Is Nationalism Legitimate? A Sociological Perspective on a Philosophical Question

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Liah Greenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
List Type ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Psychological Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Automatic Response

To answer, or even consider, the question ‘Is nationalism legitimate?', whether from the sociological or ethical, philosophical point of view, it is first necessary to define what nationalism is or, in other words, to understand its nature and the source of its appeal. As concerns nationalism's definition, there are several points, in regard to which there exists among the students of the phenomenon more or less general agreement, but which, nevertheless, should be emphasized at the outset:Nationalism is a modem phenomenon: for most of its recorded history humanity has not known it; it emerged quite recently and therefore cannot be seen as an automatic response to some universal need; its very historicity presupposes that it is essentially a cultural and not a psychological phenomenon, and that, as any cultural phenomenon, it can develop, take various forms within certain limits, and disappear.

The Surgical Uncertainties of Prefrontal Topectomy and Leucotomy (Observations on 100 Cases)

1951 ◽  
Vol 97 (408) ◽  
pp. 480-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Le Beau
Keyword(s):  
Visual Field ◽  
Neurological Disorders ◽  
Spontaneous Recovery ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Mental Impairment ◽  
Technical Point ◽  
Sources Of Uncertainty ◽  
Incidental Lesions

Three is no branch of neuro-surgery in which the assessment of results is more difficult than in psycho-surgery. The main sources of uncertainty are:(a)Mental impairment or improvement cannot yet be measured as precisely as neurological disorders, such as visual field or motor defects.(b)Spontaneous recovery and the influence of the incidental psychotherapy and drugs involved in any form of surgical attention cannot be evaluated with certainty in many cases.(c)Most of the cytoarchitectural fields of the frontal cortex cannot yet be defined during life by any physiological test or anatomical measurement.(d)Finally, from a technical point of view the surgeon is liable to produce many incidental lesions which cannot be ascertained during the patient's life.

High Wing Loading and Some of Its Problems from the Pilot’s Point of View

1938 ◽  
Vol 42 (329) ◽  
pp. 405-444
Author(s):  
H. P. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Wing Loading ◽  
Under Five

It is indeed a very great honour for so new a member to be accorded the privilege of reading a paper before the Royal Aeronautical Society, and I would like to express my sincere thanks to the President and the Council of the Society for the invitation extended to me.We have heard from designers and experts in all branches of aeronautics what problems confront them and how they propose to solve them. I am going to discuss, from the point of view of a pilot, some of the problems that seem to me to arise from high performance and increased wing loadings, and to indicate what appear to me to be possible solutions. I propose to consider these problems under five headings :— (1)Take-off.(2)Irreversible Aileron Control.(3)The Approach.(4)Flattening Out(5)Touching Down.

scholarly journals A multi-resource system for remote teaching in Astronomy : its aims, its design, the point of view of the learners

1998 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Michele Gerbaldi ◽  
Annie Xerri
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
List Type ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Type Number ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
The University ◽  
Resource System

A distance teaching course in Astronomy was developed three years ago by the CNED (Centre National d'Enseignement Distance) in collaboration with professional astronomers from the University of Paris Sud XI.We wish to present our course with :•the conceivers and designers’ point of view•the learners’ point of view.

scholarly journals How evolutionary thinking can help us to understand ADHD

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 410-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Swanepoel ◽  
Graham Music ◽  
John Launer ◽  
Michael J. Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Academic Tasks ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Evolutionary Mismatch ◽  
Environment Of Evolutionary Adaptedness ◽  
Evolutionary Point

SummaryWe argue that current debates about attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be considered afresh using an evolutionary lens. We show how the symptoms of ADHD can often be considered adaptive to their specific environment. We suggest that, from an evolutionary point of view, ADHD symptoms might be understood to result from an ‘evolutionary mismatch’, in which current environmental demands do not fit with what evolution has prepared us to cope with. For example, in our ancestral environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA), children were not expected to sit still and concentrate on academic tasks for many hours a day. Understanding ADHD in terms of such a ‘mismatch’ raises significant issues regarding the management of childhood ADHD, including ethical ones. An approach based on the concept of mismatch could provide an alternative to current debates on whether ADHD results from nature or nurture and whether it is under- or over-diagnosed. It would allow clinicians and policy makers to take both the child and the environment into account and consider what might be desirable and feasible, both in society and for specific children, to lessen the mismatch.LEARNING OBJECTIVES•Grasp the concept of ADHD as an ‘evolutionary mismatch’•Understand the issues raised by this perspective, including ethical ones•Appreciate how a transparent discussion of these issues might inform decisions about management, medication and schooling

Solar Corona Investigation by the Coronal Line Photometer at Lomnický Peak

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 431-434
Author(s):  
M. Minarovjech ◽  
M. Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
Time Resolution ◽  
Active Regions ◽  
High Time ◽  
High Time Resolution ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Coronal Line ◽  
Global Cycle

AbstractThis paper deals with a possibility to use the ground-based method of observation in order to solve basic problems connected with the solar corona research. Namely:1.heating of the solar corona2.course of the global cycle in the corona3.rotation of the solar corona and development of active regions.There is stressed a possibility of high-time resolution of the coronal line photometer at Lomnický Peak coronal station, and use of the latter to obtain crucial observations.

The LDE-Type Flare Occurrence (1969-1993)

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 279-282
Author(s):  
A. Antalová
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Fourier Analysis ◽  
Sunspot Cycle ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Solar Cycles ◽  
Type Iv ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
Cycle Maximum ◽  
Flare Index

AbstractThe occurrence of LDE-type flares in the last three cycles has been investigated. The Fourier analysis spectrum was calculated for the time series of the LDE-type flare occurrence during the 20-th, the 21-st and the rising part of the 22-nd cycle. LDE-type flares (Long Duration Events in SXR) are associated with the interplanetary protons (SEP and STIP as well), energized coronal archs and radio type IV emission. Generally, in all the cycles considered, LDE-type flares mainly originated during a 6-year interval of the respective cycle (2 years before and 4 years after the sunspot cycle maximum). The following significant periodicities were found:• in the 20-th cycle: 1.4, 2.1, 2.9, 4.0, 10.7 and 54.2 of month,• in the 21-st cycle: 1.2, 1.6, 2.8, 4.9, 7.8 and 44.5 of month,• in the 22-nd cycle, till March 1992: 1.4, 1.8, 2.4, 7.2, 8.7, 11.8 and 29.1 of month,• in all interval (1969-1992):a)the longer periodicities: 232.1, 121.1 (the dominant at 10.1 of year), 80.7, 61.9 and 25.6 of month,b)the shorter periodicities: 4.7, 5.0, 6.8, 7.9, 9.1, 15.8 and 20.4 of month.Fourier analysis of the LDE-type flare index (FI) yields significant peaks at 2.3 - 2.9 months and 4.2 - 4.9 months. These short periodicities correspond remarkably in the all three last solar cycles. The larger periodicities are different in respective cycles.

Discussion following the presentation by F. Deubner

1977 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 69-74
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Harmonic Motion ◽  
Locally Excited ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Coherent Wave ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Global Modes

The discussion was separated into 3 different topics according to the separation made by the reviewer between the different periods of waves observed in the sun :1) global modes (long period oscillations) with predominantly radial harmonic motion.2) modes with large coherent - wave systems but not necessarily global excitation (300 s oscillation).3) locally excited - short period waves.

Prominences and Solar Activity

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 357-372
Author(s):  
Z. Švestka
Keyword(s):  
Solar Activity ◽  
Solar Cycle ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Flare Loops ◽  
Filament Activation

The following subjects were discussed:(1)Filament activation(2)Post-flare loops.(3)Surges and sprays.(4)Coronal transients.(5)Disk vs. limb observations.(6)Solar cycle variations of prominence occurrence.(7)Active prominences patrol service.Of all these items, (1) and (2) were discussed in most detail and we also pay most attention to them in this report. Items (3) and (4) did not bring anything new when compared with the earlier invited presentations given by RUST and ZIRIN and therefore, we omit them.

A New System For Optomanual Semiautomatic Quantitative Image Analysis

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 210-211
Author(s):  
H.P. Rohr
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Volume Density ◽  
List Type ◽  
Distribution Analysis ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Point Counting ◽  
Human Eye ◽  
Quantitative Image ◽  
Point Density ◽  
Electronic Counting

Today, in image analysis the broadest possible rationalization and economization have become desirable. Basically, there are two approaches for image analysis: The image analysis through the so-called scanning methods which are usually performed without the human eye and the systems of optical semiautomatic analysis completely relying on the human eye.The new MOP AM 01 opto-manual system (fig.) represents one of the very promising approaches in this field. The instrument consists of an electronic counting and storing unit, which incorporates a microprocessor and a keyboard for choice of measuring parameters, well designed for easy use.Using the MOP AM 01 there are three possibilities of image analysis:the manual point counting,the opto-manual point counting andthe measurement of absolute areas and/or length (size distribution analysis included).To determine a point density for the calculation of the corresponding volume density the intercepts lying within the structure are scanned with the light pen.

Hydration Chamber for Jeolco 200 Kv Microscope

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 542-543
Author(s):  
V. R. Matricardi ◽  
G. G. Hausner ◽  
D. F. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Vapor Pressure ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Equilibrium Vapor Pressure

In order to observe room temperature hydrated specimens in an electron microscope, the following conditions should be satisfied: The specimen should be surrounded by water vapor as close as possible to the equilibrium vapor pressure corresponding to the temperature of the specimen.The specimen grid should be inserted, focused and photo graphed in the shortest possible time in order to minimize dehydration.The full area of the specimen grid should be visible in order to minimize the number of changes of specimen required.There should be no pressure gradient across the grid so that specimens can be straddled across holes.Leakage of water vapor to the column should be minimized.

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