Occupational Origins of Prussia's Generals, 1871–1914

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Social Classes ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Masses

The soul of die Prussian army is in its officers,’ wrote the Prussian general, military theorist, and writer Baron Colmar von der Goltz in his widely read book The Nation in Arms. These officers, he continued, must be recruited from the privileged social classes “who exercise even in ordinary life a natural superiority over the masses.’ Goltz went on to underline the army's concern over restricting its leadership to the better elements of society when he cautioned that the nation's merchants, manufacturers, and private gentlemen were unlikely to provide good long-term officers.

scholarly journals About the treatment of congenital clubfoot

1923 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
M. O. Friedland
Keyword(s):  
Doctor Who ◽  
Congenital Clubfoot ◽  
Congenital Deformities ◽  
Orthopedic Care ◽  
Rural Doctor ◽  
Bed Capacity ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Orthopedic Patients ◽  
Methods Of Treatment

The extremely low number of orthopedic care centers, given the enormous distances in our country, the poor transportation, and the lack of culture of the population, leads to the fact that our orthopedic institutions deal almost exclusively with neglected cases of deformities in general and congenital clubfoot in particular. In addition, if we take into consideration that the bed capacity of our orthopedic institutions is comparatively very small, and the number of orthopedic patients is enormous, and moreover each such patient requires long-term medical supervision, it becomes absolutely clear that orthopedic care should be taken outside of special institutions, bring it closer to the masses and include orthopedic methods of treatment in the practice of a rural doctor, who can start treatment of congenital deformities from the very first days of birth, with the help of a doctor who has the opportunity to provide treatment to children. This article is prompted by these very motives, in which I try to present, in a concise form, those of the modern methods of treating clubfoot which can be carried out in the conditions of a rural hospital.

Long-Term Follow-up of Residual Mediastinal Masses in Treated Hodgkin's Disease Using MR Imaging

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (1P1) ◽  
pp. 323-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Nyman ◽  
G. Forsgren ◽  
B. Glimelius
Keyword(s):  
Mr Imaging ◽  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Mediastinal Masses ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Residual Masses ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Post Therapy

Purpose: Long-term follow-up of residual mediastinal masses in treated Hodgkin's disease using MR imaging. Material and Methods: Ten patients, with substantial residual mediastinal masses of low signal intensity (SI) in the T2-weighted image (T2WI), were reinvestigated with MR 19–79 months after completing treatment of Hodgkin's disease. All patients were in complete remission. Results: During the follow-up period, the masses had decreased in size by 0–95% (median 67%) as compared to their initial post-therapy size. The SI continued to be low in the T2WI and was unaffected by the degree of size reduction. Conclusion: It is speculated that these mainly fibrotic residual masses undergo slow degradation of the fibrotic part and/or resorption of remaining inflammatory tissue. It is important to understand the natural, long-term MR imaging changes of these residual masses in order more easily to recognize tumour recurrence or other pathologic conditions.

Andrew Voyce in conversation with Jerome Carson

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Voyce ◽  
Jerome Carson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Education Benefits ◽  
Short Biography ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Depot Neuroleptic

PurposeThis paper aims to provide a profile of Andrew Voyce.Design/methodology/approachAndrew gives a short biography and is then interviewed by Jerome. Areas covered in the interview include the central role of Mrs Thatcher in closing down the old asylums, homelessness, education, benefits and digital art.FindingsAndrew's recovery from long term mental health problems has seen him return to higher education. He failed to get his undergraduate degree, but decades later and with the encouragement of workers in the community, he completed both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. He talks of the negative impact of asylum care, especially the terrible side effect of akathisia, which resulted from the depot neuroleptic medication.Originality/valueThis paper shows a remarkable journey of recovery, from a life of being a “revolving door” patient, to homelessness, to re‐establishing an ordinary life in the community. The inmate's perspective is one that has largely been absent from narratives of asylum care.

scholarly journals A Primary Cardiac Osteosarcoma: Case Report and Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue-Xue Zou ◽  
Wen-Li Chang ◽  
Heng-Xing Gao
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Left Ventricle ◽  
Fever Of Unknown Origin ◽  
Unknown Origin ◽  
Surgical Excision ◽  
Ventricular Outflow Tract ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
High Grade Osteosarcoma ◽  
The Masses

Abstract Background: Primary cardiac osteosarcoma is an uncommon condition, which is challenging to diagnose, and rarely reported.Case presentation: Here, we present a previously healthy 27-year-old patient referred to our hospital with a long-term fever. Echocardiography and thoracic computed tomography (CT) presented two masses in the left atrium (LA) and left ventricle (LV), and surgical excision of the masses revealed cardiac high-grade osteosarcoma. Unfortunately, the left ventricular tumor recurred three months later, and the patient was administered periodic chemotherapy. Then, chest CT showed that the left ventricle was almost occupied by the tumor and also involved the left ventricular outflow tract, the left atrial appendage mass increased significantly, and multiple metastatic small nodules appeared in both lungs.The patient is still in follow-up.Conclusions: The prevalence of primary cardiac osteosarcoma is very low and did not involve LA and LV simultaneously. This patient was hospitalized in our hospital complaining of a long-term fever of unknown origin, which has never been reported in the previous literatures. Our case report findings suggest that primary cardiac osteosarcoma should not be ignored in the differential diagnosis of fever of unknown origin.

scholarly journals Shrimp Cultivation: Development Debate and the Adverse Effect on Environment and Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
Syed Ashik-E-Elahi ◽  
Md Ziaur Rahman ◽  
Nitin Kumar ◽  
Jhensanam Anusara ◽  
Bouasone Chanthamith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Income Sources ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Shrimp Cultivation

As an indicator of economic development, GDP remains the main factor among economists. But the hidden reality is that such parameter just shows the overall superficial economic gain but not the real development scenario of the masses. In the name of economic development, numerous degrading activities take place in the centre and periphery regions of Bangladesh. Such unplanned development activities are not only halting the natural flow of development but also creating a threat to sustainability. As the shrimp sector emerges as one of the major areas of earning foreign currency, stakeholders overlooking its multiple negative impacts on the coastal environment and traditional economic livelihood. With the introduction of shrimp cultivation different short of income sources created. As a result, some profit seekers become well off within a short period of time leaving majority unprivileged. Moreover, there is no local authority that shows any concern on the long-term suffering of the local inhabitants. In this article, we tried to show the amalgamate opinion of multiple people from different occupational groups and the conflicting areas against popular theory of development. As the research is heterogeneous in nature we used qualitative method for collecting data from various respondents. The research result clearly shows the conflicting situation and deprivation of the local inhabitants. Concluding part of this research focused on the ultimate crisis and its way out.

One Hundred Years of Learning: The Russian Revolution of 1917

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-236
Author(s):  
Wilson do Nascimento Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Organizational Power ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
The World ◽  
The Masses

This year, 2017, the world celebrates the centenary of the two Russian Revolutions that marked the twentieth century and changed the course of history. This article traces the worldwide impact of the Russian Revolution and its contribution to the awakening of the masses in Europe and the peripheries, in the course of the twentieth century. It also throws light on the imperialist counteroffensive and argues for the ongoing relevance of Leninist doctrine in the struggle against imperialism and bourgeois domination. The article elaborates the teachings of Leninism and its unique organizational power in the interest of long-term struggle.

Bases of Power in Chinese Politics: A Theory and an Analysis of the Fall of the “Gang of Four”

1978 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lowell Dittmer
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Politics ◽  
Bases Of Power ◽  
The People ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Formal Power ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
Rules Of The Game

This paper sets forth a preliminary theory of the substructure of Chinese politics. Power is based on aninfluential constituencyin China as elsewhere, but here there are two types of such constituencies: the formal, consisting of an actor's bureaucratic colleagues and subordinates, which exerts formal power [ch'üan-li]; and the informal, consisting of interested family members, long-term friends, and protégés, which exerts informal influence [shih-li]. The support of the former may be relied upon during “nonantagonistic contradictions”; but if the contradiction becomes “antagonistic,” only the informal base is likely to be of any avail, because of the severe sanctions applied to any associate of an “enemy of the people.” The “Gang of Four” could be considered as “favorites” of Mao Tse-tung, inasmuch as their narrow and shallow “backgrounds” afforded them no constituency, formal or informal, aside from the Chairman himself. Their political actions were characterized by exclusive loyalty to their patron and by a disregard for the formal rules of the game. Sensitive to the long-range untenability of their positions, the Four sought to expand their base by appealing to the masses through the media and by building an incipient bureaucratic constituency. Their ultimate failure may be attributed not only to their ineptitude at base-building, but to the inherent limitations of their positions in an increasingly determinate bureaucratic-political game.

An Assessment of Peruvian Problems and Progress

1964 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Chilcote
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alliance For Progress ◽  
Revolutionary Situation ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Masses

Today, Peru faces three essential problems: 1) the lack of geographical integration; 2) racial diversity and the failure of restratification among the social classes; and finally, 3) the rising tension generated by population growth and shifts. Within the context of these three problems may be evaluated the role of two “designs” for action — first, the Alliance for Progress and, second, the program of Peru's new government, which, while cooperating with the Alliance's program, is striving for independent, nationalistic action and finds itself confronting an exploding, revolutionary situation created by the masses of Indians unassimilated into the political culture.

scholarly journals Stellar and substellar companions of nearby stars from Gaia DR2

2019 ◽  
Vol 623 ◽  
pp. A72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Kervella ◽  
Frédéric Arenou ◽  
François Mignard ◽  
Frédéric Thévenin
Keyword(s):  
Proper Motion ◽  
Motion Vector ◽  
Tangential Velocity ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Nearby Stars ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Substellar Companions ◽  
Orbital Periods ◽  
The Masses

Context. The census of stellar and substellar companions of nearby stars is largely incomplete, in particular toward the low-mass brown dwarf and long-period exoplanets. It is, however, fundamentally important in the understanding of the stellar and planetary formation and evolution mechanisms. Nearby stars are particularly favorable targets for high precision astrometry. Aims. We aim to characterize the presence of physical companions of stellar and substellar mass in orbit around nearby stars. Methods. Orbiting secondary bodies influence the proper motion of their parent star through their gravitational reflex motion. Using the HIPPARCOS and Gaia’s second data release (GDR2) catalogs, we determined the long-term proper motion of the stars common to these two catalogs. We then searched for a proper motion anomaly (PMa) between the long-term proper motion vector and the GDR2 (or HIPPARCOS) measurements, indicative of the presence of a perturbing secondary object. We focussed our analysis on the 6741 nearby stars located within 50 pc, and we also present a catalog of the PMa for ≳99% of the HIPPARCOS catalog (≈117 000 stars). Results. 30% of the stars studied present a PMa greater than 3σ. The PMa allows us to detect orbiting companions, or set stringent limits on their presence. We present a few illustrations of the PMa analysis to interesting targets. We set upper limits of 0.1−0.3 MJ to potential planets orbiting Proxima between 1 and 10 au (Porb = 3 to 100 years). We confirm that Proxima is gravitationally bound to α Cen. We recover the masses of the known companions of ϵ Eri, ϵ Ind, Ross 614 and β Pic. We also detect the signature of a possible planet of a few Jovian masses orbiting τ Ceti. Conclusions. Based on only 22 months of data, the GDR2 has limitations. But its combination with the HIPPARCOS catalog results in very high accuracy PMa vectors, that already enable us to set valuable constraints on the binarity of nearby objects. The detection of tangential velocity anomalies at a median accuracy of σ(ΔvT) = 1.0 m s−1 per parsec of distance is already possible with the GDR2. This type of analysis opens the possibility to identify long period orbital companions otherwise inaccessible. For long orbital periods, Gaia’s complementarity to radial velocity and transit techniques (that are more sensitive to short orbital periods) already appears to be remarkably powerful.

scholarly journals Charmonium resonances on the lattice

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 05020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar Bali ◽  
Sara Collins ◽  
Daniel Mohler ◽  
M. Padmanath ◽  
Stefano Piemonte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Quark Mass ◽  
Bound States ◽  
Charm Quark ◽  
Distillation Method ◽  
Charm Quark Mass ◽  
Conventional Models ◽  
The Masses

The nature of resonances and excited states near decay thresholds is encoded in scattering amplitudes, which can be extracted from single-particle and multiparticle correlators in finite volumes. Lattice calculations have only recently reached the precision required for a reliable study of such correlators. The distillation method represents a significant improvement insofar as it simplifies quark contractions and allows one to easily extend the operator basis used to construct interpolators. We present preliminary results on charmonium bound states and resonances on the Nf = 2+1 CLS ensembles. The long term goal of our investigation is to understand the properties of the X resonances that do not fit into conventional models of quark-antiquark mesons. We tune various parameters of the distillation method and the charm quark mass. As a first result, we present the masses of the ground and excited states in the 0++ and 1−− channels

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