Impact : toward a framework for understanding the ecological effects of invaders

The human-microbial ecosystem plays a variety of important roles in human health and disease. Each person can be viewed as an island-like "patch" of habitat occupied by microbial assemblages formed by the fundamental processes of community ecology:…

A review of road-ecology literature suggests that impacts of forest roads on species and ecosystems begin during the road construction phase, but persist and accumulate well after a road is no longer in use. Over this time, impacts stemming…

This article discusses a conceptual framework for architecture- driven information system development. Rather than defining a completely new framework, the conceptual framework is synthe- sized out of relevant pre-existing frameworks for system…

Organizational distress, sickness, and ill health are important concepts given the consequences of organizational failure on the lives of people. It seems, however, that there is no comprehensive framework within organizational psychology for…

In this paper, we draw attention to common goals and supporting technologies of several relatively distinct communities to facilitate closer cooperation and faster progress. The common thread is the need for sharing the meaning of terms in a given…

Within the context of their new constructivist self-development theory, the authors discuss therapists' reactions to clients' traumatic material. The phenomenon they term vicarious traumatization can be understood as related both to the graphic and…

Childhood is a time filled with wondrous changes, as brain plasticity permits experiences to shape the immature brain to meet the demands of the environment. Change occurs at various levels-from neuroanatomy, including within a given region and its…

Occupational therapy and nursing literature share a common theoretical journey of the concept, spirituality. This paper draws on the nursing literature's theoretical progress in the area of spirituality in order to propose a theoretical framework…

This paper will review the literature on the rate, stability, and outcomes associated with externalizing behavior problems prior to kindergarten entry. Bronfenbrenner's (The ecology of human development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press)…

In the last decade, we have witnessed a significant increase in disaster preparedness and crisis communication efforts. This stands in sharp contrast with paucity of research that deals with the public's comprehension of disaster information and…