scholarly journals What Remains: The Enduring Value of Museum Collections in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pantalony
Keyword(s):  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
German Science ◽  
National Science ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Unique Source

AbstractWhy do collections continually surprise? The simple answer for students and researchers is that collections of historic objects contain abundant information not well represented in texts or on the internet. Collections in museums, libraries, campuses and private hands offer a unique source of diversity for research, teaching and broader cultural offerings. In this paper, I look at the wealth of findings resulting from the careful study of objects, collections and provenance. I provide examples from our national science museums in Ottawa, as well as collecting activities throughout Canada. I will also describe recent research in German science collections. The close study of objects has a capacity to reveal multiple narratives and unexpected human dimensions of the past, while also connecting us to complex human relations with what remains in the present. I reflect on how collection keepers and museums can better harness the possibilities stemming from these kinds of approaches.

Free but fragile: Human relations amidst poverty and HIV in democratic South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Christina Landman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black People ◽  
Hiv Treatment ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
White People ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Black Township

Dullstroom-Emnotweni is the highest town in South Africa. Cold and misty, it is situated in the eastern Highveld, halfway between the capital Pretoria/Tswane and the Mozambique border. Alongside the main road of the white town, 27 restaurants provide entertainment to tourists on their way to Mozambique or the Kruger National Park. The inhabitants of the black township, Sakhelwe, are remnants of the Southern Ndebele who have lost their land a century ago in wars against the whites. They are mainly dependent on employment as cleaners and waitresses in the still predominantly white town. Three white people from the white town and three black people from the township have been interviewed on their views whether democracy has brought changes to this society during the past 20 years. Answers cover a wide range of views. Gratitude is expressed that women are now safer and HIV treatment available. However, unemployment and poverty persist in a community that nevertheless shows resilience and feeds on hope. While the first part of this article relates the interviews, the final part identifies from them the discourses that keep the black and white communities from forming a group identity that is based on equality and human dignity as the values of democracy.

Growth of research journals in India during last decade (2005-2014): an overview

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Pandita ◽  
Meenakshi Koul ◽  
Shivendra Singh
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Study Data ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
National Science ◽  
New Research

Purpose The purpose of this study is to reflect a growing trend toward the introduction of new research journals in India. The study focuses on the number of journals introduced in India during the past decade, namely, for the period 2005-2014. Some of the key aspects analyzed include year-wise distribution of journals introduced, cumulative and annual corresponding growth of newly introduced journals, publishing form of journals, namely, online, print and hybrid. Some other aspects studied include distribution of journals on the basis of language, periodicity, state, etc. for both online and print journals. Design/methodology/approach To undertake the present study, data were retrieved from the official website of the National Science Library, New Delhi, and the analysis is based on the number of ISSN numbers issued by the National Science Library New Delhi during the period of study. Findings A total of 15,631 research journals were introduced in India from 2005 through 2014. Compared to 4,954 (31.69 per cent) online journals, 10,614 (67.90 per cent) print journals were introduced in India during the past decade, depicting print as the larger medium of journal publishing in India. During the period of study, research journals in India grew annually at 31.44 per cent. New Delhi, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh emerged as the three leading research journal publishing states of the country, while 82.86 per cent journals are published in English language and a maximum 32.52 per cent journals are published on a quarterly basis. Originality/value The study is first of its kind undertaken in India.

scholarly journals MEMAHAMI KOMUNIKASI MELALUI PENELITIAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-306
Author(s):  
Wisri Wisri ◽  
Abd. Mughni
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Group Communication ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
New Tradition

Communication is central in human life. All activities in human life require communication. The scientific study of the symptoms or reality of communication covers a very broad field, covering all forms of human relations and using symbols. more concretely this includes fields such as Interpersonal Communication, Group Communication, Organizational/Intellectual Communication, Mass Communication and Cultural Communication as seen in various forms of symbolic expression. Noting the seven traditions of communication research as such, communication research seems to be facing an important issue for its development in the present and future, which is pleased with how to try to take steps to get out of the confines of tradition and / or bring together existing traditions. This effort might be in the form of combining one tradition with another existing tradition (trying to synthesize existing traditions) while pioneering an entirely new tradition, for example with a more extensive implementation of historical methods to discover how communication patterns exists in a society in the past and attempts to understand what is now by looking at the past.

scholarly journals Museum Collections as a Reflection of Cultural Landscape: the Interpretation of Collective Memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Habjanič ◽  
Verena Perko
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Tasks ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Private Collections

The article deals with the relationship between the local community, museum collections, collective memory and the cultural landscape. The ICOM Code of Museum Ethics defines a museum collection as a cultural and natural heritage of the communities from which they have been derived. The collections, especially in regional museums, are inextricably linked to the community. The cultural landscape can be read also as a bridge between the society and natural environment. The cultural landscape is vitally connected with a national, regional, local, ethnic, religious or political identity. Furthermore, the cultural landscape is a reflection of the community's activities. Therefore, private collections are the foundation of the collective memory and empower museums for important social tasks. They offer an opportunity for multilayered interpretation of the past and give a possibility for museums to work on the inclusion of vulnerable groups. The collections could be a mediator and unique tool for recovering of the “broken” memory. In this way certain tragic past events, ignored or only bigotedly mentioned by history, can be re-evaluated.

FACIAL PARALYSIS IN CHILDREN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-316
Author(s):  
Richmond S. Paine
Keyword(s):  
Facial Paralysis ◽  
Recovery Rate ◽  
Recovery Time ◽  
Surgical Decompression ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
High Recovery ◽  
Prompt Treatment ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Recovery Rate ◽  
Methods Of Treatment

The anatomy of the facial nerve and the various etiologic factors in both congenital and acquired facial paralysis in children have been reviewed. Differential diagnosis among the more important of these has been discussed and an evaluation of the possible methods of treatment attempted. This evaluation is difficult because of the high recovery rate without treatment, which may approach 90% in children. If careful study of a case of facial paralysis indicates its idiopathic nature, prompt treatment with oral cortisone is considered indicated. While it is difficult to establish that cortisone greatly improved an already high recovery rate, it seems more clear that the average recovery time is favorably influenced, at least in adults and probably also in children. Cortisone seems the treatment of choice at the present time and during the past 2 years at one hospital, all of 10 patients so treated recovered. This has eliminated the need for consideration of surgical decompression of the facial canal. Whether this will remain true with larger numbers of cases remains to be seen.

Two new species of Megophrys Kuhl & van Hasselt (Amphibia: Megophryidae), from western Thailand and southern Cambodia

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2734 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN MAHONY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Tak Province ◽  
Respective Type

Two new species of the genus Megophrys are described from historical collections presented by Malcolm A. Smith to The Natural History Museum, London, in the early twentieth century. These specimens were previously misidentified as Megophrys parva, a widespread Asian species apparently comprised of a species complex. Megophrys damrei sp. nov., from the Bokor Plateau in the Cardamom Mountains of southern Cambodia and Megophrys takensis sp. nov., from Ban Pa Che, Tak Province, in western Thailand, are herein distinguished morphologically from all congeners from their respective and neighbouring countries. These, or further specimens representing either species, do not appear to have been reported on by other authors in the past and the conservation status of the two new species remains to be assessed. An attempt to locate both species at and near their respective type localities was successful for Megophrys takensis sp. nov., allowing the documentation of observations in the wild and live colouration. This study highlights the importance of examining historical museum collections often overlooked in recent decades by modern taxonomists.

scholarly journals I.—On the Species of Brachiopoda that Characterize the “Grès Armoricain” of Brittany, together with a few Observations on the Budleigh Salterton “Pebbles.”

1880 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 337-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Other ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
The Past ◽  
Probable Source

During the past twelve months I have devoted much time to the careful study of those questions that relate to the probable source of derivation of the sandstone and quartzite boulders or “pebbles” that were drifted and accumulated in the neighbourhood of Budleigh Salterton by “Bunter” waters. The detailed results of my investigations will appear in my forthcoming Devonian Supplement. Cornwall and North Devon having been pointed at, as a probable source of derivation, I considered it necessary to study the rocks and fossils that exist in those portions of Great Britain, as well as those that occur in Normandy and Brittany, on the other side of the Channel.

Sickle Cell Disease

Hematology ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Buchanan ◽  
Michael R. DeBaun ◽  
Charles T. Quinn ◽  
Martin H. Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sickle Cell Disease ◽  
Sickle Cell ◽  
Short Chain Fatty Acids ◽  
Clinical Severity ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Cell Disease ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hydroxyurea Treatment

Abstract Much progress has been made during the past several decades in gaining understanding about the natural history of sickle cell disease and management approaches aimed at treating or even preventing certain disease complications. The characterization of the human genome now offers the opportunity to understand relationships regarding how gene polymorphisms as well as how environmental factors affect the sickle cell disease phenotype, i.e., the individual patient’s overall clinical severity as well as their specific organ function. This chapter explores some of these recent advances in knowledge. In Section I, Dr. Michael DeBaun characterizes the problem of silent stroke in sickle cell disease, comparing and contrasting its clinical and neuroimaging features with overt stroke. Combined, these events affect virtually 40% of children with sickle cell anemia. New understanding of risk factors, associated clinical findings, and imaging technologies are impacting substantially on treatment options. The appreciable cognitive dysfunction and other sequelae of silent infarct demand more effective treatments and ultimate prevention. In Section II, Dr. Charles Quinn addresses the conundrum of why some patients with sickle cell disease do well whereas others fare poorly. Some risk factors have been known for years, based upon careful study of hundreds of patients by the Cooperative Study for Sickle Cell Disease and investigators studying the Jamaican newborn cohort. Other prognostic measures have only recently been defined. Dr. Quinn devotes special attention to stroke and chest syndrome as organ-related complications but also describes attempts to measure overall disease severity and to predict survival. Recently, investigators have attempted to predict factors responsible for early mortality in children and following onset of pulmonary hypertension in adults. In Section III, Dr. Martin Steinberg reviews pharmacologic approaches to sickle cell disease and the rationale for their use. In addition to the inhibition of hemoglobin S polymerization, newer targets have been defined during the past one to two decades. These include the erythrocyte membrane, changes in the red cell intracellular content (especially loss of water), endothelial injury, and free radical production. Hydroxyurea treatment attracted the greatest interest, but many uncertainties remain about its long-term benefits and toxicities. Newer “anti-sickling” agents such as decitabine and short-chain fatty acids also receive attention. Prevention of red cell dehydration, “anti-endothelial” therapy, and marshaling the potentially beneficial effects of nitric oxide are other new and exciting approaches.

scholarly journals XXIV. The development of renilla

1883 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 723-815 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Careful Study ◽  
The Past ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Renilla Reniformis ◽  
Adult Organism ◽  
Marine Laboratory ◽  
Made In

The observations recorded in the following pages were made in the course of three summers’ work at the marine laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, organised and directed by Professor W. K. Brooks, and located for the past three years at Beaufort, N. C., where the material for this paper was collected. The abundance of Renilla reniformis (Cuv.), at Beaufort, suggested the desirability of a careful study of its embryology, and this was rendered still more apparent by the studies which Mr. Mitsukuri had made upon the anatomy of the adult organism.

Walking in the Shadows of Archaeologists Past: Researching Museum Collections and Associated Records to Elucidate past Lifeways

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Crowell
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Collections

Researching museum collections and associated field data, in addition to consulting modern scientific studies, can provide a great deal of information about the presence and nature of archaeological sites in a locale. This article was developed based upon collections research conducted for prehistoric archaeological sites in Washington, D.C., using the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and other repositories. The state of collections varies widely. Some collectors gathered only perfect completed tools and other objects, while others collected these materials and debitage. The state of documentation ranges from complete and exacting with precision rivaling modern-day to non-existent. The importance of examining museum collections and private collections, where available, cannot be downplayed. Sometimes they possess the only clues remaining regarding certain practices which occurred in the past and can provide information not otherwise available to the researcher.

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