Poverty, Illness, and the Negro Child: A Dissenting Voice

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 470-470
Author(s):  
C. G. Eschenburg
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Negro Child ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
The Press ◽  
Normal Variability

Ordinarily, I am not an avid "Letters to the Editor" correspondent, but the article, "Poverty, Illness, and the Negro Child" (Pediatrics, 46:305) by Dr. Seham was the final straw. How long must we be constantly bombarded by the press–including "scientific" journals–with such sociologic clap-trap? Are there so many guilt-ridden people who have to join the bandwagon that no other voices are heard? Surely, physicians should realize that biologic organisms will group in a variable bellshaped curve. Why must we join the sociologists, politicians, and communists in trying to "flatten out" normal variability; producing (which is impossible) a nation of mediocre nebbishes.

Standards for Conducting a DNA Barcoding Market Survey: Minimum Information and Best Practices

DNA Barcodes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Madelaine Naaum ◽  
Jason St.Jaques ◽  
Kimberly Warner ◽  
Linda Santschi ◽  
Ralph Imondi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Dna Barcoding ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Market Survey ◽  
Minimum Information ◽  
The Press ◽  
Seafood Products ◽  
The Media

AbstractDNA barcoding has been applied as a method to test seafood authenticity in numerous market surveys. This trend is continuing to gain momentum as DNA barcoding is employed as a regulatory tool, by the media, and by students to test seafood products, in addition to its use by scientific researchers to monitor seafood substitution. However, as market surveys documenting mislabeling continue to be published by both the press and scientific journals, there is a need for standardization in practices to aid in comparing and verifying results. This communication provides an overview of best practices for conducting and reporting DNA barcoding market studies for seafood. These standards can also be used as a guideline for other methods for conducting market surveys, or for market surveys employing DNA barcoding of other groups of organisms.

scholarly journals Writer’s argumentative attitude

Pragmatics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrina Pounds
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Press ◽  
Contextual Framework ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
Argumentative Structure ◽  
Pragmatic Dimension

This article deals with those aspects of language that can be seen to carry out a primarily “interactional function” in that they are used to “establish and maintain social relationships” (Brown and Yule 1983: 2 and 3). Such aspects have been variously referred to as performing an “expressive” (Bühler 1934), “emotive” (Jakobson 1960), “social expressive” (Lyons 1977) or “interpersonal” (Halliday 1994) function or, more recently, as performing the function by which “social roles and relationships are constructed” (White 2002: 2). In this article such aspects are referred to in very general terms as ‘attitudinal’ or as carrying ‘attitudinal meaning’ or expressing ‘attitude’. It is widely accepted that the interaction generated through language has a strong pragmatic dimension, that is, it can hardly be appreciated out of context. This article is particularly concerned with highlighting the significance and the all-pervasive nature of such pragmatic dimension in the case of the interaction engendered between writers and readers through the medium of Letters to the Editor published in the English and Italian print media. The following three questions arise: 1) At which linguistic level can specific attitudinal resources be identified and compared? 2) To what extent may the extra linguistic context play a role in the specific case of Letters to the Editor? 3) Are similar attitudinal resources and strategies used in the English and Italian letters? How may any differences be explained? In order to answer these questions the article firstly explores the nature of attitudinal meaning as outlined in previous studies. The second section focuses on the cultural context in which the letters are produced with particular reference to the role of language, argumentation, the press and the genre Letters to the Editor in England and Italy. The third section deals with the argumentative structure of the letters and the specific attitudinal meanings associated with the various components of such structure. The method of analysis is illustrated through examples from the English corpus. The main findings are presented and a comparison is drawn between the two corpora. The findings are further assessed in the light of the contextual framework set out in the preceding section.

scholarly journals Aflatoxins in Mozambican Online Mainstream Press

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Cambaza ◽  
Alberto Sineque ◽  
Edson Mongo ◽  
Aline Gatambire ◽  
Edirsse Mateonane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mainstream Press

Aflatoxins gained increased recognition in Mozambique due to their negative impact on health, food security, and trade. Most contamination occurs in peanuts, maize, and their products. Nevertheless, there is little awareness, probably because the press and mass media do not disseminate enough information. This study analyzed the quantity and quality of information on aflatoxins in Mozambique’s leading online newspapers between 2009 and 2018. After analyzing articles using Atlas.ti, the information was synthesized and compared to scholarly sources. Mozambique requires more press and media coverage of aflatoxin research and development activities. Awareness campaigns should be reinforced, distribute information to multiple organizations, and use multiple means, including online mainstream press, spreading information to reach a broad range of people, given the diversity of cultures and villages’ remoteness. Organizations providing information, including universities, need to translate the highly technical information published in scientific journals to help reporters understand the research’s implications. Furthermore, there is a need to identify groups that do not receive messages from current campaigns and appropriate methods for reaching those populations.

scholarly journals Science and scientists turned into news and media stars by scientific journals. A study on the consequences on the present scientific behaviour

2008 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Elías
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Subsequent Increase ◽  
The Press ◽  
Scientific Results

This article explores whether some scientists have now actually been developing a type of science apt to be published as a piece of news, yet lacking a relevant scientific interest. Possibly, behind this behaviour there may be the present working culture, in which scientists live under the pressure of the dictatorship of the Science Citation Index (SCI) of the reference journals. This hypothesis is supported by a study demonstrating that there is a direct relation between publishing scientific results in the press and a subsequent increase in the SCI index. Many cases are here described, selected among the papers published in Nature that – according to experts – have a media interest rather than a scientific one. Furthermore, the case of the Dolly sheep cloning is studied as a paradigm for a situation in which media coverage actually destroyed the research group.

The Price of Vigilance

2004 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHELLE E. JOLLY
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Press

This study explores the role of the press in the gendering of political discourse and the politicization of women in San Francisco during the rule of the Vigilance Committee of 1856. Although some historians have noted the gender dimension of the reform and vigilance movement, a broader discussion is warranted. To build readership and support for his reform agenda, James King of William, editor of the Daily Evening Bulletin, used gendered political rhetoric, inviting women to participate in political debate through letters to the editor. His tactics inspired rival editors to write in gendered terms and even to include women's voices in their columns. But women's participation in public political debate in mainstream newspapers was short-lived. Still, their involvement in the reform and vigilance movement of 1855-1856 contributed materially to the politicization of women in San Francisco.

Science Writers as Characterized in Medical Journals: What Are Physicians Saying about Us?

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl A. Koski
Keyword(s):  
England Journal ◽  
New England ◽  
News Media ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical News ◽  
The Press ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Medical Fact

One method of assessing the opinions that physicians hold about science writers is to examine the public record, represented by two periodicals: the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. The citations to the news media that appear in the indexes of the two journals during the last fifteen years yield thirty-four opinion pieces, consisting of editorials and letters to the editor. The timing and content of medical news are of particular concern to physicians. Specifically, they watch for violations of the Ingelfinger Rule and the press embargo system—policies designed to ensure that physicians have access to medical information before it becomes widely disseminated to the general public—as well as errors of medical fact.

How to (or not to) communicate science

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.P.R. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Public Understanding Of Science ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Public Science ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Understanding Of Science

Protagonists for ‘the public understanding of science’ still sometimes fail to recognize that there is also a need for ‘the scientists’ understanding of the public’ and that for most of science most of the time we are all public. ‘Science’ is communicated to ‘the public’ through popular books, museums, TV, the Internet, but far too often the present state of scientific belief is presented uncritically as the onward march of truth as discovered by Euro-American males. This has contributed to a widespread public concern, if not mistrust, in many areas of science, not least genetics and neuroscience. Although researchers often criticize the media for misrepresenting their work, the hype and simplifications often begin with the press releases put out by the researchers, their institutions and the scientific journals themselves. I conclude by looking more optimistically at the ways in which, by bringing natural science into theatre, novels and other art forms, the fragmentation of our culture may be diminished.

The People’s Voice During the 2016 Presidential Campaign

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 566-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick P. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
The People ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Problem Solvers ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The Voice

This study examines the 2016 presidential campaign by comparing the voice of the people with that of the press and the political establishment. By systematically collecting some 5,000 texts (political speeches, ads, and debates alongside print and broadcast coverage) during the campaign and comparing them with 1,200 letters to the editor written in 12 small American cities, an overview of the nation’s quadrennial dialogue was made possible. By also comparing this sample with similar texts gathered for the 1948 through 2012 presidential campaigns, the 2016 campaign could be seen in sharper relief. These comparisons were facilitated by DICTION, a lexically based, content analytic program capable of producing rhetorical profiles of the discourse sampled. Overall, I found (a) that each voice produces distinct verbal patterns, thereby revealing its unique role in the polity; (b) that all three voices—politicians, the press, and the people—were more strident and more philosophical in 2016 than in prior years; (c) that Donald Trump and his letter writing supporters were especially dismayed by the status quo; and (d) that many of the stereotypes about letter writers turn out not to be true, with only a small percentage being blind ideologues. The rest were either issue specialists, analytical problem solvers, champions of a particular worldview, or voters interested in dissecting the psychological makeup of the candidates.

New Developments With Pertussis Vaccines

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 970-971
Author(s):  
Neal A. Halsey ◽  
Georges Peter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Whole Cell ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Press ◽  
Acellular Vaccines

Extensive efforts on the part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), vaccine manufacturers, and other investigators in the United States and Europe have generated important new information regarding the efficacy of several acellular and whole-cell pertussis vaccines administered to infants. Multiple acellular pertussis vaccines combined with tetanus, and diphtheria toxoids (DTaP) have been tested in European trials and compared with whole-cell diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP) preparations. The results of most trials have been released to the press and formal manuscripts will be published in scientific journals within the next few weeks.1-3 The data from these studies indicate variable efficacy of both acellular and whole-cell pertussis vaccines, reflecting differences in manufacturing processes and the number and type of vaccine components in the new acellular vaccines.

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