Rambam's Deliberate Effort to Round Out Mishneh Torah to 1,000 Chapters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezra Chwat
Keyword(s):  
Deliberate Effort

Salvaging the Mother Tongue in Exile

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Tomás Espino Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
First Language ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Progressive Loss ◽  
First Language Attrition ◽  
Lost In Translation ◽  
Deliberate Effort ◽  
Deep Sense

The dramatic increase in the number of exiles and refugees in the past 100 years has generated a substantial amount of literature written in a second language as well as a heightened sensibility towards the progressive loss of fluency in the mother tongue. Confronted by what modern linguistics has termed ‘first-language attrition’, the writings of numerous exilic translingual authors exhibit a deep sense of trauma which is often expressed through metaphors of illness and death. At the same time, most of these writers make a deliberate effort to preserve what is left from the mother tongue by attempting to increase their exposure to poems, dictionaries or native speakers of the ‘dying’ language. The present paper examines a range of attitudes towards translingualism and first language attrition through the testimonies of several exilic authors and thinkers from different countries (Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Hannah Arendt's interviews, Jorge Semprún's Quel beau dimanche! and Autobiografía de Federico Sánchez, and Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, among others). Special attention will be paid to the historical frameworks that encourage most of their salvaging operations by infusing the mother tongue with categories of affect and kinship.

Toys and Learning

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1144-1145
Author(s):  
Richard I. Feinbloom ◽  
Peter Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Infant And Young Child ◽  
Doctor's Office ◽  
A Current ◽  
Deliberate Effort

In a current advertising campaign, a wellknown toy manufacturer (Creative Playthings, Inc.) seeks to enlist the cooperation of the pediatric profession in promoting its product by asking that its catalogues be exhibited in the doctor's office. The alleged superiority of these toys, implied if not actually stated by the advertisement, is based on a deliberate effort to exploit the inherent potential of each infant and young child during certain critical periods of development. The advertisement further implies that the loss resulting from a failure to stimulate children maximally during these critical periods (presumably by such toys) cannot be fully redeemed by subsequent experience; in other words, what is lost (or never attained) is lost forever.

“Help Your Brother”

2018 ◽  
pp. 48-69
Author(s):  
Michael B. Silvers
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
Environmental Protest ◽  
Musical Space ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Deliberate Effort

This chapter examines foothills forró as a form of environmental protest, voiced through the strategic use of nostalgia, through dancing bodies and occupied spaces, and through explicit requests aimed at the government and the Brazilian populace alike. Much scholarship on foothills forró understands the genre as either a kitschy regional caricature or as an authentic channel from the city to the backlands. Instead, this chapter considers it a deliberate effort to generate sympathy and aid for northeasterners, for whom it also offered comfort and a musical space-time of their own.

Reference on Rice Quality and Safety

2019 ◽  
pp. 226-274
Author(s):  
Griffiths Atungulu ◽  
Soraya Shafiekhani
Keyword(s):  
Storage Systems ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Rice Quality ◽  
Toxigenic Fungi ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Investment Returns ◽  
Rice Yields ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Deliberate Effort

Over the last decade, there have been massive investments and research to improve rice yield per hectare. Alongside successful stories of improved rice yields are corresponding concerns stemming from pre- and post-harvest rice quality- and safety-related issues. Such concerns in rice production, handling, and storage systems present public health and economic problems. To consumers and producers, a serious concern is the potential growth of toxigenic fungi on rice during storage leading to contamination of the rice with mycotoxins. That withstanding, diminished functional, sensory, and nutritional attributes hugely impact the investment returns. The author understands that discourse on rice storage is incomplete without reflections on nutritional related losses. In rendering a strong chapter to meet a wider readership, the above issues are discussed with deliberate effort to highlight technological advances making headway in the rice industry; these are outlined in the introduction, at first, and then expounded on in subsequent sections.

scholarly journals Paleorecords of Domesticated and Wild Grapevine in Romania: a Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 211-233
Author(s):  
Casandra Brașoveanu ◽  
George Bodi ◽  
Mihaela Danu
Keyword(s):  
Vitis Vinifera ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Climate Oscillations ◽  
Wild Grapevine ◽  
La Tène ◽  
La Tene ◽  
Vitis Sylvestris ◽  
Deliberate Effort

AbstractThis paper reviews the, so far available, paleorecords of Vitis sylvestris C.C. Gmel and Vitis vinifera L. from Romania. The study takes into consideration the presence of Vitis pollen from Holocene peat sediment sequences and archaeological context, but also the presence of macrorests from various archaeological sites that date from Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and La Tène. Both paleobotanical arguments and archaeological discoveries support the theory that places the beggining of viticulture in Romania a few millenia ago, in Neolithic period. Also, written evidences (works of classical authors, epigraphical sources) confirm, indirectly, the presence of grapevine in La Tène period. Occurrences of Vitis vinifera and those of Vitis sylvestris manifest independently of the climate oscillations, being present both through colder and more humid episodes, as well as through drier and warmer events. Probably prehistoric communities have made a constant and deliberate effort, all along the Holocene, to maintain grapevine crops.

scholarly journals Bridging Individual and Social-Structural Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-334
Author(s):  
Kristi Lavigne ◽  
Rachel Rauvola
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
Current Structure ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Deliberate Effort ◽  
Structural Perspective

A paradigm shift toward a social-structural perspective may provide a better understanding of the gender inequity in STEM fields than its predecessor, but this perspective falls prey to the focal article authors’ (Miner et al., 2018) own criticisms: It offers an incomplete account of the phenomenon of interest. We argue that a multilevel systems perspective is the most appropriate approach when trying to understand any issue, especially an issue as dense as gender inequity in STEM. A deliberate effort to understand this phenomenon dynamically across levels and time can expand the scope of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists’ influence and can better protect us against interventions that result in unintended, adverse outcomes. Below, we discuss the importance of looking across multiple levels simultaneously to understand the temporal and interactional nature of individual and social-structural constructs. Without this depth of understanding, a disruption of the current structure may lead to an unstable, or unanticipated, new structure.

scholarly journals "Get back to where you once belonged": monitoring the AIDS pandemic in the 21st century

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1719-1727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Inácio Bastos
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Deliberate Effort

This paper reviews the concepts and methodological strategies that have shaped the monitoring of the AIDS pandemic, today in its third decade. A deliberate effort was made to highlight aspects usually forgotten by the canon. The paper aims to track the footsteps of the evolving strategies in the field of surveillance & monitoring, with the help of disciplines such as epidemiology, molecular biology, social, and behavioral sciences. The deep divide that opposes societies severely affected by the epidemic and affluent societies much less affected by the epidemic is contrasted with the scarce human and financial resources of the societies facing harshest epidemic vis-à-vis the comprehensiveness of the response to the epidemic in their affluent counterparts in terms of the scope and high standards of their initiatives on monitoring, prevention, management & care. The pressing need to implement feasible alternatives to the current sophisticated and expensive ones is briefly discussed. Beyond the renewed challenge posed to the creativity of scientists and health professionals, the AIDS pandemic is described as a major public health crisis, compromising the social fabric in some contexts, and as a never fulfilled calling for an ethics of solidarity between different societies and different social strata of each given society.

People and Projects

1951 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-40
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Research Center ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Widespread Interest ◽  
Deliberate Effort

The recent widespread interest in problems of economic development, particularly in areas of the world now marked off as "underdeveloped," has emphasized the necessity for further examining the relations between economic and cultural change. The present unorganized body of knowledge dealing with these problems seems to call for a deliberate effort at synthesis in order to arrive at general principles upon which policy and further study can be based. The Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change at the University of Chicago was established in an attempt to meet this need.

scholarly journals Transformation of Strategic Types: An Examination of The Internal Antecedents to Organizational Change

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Author(s):  
Charles Bamford ◽  
Patrick Rogers ◽  
Alex Miller
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Top Management Team ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Subsequent Change ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
Strategic Type ◽  
Dominant Coalition ◽  
Deliberate Effort

A change in the strategic direction of an organization is usually regarded as a deliberate effort to impact firm performance. Yet empirical examinations of the drivers of organizational transformations have been inconclusive. In this study of banks, results indicate that financial performance is inversely related to a transformation of strategic type while changes in the dominant coalition are significant predictors of subsequent change in the firm's strategic type. It appears that a firm's ability to change its strategic focus is highly dependent upon it changing the membership of its Board of Directors, CEO, and its top management team.

scholarly journals System software approaches to the Analysis of Multidimensional Data Structures

1982 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Rudolf Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Data Structures ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Multidimensional Data ◽  
System Software ◽  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Astronomical Application ◽  
Multidimensional Data Structures ◽  
Deliberate Effort

AbstractIn this review paper on software techniques, the concepts of “software system” and “data base interface” are defined in the context of astronomical data analysis requirements. Principles of software desiqn and maintainance over are discussed.A deliberate effort was made to stay as close as possible to the astronomical application and not deviate too much into computer science.

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