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"With a focus on practical applications and examples, this book contains four main sections: Section I defines the social determinants of health at a place/population level and discusses their significance in light of current methodological limitations in identifying their impacts; Section II focuses on conceptual and empirical applications of ABM to analyze the social determinants of health; Section III focuses on conceptual and empirical applications of MSM to simulate, and thus, increase our understanding of the impacts of the social determinants of health; and Section IV addresses future directions for empirical research using ABM and MSM, including convergence of aspects of both ABM and MSM into the same analyses, and also casts light on the potential policy implications of findings of these more complex and integrative models. Topical coverage includes: the social determinants of health; current concepts and methods for ABM of the social determinants of health; empirical evidence using ABM in the social sciences; empirical evidence using ABM in social epidemiology and public health; MSM of the social determinants of health; empirical evidence using MSM in the social sciences; empirical evidence using MSM in social epidemiology and public health; future directions and conclusions"--

Part 1. -- He's a South Korean when he's running with you, and he's a North Korean when he's running after you : military orientalism and military humanitarianism -- "Tan Yanks" and Black Korea : military multicultualism and race war in cinema -- Military orientalism and the intimacies of collaboration : sacrifice and the construction of the Nisei citizen-soldier as a model minority -- Picture Koreans : the age of the world target and humanitarian orientalism

This article examines the technologies of nationalism that shape how the Korean War is depicted in two museum and memorial sites: The Price of Freedom: Americans at War , a permanent exhibit at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, and the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul. It shows how the use of traditional historical artifacts in The Price of Freedom and cinematic and digital technologies in the War Memorial generate structures of cultural memory that celebrate both a nationalist militarism and the ethos of neoliberalism.

This article examines the technologies of nationalism that shape how the Korean War is depicted in two museum and memorial sites: The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, a permanent exhibit at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, and the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul. It shows how the use of traditional historical artifacts in The Price of Freedom and cinematic and digital technologies in the War Memorial generate structures of cultural memory that celebrate both a nationalist militarism and the ethos of neoliberalism. Keywords: Korean War, cultural memory, memorials, museums, nationalism, neoliberalism, militarism

AbstractHow can we have a sense of the presence of ordinary three-dimensional objects (e.g., an apple on my desk, a partially occluded cat behind a picket fence) when we are only presented with some parts of objects perceived from a particular egocentric viewpoint (e.g., the facing side of the apple, the unoccluded parts of the cat)? This paper presents and defends a novel answer to this question by incorporating insights from two prominent contemporary theories of perception, naïve realism and sensorimotor theory. Naïve realism is the view that perception is fundamentally a matter of obtaining a relation of 'acquaintance' with some mind-independent entities (e.g., objects, properties, events). Sensorimotor theory holds that perception involves implicit practical understanding or 'anticipation' of the covariance between movements and sensory changes. I argue that perceptual presence is best accounted for in terms of the combination of our direct 'acquaintance' with some parts of perceived objects and sensorimotor 'anticipations' of how the objects would look different depending on some movements and actions.

OBJECTIVES. To estimate the associations between state-level corruption and risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in the United States, one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the nation. METHODS. We used a U.S. nationally-representative sample of middle-aged adults from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youths 1979 and data from the Corruption in America Survey to estimate the associations between state-level illegal (private gains) and legal (political gains) corruption in 2013 and individual-level risks of incident diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and depression between 2014 and 2016. RESULTS. Medium and higher levels of illegal corruption were associated with odds ratios (ORs) of 1.75 (95% CI=1.06–2.88) for incident diabetes and 1.70 (95% CI=1.15–2.51) for incident hypertension, respectively. Furthermore, a higher level of legal corruption was associated with ORs of 1.84 (95% CI=1.08–3.13) for diabetes and 1.58 (95% CI=1.05–2.38) for hypertension. No consistent associations were observed for obesity or depression. CONCLUSIONS. Our findings suggest that higher levels of corruption contribute to increased risks of developing diabetes and hypertension. Investing resources into fighting corruption may be means to reduce the national burden of cardiovascular disease.