Georgia State University

About: Georgia State University is a education organization based out in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 13988 authors who have published 35895 publications receiving 1164332 citations. The organization is also known as: GSU & Georgia State.

Symbolic Interactionism and Family Studies

Abstract: Symbolic interactionism occupies a unique and important position in family studies. The principal theoretical orientation of the 1920s and 1930s (when family studies was endeavoring to establish itself as a science) and one of the most popular family perspectives today, symbolic interactionism probably has had more of an impact on the study of families than almost any other theoretical perspective (Hays, 1977; Howard, 1981).

High Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau and Low Amyloid β42 Levels in the Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease and Relation to Apolipoprotein E Genotype

Abstract: Objective To evaluate cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of amyloid β protein ending at amino acid 42 (Aβ42) and tau as markers for Alzheimer disease (AD) and to determine whether clinical variables influence these levels. Design Cohort study. Setting Six academic research centers with expertise in dementia. Subjects Eighty-two patients with probable AD, including 24 with very mild dementia (Mini-Mental State Examination score >23/30) (AD group); 60 cognitively normal elderly control subjects (NC group); and 74 subjects with neurological disorders, including dementia (ND group). Main Outcome Measures Levels of Aβ42 and tau were compared among AD, NC, and ND groups. Relationships of age, sex, Mini-Mental State Examination score, and apolipoprotein E (Apo E) genotype with these levels were examined using multiple linear regression. Classification tree models were developed to optimize distinguishing AD from NC groups. Results Levels of Αβ42 were significantly lower, and levels of tau were significantly higher, in the AD group than in the NC or ND group. In the AD group, Αβ42 level was inversely associated with Apo E ϵ 4 allele dose and weakly related to Mini-Mental State Examination score; tau level was associated with male sex and 1 Apo E ϵ 4 allele. Classification tree analysis, comparing the AD and NC subjects, was 90% sensitive and 80% specific. With specificity set at greater than 90%, the tree was 77% sensitive for AD. This tree classified 26 of 74 members of the ND group as having AD. They had diagnoses difficult to distinguish from AD clinically and a high Apo E ϵ 4 allele frequency. Markers in CSF were used to correctly classify 12 of 13 patients who later underwent autopsy, including 1 with AD not diagnosed clinically. Conclusions Levels of CSF Αβ42 decrease and levels of CSF tau increase in AD. Apolipoprotein E ϵ 4 had a dose-dependent relationship with CSF levels of Αβ42, but not tau. Other covariates influenced CSF markers minimally. Combined analysis of CSF Αβ42 and tau levels discriminated patients with AD, including patients with mild dementia, from the NC group, supporting use of these proteins to identify AD and to distinguish early AD from aging. In subjects in the ND group with an AD CSF profile, autopsy follow-up will be required to decide whether CSF results are false positive, or whether AD is a primary or concomitant cause of dementia.

Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography

Abstract: Contents: Introduction: Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and geography, Stuart Elden and Jeremy W. Crampton. Part 1 Questions: Some questions from Michel Foucault to HA(c)rodote, Michel Foucault (translated by Stuart Elden). Part 2 Francophone Responses a " 1977: HA(c)rodote editorial, translated by Gerald Moore Response: Jean-Michel Brabant (translated by Gerald Moore) Response: Alain Joxe (translated by Gerald Moore) Response:Jean-Bernard Racine and Claude Raffestin (translated by Gerald Moore) Response: Michel Riou (translated by Gerald Moore). Part 3 Anglophone Responses a " 2006: The Kantian roots of Foucault's dilemmas, David Harvey Geography, gender and power, Sara Mills Overcome by space: reworking Foucault, Nigel Thrift Foucault among the geographers, Thomas Flynn. Part 4 Contexts: Strategy, medicine and habitat: Foucault in 1976, Stuart Elden Formations of 'Foucault' in Anglo-American geography: an archaeological sketch, Matthew Hannah Catalysts and converts: sparking interest for Foucault among Francophone geographers, Juliet J. Fall Could Foucault have revolutionized geography?, Claude Raffestin (translated by Gerald Moore). Part 5 Texts: The incorporation of the hospital into modern technology, Michel Foucault (translated by Edgar Knowlton Jr., William J. King, and Stuart Elden) The meshes of power, Michel Foucault (translated by Gerald Moore) The language of space, Michel Foucault (translated by Gerald Moore) The force of flight, Michel Foucault (translated by Gerald Moore) Questions on geography, Michel Foucault (translated by Colin Gordon). Part 6 Development: Geographies of governmentality, Margo Huxley The history of medical geography after Foucault, Gerry Kearns Maps, race and Foucault: eugenics and territorialization following World War I, Jeremy W. Crampton Beyond the Panopticon? Foucault and surveillance studies, David Murakami Wood Beyond the European province: Foucault and postcolonialism, Stephen Legg Foucault, sexuality, geography, Philip Howell The problem with Empire, Mathew Coleman and John A. Agnew 'Bellicose history' and 'local discursivities': an archaeological reading of Michel Foucault's Society Must be Defended, Chris Philo. Index.

Finance and the Sources of Growth at Various Stages of Economic Development

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of financial development on the sources of growth in different groups of countries. Recent theoretical work shows that financial development may affect productivity and capital accumulation in different ways in industrial versus developing countries. This hypothesis is tested with panel data from 74 countries using GMM dynamic panel techniques. Results are consistent with the hypothesis: finance has a strong positive influence on productivity growth primarily in more developed economies. In less developed economies, the effect of finance on output growth occurs primarily through capital accumulation.