scholarly journals Prof. Dr. Michel Zerah

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3(September-December)) ◽  
pp. e1132021
Author(s):  
Ricardo Santos De Oliveira ◽  
Matheus Fernando Manzolli Ballestero
Keyword(s):  
European Society ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Fetal Surgery ◽  
Pediatric Neurosurgery ◽  
French Society ◽  
Medical Study ◽  
Short Biography ◽  
The World ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Hospital Group

Michel Zerah was born on May 22, 1956 in Paris, France. He finished his medical study in 1985 at Faculté de médecine  de CRETEIL (Paris, France) and graduated in Neurosurgery  in April, 1988. Quickly took over as head of Clinic-Assistant of Paris Hospitals, “Service de Neurochirurgie de l’hôpital de Bicêtre” (1989) and as university professor (1998) at “Service de Neurochirurgie pédiatrique” of hospital group “Necker-Enfants Malades”.  Prof. Zerah was a great teacher and mentor to countless neurosurgeons, around the world and here in Brazil. He participated in several courses and congresses, highlighting his unconditional dedication to teaching. With his knowledge, his humility and incredible charisma he made countless friends and students wherever he went. His lectures have always been unique experiences, approaching each subject in a masterly way, with emphasis on craniocervical transition diseases and spinal dysraphimos. He has authored more than 261 scientific articles and several books and book chapters, with emphasis on lumbar lipomas surgery, Chiari, deposit diseases, among others. His last project was the development of fetal surgery at Necker Hospital.  Michel Zerah had an incredible ability to bring people together and, thus, he walked a path of respect, affection and friendship wherever he went. He was head of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Service at Hospital Necker, Paris, France where he devoted a large part of his life, teaching and operating numerous children. An immense and irreparable loss for everyone who knew him and who had the privilege of working and living with him. Short Biography: Head of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Service – Hospital Necker, Paris, France President of the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN) President of the French Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery Member of the French National Academy of Surgery PhD in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Coordinator of the European Course on Pediatric Neurosurgery between 2002 and 2014. Collaboration with the Society of Neurosurgery of Vietnam where he practiced solidarity work and trained numerous professionals. 324 communications or conferences in National or International Meetings 32 Chapters in Books 123 articles in Scientific Journal

JAK LUDOBÓJSTWO ZOSTAŁO UZNANE ZA ZBRODNIĘ – DZIEDZICTWO RAFAŁA LEMKINA

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam MCFARLAND ◽  
Katarzyna HAMER
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Genocide Convention ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
War Crimes Trials ◽  
Criminal Charge ◽  
Short Biography ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Change ◽  
History Of

Raphael Lemkin is hardly known to a Polish audiences. One of the most honored Poles of theXX century, forever revered in the history of human rights, nominated six times for the Nobel PeacePrize, Lemkin sacrificed his entire life to make a real change in the world: the creation of the term“genocide” and making it a crime under international law. How long was his struggle to establishwhat we now take as obvious, what we now take for granted?This paper offers his short biography, showing his long road from realizing that the killing oneperson was considered a murder but that under international law in 1930s the killing a million wasnot. Through coining the term “genocide” in 1944, he helped make genocide a criminal charge atthe Nuremburg war crimes trials of Nazi leaders in late 1945, although there the crime of genocidedid not cover killing whole tribes when committed on inhabitants of the same country nor when notduring war. He next lobbied the new United Nations to adopt a resolution that genocide is a crimeunder international law, which it adopted on 11 December, 1946. Although not a U.N. delegate – hewas “Totally Unofficial,” the title of his autobiography – Lemkin then led the U.N. in creating theConvention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted 9 December, 1948.Until his death in 1958, Lemkin lobbied tirelessly to get other U.N. states to ratify the Convention.His legacy is that, as of 2015, 147 U.N. states have done so, 46 still on hold. His tomb inscriptionreads simply, “Dr. Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), Father of the Genocide Convention”. Without himthe world as we know it, would not be possible.

scholarly journals Welcome to Ceramics: A New Open Access Scientific Journal on Ceramics Science and Engineering

Ceramics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Gilbert Fantozzi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Very Old ◽  
The World

The word ceramics comes from the Greek word keramikos, which means pottery and corresponds to a very old human activity. Indeed, one of the oldest materials fabricated in the world is ceramic pottery [...]

scholarly journals Pierre Monbeig and the Formation of Geography in Brazil (1925-1957): Geohistory of Knowledge, Intellectual History and the Insertion of Brazilian Geography into the World-Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Alves de Lira
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
World Science ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
The World ◽  
University Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Context

This paper aims to present the exemplarity of an intellectual meeting between a French intellectual, trained in history and geography at the Sorbonne, France (before spending time in Spain during the beginning of his doctorate), and the “Brazilian terrain”. From his training to his work as a university professor in Brazil, what I want to characterize is a transnational intellectual context in the domain of the history of science, using geographical reasoning as a reference. However, before becoming aware of these intellectual processes, it should be said that at the base of this context lies the Brazilian space. This kind of reasoning as a proposed methodology is named here the geohistory of knowledge. In this paper, I seek to present this methodology and its theoretical and empirical results, focusing on how the construction of contextualization can be related to space.

scholarly journals Socio-cultural interpretation of the phenomenon of laughter in 'The Joker' (2019): Interpretation of the Western civilization man

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1364-1390
Author(s):  
Zoran Nedeljković
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
The World ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

The author has given a socio-cultural interpretation of the phenomenon of laughter in the film "The Joker" (Todd, Phillips, 2019) as an individual as well as a social phenomenon of Western civilization. He considers the difference between the concepts of utopia, dystopia and utopistics as a possible solution to the problem that would avoid an optimistic and pessimistic view of the future of humanity. The author seeks a civilization parallel between the fictional world of film and the cultural elements of today. The necrophilic atmosphere of Gotham City is strikingly reminiscent of the spiritual lethargy that characterizes the postmodern metropolises of the 21st century. The fate of the film's protagonist could afflict any individual on our planet if they came to the realization that they are a personality, that they have created themselves, and that on their own spiritual skin they have felt the misunderstanding of others who do not wish to stand out from the crowd. The author notes that many protesters against the governing structures of the oligarchy of states around the world have identified themselves in their protest with the Joker, an anti-hero who in a century of tolerance defends with laughter when he feels that his existence is threatened. In this film, the Joker is the personification of a diseased society. Todd Philips' work is an attempt to draw attention to the fact that the stratification of the human community can lead to the breakdown of social relations, however much the governing establishment's media seek to entertain and laugh at masses of proletarians and homeless people without a cultural identity through entertainment shows. The impact of the film, as a work of art, was visible immediately after its broadcast in public. The failed clown Joker could not cure himself with laughter because his laughing was "crying upside down" out of despair that was contrary to the hope of a man who could seek the meaning of his life in two Christian virtues: faith and love. However, the author of this text offers a solution by reminding of the way of life of a specific person, which would save the world from moral panic. He introduces us to a man with an accomplished existence of being a clown and a university professor at the same time - E. Kiphard (1923-2010), who lived to help fellow men with a mission to treat people with laughter rather than to defend them with the Joker's unnatural and contagious laughter of an anti-utopian resident.

Ends of French

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasser Elhariry
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
French Society ◽  
Progressive Decline ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Charlie Hebdo

Pacifist Invasions begins with a short preface that engages the polemics surrounding Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel on Islam and France, Soumission (2015), which hit bookstands nationwide across France on the same day as the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. Ever since his first novels, Houellebecq has been lyrically singing the progressive decline and suicide of French society and Western civilization. With Soumission, he—and not the attackers—kills them off altogether. This recent episode in literature exposes the difficulty of coping with the afterlives of literatures and languages after colonialism: tellingly, what remains entirely absent from the media circus around Houellebecq in the on-going aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack is how France, for the past fifty years, has continued to lurk in the shadows of the postcolony. Pacifist Invasions takes as its beginning and its end the metaphorical conceit of Houellebecq’s ‘end of French,’ particularly through its textual and poetic manifestations in Francophone literary cultures that are in dialogue with the world of Arabic letters, to argue that French is undergoing a necrophilological colonization by Arabic literature and Islamic scripture under the pens of the five writers studied in Pacifist Invasions.

scholarly journals Opportunistic genomic screening. Recommendations of the European Society of Human Genetics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido de Wert ◽  
◽  
Wybo Dondorp ◽  
Angus Clarke ◽  
Elisabeth M. C. Dequeker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Genome Sequencing ◽  
European Society ◽  
Human Genetics ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
Opportunistic Screening ◽  
French Society ◽  
Specific Test ◽  
Genomic Screening

AbstractIf genome sequencing is performed in health care, in theory the opportunity arises to take a further look at the data: opportunistic genomic screening (OGS). The European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) in 2013 recommended that genome analysis should be restricted to the original health problem at least for the time being. Other organizations have argued that ‘actionable’ genetic variants should or could be reported (including American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, French Society of Predictive and Personalized Medicine, Genomics England). They argue that the opportunity should be used to routinely and systematically look for secondary findings—so-called opportunistic screening. From a normative perspective, the distinguishing characteristic of screening is not so much its context (whether public health or health care), but the lack of an indication for having this specific test or investigation in those to whom screening is offered. Screening entails a more precarious benefits-to-risks balance. The ESHG continues to recommend a cautious approach to opportunistic screening. Proportionality and autonomy must be guaranteed, and in collectively funded health-care systems the potential benefits must be balanced against health care expenditures. With regard to genome sequencing in pediatrics, ESHG argues that it is premature to look for later-onset conditions in children. Counseling should be offered and informed consent is and should be a central ethical norm. Depending on developing evidence on penetrance, actionability, and available resources, OGS pilots may be justified to generate data for a future, informed, comparative analysis of OGS and its main alternatives, such as cascade testing.

Renaissance Poverty and Lazarillo's Family : The Birth of the Picaresque Genre

PMLA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 876-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
European Society ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Past ◽  
Copernican Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature

In the history of literature the change from the idealized worlds of the shepherd and the knight to the world of the pícaro; from arcadia and chivalry to the desolate urban landscape of misery and hunger; from romance to irony—in fact, the Copernican revolution that produced a new genre—could only have been born of an upheaval that affected men’s lives and forced educated writers to see conditions they had so far ignored. This change stemmed from an increased awareness of human misery, which the urban growth of the Renaissance had made highly visible. The genius of the Spanish author of the Lazarillo consists in his having found the literary voice for such a profound transformation of European society. The Lazarillo, of course, did not annihilate the past, but it gave artistic form to the all-pervading crisis that was destroying the basis of the traditional order.

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