scholarly journals On the structure, development, and morphological interpretation of the pineal organs and adjacent parts of the brain in the tuatara ( Sphenudon punctatus )

1910 ◽  
Vol 82 (560) ◽  
pp. 629-637
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Structure Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Brain

The memoir of which an abstract is here given contains a detailed account of the pineal organs and associated parts of the brain in Sphenodon, from the morphological, histological, and embryological points of view, accompanied by numerous illustrations, and may be regarded as a continuation and amplification of my earlier work on the subject. The material upon which my results are based consisted partly of a number of adult living Tuataras presented to me by the New Zealand Government, the cost of transmission of which to England was defrayed by a grant from the Government Grant Committee, and partly of specimens (chiefly embryos) preserved by myself while in New Zealand. I defer the expression of my thanks to the numerous friends who have helped me in the work until the publication of the complete memoir.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Carl C. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Whooping Cough ◽  
American People ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Federal Assistance ◽  
Children Under 5

REGARDLESS of how we, as individual physicians, may feel about the role of the federal government in the individual practice of medicine, the time has long since passed when we can afford the luxury of ignoring it. In past years the influence of the government on medicine has been mostly in general areas and perhaps least of all in that of pediatrics; but under the present administration there has been a decided change. For this reason it seems necessary to me to call to the attention of all Fellows of the Academy the particular items in President Kennedy's message of February 26, 1962, which relate specifically to the practice of Pediatrics. These may be considered to be three in number: The first of these dealt with the subject of immunization. On this topic President Kennedy said: I am asking the American people to join in a nationwide vaccination program to stamp out these four diseases (whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, and poliomyelitis) encouraging all communities to immunize both children and adults, keep them immunized and plan for the routine immunization of children yet to be born. To assist the states and local communities in this effort over the next 3 years, I am proposing legislation authorizing a program of federal assistance. This program would cover the full cost of vaccines for all children under 5 years of age. It would also assist in meeting the cost of organizing the vaccination drives begun during this period, and the cost of extra personnel needed for certain special tasks.

scholarly journals MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY IN THE GLOBALIZED WORLD

2016 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Ирина Нагорная ◽  
Irina Nagornaya
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Supreme Court ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Government ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Further Development

The subject of this research is the death penalty as a mandatory punishment for the most serious crimes in the United States, Asia and the Caribbean and corresponding constitutional problems. The author analyses foreign courts’ judgments and foreign researchers’ points of view. The author considers the influence of the jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court on the countries with similar legal systems, the importance of legal thought in other countries for further development of law-enforcement practice in a particular region and the globalized world. The author analyzes inconsistent position of Singapore, as well as the indecisiveness of the government of Malaysia, because until recently these two countries were fervent supporters of the mandatory death penalty in the Commonwealth. The author supports the global trend towards the abolition of the mandatory death penalty and the fact that the “Asian values” are not an insurmountable barrier to achieve this goal.

The Economics of Agricultural Aviation in New Zealand

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (671) ◽  
pp. 1025-1025
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Chemical Balance ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Large Aircraft

Until the middle of this century farmers had been benefiting from New Zealand's 31 million acres of pastureland without applying any fertiliser to the soil.During 1948-49 the Government realised the urgent requirement for aerial fertilising to restore this soil to its correct chemical balance and the Royal New Zealand Air Force was made responsible for research, and extensive fertilising was undertaken with large aircraft, such as the DC-3. The work was charged for on a “county” basis and thus the cost was eased by the local rates.

scholarly journals VI. Researches on the atomic weight of thallium

1873 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 277-330 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Atomic Weight ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
Method Of Extraction ◽  
And Chemical Properties

In June 1862, and in February 1863, I had the honour to lay before the Royal Society communications on the subject of the then newly discovered metal, Thallium. In these I gave an account of its occurrence, distribution, and the method of extraction from the ore, together with its physical characteristics and chemical properties; also I discussed the position of thallium among elementary bodies, and gave a series of analytical notes. In the pages of the 'Journal of the Chemical Society’ for April 1, 1864, I collated all the information then extant, both from my own researches and from those of others, introducing qualitative descriptions of an extended series of the salts of the metal. I propose in the present paper to lay before the Royal Society the details and results of experiments which have engrossed much of my spare time during the last eight years, and which consist of very laborious researches on the atomic weight of thallium. In these researches I owe much to the munificence of the Royal Society for having placed at my disposal a large sum from the Government Grant. Without this supplement to my own resources it would have been difficult for me to have carried out the investi­gation with such completeness.

scholarly journals On a pair of ciliated grooves in the brain of the ammocœte apparently serving to promote the circulation of the fluid in the brain-cavity

1902 ◽  
Vol 69 (451-458) ◽  
pp. 485-494 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Other ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Geotria Australis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Interesting Species

The peculiar and apparently hitherto undescribed structures which form the subject of the present communication, were first discovered in the course of an as yet unfinished investigation of the parietal organs in the New Zealand Lamprey ( Geotria australis ). The Ammocœte of this interesting species is known to us only through two specimens: one of these was briefly described by Kner in 1869; the other was for many years in the Museum of the Otago University, Dunedin, and was forwarded to me for investigation by the present curator, Professor W. B. Benham, D. Sc., to whom I desire to express my indebtedness for his great kindness. The specimen which I have thus had the opportunity of investigating was labelled in the handwriting of the late Professor T. J. Parker, F. R. S.—“Ammocœtes stage of Geotria—Opoho Creek.

scholarly journals Gaseous combustion at high pressures

1915 ◽  
Vol 91 (631) ◽  
pp. 464-465
Keyword(s):  
High Pressures ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Maximum Pressure ◽  
Hydrocarbon Combustion ◽  
Secondary Reactions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Primary Oxidation

The paper gives an account of investigations on gaseous combustion under high pressures carried out in the Fuel Department of the University of Deeds during the years 1906-12, with a special installation of apparatus, the cost of which was defrayed out of grants made from time to time by the Government Grant Committee. Experiments in which mixtures of methane with less than its own volume of oxygen were exploded in steel bombs at initial pressures of between 8 and 32 atmospheres have given results in harmony with the "hydroxylation" theory of hydrocarbon combustion put forward some years ago by Prof. Bone. The influence of various secondary reactions upon the products of the primary oxidation whilst the gases are cooling down after the attainment of maximum pressure is discussed in the light of the experimental results.

scholarly journals VI. On the structure, development and morphological interpretation of the pineal organs and adjacent parts of the brain in the tuatara ( sphenodon punctatus )

1911 ◽  
Vol 201 (274-281) ◽  
pp. 227-331 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Histological Structure ◽  
Structure Development ◽  
Adult Specimen ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
Geotria Australis ◽  
Sphenodon Punctatus ◽  
The Brain

Before leaving New Zealand in 1901, in order to return to England after an absence of fourteen years in Australasia, I took special care to preserve material for the investigation, by modern methods, of the minute histological structure of the pineal eye of the native Lamprey ( Geotria australis ) and of the Tuatara ( Sphenodon punctatus ). Three years ago I published the results of my investigations on Geotria (Dendy, 1907, a ), for which the material I had obtained proved amply sufficient. In the case of Sphenodon, however, I had been able to preserve the brain and pineal eye of only a single adult specimen. The pineal eye was detached from the brain and preserved separately, together with the surrounding portion of the cranial roof. This I kept in my own possession, but the brain was given to Prof. Howes for transmission to Prof. Elliot Smith. My investigations have been greatly delayed by various unavoidable circumstances, and especially by the pressure of other engagements. My professional duties called me to South Africa in 1903, and it was not until I had fairly settled down in the newly created chair of Zoology at Cape Town, and had imported from England the necessary apparatus, that I found an opportunity of preparing sections of my Sphenodon material. These sections were not fully examined until after my return to England once more in 1905.

scholarly journals Law, Economics and the Draft Takeovers Code

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Robert Dugan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Total Effect ◽  
Draft Code ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
Run Up ◽  
The Cost

In August 1995, the Government announced that it would defer a decision whether to adopt the draft Takeovers Code that had been formulated and recommended by the Takeovers Panel pursuant to s 19 of the Takeovers Act 1993. This announcement culminates, at least for the time being, almost a decade of intense and sometimes acrimonious controversy over the regulation of takeovers in New Zealand. Economics-based arguments figured in the run up to the legislation, within the legislation itself, in the formulation of the Code and in the debate about its merits. After a review of the background and the principal features of the draft Code, this article considers the main issues in the law and economics debate that preceded the Government's decision. The author argues that the Government's decision to defer action on the Draft Code can likely be attributed to the "law and economics" opposition to takeovers regulation and the Code itself. The article concludes that both law and economic components were flawed: the legal component (i.e. that there are already existing companies legislation and listing requirements) ignores the fact that takeover regimes fill a regulatory gap, and the economic component (i.e. that the cost of takeovers will increase) fail to consider the total effect of an arrangement. 

scholarly journals The impact of changes to the New Zealand aid policy on non-governmental organisations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Valeria Openko
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Party Government ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Ngos ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Aid Policy

<p>The election of the National Party Government in 2008 led to a significant reshaping of the New Zealand aid programme. The changes became the subject of strong criticism from the New Zealand aid community in terms of the main policy underpinnings, funding schemes for (Non-Governmental Organisation) NGOs and the altered relationships between the government and development NGOs. While the literature reveals some critical observations about such changes, not much is known about the impacts of New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance (NZODA) policy on New Zealand development NGOs. This research aims to better understand the impacts of the changes to NZODA policy on the NGO sector to improve knowledge about the subject that could be applied in order to strengthen the long-term partnership and increase the effectiveness of NZODA. To achieve this goal twenty one New Zealand NGOs were interviewed regarding their views on the policy, impacts on NGO operations and policies, effects on in-country partners and relationships with the government. The criticisms of the aid community were also analysed and compared with the research findings. The research findings showed that the expressed views of NGOs indicted a wide variety of opinions on the policy changes and there was a diverse range of negative, neutral and sometimes positive views on the effects on NGOs. While the National Government’s policy agenda has dramatically affected development work of NGOs and their relationships with the government, NGO policies were less affected in some aspects. It is concluded that, whilst the relationship between the official government aid programme and the NGOs has been altered and adversely affected, there is still the basis for an effective partnership that can be reshaped and strengthened in future.</p>

scholarly journals An offer they can't refuse: the imposition of final offer arbitration in the New Zealand state sector

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Roper
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Press Statement ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Compulsory Arbitration ◽  
Final Offer ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

On 10 March 1988, three :months to the day after the introduction of the State Sector Bill, the Government announced a nun1ber of changes to the Bill, arnongst which was the following: A provision will be included in the law that will allow the negotiating parties to a particular document to agree to a compulsory arbitration arrange1nent in return for a "no-strike" commitment from the union. The type of arbitration available will be "final offer" arbitration where the Arbitration Commission must choose between the whole position put forward by one party or the other and cannot go "down the middle" (Goverrunent Press Statement, March 10, 1988). Final offer arbitration (FOA) is a new concept for the New Zealand industrial relations system. It was not canvassed in the Buff Paper. Its potential application in this country has certainly not been the subject of debate amongst industrial relations practitioners. This is typical of the way in which this Bill was processed from its introduction. It bodes ill for the future of such an alien elernent in state sector bargaining.

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