Jürg R. Schwyter. 2016. Dictating to the mob. The history of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-125
Author(s):  
Joan C. Beal
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Spoken English ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals On the peculiar morphology of a trypanosome from a case of sleeping sickness and the possibility of its being a new species ( T. rhodesiense )

1910 ◽  
Vol 83 (561) ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Laboratory Strain ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Research Fund ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
North East ◽  
History Of ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Glossina Palpalis

As already stated in a report to the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, dated May 9, 1910, I noticed early in February, 1910, while examining in class work a stained specimen of rat’s blood infected with what was supposed to be T. gambiense , a marked peculiarity in the morphology. This peculiarity was so striking that I doubted whether the trypanosome with which I was dealing was really T. gambiense . On making enquiries I was told that the strain was derived from a case of Sleeping Sickness then in Prof. Ross’s clinic in the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. To make certain that there was no error in this statement I myself infected a rat from the patient’s blood. The same forms were, however, again encountered. After convincing myself that these forms were constantly present in infected rats, and that they were not shown by the rats infected with the old laboratory strain of T. gambiense maintained at the Runcorn Laboratory, I decided through pressure of work to ask Dr. Fantham (now working in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, under funds allotted by the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund) to be so good as to assist me in the description of the morphology of this trypanosome. The following paper is the outcome of our joint work.—[J. W. W. Stephens.] History of the Strain . The trypanosomes used during this investigation were obtained from W. A., male, aged 26, a native of Northumberland, who was infected in North-East Rhodesia in September, 1909. It is necessary to set forth the itinerary of W. A. while in Africa, as he was never actually in an area infested with Glossina palpalis , so far as records are available, and indeed was never nearer (Kasama) than some 86 miles from such an area.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

Predicting Measles Susceptibility

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 871-873
Author(s):  
LORING G. DALES ◽  
JAMES CHIN
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Virus Vaccine ◽  
Measles Virus ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Measles Vaccine ◽  
Measles Outbreak ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of

Elsewhere in this issue, Scott et al1 present results of their study which found that the historical criteria developed by the US Public Health Service Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) for detecting students who were susceptible to measles performed very poorly in a school measles outbreak. The ACIP criteria designate as susceptible persons born since 1956 who have no documentation of immunization, who have no physician-Venified history of measles infection, who last received measles vaccine before their first birthday, or who were last immunized (at age 12 months or older) before 1968 with measles virus vaccine that could have been either live or inactivated.

scholarly journals Assumption of Risk and the Role of Health Warnings Labels in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 975-983
Author(s):  
K Michael Cummings ◽  
Jonathan Gdanski ◽  
Nichole Veatch ◽  
Ernesto Marcelo Sebrié
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
Cigarette Pack ◽  
Cigarette Advertising ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
History Of

Abstract Introduction This article provides historical context for understanding how the cigarette industry have manipulated language used in health warning labels (HWLs) to protect them in litigation. Methods Review of previously secret internal business records from 1964 discussing the role HWLs on cigarettes. Review of the legal challenges made by cigarette manufacturers surrounding HWLs as mandated in the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act and the language in corrective statements ordered by US Department of Justice. Results Within days after the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee issued its 1964 Report the cigarette companies plotted how they could use HWLs on cigarettes as a defense in future litigation. Industry lawyers discussed drafting legislation that would preempt other government agencies from requiring HWLs on cigarette containers and in cigarette advertising with language mirroring the key findings of the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee report. In July 1965, Congress did pass legislation which mandated a single watered-down cigarette pack HWL which excluded cigarette advertising, just as industry lawyers had recommended. Subsequent HWL laws passed by Congress in 1969 and 1984 along with the more recent history of manufacturers opposing updated graphic HWLs and corrective statements reflects a consistent and continuing effort by cigarette companies to insulate themselves from taking responsibility for harms caused by smoking. Conclusion Beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing even through today, lawyers working on behalf of cigarettes companies have worked to manipulate the language of consumer warnings to focus responsibility for the harms caused by smoking on smokers. Implications In tobacco litigation, juries should be informed about the industry’s coordinated effort to draft legislation and water down the original caution statements proposed on cigarette containers and in advertising even though Congress ultimately is responsible for the law that was enacted. In addition, even though the 1992 Supreme Court decision in the Cipollone case preempted post-1969 failure to warm claims against cigarette makers, this protection does not apply on pre-1969 warning claims where the evidence shows that cigarette companies understood they were selling a defective product that when used as intended would harm their customers. Thus, those initiating smoking before 1969 and subsequently harmed by cigarettes can hold cigarette makers responsible for their failure to warn them about health risks.

Measles Immunity Among Community Hospital Employees

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 663-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Houck ◽  
Gay Scott-Johnson ◽  
Lylanne Krebs
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Community Hospital ◽  
Patient Contact ◽  
Immunosorbant Assay ◽  
Positive History ◽  
Hospital Employees ◽  
History Of ◽  
Serologic Evidence ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbant Assay

AbstractObjective:To define measles immunity rates among employees at 2 hospitals during a community outbreak in 1990.Design:Cohort survey using enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) and questionnaire.Setting:Two community hospitals.Participants:Seventy-six percent of 2,060 employees.Results:Seven percent (115/1566) of participants lacked ELISA-defined measles immunity. Among employees whose ages were known, 14% (64/467) of those born after 1956 and 5% (50/1086) of those born before 1957 lacked serologic evidence of immunity. Fifty-eight percent of the susceptible persons had substantial patient contact. With ELISA results as the reference for immunity, the predictive value of an undocumented positive history of measles disease or vaccination was 95%; the predictive value of a negative history of both was 52%. Measles developed in 7 employees.Conclusions:A substantial number of hospital employees lacked ELBA-defined measles immunity, including many who had patient contact or who had been born before 1957. Undocumented disease and vaccination histories were not adequate predictors of serologic status. This study supports the recommendations and suggestions of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee that hospitals should require documented evidence of measles immunity from employees who have patient contact.

Your council at work: Research Advisory Committee

1976 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Donald J. Dessart
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Classroom Situation ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
History Of

One of the major task facing the Research Advisory Committee (RAC) is to serve the needs of two groups: researchers in mathematics education, who are primarily concerned with understanding the learning process: and practitioners (teachers, supervisors. principals), who are mainly concerned with finding more effective ways to teach children. Researchers, guided by their intuitions, study problems and often obtain results that are not directly applicable to the classroom situation: practitioners, on the other hand. actively pursue better ways to educate children in the classroom. To insist that researchers should address themselves only to the immediate problems of the classroom seems to be an unwise course of action, since the history of science includes many discoveries that had useful applications years, or even centuries, after their di scovery. Yet for researchers to ignore the need of the classroom may lead to sterile research results that only collect dust in the darkened corners of a library.

Development in welfare guidelines

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 93-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Farm Animal ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pig Husbandry

AbstractThe recent history of animal welfare is discussed with particular reference to the ethical and scientific factors which have influenced and will continue to influence the development of pig husbandry systems.The Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Committee report on the original codes of recommendations for the welfare of livestock, including the code for pigs, a review by the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) and the re-issue of the code for pigs in 1983, the 1980/81 report of the House of Commons Agriculture Committee and the recent FAWC proposals for legislation are examined in some detail.Research work that has been undertaken in pig welfare is mentioned and finally, reference is made to the various protagonists in the debate, not forgetting the pig itself. There is no attempt to draw any definitive conclusions.

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