The Archaeology of Roman Germany

2019 ◽  
pp. 550-557
Author(s):  
Nico Roymans
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Roman Germany ◽  
Scientific Archaeology

This chapter provides an overview of the book’s main themes. The book gives Anglophone readers a representative, well-grounded survey of the current status of the archaeology of Roman Germany. It reveals a discipline that is evolving strongly in an interpretative sense, a discipline to which traditional stereotypical labels such as ‘positivist’ and ‘descriptive’ or ‘an archaeology at risk’ (Bloemers 2002) no longer apply. German archaeologists face the challenge of continuing to nurture their rigorous historicizing and empirical traditions, while at the same time seeking closer integration with social theory-building and the findings of scientific archaeology. The contributions to this volume are steps in this direction.

scholarly journals Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia: Current Status and Future Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Barlati ◽  
Giacomo Deste ◽  
Luca De Peri ◽  
Cassandra Ariu ◽  
Antonio Vita
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Cognitive Remediation ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Early Course ◽  
Electronic Search ◽  
Pubmed Database ◽  
Meta Analyses

Objectives. This study is aimed to review the current scientific literature on cognitive remediation in schizophrenia. In particular, the main structured protocols of cognitive remediation developed for schizophrenia are presented and the main results reported in recent meta-analyses are summarized. Possible benefits of cognitive remediation in the early course of schizophrenia and in subjects at risk for psychosis are also discussed.Methods. Electronic search of the relevant studies which appeared in the PubMed database until April 2013 has been performed and all the meta-analyses and review articles on cognitive remediation in schizophrenia have been also taken into account.Results. Numerous intervention programs have been designed, applied, and evaluated, with the objective of improving cognition and social functioning in schizophrenia. Several quantitative reviews have established that cognitive remediation is effective in reducing cognitive deficits and in improving functional outcome of the disorder. Furthermore, the studies available support the usefulness of cognitive remediation when applied in the early course of schizophrenia and even in subjects at risk of the disease.Conclusions. Cognitive remediation is a promising approach to improve real-world functioning in schizophrenia and should be considered a key strategy for early intervention in the psychoses.

scholarly journals Group B Streptococcus vaccine development: present status and future considerations, with emphasis on perspectives for low and middle income countries

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 2355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miwako Kobayashi ◽  
Johan Vekemans ◽  
Carol J. Baker ◽  
Adam J. Ratner ◽  
Kirsty Le Doare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Young Infant ◽  
Group B Streptococcus ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Young Infants ◽  
Group B ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Globally, group BStreptococcus(GBS) remains the leading cause of sepsis and meningitis in young infants, with its greatest burden in the first 90 days of life. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) for women at risk of transmitting GBS to their newborns has been effective in reducing, but not eliminating, the young infant GBS disease burden in many high income countries. However, identification of women at risk and administration of IAP is very difficult in many low and middle income country (LMIC) settings, and is not possible for home deliveries. Immunization of pregnant women with a GBS vaccine represents an alternate pathway to protecting newborns from GBS disease, through the transplacental antibody transfer to the fetus in utero. This approach to prevent GBS disease in young infants is currently under development, and is approaching late stage clinical evaluation.This manuscript includes a review of the natural history of the disease, global disease burden estimates, diagnosis and existing control options in different settings, the biological rationale for a vaccine including previous supportive studies, analysis of current candidates in development, possible correlates of protection and current status of immunogenicity assays. Future potential vaccine development pathways to licensure and use in LMICs, trial design and implementation options are discussed, with the objective to provide a basis for reflection, rather than recommendations.

scholarly journals Making THE vaccine

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Citra Dewi Joe ◽  
Adam John Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Risk Of Infection ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vectored Vaccine ◽  
The University ◽  
Roll Out

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of deaths and devastated communities across the globe. Vaccines will play a key role in bringing the pandemic under control, with successful clinical trials, authorizations and roll-out having now occurred in several countries. However, large-scale manufacturing of such vaccines remains a bottleneck to delivering doses to billions of people at risk of infection, as well as producing new versions of the vaccines that target variants. Here we discuss the current status of manufacturing, focusing on the adenovirus-vectored vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and how the process for manufacturing it was developed.

Status of Exchange Transfusion

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-436
Author(s):  
THOMAS R. BOGGS
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Exchange Transfusion ◽  
Serum Bilirubin ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Bilirubin Concentration ◽  
Introductory Note ◽  
Not At Risk

While respecting Dr. McKay's wisdom and judgment, I feel obliged to take issue with certain of the concepts he seems to champion in his article "Current Status of Exchange Transfusion in Newborn Infants" (Pediatrics, 33:763, 1964). I was pleased to read the Journal's "Introductory Note" carefully pointing out that such articles, while usually contributed by a member of the Editorial Board, reflect the author's own practice. First, I cannot agree with Dr. McKay that it is currently possible to identify which infant with idiopathic hyperbilirubinemia and a serum bilirubin concentration of 18 mg/100 ml if premature, or 20 mg/100 ml if full term, is, and which is not, at risk as far as concerns kernicterus.

scholarly journals Michel Foucault, Social Policy and 'Limit-Experience'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ian Culpitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Know How ◽  
Welfare Society ◽  
Do So

<p>This thesis considers whether the discipline of social policy can validly use the patterns and intentions implicit in Foucault's critique of modernity to develop a new qualitative approach to social theory. He examined the conditions under which various regimes of social and political practice came into being; how they are maintained and the particular manner of their transformation. There are two specific emphases that establish the pattern of my overall inquiry. The first involves a reflection on the troubled and ineffectual place of normative social theory within contemporary social policy discourse. The second is a reconsideration of Foucault's oeuvre in relation to new social theory building within social policy. Both of these concerns offer an opportunity to reflect on the place of social theory within a discursive world that 'appears' cosmopolitan and diverse. Foucault famously declared that the point of philosophical activity involved the endeavour to know how and to what extent it might be possible to think differently - to examine the functioning of our ideas as 'limit-experiences'. He coined this phrase 'limit-experience' to outline his critique of the 'forms of rationalizations' that comprise the present practice of politics within modernity. He thought the decisive question was how apparently 'universal, necessary, and obligatory discourses about political and social knowledge shapes that which ought more properly to be regarded as 'singular, contingent, and the product of arbitrary constraints'. The former injunctive and 'magisterial' arguments that supported initial patterns of welfare state rhetoric are no longer persuasive. There has been a 'sea-change' in contemporary social ideas - from a welfare state to a welfare society - one that is breath-taking in its hegemonic compass. That world is increasingly depicted as a postmodern social world where there is little apparent respect for, let alone reliance on, the grand metaphors and social themes of classic social policy. This reconsideration of Foucault's ideas from a social policy perspective will not necessarily yield a new compelling normative rhetoric but it will provide an opportunity to think differently about the taken-for-granted nature of so much social policy theorizing. His portrayal of how we might 'think differently' about the multitude of practices involved in the rationalizations and subjectifications of 'limit-experiences' provides an opportunity to reflect on the patterning and practices that construct the current discourses of welfare and social policy. We do need to think differently or at least to see if it is possible to do so. Imagining difference, strategizing for it, and welcoming it, mark us out as constantly restless - a personal style that Foucault embraced with some gusto!</p>

scholarly journals Infants at risk for autism: a European perspective on current status, challenges and opportunities

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 341-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Bölte ◽  
Peter B. Marschik ◽  
Terje Falck-Ytter ◽  
Tony Charman ◽  
Herbert Roeyers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Current Status ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals Michel Foucault, Social Policy and 'Limit-Experience'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ian Culpitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Know How ◽  
Welfare Society ◽  
Do So

<p>This thesis considers whether the discipline of social policy can validly use the patterns and intentions implicit in Foucault's critique of modernity to develop a new qualitative approach to social theory. He examined the conditions under which various regimes of social and political practice came into being; how they are maintained and the particular manner of their transformation. There are two specific emphases that establish the pattern of my overall inquiry. The first involves a reflection on the troubled and ineffectual place of normative social theory within contemporary social policy discourse. The second is a reconsideration of Foucault's oeuvre in relation to new social theory building within social policy. Both of these concerns offer an opportunity to reflect on the place of social theory within a discursive world that 'appears' cosmopolitan and diverse. Foucault famously declared that the point of philosophical activity involved the endeavour to know how and to what extent it might be possible to think differently - to examine the functioning of our ideas as 'limit-experiences'. He coined this phrase 'limit-experience' to outline his critique of the 'forms of rationalizations' that comprise the present practice of politics within modernity. He thought the decisive question was how apparently 'universal, necessary, and obligatory discourses about political and social knowledge shapes that which ought more properly to be regarded as 'singular, contingent, and the product of arbitrary constraints'. The former injunctive and 'magisterial' arguments that supported initial patterns of welfare state rhetoric are no longer persuasive. There has been a 'sea-change' in contemporary social ideas - from a welfare state to a welfare society - one that is breath-taking in its hegemonic compass. That world is increasingly depicted as a postmodern social world where there is little apparent respect for, let alone reliance on, the grand metaphors and social themes of classic social policy. This reconsideration of Foucault's ideas from a social policy perspective will not necessarily yield a new compelling normative rhetoric but it will provide an opportunity to think differently about the taken-for-granted nature of so much social policy theorizing. His portrayal of how we might 'think differently' about the multitude of practices involved in the rationalizations and subjectifications of 'limit-experiences' provides an opportunity to reflect on the patterning and practices that construct the current discourses of welfare and social policy. We do need to think differently or at least to see if it is possible to do so. Imagining difference, strategizing for it, and welcoming it, mark us out as constantly restless - a personal style that Foucault embraced with some gusto!</p>

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