IS ERROR FRAUD?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. A64-A64
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Real Science ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Witch Hunts ◽  
First Time ◽  
Published Research ◽  
The Way

Prof. David Baltimore of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is under attack by Representative John Dingell of Michigan. Why should anyone outside of the Government or basic biomedical research care? Dr. Baltimore's reputation is at stake, but the rest of us will be affected by the outcome of these investigations as well. What has come under a legislative cloud for the first time in a very long time, perhaps ever in this country, is the legitimacy of the scientific method itself. This is an immediate and serious threat to science and medicine. The N.I.H. will have the last word on Dr. Baltimore's published research. But as I understand the Congressman's case, it is that published science must be free of error, and that error itself indicates bad faith and fraudulent intent. This is wrong. Published error is at the heart of any real science. We scientists love to do experiments that show our colleagues to be wrong and, if they are any good, they love to show us to be wrong in turn. By this adversarial process, science reveals the way nature actually works. If we as a country make science a field for only those who enjoy a good lawsuit, we will have shut the door on our future as a technologically serious nation. Clearly Congress cannot wish to do this. I would welcome a Congressional initiative to deal with fraud as such, but I fear that the way Dr. Baltimore is being treated means that witch-hunts are in the offing.

Dr. Bodington

1897 ◽  
Vol 43 (182) ◽  
pp. 675-675
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Marked Improvement ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
The Government ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

The following cutting from The Province, published in Victoria, British Columbia, will be of interest to many of the members of our Association:—“The Provincial Secretary's ‘Bill to amend the Lunacy Act’ was introduced to the House (not before it was wanted) on Wednesday last, and read a first time. We trust that provisions have been made to render impossible any recurrence of the sad circumstances attendant upon the care of the insane which we recently had occasion to deplore, and that common humanity will compel members to take the keenest possible interest in every clause of the enactment. Reform has been the order of the day at the Westminster Asylum ever since Dr. Bodington took charge two years ago—another appointment, by the way, upon which it is only just to congratulate the Government. We predicted that Dr. Bodington would prove a success, and we are glad to hear on excellent and altogether unbiassed authority that the asylum may now be considered in every way a credit to the country. Perfect discipline is maintained amongst the patients without any necessity for that ‘restraint’ which formed so barbarous a characteristic of the ancient régime. More satisfactory still is the knowledge that marked improvement has become noticeable amongst cases formerly rated hopeless or incurable.”

Australia's Internal Air Transport

1963 ◽  
Vol 67 (625) ◽  
pp. 11-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Imperial College ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Lecture Theatre ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Australian Department

The Eighteenth British Commonwealth Lecture, “Australia's Internal Air Transport” by Mr. John L. Watkins, O.B.E., B.E., D.I.C., F.R.Ae.S., Director of Engineering, Trans-Australia Airlines, was given in the Lecture Theatre of the Society on 11th October 1962. The President of the Society, Mr. B. S. Shenstone, M.A.Sc, F.R.Ae.S., F.I.A.S., F.C.A.S.I., presided.Before the lecture Sir Roy Dobson, President of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, presented certificates of S.B.A.C. University Scholarships to the following who had completed, or were about to complete, their courses: J. M. Chaney (Blackburn Aircraft, College of Aeronautics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology), B. C. Latter (Blackburn Aircraft and College of Aeronautics), R. A. Newnham (Handley Page—College of Aeronautics), R. A. Williamson (A. V. Roe & Co.—College of Aeronautics), D. F. Pilkington (A. V. Roe & Co.— Imperial College), R. J. G. Archer (de Havilland Engine Co.—Imperial College) and C. E. H. Joy (Bristol Siddeley—Imperial College).Introducing the Lecturer, Mr. Shenstone said that unlike many of the lecturers in this series, Mr. Watkins had been raised in the country of which he was to speak. He had taken his degree of Bachelor of Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 1930 and then took a post-graduate course at Imperial College, London. In 1932 he joined Vickers-Armstrongs and worked on early geodetic work under Dr. Barnes Wallis. Returning to Australia in 1934, Mr. Watkins joined the Air Board, which later became the Australian Department of Civil Aviation. During the war Mr. Watkins had worked on special projects for the RAAF in the Australian Department of Aircraft Production, with the Army Inventions Directorate, and on many other projects. When Trans-Australia Airlines was formed in 1946 he was appointed Technical Superintendent and since 1953 had been Director of Engineering. One of the jobs he was most noted for outside Australia was his responsibility for choosing aircraft for TAA and also for British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines when that Airline existed as a separate entity. In 1950 Mr. Watkins had been loaned to the Government of India as Technical Adviser to the Indian Air Transport Inquiry Committee.Mr. Watkins had been awarded the O.B.E. for his services to Australian Civil Aviation in 1958 and had been a Fellow of the Society since 1956. He was a past Chairman of the Melbourne Branch of the Australian Division.

scholarly journals Reviewing the Inclusion of Artists’ Holograms in the Permanent Collections of Fine Art Museums

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Sydney Dinsmore
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Primary Practice ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
First Time ◽  
Looking Glass

Opening in 1976 with the exhibition, “Through the Looking Glass”, the Museum of Holography (MOH) emphasized from the beginning the importance of artistic holography with the inclusion of several holograms by artists whose primary practice was holography, articulating for the first time a distinction between artists, scientists and technicians. While the scientific and engineering principles underlying the technology could educate a public, holograms made by artists provided the visual syntax for the creative possibilities holography could offer. The MOH continued to encourage and support artists’ work throughout its history, amassing a large collection of holograms representative of the most prolific period of artistic activity from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum (MIT Museum) in Boston acquired the entire archive including artistic and technical holograms as well as all related materials when the MOH closed in 1992. This paper will seek to explore whether the medium of holography within the visual arts has led to fine art museum acquisitions in the intervening decades.

scholarly journals Skills for employability: Identification of the Soft Skills required in engineering education

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hind CHAIBATE
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
The United States ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

In a context of increased competition on the job market, soft skills have become as important as the technical skills for employability of Moroccan engineers. Reactive and innovative engineering schools orient their learning process towards the job market requirements. This study aims at examining the soft skills required by accreditation bodies in some developing countries, namely ABET (The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), ENAEE (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education), ABEEK (Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea), JABEE (The Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education) et EA (Engineers Australia). These skills are subsequently correlated with the Syllabus of the CDIO initiative founded by MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) In the United States. This syllabus represents a model of engineering program. It has been developed in collaboration with the industry, the government and the university community. In this study we highlight a set of soft skills which we compared with those developed in Moroccan engineering education programs in order to detect their shortcomings and key success factors.

scholarly journals Land subsidence in Beijing from 2017-2018 revealed by Sentinel-1A TOPS time series interferometry

2020 ◽  
Vol 218 ◽  
pp. 04002
Author(s):  
Peilian Ran ◽  
Shaoda Li ◽  
Keren Dai ◽  
Xiaoxia Yang
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
Land Subsidence ◽  
Subsidence Rate ◽  
Subsidence Area ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Maximum Subsidence ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sbas Insar ◽  
First Time

Beijing is one of the largest cities in China, which has suffered from land subsidence for a long time. According to the study from 2005 to 2017, the maximum subsidence rate of Beijing is more than 10 cm/year. This paper will use Sentinel-1A TOPS data for the first time to reveal the land subsidence of Beijing from 2017 to 2018 by using time series interferometry. SBAS-InSAR technology was used for time series analysis. The annual mean subsidence rate and time series subsidence of Beijing were obtained. The results show that the east of Chaoyang district and the northwest of Tongzhou district were the severe subsidence areas in Beijing, and the subsidence rate is more than 10 cm/year, which indicates that the subsidence area in Beijing is continuous in recent years, and corresponding measures should be taken by the government.

Remarks on the Interpretation of Dreams, according to Sigmund Freud and others

1915 ◽  
Vol 61 (252) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
F. StJohn Bullen
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Long Time ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

For a long time attempts have been made to discover definite relations between external and internal stimuli occurring during sleep and coincident dreams, as also between dreams and the more or less momentous happenings preceding them during waking hours. Such attempts as have been made to prove obvious connections have mostly failed, and for reasons which for the first time are set forth by Freud. At the same time, he has demonstrated the subtile evasions and tortuous routes which pertain to the operations of stimuli on the way to dream-consciousness, whether they be sensory or purely physical, as well as the indefinite period of time over which reminiscences, which are concerned in the evolution of the dream, may extend.

LOYALISTS AND LOYALISM IN A SOUTHERN IRISH COMMUNITY, 1921–1922

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1075-1105
Author(s):  
BRIAN HUGHES
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Witness Testimony ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
The Government ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Financial Losses ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTA second Irish Grants Committee met for the first time in October 1926 to deal with claims for compensation from distressed southern Irish loyalists. By the time it had ceased its work, the committee had dealt with over 4,000 applications and recommended 2,237 ex-gratia grants. The surviving files constitute over 200 boxes of near-contemporary witness testimony and supplementary material making them an incomparable, if problematic, source for the study of the southern loyalist experience of the Irish Revolution – a topic of much current historiographical interest. Applicants had to prove that they had suffered loss on account of their ‘allegiance to the government of the United Kingdom’, and by applying labelled themselves as both ‘loyalist’ and ‘victim’. A study of the claim files from one district, Arva in County Cavan, offers unique perspectives on the loyalist experience of revolution in a southern Irish community, personal definitions of loyalty, and the relationship between behaviour and allegiance during war. The Arva applicants often struggled to present their financial losses as resulting directly from their ‘loyalty to the Crown’. Their statements, and the way they were treated by the committee, serve to complicate an often over-simplified understanding of civilian behaviour and popular support.

scholarly journals Pajak Kekayaan, Alternatif Sumber Penerimaan Pajak di Indonesia Merespons Pandemi Covid-19

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Setiadi Alim Lim
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Wealth Tax ◽  
Net Assets ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Government ◽  
Using Data ◽  
First Time

In response to the decline in tax revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has issued a regulation to collect a new tax, namely the Carbon Tax through Law Number 7 of 2021 concerning Harmonization of Tax Regulations. Because this Carbon Tax is being implemented for the first time in Indonesia and its calculation is also not simple, it is estimated that the successful collection of it will take a long time. Whereas the need to explore new sources of tax revenue is needed at this time in the short term to cope with sharply increasing expenditures in order to overcome the medical and social impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. The government could consider implementing a Wealth Tax in addition to existing taxes including the Carbon Tax. Wealth Tax in addition to increasing tax revenues can also be used as a means of redistribution of wealth in order to reduce the wide gap between the rich and the poor. The proposed Wealth Tax is a Wealth Tax that is levied only once, intended for individuals, with a threshold as well as Non-Taxable Wealth (NTW) of Rp21,000,000,000.00 for unmarried taxpayers and Rp22,500,000,000.00 for marriage taxpayers, using progressive rates of 0.2%, 0.4%, 0.6%, and 0.75%, and can be repaid in installments for 5 years. The basis for imposition of Wealth Tax is net assets, namely the total assets minus the total liabilities reported in the Annual Income Tax Return (SPT) of the previous year's individual taxpayers minus the Non-Taxable Wealth (NTW). Using data on the wealth of the Indonesian population in 2018, it is estimated that thecollection of this Wealth Tax can generate additional tax revenues of around 0.83% of the Gross Domestic Product in 2020.

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