scholarly journals When was Constantine V born?

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Ivan Maric
Keyword(s):  
Current State ◽  
Separate Event ◽  
Do So

Emperor Constantine V was born in the summer of 718, however our only two texts that provide an approximate date of his birth diverge on the matter; mid-July according to Patriarch Nikephoros? Breviarium, and early September according to Theophanes? Chronographia. This paper first analyses the place of Constantine V?s birth in the two texts and argues that Theophanes moved the birth to attach it to the baptism episode, which was a separate event, effectively distorting the date of birth. The article also proposes that Theophanes had both practical and ideological reasons to do so and suggests that with the current state of the sources, evidence from the Breviarium is more likely to be closer to the actual date of birth of the infamous iconoclast emperor. Considering that the birth of an imperial heir had a legitimizing value, demonstrating the divine favour shown to the current ruler, and the importance of victory in 718, the last section of this paper further analyses whether the date-just before the retreat of the Arab army besieging Constantinople for about a year-may have played a role in Isaurian propaganda or in the memory of Constantine V as a triumphant ruler.

scholarly journals Did We Forget Something? Fathering Supports and Programs in Prisons in Victoria, Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 1465-1481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tess S. Bartlett ◽  
Christopher J. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Research Council ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Current State ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Incarcerated Fathers ◽  
Primary Carer ◽  
Do So

This article draws from data gathered for an Australian Research Council–funded study conducted in Victoria and New South Wales between 2011 and 2015, which examined how dependent children are responded to when their primary carer is imprisoned. In particular, this article specifically addresses a gap in knowledge by examining the current state of fathering programs in prison in Victoria. To do so, the views of 39 primary carer fathers incarcerated in Victoria are analysed. We argue that there is a distinct lack of support for fathers in prison, acting as a barrier towards maintaining father–child relationships. Findings indicate that 79% of the fathers in this study were never offered any parenting support services or programs. By clearly highlighting the state of fathering programs in prisons in Victoria, this article offers suggestions as to how best to facilitate the connection between incarcerated fathers and their children.

Pathway to professionalizing health leadership in Canada: The two faces of Janus

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Dickson ◽  
John Van Aerde ◽  
Bill Tholl
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Public Services ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Health Leadership ◽  
The Future ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Do So

This article looks at the current state of health leadership in terms of expectations for professionalism: controlled entry, exit, and licensure/certification; a social contract to provide public services for the good of Canadians; and a unique body of knowledge and practice generally accepted. Looking to the future, and using the same three criteria, a compelling case for pursuing the professionalization of health leadership is made using LEADS as a roadmap. The article also outlines how to realize the professionalization of health leadership in Canada and why it is important to do so.

Linking the core heat content to Earth's accretion history

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renaud Deguen ◽  
Vincent Clési
Keyword(s):  
Thermal State ◽  
Thermal Evolution ◽  
Heat Content ◽  
Magma Ocean ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current State ◽  
Partitioning Coefficients ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Mantle Diapirism ◽  
Do So

<p>The composition of Earth's mantle, when compared to experimentally determined partitioning coefficients, can be used to constrain the conditions of equilibration - pressure P, temperature T, and oxygen fugacity fO<sub>2</sub> - of the metal and silicates during core-mantle differentiation.<br>This places constraints on the thermal state of the planet during its accretion, and it is tempting to try to use these data to estimate the heat content of the core at the end of accretion. To do so, we develop an analytical model of the thermal evolution of the metal phase during its descent through the solid mantle toward the growing core, taking into account compression heating,   viscous dissipation heating, and heat exchange with the surrounding silicates. For each impact, the model takes as initial condition the pressure and temperature at the base of the magma ocean, and gives the temperature of the metal when it reaches the core. The growth of the planet results in additional pressure increase and compression heating of the core. The thermal model is coupled to a Monte-Carlo inversion of the metal/silicates equilibration conditions (P, T, fO<sub>2</sub>) in the course of accretion from the abundance of Ni, Co, V and Cr in the mantle, and provides an estimate of the core heat content at the end of accretion for each geochemically successful accretion. The core heat content depends on the mean degree of metal-silicates equilibration, on the mode of metal/silicates separation in the mantle (diapirism, percolation, or dyking), but also very significantly on the shape of the equilibration conditions curve (equilibration P and T vs. fraction of Earth accreted). We find that many accretion histories which are successful in reproducing the mantle composition yield a core that is colder than its current state. Imposing that the temperature of the core at the end of accretion is higher than its current values therefore provides strong constraints on the accretion history. In particular, we find that the core heat content depends significantly on the last stages of accretion. </p>

scholarly journals Situación actual de la gestación por sustitución

2014 ◽  
pp. 897
Author(s):  
Silvia Vilar González
Keyword(s):  
Current State ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Do So

Premio de artículos jurídicos «GARCÍA GOYENA» (Curso 2013-2014). Segundo accésit La gestación por sustitución es una de las últimas opciones a la que acuden aquellas personas que quieren formar una familia y que no disponen de otros medios para ello. En España, es una práctica prohibida y sancionada con la nulidad de pleno derecho. No obstante, la viabilidad para lograr la inscripción de la filiación del nacido, hace que muchos sigan optando por ella. El presente trabajo realiza un estudio de la situación legal existente tanto en nuestro país como en el resto del mundo, con mención a los múltiples problemas que los interesados pueden encontrar a lo largo de este complicado proceso.Surrogate motherhood is one of the latest options requested by couples willing to raise a family with no other means to do so. Surrogacy is illegal in Spain and regarded as null and void. Nevertheless, the viability to achieve the registration of the child’s parentage makes many people opt for it. This paper analyses the current state of affairs in our country as well as in the rest of the world, including the multiple implications involved in such a complex process.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Philosophy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary J. Nederman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli ◽  
Current State ◽  
Republican Government ◽  
Republican Theory ◽  
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Niccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469–d. 1527) was a civil servant in the 1498 Florentine Republic who, after he lost his position in the Medici coup of 1512, wrote two of the most influential works of Renaissance Italian political theory, The Prince (1513/1514) and the Discourses on the Ten Books of Titus Livy (1514/1515–1518/1519). Both works were published only posthumously—in 1532 and 1531, respectively—but they appear to have circulated widely prior to their printing. Although Machiavelli wrote numerous other works, including poetry and plays as well as history and a treatise on warfare, his reputation as an important author rests primarily upon the two major political compositions just mentioned. The Prince is a short tract that proposes to teach rulers the “actual” precepts that will lead them to govern effectively. The Discourses, by contrast, is a far lengthier tome that defends the superiority of republican government, especially that of Rome. Machiavelli’s thought engendered controversy almost immediately upon its dissemination, and it continues to do so today. He has been condemned, for instance, for founding the doctrine of Realpolitik and for teaching the political necessity of doing “evil.” He has also been venerated for his contributions to the origins of political science and to the formulation of modern republican theory. The scholarly literature on Machiavelli is enormous. A useful guide to 20th-century interpretations is Niccolò Machiavelli: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism and Scholarship, compiled by Silvia Ruffo Fiore (New York: Greenwood, 1990), which covers research from 1935 to 1988 in all major languages. Also valuable is The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, edited by John M. Najemy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010), which reviews the current state of scholarship on Machiavelli. Online efforts to survey recent literature on Machiavelli are many, but they have proven ephemeral; it may be best to conduct a web search for currently available bibliographies.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Slave Trade ◽  
African History ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Atlantic Slave Trade ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
Do So ◽  
State Of The Field

This book critically reflects upon the current state of the field of modern African history. It focuses on the history of the continent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although also looks back to the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Its aim is to consider the evolution of the field and to set out where, after fifty years of sustained research, it has arrived. To do so, each of its twenty-six chapters explores a particular theme, organized in five sections: Key Themes in African History; The Colonial Encounter; Religion and Belief; Society and Economy; and Arts and the Media.

Class Change in the Personal Illness Hierarchy

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 316-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Foulds ◽  
A. Bedford ◽  
K. G. Csapo
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Disease Entity ◽  
Current State ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Illness Model ◽  
Do So

SummarySixty-eight psychiatric in-patients who had completed the Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory (D.S.S.I.) on admission were retested after one month. On first testing 92.6 per cent conformed to the hierarchy of classes of personal illness model, and on the second occasion 91.2 per cent. Of those who could improve, 72 per cent did so, most commonly by moving down one hierarchy class, e.g. from the Neurotic Symptoms class to the Dysthymic States class. (On the other hand only 30 per cent of the 61 patients who originally reported symptoms did not do so after one month.) Thus although it is clear that the patients as a group changed markedly, they have not departed from the hierarchy. These results indicate that either the symptoms further up the hierarchy remit before those lower in the hierarchy or they remit together. Certainly those lower in the hierarchy do not go first. It is suggested that the results would be difficult to accommodate within strict disease-entity models, and that they have different implications for both treatment and the assessment of change in current state.

Income growth is unlikely to help, but we can learn from international comparisons

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARIE KAPTEYN
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Current State ◽  
What Works ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Do So ◽  
Policy Attention

AbstractThe paper by Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel and Richard Layard is a timely attempt to move subjective wellbeing (SWB) to the center of policy attention. I am essentially making three points. First of all, for this enterprise to be successful, one needs to have very solid evidence on what improves SWB and what does not. If policies are proposed that turn out not to improve SWB (or do so far less than expected), then the enterprise of making SWB the centerpiece of policy may be discredited before it has begun in earnest. As an example of this concern, my second point is that raising the incomes of all may have very disappointing effects on measured SWB. My third point is that at the current state of knowledge, the most fertile ground for learning about what works is to exploit international comparisons of policies and how these affect a nation's SWB.

An Impression of the Conference at St. Andrews

1968 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-13
Author(s):  
L. Finkelstein
Keyword(s):  
Online Measurement ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
Rapid Presentation ◽  
Do So

All scientists and technologists nowadays, and especially, perhaps, those concerned with instrumentation and control, suffer from the information revolution. A flood of publications, ranging from the erudite to the popular, and from the useful to the trivial, pours from the presses of the world. It is in fact becoming impossible to read all the abstracts in one's field, let alone all the papers. Conscious of the need to keep up to date, we often resort to the Conference as a means of finding out about the current state in some area of our art or science. Too often we are disappointed. From the arrival of the bulky bundle of pre-prints, which we have no hope of reading with the attention they require, right through the rapid presentation of some very difficult material by a rapporteur, we grow ever more confused. At best we emerge having made or renewed some personal contacts. The picture presented is, of course, a caricature, but is I think close enough to reality to be recognisable. The S.I.T. Conference on “Online measurement and inspection: their impact on quality” has, however, shown that given determination to do so, it is still possible to mount a technical meeting at which you can actually follow and enjoy all the papers.

scholarly journals Assessing Sustainability in the Shipbuilding Supply Chain 4.0: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Ramirez-Peña ◽  
Francisco J. Abad Fraga ◽  
Jorge Salguero ◽  
Moises Batista
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Current State ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Key Enabling Technologies ◽  
Do So

The supply chain is currently taking on a very important role in organizations seeking to improve the competitiveness and profitability of the company. Its transversal character mainly places it in an unbeatable position to achieve this role. This article, through a study of each of the key enabling technologies of Industry 4.0, aims to obtain a general overview of the current state of the art in shipbuilding adapted to these technologies. To do so, a systematic review of what the scientific community says is carried out, dividing each of the technologies into different categories. In addition, the global vision of countries interested in each of the enabling technologies is also studied. Both studies present a general vision to the companies of the concerns of the scientific community, thus encouraging research on the subject that is focused on the sustainability of the shipbuilding supply chain.

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