Concluding Remarks

1967 ◽  
Vol 301 (1465) ◽  
pp. 171-171 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Close Friend ◽  
Experimental Techniques ◽  
Nineteen Twenties ◽  
Wolfgang Pauli ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Do So

I see from our programme that I am due to end our session with ‘concluding remarks’. In view of the lateness of the hour, and of the meaty contributions which I at any rate have still to digest, I am sure you will prefer me ‘to conclude’ rather than ‘to remark’. However, I think you might like to hear a remark of Pauli at the time he postulated the existence of the neutrino. It shows in a graphic way just how far experimental techniques have advanced over the past thirty years. I had the story from Walter Baade the astronomer, a close friend of Pauli. The friendship started in a curious way. In the nineteen-twenties Julius Springer was bringing out the now-famous edition of the Handbuch . Neither Einstein nor Sommerfeld wanted to write the article on Relativity, but Sommerfeld announced he had found just the right man for the job. In fact he, Sommerfeld, wrote to the Director of the Hamburg Observatory asking if the man in question-a certain Wolfgang Pauli-could spend the summer writing the article in Hamburg. Baade, a junior assistant, was detailed to meet Pauli’s train. Very naturally, Baade expected to receive an august personage-after all this was the man who was to take on what neither Sommerfeld nor Einstein himself would do-so he rolled up for the assign­ment dressed formally in his only suit. Nothing remotely like an august personage appeared, so Baade tried several tolerably staid travellers, but to no avail. At last, Baade was reduced to approaching a youth in shorts. Success-Pauli !

scholarly journals Being at the right place at the right time

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (21) ◽  
pp. 4148-4150
Author(s):  
Sophie G. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Cell Biology ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Scientific Careers ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive

I am tremendously honored to receive the 2012 Women in Cell Biology Junior Award. In this essay, I recount my career path over the past 15 years. Although many details are specific to my own experiences, I hope that some generalizations can be made to encourage more women to pursue independent scientific careers. Mine is a story of choosing a captivating question, making the most of your opportunities, and finding a balance with life outside the lab.

Some Methods of Research into the origin of Greek Deities

1947 ◽  
Vol 16 (48) ◽  
pp. 98-107
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Chittenden
Keyword(s):  
Partial Solution ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Total Lack ◽  
Religious Origins ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

There are flaws in the usual methods of research into religious origins which have become apparent to the writer during several years' work on the cult of one Greek god. It has therefore seemed desirable to restate and to examine these methods so as to demonstrate the merits and the faults of each. To do so is one aim of this paper; another is an elucidation of the many important advantages of the historical approach, and, although it is hoped that the principles herein erected as guides to study are applicable to all ancient gods, the illustrations of these principles will derive very largely from Hermes, the god with whose cult and concept the writer has been most closely concerned.It would be hard to exaggerate the difficulties which beset a student when he turns to the problem of an ancient god's origin. Even a partial solution demands his utmost caution, for the easy explanation is hardly ever the right one. He must guard himself against the beguilements of the attractive theory which will very often beckon him down the wrong path. To avoid this and to enter upon his task most wisely he will meditate upon two main initial difficulties.The first one to present itself is, of course, the fact that the origin of most gods worshipped by the Greeks lies in the past far behind Homer. Therefore the student is faced with an almost total lack of literary and epigraphical material—at least which he can understand— to aid him in the search.

scholarly journals Methods Used to Deal with Peace Process Spoilers

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
MA. Bilbil Kastrati
Keyword(s):  
Peace Process ◽  
International Community ◽  
The Past ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Peace Agreements ◽  
Private Military Companies ◽  
Peaceful Settlement ◽  
The Right ◽  
Settlement Of Disputes ◽  
Do So

The conflicts of the past three decades have shown that the major problems which peace processes face are the spoilers. Spoilers are warring parties and their leaders who believe that peaceful settlement of disputes threatens their interests, power and their reputation; therefore, they use all means to undermine or completely spoil the process. Spoilers of peace processes can be inside or outside of the process and are characterized as limited, greedy or total spoilers. Their motives for spoiling can be different, such as: political, financial, ethnic, security, etc. Furthermore, it is important to emphasise that spoilers are not only rebels and insurgents, but can often be governments, diasporas, warlords, private military companies, etc.In order to counteract the spoilers, the international community has adopted and implemented three methods: inducement, socialization and coercion. Often all three methods are used to convince the spoilers to negotiate, accept and implement peace agreements. Hence, this paper will examine the methods used to deal with peace process spoilers through an assessment of the strategies employed, impact, success and failures.This paper will also argue that the success or failure of the peace process depends on the method(s) used to deal with spoilers. If the right method is chosen, with a persistent engagement of the international community, the peace process will be successful; on the contrary, if they fail to do so, the consequences will be devastating. 

The Rise of the ‘Right-Hand House’ in the History and Historiography of the Xhosa

1975 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 113-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.B. Peires
Keyword(s):  
Historical Events ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Great House ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

Among the Xhosa the institution of the ‘Right-Hand House’ acts both as a political charter and as an historical explanation. As a political charter it defines the relationship between the Ngqika Paramount (the Right-Hand House) of the Ciskei ‘Bantu Homeland’ and the Gcaleka Paramount (the Great House) of the Transkei Homeland. As it presently stands, the essence of this relationship is that the Ngqika Paramount recognizes the Gcaleka Paramount as his superior in rank, but without accepting any implications of practical political subordination. This position was defined by J.H. Soga, the standard authority on Xhosa history and customs, and himself an umNgqika, as follows: By courtesy, matters affecting Xosa customs might occasionally be referred to a chief of the older [i.e., Gcaleka] branch especially when a precedent was involved, but this did not prevent the Right-Hand House from following its own line of conduct, irrespective of what that precedent might be, should it choose to do so. Laws promulgated by the court of the Gaikas [Ngqika] were not subject to interference by the Gcaleka chief.In terms of historical explanation, secondary authorities from 1846 to 1975 have singled out the privileged status of the Right-Hand House as the principal cause of Xhosa political fragmentation.Whereas historians of Africa normally agree that institutions and their myths of origin are, at least in part, susceptible to historical interpretation and reconstruction, they may justifiably be more doubtful of an historical approach which seeks to explain historical events by imputing to the past the continuous retrogressive operation of institutions which can be seen to be operating in certain ways in the present. In this regard the present exercise has two aims.

Building better HR departments

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Ingham ◽  
Dave Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Do So

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to four questions on building a better human resources (HR) department: why?, who?, what? and how? Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on the accumulated experience of the co-authors. Findings The paper finds that better HR departments create better organizations and will often do this by enabling better relationships between the people working in them. Developing the right relationships is also an increasingly important part of creating an effective HR organization. Research limitations/implications Much attention has been spent on developing HR professionals. The authors also want to make HR departments better. This paper steers future research on HR effectiveness in this direction. Practical implications Senior HR leaders charged with improving their HR department may do so with the roadmap offered by the authors. Originality/value For businesses to receive full value from HR, it is very important to upgrade the quality of HR professionals. It is even more important to upgrade HR departments. This paper suggests how this can be done.

scholarly journals Pretrial Publicity

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Pretrial Publicity ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Trial Evidence ◽  
Do So

Pretrial publicity (PTP) refers to media coverage of criminal and civil cases prior to trial. Every era has its high-profile cases involving individuals and businesses—e.g., Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Boston Bomber), Enron, Timothy McVeigh, O. J. Simpson, John Hinckley, Patty Hearst, John Mitchell, Sam Shepperd, Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Lindbergh baby kidnapping), Sacco and Vanzetti. Serious and notorious crimes and cases involving celebrities tend to receive the most media attention. Much media attention will operate to the detriment of criminal and civil defendants—reporting may emphasize the dastardliness of the defendant’s actions, the effects of those acts on victims, the evidence against the defendant, opinions about the defendant’s guilt expressed by law enforcement personnel, and the like. Whenever a case receives substantial PTP—and especially when the PTP is negative—questions arise about the likelihood that a defendant can receive a fair trial. The concern is that the substantial PTP will bias prospective jurors against the defendant and result in a verdict driven by PTP rather than trial evidence. Concerns about the media potentially biasing trials pit First Amendment guarantees of a free press against Sixth Amendment rights of defendants to “a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” Of course, if media coverage has been substantial and negative, a number of questions arise: has the deck been stacked against a defendant? To what extent? How can this be proven? If there is improper bias, what are the solutions—delay the trial? Give the defendant expanded opportunities to find unbiased jurors? Rely on judges to instruct jurors to put aside their biases (and rely on jurors to do so)? Change the trial to another venue—if there is one where the PTP has not been so voluminous or negative? A substantial body of empirical research has developed over the past fifty years that seeks to answer such questions and do so using reliable research methods.

The Child's Right to Object to Hospitalization: Some Empirical Data

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Meisel ◽  
Loren H. Roth
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Matter ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
New Procedures ◽  
Court Hearing

This paper reports the implementation of a 1973 Pennsylvania ruling granting adolescents the right to receive a court hearing to determine the necessity of their psychiatric hospitalization. Over a 10 month period, nine of 43 adolescents objected to hospitalization. Only once was an adolescent actually released because of the new procedures. Staff were almost uniformly in favor of the new procedures. The Pennsylvania ruling granted partial rights to adolescents, rights later expanded in the Pennsylvania case, Bartley v. Kremens. The authors note that, whatever the past, psychiatric treatment of adolescents is unlikely to continue to be a private matter between parents and doctors.

The Past and Present of the Right to Treatment: A Slogan Gone Astray

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Slovenko
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Involuntary Commitment ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

The theoretical justification of a constitutional “right to treatment” has been that it makes up for the “deprivation of liberty” stemming out of involuntary commitment. The Supreme Court, however, in 1975 rejected this quid pro quo theory. Though it went without acceptance, the loss of liberty rationale underlying it has had an impact, and will continue to do so.

DMSA-scintigraphy in paediatrics: Is the evaluation of the geometric mean necessary for the calculation of the differential renal function?

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (04) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Roßmüller ◽  
S. Alalp ◽  
S. Fischer ◽  
S. Dresel ◽  
K. Hahn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Function ◽  
Geometric Mean ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Posterior View ◽  
Renal Abnormality ◽  
Anterior View ◽  
Differential Renal Function ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive

SummaryFor assessment of differential renal function (PF) by means of static renal scintigraphy with Tc-99m-dimer-captosuccinic acid (DMSA) the calculation of the geometric mean of counts from the anterior and posterior view is recommended. Aim of this retrospective study was to find out, if the anterior view is necessary to receive an accurate differential renal function by calculating the geometric mean compared to calculating PF using the counts of the posterior view only. Methods: 164 DMSA-scans of 151 children (86 f, 65 m) aged 16 d to 16 a (4.7 ± 3.9 a) were reviewed. The scans were performed using a dual head gamma camera (Picker Prism 2000 XP, low energy ultra high resolution collimator, matrix 256 x 256,300 kcts/view, Zoom: 1.6-2.0). Background corrected values from both kidneys anterior and posterior were obtained. Using region of interest technique PF was calculated using the counts of the dorsal view and compared with the calculated geometric mean [SQR(Ctsdors x Ctsventr]. Results: The differential function of the right kidney was significantly less when compared to the calculation of the geometric mean (p<0.01). The mean difference between the PFgeom and the PFdors was 1.5 ± 1.4%. A difference > 5% (5.0-9.5%) was obtained in only 6/164 scans (3.7%). Three of 6 patients presented with an underestimated PFdors due to dystopic kidneys on the left side in 2 patients and on the right side in one patient. The other 3 patients with a difference >5% did not show any renal abnormality. Conclusion: The calculation of the PF from the posterior view only will give an underestimated value of the right kidney compared to the calculation of the geometric mean. This effect is not relevant for the calculation of the differntial renal function in orthotopic kidneys, so that in these cases the anterior view is not necesssary. However, geometric mean calculation to obtain reliable values for differential renal function should be applied in cases with an obvious anatomical abnormality.

Provision of Remedies for Violation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Comparative Study of the United Nations, Inter-American and African Human Rights Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-318
Author(s):  
Roman Girma Teshome
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Regional Monitoring ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
To Receive

The effectiveness of human rights adjudicative procedures partly, if not most importantly, hinges upon the adequacy of the remedies they grant and the implementation of those remedies. This assertion also holds water with regard to the international and regional monitoring bodies established to receive individual complaints related to economic, social and cultural rights (hereinafter ‘ESC rights’ or ‘socio-economic rights’). Remedies can serve two major functions: they are meant, first, to rectify the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage sustained by the particular victim, and second, to resolve systematic problems existing in the state machinery in order to ensure the non-repetition of the act. Hence, the role of remedies is not confined to correcting the past but also shaping the future by providing reforming measures a state has to undertake. The adequacy of remedies awarded by international and regional human rights bodies is also assessed based on these two benchmarks. The present article examines these issues in relation to individual complaint procedures that deal with the violation of ESC rights, with particular reference to the case laws of the three jurisdictions selected for this work, i.e. the United Nations, Inter-American and African Human Rights Systems.

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