The Two Percent Solution: Eugenic Jurisprudence and the Socialization of American Law, 1900–1930

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Willrich
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Novel Technology ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
American Law ◽  
Survival And Reproduction ◽  
White Supremacists ◽  
Vain Attempt ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
The Many

In early twentieth-century America, the novel technology called “eugenics”—a potent hybrid of biological science, statistical method, and cultural assumptions—won a diverse following of academics, animal breeders, social workers, criminologists, psychiatrists, institutional superintendents, philanthropists, and activists spanning the political spectrum from socialists to white supremacists. Although heirs to the Enlightenment pursuits of science, reason, and a rationally organized state, eugenicists rejected the Enlightenment's egalitarian strain, insisting that hereditary endowment determined social structure. Fusing Darwin's theory of evolution and Mendel's discoveries in plant heredity, eugenicists claimed to find distinct genetic roots for the many problems of personality and society that alarmed their contemporaries: from “feeble-mindedness” and “psychopathy” to “delinquency” and “hypersexuality.” Within the bright lines of a eugenic worldview, the poverty and crime that pervaded an avowedly meritocratic urban-industrial democracy were comprehended as the offspring of hereditary “mental defects,” racial “mongrelization,” and sentimental charitable efforts that, in a vain attempt to reform deviant individuals, had only assured their survival and reproduction.

scholarly journals Current Approaches on Gastroretentive Drug Delivery systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniket Uttam Pund ◽  
Raosaheb Sopanrao Shendge ◽  
Ajinkya Kailas Pote
Keyword(s):  
Extended Release ◽  
Dosage Forms ◽  
Oral Dosage ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Novel Technology ◽  
The Many ◽  
Floating Systems ◽  
Acidic Region ◽  
Gastro Retentive

Over recent years, there have been many efforts to develop the absorption rate of medications and the therapeutic efficacy of oral dosage types. GRDDS for strengthen the pharmacological effects of drugs with a small uptake site, are unbalanced at pH greater than 7, are dissolved under acidic region, and are effective local region in the stomach. The gastro retentive systems that have the different evaluation parameter that according to the dosage forms. There are many criteria for the choosing of the drug used in the gastro-retardant systems as the drug should be sparingly stable, it should be compatible with the gastric region, and narrow absorption. In this review, we have summarized the information related to the various approaches for enhancing and prolonging of the dosage forms in the stomach for their extended-release of action. Also talking about the many natural and synthetic polymers is used in the formulation with their different grade and their ratio that affects on the release action. The many scientist and inventors have increased their interest in developing the novel dosage forms and they staying in the stomach for showing the prolonged period action. We have also discussed the novel technology are involved in the gastric retention many companies has been developed the polymer grades for using it in the formulation for showing the retention action. Keywords: Introduction, Approaches, Novel technologies, Polymer used in floating systems.

scholarly journals Reckoning with COVID, Racial Violence, and the Perilous Pursuit of Transparency

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Torin Monahan
Keyword(s):  
Racial Violence ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
White Supremacists ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Many

This essay reflects on the many upheavals of the past year and their implications for critical scholarship on surveillance. The COVID-19 pandemic, anti-science policies, radicalized white supremacists, police killings of people of color, and the resurgence of the racial justice movement all inflect surveillance practices in the contemporary moment. In particular, today’s polarized political landscape makes it difficult to condemn surveillance in the service of the public good, but irrespective of one’s goals or intentions, the embrace of transparency carries its own risks. Transparency, and scientific vision more broadly, is an extension of the Enlightenment and subsequent scientific revolution, which from the start sought to advance knowledge and consolidate white power through the violent subjugation of nature, women, and racial minorities. One fundamental risk of valorizing transparency is that doing so occludes the ways that relations of domination are indelibly encoded into surveillance systems and practices. Given this, I argue that the project of decolonizing surveillance inquiry should now be our primary focus as a field.

Past

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kellerman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
First Century ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Lao Tzu ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
The Many

The chapter focuses on how leadership was taught in the distant and recent past. The first section is on five of the greatest leadership teachers ever—Lao-tzu, Confucius, Plato, Plutarch, and Machiavelli—who shared a deep belief in the idea that leadership could be taught and left legacies that included timeless and transcendent literary masterworks. The second section explores how leadership went from being conceived of as a practice reserved only for a select few to one that could be exercised by the many. The ideas of the Enlightenment changed our conception of leadership. Since then, the leadership literature has urged people without power and authority, that is, followers, to understand that they too could be agents of change. The third section turns to leadership and management in business. It was precisely the twentieth-century failure of business schools to make management a profession that gave rise to the twenty-first-century leadership industry.

scholarly journals The ground-level ozone concentration is inversely correlated with the number of COVID-19 cases in Warsaw, Poland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Wiśniewski ◽  
Wiesław Kozak ◽  
Maciej Wiśniewski
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Ozone Concentration ◽  
Inverse Correlation ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Viral Agent ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Weather Factors ◽  
Ground Level Ozone ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

AbstractCOVID-19, which is a consequence of infection with the novel viral agent SARS-CoV-2, first identified in China (Hubei Province), has been declared a pandemic by the WHO. As of September 10, 2020, over 70,000 cases and over 2000 deaths have been recorded in Poland. Of the many factors contributing to the level of transmission of the virus, the weather appears to be significant. In this work, we analyze the impact of weather factors such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and ground-level ozone concentration on the number of COVID-19 cases in Warsaw, Poland. The obtained results show an inverse correlation between ground-level ozone concentration and the daily number of COVID-19 cases.

‘as though nothing were happening—or rather, not happening’: Excess and Vacuity in The Little Girls

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
Margaret Mills Harper
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
The Many

There's a hole in the middle of Bowen's late novel The Little Girls, literally as well as figuratively: a cavity in the ground dug by three childhood friends for the purpose of burying a secret box. Indeed, the novel is full of holes, from caves and missing treasures to absences, losses, and griefs. At the same time, the book displays a fullness or even extravagant overstuffed quality. Its style, pace, plot, and themes are supersatured, with breathless dialogue, restless activity, and suggestive detail. The Little Girls is very funny even as it never wanders far from catastrophe. The novelistic decision to throw the two modes of comedy and tragedy together is one of the many risks Bowen takes in this novel. She does so as part of a larger meditation on the structures that support art as it frames and thus falsifies, but also acknowledges human lives and history. The Little Girls is about emptiness and loss, but it also suggests that the superfluities and distractions with which people fill their lives have value. This essay pursues several strands of intertextual allusions to find something of what the novel both flamboyantly offers and steadfastly refuses.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF RELENTLESS SEARCH OF UTOPIA IN THOMAS HARDY’S TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES USING JACQUES DERRIDA’S THEORY OF DECONSTRUCTION.

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Milind Solanki
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Darwinian Theory ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles

This paper aims to read Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urberviless in the light of Jacques Derrida’s Theory of Deconstruction, Darwinian Theory of Evolution in his book on the Origin of Species and each character’s search of Utopia in the entire novel. All the major characters have been taken in the novel as well as some of the minor characters also to study the novel in a better in a detailed manner.

Impacts of Molding Pressure on Performances of Kraft Fiber Reinforced Unsaturated Polyester Composites

2011 ◽  
Vol 183-185 ◽  
pp. 2173-2177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Ying Lv ◽  
Die Ying Ma ◽  
Yong Ming Song ◽  
Zhen Hua Gao
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Creep Resistance ◽  
Unsaturated Polyester ◽  
Resin Content ◽  
Molding Pressure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Low Viscosity ◽  
Plastic Composite ◽  
The Many

Novel Kraft fiber reinforced unsaturated polyester (UPE) composites were prepared at various molding pressures in order to investigate the effects of molding pressure on resin content, the mechanical properties and creep resistance. The results indicated that the novel composites had much higher mechanical properties and better creep resistances than traditional wood plastic composites because of the applications of strong Kraft fibers as reinforcement and thermosetting UPE as matrix. Molding pressure had various effects on the many properties of composites. With molding pressure increased from 6MPa to 25MPa, the mechanical properties and creep resistances increased gradually until about 20MPa and then decreased, which were attributed to the different interface adhesions between UPE resin and Kraft fibers at various molding pressures as evidenced by DMA analysis. Benefited from the use of low-viscosity UPE resin, the resin content of Kraft fiber reinforced UPE composites could reduce to 28.3% while strength and creep resistance were still much better than that of the thermoplastic wood-plastic composite (WPC) with 40% polymer matrix.

Different polar-map patterns using the novel technology for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI)

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
C. Scabbio ◽  
O. Zoccarato ◽  
C. Marcassa ◽  
D. Lizio ◽  
L. Leva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging ◽  
Myocardial Perfusion ◽  
Perfusion Imaging ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Novel Technology ◽  
Polar Map

scholarly journals Human Essence in Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn van Zomeren ◽  
John F. Dovidio
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Human Essence ◽  
Integrative Theory ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness ◽  
State Of The Field

This chapter asks what the absence of scholarly consensus on the human essence, as illustrated by the many different contributions to this volume, can tell us about the state of psychology and about psychologists in general. Furthermore, it asks how we may be able to move toward such a consensus. It first reviews the different essences (and thus theoretical lenses) in the contributions to each section of this volume, which revolve around the themes of individuality, sociality, and cultural embeddedness. The chapter then outlines what the state of the field signals about the value of broader theorizing, and what changes would be needed in the broader system in order to move from the current fragmented view of human essence toward a truly integrated view. Finally, it considers the question of whether one existing broad and potentially integrative theory—Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution—can serve to connect views of the human essence in terms of individuality, sociality, and cultural embeddedness.

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Many ◽  
Hogarth Press

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for post-secondary students, scholars, and common readers. Feminist to the core, each chapter offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six parts focus on Woolf’s life, her texts, her experiments, her as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf’s life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. Part II on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf’s practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf’s experimentalism pay special attention to the literariness of Woolf’s writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while ‘Professions of Writing’, invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth Press and the Times Literary Supplement. Part V on ‘Contexts’ moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with the natural world as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. The final part, ‘Afterlives’, demonstrates the many ways Woolf’s reputation continues to grow. Of particular note, chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.

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