Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, 1858 - 1937

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Government Service ◽  
Presidency College ◽  
Study Of Medicine ◽  
James Dewar ◽  
The Town

Jagadis Chunder Bose was born on 30 November 1858, in the town of Mymemsingh in Bengal, where his father, Bhagwan Chunder Bose was then posted as a Deputy Magistrate. He spent the early years of his life in the town of Faridipur. Later he came to Calcutta and joined the St Xavier’s College, an institution maintained by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Here he studied Physics under Father Lafont, an inspiring teacher, and, like the latter, he developed in later life a flair for lecture demonstrations. After graduating in Calcutta he went to London to study medicine, but owing to repeated attacks of malaria, which he had contracted prior to his departure for London, he gave up the study of Medicine and took up Natural Science. He went to Cambridge and joined Christ’s College. There he came under the influence of such teachers as the late Lord Rayleigh, Sir James Dewar, Sir Michael Foster and Francis Darwin. In the early eighties he graduated in science from London and Cambridge universities. On returning to India he was appointed a professor of Physics in the Presidency College, Calcutta, in 1884. His connexion with this College continued unbroken till his retirement from Government service in 1915, when he was made an Emeritus Professor.

scholarly journals Ernest William Hobson, 1856 - 1933

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-249
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Early Education ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Later Life ◽  
General Ability ◽  
French Music

Ernest William Hobson, who was born at Derby on October 27, 1856, and died rather suddenly, after a short illness, on April 19, 1933, had been for many years one of the first of English mathematicians. Although he lived to be 76, he was active almost up to his death; his last book (and perhaps in some ways his best) was published when he was 74. He was a singular exception to the general rule that good mathematicians do their best work when they are young. Hobson was the son of William Hobson, who was editor and part proprietor of the Derbyshire Advertiser and was prominent in municipal affairs. He was the eldest of a family of six, J. A. Hobson, the wellknown economist, being one of his brothers. His early education was at Derby School. Derby had a mathematical master* of more than usual ability, and Hobson’s mathematical talents were very soon, noticed and encouraged. At 13 he had his first opportunity of distinguishing himself in competition, and was first in all England in the old “ Junior Local ” . It is interesting to observe that he also attained u distinction ” in French, music, and natural science ; such lists usually show nothing but general ability, but in Hobson’s case the subjects represented interests which survived. He was a good linguist (though German was his language in later life rather than French); was definitely musical; and, as he showed in his Gifford lectures, had an exceptional all-round knowledge of science.

scholarly journals Do maternal intrauterine environmental influences that lower offspring birthweight causally increase offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in later life? A Mendelian randomization study of 45,849 genotyped parent offspring pairs in the HUNT study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunn-Helen Moen ◽  
Ben Brumpton ◽  
Cristen Willer ◽  
Bjørn Olav Åsvold ◽  
Kåre Birkeland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Genetic Risk ◽  
Cardiometabolic Risk ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Cardiometabolic Risk Factors ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Cardiometabolic Disease ◽  
Intrauterine Environment ◽  
Hunt Study

AbstractIntroductionThere is a robust and well-documented observational relationship between lower birthweight and higher risk of cardiometabolic disease in later life. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis posits that adverse environmental factors in utero or in the early years of life result in increased future risk of cardiometabolic disease. Our aim was to investigate whether there was evidence for causal effects of the intrauterine environment, as proxied by maternal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that influence offspring birthweight independent of offspring genotype, on offspring cardiometabolic risk factors such as blood pressure, non-fasting glucose, body mass index (BMI), and lipid levels.MethodsWe investigated whether a genetic risk score of maternal SNPs associated with offspring birthweight was also associated with offspring cardiometabolic risk factors, after controlling for offspring genotypes at the same loci, in up to 26,057 mother-offspring pairs from the Nord-Trøndelag Health (HUNT) Study. We also conducted similar analyses in 19,792 father-offspring pairs from the same study to investigate whether there was evidence that any such causal effects operated through the postnatal, rather than the intrauterine environment. To take account of the considerable cryptic relatedness in HUNT, we implemented a computationally efficient genetic linear mixed model using the OpenMx software package to perform our analyses.ResultsWe found little evidence for a maternal genetic effect of birthweight associated variants on offspring cardiometabolic risk factors after adjusting for offspring genotypes at the same loci. Likewise, we found little evidence for paternal genetic effects on offspring cardiometabolic risk factors performing similar analyses in father-offspring pairs. In contrast, offspring genetic risk scores of birthweight associated variants were strongly related to many cardiometabolic risk factors, even after conditioning on maternal genotypes at the same loci.ConclusionOur results suggest that the maternal intrauterine environment, as proxied by maternal SNPs that influence offspring birthweight, is unlikely to be a major determinant of adverse cardiometabolic outcomes in population based samples of individuals. In contrast, genetic pleiotropy appears to explain some of the observational relationship between offspring birthweight and future cardiometabolic risk.

scholarly journals New Jersey’s Zoning Amendment

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Alex Costin
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
State Court ◽  
The People ◽  
Town Meeting ◽  
The Press ◽  
Growth And Change ◽  
The Town

A half century before the New Jersey Supreme Court endorsed inclusionary zoning in Southern Burlington N.A.A.C.P. v. Mount Laurel Township, the state struggled to secure basic municipal zoning. While New Jersey’s political elite embraced zoning in the 1910s and 20s to weather a period of tremendous growth and change, a disapproving judiciary steadfastly maintained that the practice violated basic property rights. Hundreds of state court decisions in the 1920s held zoning ordinances unconstitutional. Finally, the people of New Jersey in 1927 overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the state constitution overruling those decisions and affirming zoning as a reasonable exercise of the state’s police power. This essay traces those uncertain early years of zoning in New Jersey. The amendment was not the result of a state monolithically coming to its senses. Instead, its passage documents a decade-long struggle played out not only in the courts and legislature but also in the press and the town meeting.

scholarly journals Warner Tjardus Koiter. 16 June 1914 — 2 September 1997

1999 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 269-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.H. van Campen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Applied Mechanics ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Stability Of Structures ◽  
The Town

On 2 September 1997, Warner Tjardus Koiter, Emeritus Professor in the theory of the stiffness, strength and stability of structures, died in Delft. A teacher's on, Koiter was born in Amsterdam in 1914, but grew up and went to school in the town of Zutphen. From 1931 to 1936 he studied mechanical engineering at what was then the Technische Hogeschool Delft (now the Technische Universiteit Delft), where he graduated with honours. His first position was at the former Rijks‐Studiedienst voor de luchtvaart (now the Nationaal Lucht‐ en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium), where he immersed himself further in applied mechanics and more especially its practical application to engineering under the guidance of A. van der Neut. Koiter spent his evenings working on his dissertation, which he defended shortly after the war, in November 1945—again with honours, with C.B. Biezeno being his supervisor. Koiter had actually finished the dissertation in 1942 but, not wanting to graduate from a university that required a pledge of loyalty to the occupying forces, he waited until 1945. It was published in Dutch because German had been the only foreign language permitted during the war. Another fifteen years would pass before the original text was translated into English, under the auspices of NASA in the USA. At Harvard University in the late 1950s, Koiter presented the results of his research, which were received enthusiastically. However, when an American colleague asked whether he could publish it, the Dutchman was rather indignant: it had already appeared in 1945, after all.

scholarly journals Dhār, Bhoja and Sarasvatī: from Indology to Political Mythology and Back

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-153
Author(s):  
MICHAEL WILLIS
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Central India ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
The Press ◽  
Political Tension ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Mythology ◽  
The Town

The Bhojśālā or ‘Hall of Bhoja’ is a term used to describe the centre for Sanskrit studies associated with King Bhoja, the most celebrated ruler of the Paramāra dynasty. The Bhojśālā is also linked to Sarasvatī – the goddess of learning – whose shrine is said to have stood in the hall's precinct. Since the early years of the twentieth century, the mosque adjacent to the tomb of Kamāl al-Dīn Chishtī in the town of Dhār has been identified as the Bhojśālā. This has turned the building into a focal point of religious, social and political tension. Access to the site, currently under the protection of the Archaeological Survey of India, has been marked by communal friction and disputes in the press and in the courts. My aim in this paper is not to chart this sorry tale of events; I only need note that the legal and political wrangles, not to mention a steady flow of inflammatory assertions, have formed a toxic backdrop to the scholarly publications cited in the pages that follow. A second issue beyond the scope of this paper is how the medieval history of Dhār has played its part in the wider ‘invention of tradition’ and formation of modern Hindu identity. Stepping back from these concerns, my ambition here is rather modest: I seek only to explore how the mosque at Dhār has come to be described as the Bhojśālā and, on this basis, to undertake an assessment of that identification. Along the way, I will touch on a number of problems concerning the history, architecture and literary culture of central India.

The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Early Years of the Society of Jesus

1960 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guenter Lewy
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Constitutional Government

It is generally recognized that the centralized organization and strict discipline of the Jesuits played an important role in the Order's successful agitation against Protestantism during the Counterreformation. It is little known that during this period of great accomplishment the Society went through one of the most serious crises of its 400 years of existence—a rebellion, centered in Spain, against the allegedly dictatorial rule of the general and for a quasi-democratic form of governnient. This movement reveals the intrusion of constitutional ideas into an organization which usually has been held up as the prototype of autocracy and monolithic cohesion.

scholarly journals A tool for assessing healthy food knowledge in 5–6-year-old Australian children

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1177-1183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Zarnowiecki ◽  
James Dollman ◽  
Natalie Sinn
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Main Study ◽  
Good Test ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

AbstractObjectiveIn the early years of life, influential attributes are formed and may be difficult to change later in life. Early childhood is now recognised as a key target in the prevention of overweight and obesity, and the knowledge that children gain at this time about food and its health benefits may have an important influence on their dietary choices and preferences in later life. Therefore, an activity was designed using age-appropriate methods to assess nutrition knowledge of young children.DesignThe Healthy Food Knowledge Activity was developed using a list of thirty healthy and unhealthy foods and drinks generated from the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating.SettingThe activity was conducted with individual children from reception classes of South Australian schools.SubjectsChildren aged 5–6 years undertook the activity in a pilot study (n 13) and in the main study (n 192).ResultsPilot data indicated good test–retest reliability of the activity (r = 0·84, P < 0·01). In the main study, there was a good distribution of scores with acceptable skewness and kurtosis statistics. A breakdown of responses indicated good face validity, with more obvious foods being more correctly classified.ConclusionsChildren as young as 5–6 years of age can correctly identify healthy foods, and this can be measured objectively. This activity also provides interesting insights regarding misconceptions about foods that could be attributed to influences such as media advertising and that can be addressed by educators of this age group.

scholarly journals Trattato tra Cnosso e Tilisso con mediazione di Argo

Axon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Carabillò
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Mediator Role ◽  
The Town

The inscription was rediscovered in the early years of the last century among the ruins of the town of Tylisos. It contains the text of an alliance agreement between the Cretan towns of Knossos and Tylisos – probably stipulated after a controversy – where Argos seems to play the mediator role; the dating oscillates between 460 and 450 BC. Particular attention has been paid to the role played by Argos in the controversy: indeed, Knossos and Tylisos would have turned to Argos with the aim of putting hostilities aside and establish peace relations because of Argos’ status of metropolis.

scholarly journals THE PROJECT-BASED NATURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION IN A PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S GROUP

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Gitana Petrauskienė ◽  
Ramunė Vėželytė
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Learning Through Play ◽  
Natural Science Education

The aim of today’s natural science education is literacy development from the early years. The project-based natural science education happens in a deliberately prepared natural environment: children may work in groups, institutions, or outside institutions. The activities aim at preschool children’s personality growth as well as gaining needed competencies and progress. The realization of the project-based natural sciences’ method distinguishes preschool children’s individual and teamwork skills. It is also a very useful tool for developing pupils’ consciousness, activeness, creativity, and responsibility. Moreover, the preservation of animate and inanimate nature along with the rational use of resources is identified. The project-based natural science education is closely related to the integration of innovative information technologies. Preschool children are encouraged to take part in various interactive games and activities. In this way the children’s thinking skills are developed. Also, the integration of information technologies motivates children to engage in concrete patronizing, nature-friendly, and environment-friendly activities. Keywords: natural science education, learning through play, practical activities.

scholarly journals William Bartram: a Maker and Painter of America’s Image in its Enlightenment

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Jagas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Enlightenment ◽  
William Bartram ◽  
Scientific World

The American Enlightenment of the eighteenth century was a critical time in the early years of the emergent nation as Americans increasingly explored and investigated all fields of knowledge, from philosophy to natural science. One lesser-known early American of the period, who was especially significant to early American natural science, was the naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823), whose most vital role in the American Enlightenment was that of helping America assert itself in a scientific world largely dominated at the time by European scientists. In this respect, Bartram reinforced the efforts of men like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to prove America to be a capable nation able to act independently. Bartram’s work also helped to develop and advertise the image of America to the world as a young and growing nation. This paper, therefore, while first seeking to explore Bartram’s critical role as a maker and painter of America’s image during its Enlightenment, also displays some of the critical difficulties (outside of its politics) facing early America.

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