VOLUME 6(2) • 2014
EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION: A LAST CHANCE TO PREVENT UNINTENDED PREGNANCY
ABSTRACT. Emergency contraception provides women with a last chance to prevent unintended pregnancy after sex. In the United States, available options for emergency contraception are three kinds of pills (levonorgestrel, ulipristal acetate, and regular oral contraceptive pills in different doses) an..
CREATIVITY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
ABSTRACT. In this paper, originally delivered as the keynote address at the annual meeting of the NYS Psychological Association, I take issue with the common view that madness or mental illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder contribute to creativity and suggest that it is more interesting..
TRACING PUBLIC VALUES CHANGE: A HISTORICAL STUDY OF CIVIL SERVICE JOB ADVERTISEMENTS
ABSTRACT. Long term changes in public values are not easily detected. One important reason is the limited availability of reliable empirical data. Job advertisements allow us to go back in history for some decades and job ads may present us with the values that are supposed to guide civil servant be..
PROGRESSION IN STUDENT CREATIVITY IN SCHOOL: FIRST STEPS TOWARDS NEW FORMS OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS
ABSTRACT. Creativity is widely accepted as being an important outcome of schooling. Yet there are many different views about what it is, how best it can be cultivated in young people and whether or how it should be assessed. And in many national curricula creativity is only implicitly acknowledged a..
SOCIAL NETWORKING AND SMALL BUSINESS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
ABSTRACT. This paper reports the results of a study of small businesses in north Georgia, to determine to what extent they are utilizing social networking and if so, for what purpose. The research finds that small business has an established presence in the social networking domain, and to some exte..
ASIA-PACIFIC AT THE CROSSROADS – IMPLICATIONS FOR AUSTRALIAN STRATEGIC DEFENSE POLICY
ABSTRACT. This paper examines the changing geo-political situation in the Asia-Pacific Region from an Australian defense policy perspective. The article focuses on China, the US, and Indonesia and examines Australia’s strategic defense needs for the coming decade. The paper concludes by laying out f..