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Empathy in the Clinical Encounter: A Study of Situational and Dispositional Empathy Levels as Associated with Clinical Training and Practice 3 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
Research in practitioner empathy has suggested that levels of empathy decline over time in both medical trainees and practicing professionals. Specifically, empathy erosion has been found to occur in ...
Parental Reaction to a Diagnosis of Autism: How Resolution Relates to Parental Reflective Functioning and Parenting Stress 3 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationships among a parent's resolution of a diagnosis of autism ascribed to his/her child, parental reflective functioning, as assessed using the ...
Parent-Child Agreement Concerning Psychopathology: The Differential Impact of Parent Stress, Parent-Child Discrepancies, and Response Bias on Inpatien... 3 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
It is well-established that informant agreement on self-report measures of psychopathology is quite low (Achenbach, McConaughy, & Howell, 1987). However, it is only recently that researchers have ende...
An Interactive Iterative Method for Electronic Searching of Large Literature Databases 3 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
PubMed® is an on-line literature database hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Containing over 21 million citations for biomedical literature--both abstracts and full text--in the areas of...
Challenges to China's Natural Resources Conservation and Biodiversity Legislation 31 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
Despite China's legislative attempts to conserve its natural resources and in turn protect biodiversity, Chinese law in many aspects remains ineffective in pursuit of these goals due to struggles with...
Climate Policy & U.S.-China Relations 31 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
The Chinese stance, that no cap on carbon emissions will ever exist no matter how high, may be a product of China's belief in a cold and hard, and potentially true, reality-that global economic power ...
The Future of Food Eco-Labeling: Organic, Carbon Footprint, and Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis 31 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
This Article discusses public and private efforts to inform consumers about environmentally preferable food choices. Part II describes the environmental consequences of the modern food system. Part II...
Food, Law & the Environment: Informational and Structural Changes for A Sustainable Food System 31 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
This Article considers legal, theoretical, and practical steps to a more sustainable food model. Part I discusses the underlying reasons for problems in the current food system, including those manife...
The Ideology of Legal Interpretation 31 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
This Article questions whether consistency in legal interpretation is truly a manifestation of the influence of law or instead a means to a preferred policy end. Part I of this Article discusses the l...
An Empirical Investigation of Judicial Decisionmaking, Statutory Interpretation, and the Chevron Doctrine in Environmental Law 31 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
How do courts evaluate decisions of statutory interpretation made by government agencies that deal in environmental law? While research on judicial decisionmaking in environmental law has primarily fo...
