasing in scope and size in Europe and North America. The English Department of Health initiated a pilot form of personalised support for adults (Individual Budgets) in 13 local authorities that aimed to extend opportunities for users of social care services to determine their own priorities and preferences in the expectation that this will enhance their well-being. This article reports on and d…
Training for Change
Individual Budgets are central to the implementation of English government policy goals in social care. Like other consumer-directed or self-directed support programmes operating in parts of the developed world, they are envisaged as a way of increasing individuals' choice and control over social care resources provided by the public sector. While the opportunities they provide for people using services have been identified prospectively in the E…
Triumph Forsaken
Mark Moyar's revisionist study of the path toward full U.S. deployment in Vietnam—the first of a two-volume history of America's longest war—commands respect for the number and variety of gauntlets it flings. Few tenets of conventional wisdom emerge unchallenged from this book, and several so-called orthodox historians, myself included, take their lumps. Moyar claims that a “reigning ideological orthodoxy” at American universities has led to “def…
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in First Nations Preschool Children in Alberta
Dangerous alliances
In a 1995 review of three books on the subject of media on the continent, South African media historian Les Switzer concluded that empirical research [on the African media] is often lacking in quantity and quality (1995:133). The main shortcomings were the lack of an interdisciplinary orientation and the fact that the research was derived uncritically from a Euro-American context (1995:133). More recently, Helge Ronning (2001) suggested that whil…
A top–down, multidisciplinary study of the structure and function of the pack-ice ecosystem in the eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica
We used a top–down, multidisciplinary approach to examine the physical and biological environment of the pack ice of the eastern Ross Sea (approximately 125–170°W) during the austral summer of 1999/2000 from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer and its ship-based helicopters. The approach focused on pack-ice seals while incorporating studies of biotic and abiotic factors that may influence the distribution and abundances of these apex predators in the Ross S…
Gender differences in the effects of bereavement-related psychological distress in health outcomes
Background. This study examined whether traumatic grief, depressive and anxiety symptoms formed three distinct factors for widows and widowers. In addition, we examined whether high symptom levels of traumatic grief, depression and anxiety predicted different mental and physical health outcomes for widows and widowers. Method. Ninety-two future widows and 58 future widowers were interviewed at the time of their spouse's hospital admission and the…
Conscious and unconscious coping with loss
Sixty-seven persons were identified 1 to 2 months after the death or life-threatening illness of their spouse and followed for 25 months. Intake measures included a) a revised Ways of Coping Scale, a structured assessment of ego defenses, sociodemographic information, and other baseline variables. Fifty-six completed follow-up. Outcome measures included deaths, hospitalization, self-rated health, depressive symptoms, symptoms of anxiety, and sepa…
Genetic differences among subspecies of the saddle‐back tamarin ( Saguinus fuscicollis )
The subspecies of saddle‐back tamarins ( Saguinus fuscicollis ) are known to be chromatically and morphologically diverse but little is known of the genetic basis for the observed morphological variation. The morphology of first generation subspecific hybrids can be compared to that of the parental subspecies to provide information on the extent and nature of genetic differences in morphology between subspecies. We compare two groups of saddle‐ba…
Effects of annular cranial vault modification on the cranial base and face
Artificial modification of the cranial vault was practiced by a number of prehistoric and protohistoric populations, frequently during an infant's first year of life. We test the hypothesis that, in addition to its direct effects on the cranial vault, annular cranial vault modification has a significant indirect effect on cranial base and facial morphology. Two skeletal series from the Pacific Northwest Coast, which include both nonmodified and m…
Effects of annular cranial vault modification on the cranial base and face
Artificial modification of the cranial vault was practiced by a number of prehistoric and protohistoric populations, frequently during an infant's first year of life. We test the hypothesis that, in addition to its direct effects on the cranial vault, annular cranial vault modification has a significant indirect effect on cranial base and facial morphology. Two skeletal series from the Pacific Northwest Coast, which include both nonmodified and m…
Personalisation through Individual Budgets
In England, ‘personal budgets’ are being implemented at a time of financial austerity. They are part of a growing trend internationally to give users of publicly funded social care and support more choice and control. In the individual budgets' (IB) pilot, people were allocated and had control over the way their IB was managed and spent, offering the opportunity to explore the potential of IBs to deliver better outcomes for people than convention…
Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work
Social workers in adult social care are at particular risk of job-related stress, although the contribution of different organisational and policy changes to this phenomenon is subject to debate. This paper explores a theoretical framework from the occupational psychology literature (the Job Demand/Control Model) to identify the characteristics of those most at risk of stress, in a sample of 249 social workers and other care managers working in E…
Safeguarding and System Change
Cash for care or consumer-directed services are increasing in scope and size in Europe and North America. The English Department of Health initiated a pilot form of personalised support for adults (Individual Budgets) in 13 local authorities that aimed to extend opportunities for users of social care services to determine their own priorities and preferences in the expectation that this will enhance their well-being. This article reports on and d…
Training for Change
Individual Budgets are central to the implementation of English government policy goals in social care. Like other consumer-directed or self-directed support programmes operating in parts of the developed world, they are envisaged as a way of increasing individuals' choice and control over social care resources provided by the public sector. While the opportunities they provide for people using services have been identified prospectively in the E…
Dangerous alliances
In a 1995 review of three books on the subject of media on the continent, South African media historian Les Switzer concluded that empirical research [on the African media] is often lacking in quantity and quality (1995:133). The main shortcomings were the lack of an interdisciplinary orientation and the fact that the research was derived uncritically from a Euro-American context (1995:133). More recently, Helge Ronning (2001) suggested that whil…
Genetic differences among subspecies of the saddle‐back tamarin ( Saguinus fuscicollis )
The subspecies of saddle‐back tamarins ( Saguinus fuscicollis ) are known to be chromatically and morphologically diverse but little is known of the genetic basis for the observed morphological variation. The morphology of first generation subspecific hybrids can be compared to that of the parental subspecies to provide information on the extent and nature of genetic differences in morphology between subspecies. We compare two groups of saddle‐ba…
Effects of annular cranial vault modification on the cranial base and face
Artificial modification of the cranial vault was practiced by a number of prehistoric and protohistoric populations, frequently during an infant's first year of life. We test the hypothesis that, in addition to its direct effects on the cranial vault, annular cranial vault modification has a significant indirect effect on cranial base and facial morphology. Two skeletal series from the Pacific Northwest Coast, which include both nonmodified and m…
Conscious and unconscious coping with loss
Sixty-seven persons were identified 1 to 2 months after the death or life-threatening illness of their spouse and followed for 25 months. Intake measures included a) a revised Ways of Coping Scale, a structured assessment of ego defenses, sociodemographic information, and other baseline variables. Fifty-six completed follow-up. Outcome measures included deaths, hospitalization, self-rated health, depressive symptoms, symptoms of anxiety, and sepa…
Gender differences in the effects of bereavement-related psychological distress in health outcomes
Background. This study examined whether traumatic grief, depressive and anxiety symptoms formed three distinct factors for widows and widowers. In addition, we examined whether high symptom levels of traumatic grief, depression and anxiety predicted different mental and physical health outcomes for widows and widowers. Method. Ninety-two future widows and 58 future widowers were interviewed at the time of their spouse's hospital admission and the…
A top–down, multidisciplinary study of the structure and function of the pack-ice ecosystem in the eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica
We used a top–down, multidisciplinary approach to examine the physical and biological environment of the pack ice of the eastern Ross Sea (approximately 125–170°W) during the austral summer of 1999/2000 from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer and its ship-based helicopters. The approach focused on pack-ice seals while incorporating studies of biotic and abiotic factors that may influence the distribution and abundances of these apex predators in the Ross S…
Dangerous alliances
In a 1995 review of three books on the subject of media on the continent, South African media historian Les Switzer concluded that empirical research [on the African media] is often lacking in quantity and quality (1995:133). The main shortcomings were the lack of an interdisciplinary orientation and the fact that the research was derived uncritically from a Euro-American context (1995:133). More recently, Helge Ronning (2001) suggested that whil…
Triumph Forsaken
Mark Moyar's revisionist study of the path toward full U.S. deployment in Vietnam—the first of a two-volume history of America's longest war—commands respect for the number and variety of gauntlets it flings. Few tenets of conventional wisdom emerge unchallenged from this book, and several so-called orthodox historians, myself included, take their lumps. Moyar claims that a “reigning ideological orthodoxy” at American universities has led to “def…
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in First Nations Preschool Children in Alberta
Safeguarding and System Change
Cash for care or consumer-directed services are increasing in scope and size in Europe and North America. The English Department of Health initiated a pilot form of personalised support for adults (Individual Budgets) in 13 local authorities that aimed to extend opportunities for users of social care services to determine their own priorities and preferences in the expectation that this will enhance their well-being. This article reports on and d…
Training for Change
Individual Budgets are central to the implementation of English government policy goals in social care. Like other consumer-directed or self-directed support programmes operating in parts of the developed world, they are envisaged as a way of increasing individuals' choice and control over social care resources provided by the public sector. While the opportunities they provide for people using services have been identified prospectively in the E…
Personalisation through Individual Budgets
In England, ‘personal budgets’ are being implemented at a time of financial austerity. They are part of a growing trend internationally to give users of publicly funded social care and support more choice and control. In the individual budgets' (IB) pilot, people were allocated and had control over the way their IB was managed and spent, offering the opportunity to explore the potential of IBs to deliver better outcomes for people than convention…
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Modernizing Repression
Jeremy Kuzmarov is a prolific young historian. Just three years after the publication of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (2009), he has produced this ambitious work, which examines U.S. police training programs throughout the developing world over more than a century. He is to be commended for setting his sights high. The result, alas, disappoints, as his book suffers from repetitiveness, sanctimony, and turgid …
Embers of War--Call It a Masterpiece
Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work
Social workers in adult social care are at particular risk of job-related stress, although the contribution of different organisational and policy changes to this phenomenon is subject to debate. This paper explores a theoretical framework from the occupational psychology literature (the Job Demand/Control Model) to identify the characteristics of those most at risk of stress, in a sample of 249 social workers and other care managers working in E…
A Profile of Current Trends in Family Mobility in Florida
This paper is divided into three parts. First, we analyze data from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to assess the demographic structure of Florida families. We find differences between Florida and other parts of the United States. These differences are the result of trends and patterns in migration to, from and within the state. Second, we examine the role that disasters in general and hurricanes in par…
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