scholarly journals The 2005 International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ames
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Serbia And Montenegro ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Terminal Degree ◽  
First Time

This issue of the journal sees the publication of the 3 papers placed first, second and third in the 2005 International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics. For the first time in the history of the awards (first presented in 1989 and awarded at each biennial IPA Congress thereafter), entries were limited to junior investigators within five years of the award of their terminal degree who were at no higher than Assistant Professor/Instructor level at the time of submission. The awards were judged by a panel of four comprising Bengt Winblad (panel chair and 12th IPA Congress chair), David Ames (editor International Psychogeriatrics), John O'Brien (deputy editor International Psychogeriatrics and 12th IPA Congress Scientific Steering Committee Chair) and Joel Sadavoy (then President elect of IPA). The field comprised 11 papers from nine countries (Canada, China (including the Special Administrative region of Hong Kong), Greece, Egypt, the Netherlands, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Uganda and the U.S.A.) and contained several papers which in a less competitive field would have been worthy recipients of an award. In addition to the three award winning papers, in an unprecedented decision the judges approved a special citation for a fourth submission entitled “Psychiatric disorders among the elderly on non-psychiatric wards in an African setting” by Noeline Nakasujja of Uganda for “Outstanding Research Endeavors undertaken in a previously un-researched field, in the face of unusual operational challenges.”

The Katyń Families

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-774
Author(s):  
Izabella Sariusz-Skąpska
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Second World

By appearance it would seem that Rodziny Katyńskie—the Katyń Families—are a veterans’ organization. The elderly, the last witnesses of the terrible Second World War, make up the majority of members. But these are not heroes, and they are not veterans. Who are they? In the first days after Poland regained its independence, after the first free elections of 4 June 1989, people from many cities leave the quiet of their homes and for the first time in their lives start talking about the history of their fathers, who had gone missing after 17 September 1939. The Katyń Families were formed. Statutes were written, and the aims of the organization were defined: explaining all of the circumstances of the Katyń Massacres, finding all of the locations where Polish prisoners of war died, and, finally, accomplishing their dignified burial in Polish War Cemeteries.

Member spotlight

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Research Fellowship ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
National Forum

In this feature of the Bulletin, we highlight members of the SIGCSE community. In this issue, Bulletin co-editor Charles Wallace interviewed Dr. Brett Becker, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland. Brett double-majored in Computer Science and Physics at Drew University in New Jersey. He then moved to Ireland and completed an M.Sc. in Computational Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Heterogeneous Parallel Computing) at UCD. Since then, he has completed three postgraduate qualifications in Teaching & Learning including an MA in Higher Education. His research interests include the psychology and other human factors of learning programming, including how novices interact with programming languages and environments. In 2020, he received a Teaching and Learning Research Fellowship from the Irish National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - the highest individual national distinction the sector offers to those teaching in higher education. Brett is active in all four SIGCSE conferences including serving as Chair of the CompEd Steering Committee and Co-chairing ITiCSE 2022 in Dublin next summer. He has co-authored several award-winning papers including best computing education research papers (SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2019, 2021) and best reviewed paper (ICER 2020). Brett is chair of the Ireland ACM SIGCSE Chapter and recently co-authored a textbook aligned with the Irish national second-level Computer Science curriculum.

NATO's Firstborn: The Atlantic

1963 ◽  
Vol 67 (627) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
René Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Steering Committee ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
American Institute ◽  
Naval Aviation ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering ◽  
École Polytechnique ◽  
First Time

The Seventh Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture of the Derby Branch of the Society —"NATO's Firstborn: The Atlantic" by Captain R. Bloch, F.N., F.R.Ae.S., A.F.A.I.A.A., given on 5th November 1962—was also the 53rd Main Lecture of the Society to be given at a Branch Centre. Mr. A. A. Rubbra, F.R.Ae.S., Chairman of the Derby Branch opened the proceedings by welcoming the members of Council who were present, the visitors from other Branches and, especially, their distinguished visitors from Belgium, France and Germany. He expressed the regrets of the Branch that the President was unable to be present because of his absence overseas, but welcomed the President-elect, Professor A. R. Collar, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.Ae.S., F.A.I.A.A., F.C.A.S.I., Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Bristol University, who would preside for the rest of the evening.Professor Collar said how delighted he was to be at Derby again on such an occasion; it was also the first time he had presided at a Main Lecture of the Society. Introducing Captain Bloch, Professor Collar said that although he was not yet 40 years of age he had had a distinguished career. He had achieved distinction at the Ecole Polytechnique, and at the Licencié es-Sciences and was also an M.A. of Harvard University. Captain Bloch was an Ingénieur du Génie Maritime and Ingénieur de l'Aéronautique and held the Diploma du Centre de Perfectionnement dans l'Administration des Affairs. He was a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and a Combatant Volontaire de la Resistance and held the Médaille de la France Libre and the Médaille de l'Aéronautique. From 1952 to 1961 Captain Bloch had been head of Research and Development for French Naval Aviation and since 1961 had been Assistant Director of Aeronautics for International Affairs in the French Defence Ministry. He was also the French Representative of the NATO Maritime Patrol Aircraft Steering Committee and Permanent Chairman of the Technical SubCommittee; since 1957 he had been French Co-Chairman of the Anglo-French Naval Aviation Committee. He was an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a member of the American Institute of Radio Engineers, a member of AFITAE and a Fellow of the Society.

scholarly journals The "Face with Tears of Joy" Emoji. A Socio-Semiotic and Multimodal Insight into a Japan-America Mash-Up

2016 ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Moschini
Keyword(s):  
Digital Culture ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into

 The blog site of the Oxford Dictionaries features a post dated November 16 2015, which announces that, “for the first time ever”, their “Word of the Year” is not a word, but a pictograph: the “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji. The term emoji, which is a loanword from Japanese, identifies “a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication” (OED 2015). The sign was chosen since it is the item that “best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015”. Indeed, the Oxford Dictionaries’ President, Caspar Grathwohl declared that emojis are “an increasingly rich form of communication that transcends linguistic borders” and reflects the “playfulness and intimacy” of global digital culture. Adopting a socio-semiotic multimodal approach, the present paper aims at decoding the many semantic and semiotic layers of the 2015 “Word of the Year”, with a special focus on the context of cultures out of which it originates. More in detail, the author will focus on the concept of translation as “transduction”, that is the movement of meaning across sign systems (Kress 1997), in order to map the history of this ‘pictographic word’ from language to language, from culture to culture, from niche discursive communities to the global scenario. Indeed, the author maintains that this ‘pictographic word’ is to be seen as a marker of the mashing up of Japanese and American cultures in the discursive practices of geek communities, now gone mainstream thanks to the spreading of digital discourse.  

scholarly journals The Last Abolition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
First Time

Seamlessly entwining archival research and sociological debates, The Last Abolition is a lively and engaging historical narrative that uncovers the broad history of Brazilian anti-slavery activists and the trajectory of their work, from earnest beginnings to eventual abolition. In detailing their principles, alliances and conflicts, Angela Alonso offers a new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery network which, combined, forged a national movement to challenge the entrenched pro-slavery status quo. While placing Brazil within the abolitionist political mobilization of the nineteenth century, the book explores the relationships between Brazilian and foreign abolitionists, demonstrating how ideas and strategies transcended borders. Available for the first time in an English language edition, with a new introduction, this award-winning volume is a major contribution to the scholarship on abolition and abolitionists.

scholarly journals GAMBARAN KEJADIAN DEPRESI LANSIA DI PANTI WREDHA DHARMA BHAKTI SURAKARTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Dewi Wulandari ◽  
Estiningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Geriatric Depression Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Mild Depression ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

The elderly are very susceptible to health problems, including depression caused by stress in the face of life changes such as retirement, illness or physical disability, placement in nursing homes, partner deaths, and the need to care for couples whose health is declining. The purpose of this study was to determine the description of the incidence of depression in elderly at Dharma Bhakti Surakarta nursing homes. This research was descriptive research. The study was conducted in May - July 2019. The population of this research was the elderly who are in Dharma Bhakti Surakarta nursing homes. Sampling used total sampling and obtained a sample of 73 respondents. Data collection techniques were carried out through filling the Geriatric Depression Scale-30 questionnaire. The results showed that most of the elderly (65.8%) did not experience depression. As many as 30.1% of respondents experienced mild depression and 4.1% experienced severe depression. Most respondents who were depressed were aged 60-74 years (15 elderly), female (18 elderly), had a history of working as a laborer (9 elderly), not graduating from elementary school (13 elderly), being widowed (12 elderly), and has independent functional abilities (20 elderly). Conclusion: The incidence of depression in Surakarta Wedha Dharma Bhakti Orphanage reached 34% (as many as 25 elderly from 73 respondents).

The etching of diamond, II. Cleavage, dodecahedron and cube faces

1954 ◽  
Vol 225 (1160) ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Potassium Nitrate ◽  
Etch Pits ◽  
Etch Patterns ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
First Time ◽  
High Resolution Microscopy ◽  
Multiple Beam Interferometry

The etching of cleavage (111), dodecahedron (110), and cube (100) faces of three different diamonds is studied optically using high-resolution microscopy, multiple-beam interferometry and the light-profile microscope. Etching in the temperature range 500 to 700° C is obtained with fused potassium nitrate. In accordance with crystallographic expectation the etch-pits observed are triangular for (111), boat-shaped for (110) and square for (100). The evolution, distribution and shapes of the pits are discussed. Some depths are evaluated by interferometry and by the lightprofile. A new feature which has emerged in each case is the appearance of a strongly marked rectilinear pattern proving each of the three diamonds to have a laminated structure. The (111) face is crossed with lines parallel to (111) edges, the (110) face is filled by a beautifully regular set of concentric hexagons with the sides parallel to (111) edges, and the cube face reveals an equally striking set of concentric rectangles, filling most of the face. These patterns consist of straight, slightly raised, ridges and are regions less susceptible to etch attack than the surrounding areas. Their profiles are demonstrated optically. The pattern offers clear evidence that in each crystal, growth has proceeded by layer formation leading to a strongly laminated fine structure. The etch-patterns reveal for the first time a sectional history of the growth of the diamond. The observations can be accounted for by postulating increased resistance to etching at the onset (or end) of each layer. The proposed growth by sheet layers is in conformity with the failure to find growth spirals from the examination of some hundreds of octahedron diamond faces.

The Significance of Atypical Urine Cytology in the Face of Normal Investigations—Is Extended Investigation and Follow-Up Required?

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.H. Streeter ◽  
G.D.H. Turner ◽  
R. McCormick ◽  
I.S. Roberts ◽  
J. Crew
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Urine Cytology ◽  
Urinary Cytology ◽  
Upper Tract ◽  
The Face ◽  
Urothelial Malignancy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Clinical Records ◽  
First Time

Objective: To examine the natural history of patients identified with atypical urine cytology in the face of normal investigations, and thus provide guidance on the need for extended follow-up and investigation of such patients. Patients and methods: All patients identified over a 2-year period to have atypical urine cytology on Cytospin analysis and Papanicolaou staining were audited over a 5-year follow-up period. Clinical records, histopathology and radiology databases were independently searched. Patients were intensively investigated with cystoscopy and a range of upper tract imaging. Results: 126 patients were identified to have atypical urine cytology, and 77 of these had no urothelial tumour found. In these normal patients, only 12/48 who had further samples taken showed persistent atypia. 11/77 normal patients had another urological pathology which may have explained their atypical urine cytology. No patient presenting for the first time later went on to develop urothelial malignancy in the face of negative initial investigations. Conclusion: In the group of patients in which cystoscopy and urography show no urothelial malignancy, the finding of atypical urinary cytology does not predict the development of later urothelial tumour, and does not require prolonged follow-up, repeat cytological testing or further imaging.

scholarly journals Transient Choreiform Dyskinesias During Alcohol Withdrawal

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Fornazzari ◽  
P. L. Carlen
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Movement Disorder ◽  
Alcohol Withdrawal ◽  
Psychoactive Drug ◽  
Portal Systemic Encephalopathy ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Abstinence From Alcohol

SUMMARY:Three chronic alcoholics developed choreiform dyskinesias involving the face, lips, tongue and, in one case, all limbs; 2 patients for the first time, 9 to 10 days after alcohol withdrawal. These abnormalities improved spontaneously with maintained abstinence from alcohol for 2 to 7 weeks. None had a family history of movement disorder, there was no history of other psychoactive drug use or abuse, and there was no evidence of portal-systemic encephalopathy.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

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