scholarly journals "Medusa's Smirk" (1975) by Mihaela Miroiu

Aspasia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Maria Bucur
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The One ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Half Decade

Over the past half decade, philosopher and political scientist Mihaela Miroiu published a series of short autobiographical stories that were eventually collected in a book, Cumintea mea de femeie [With my woman’s mind] (Bucharest: Cartea românească, 2017), which was reviewed in Aspasia (vol. 12) in 2018. While the whole volume deserves an international audience, I have selected the story “Medusa’s Smirk,” for translation because it sheds light on a topic little known, yet extremely important, in the lives of many women: sexual violence. Discussing sexual violence was a taboo topic under communism, and many women suppressed their traumatic memories of violence both seen and experienced. Yet accounts such as the one shared below have circulated orally and deserve further attention from scholars. For another relevant account, see http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/12/sex-in-the-time-of-communism/.

1,8-naphthyridine derivatives: an updated review on recent advancements of their myriad biological activities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivani Mithula ◽  
Adinarayana Nandikolla ◽  
Sankaranarayanan Murugesan ◽  
Venkata GCS Kondapalli
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Medicinal Chemistry ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Antioxidant Properties ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anti Hiv ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Half Decade

Among all nitrogen-containing heterocycles, the 1,8-naphthyridine scaffold has recently gained an immense amount of curiosity from numerous researchers across fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. This new attention can be ascribed to its versatility of synthesis, its reactiveness and the variety of biological activities it has exhibited. Over the past half-decade, numerous diverse biological evaluations have been conducted on 1,8-naphthyridine and its derivatives in a quest to unravel novel pharmacological facets to this scaffold. Its potency to treat neurodegenerative and immunomodulatory disorders, along with its anti-HIV, antidepressant and antioxidant properties, has enticed researchers to look beyond its broad-spectrum activities, providing further scope for exploration. This review is a consolidated update of previous works on 1,8-naphthyridines and their analogs, focusing on the past 5 years.

scholarly journals Lessons on Monetary Policy from the 1980s

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin M Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Federal Reserve ◽  
Price Stability ◽  
Money Stock ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reserve System ◽  
Past Half ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Half Decade ◽  
Do So

The half-decade running from mid-1982 to mid-1987 was a pretty good era for U.S. monetary policy, as these things go. Even the severe 1981-82 recession served its intended purpose of substantially restoring price stability. At least as judged by the outcomes for the standard objectives of macroeconomic policy, U.S. monetary policy was a distinct success. Economists hoping to say something useful about monetary policy in the 1980s have had a tougher time. The quantitative relationships connecting income and price movements to the growth of familiar monetary aggregates, including especially the M1 measure of the money stock that had been the chief focus of monetary policy during 1979-82, utterly fell apart during this period. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that there is now a conceptual vacuum at the center of the U.S. monetary policymaking process. In the meanwhile, the Federal Reserve System has not ceased operations. Nor should it be inclined to do so, in light of the performance of both income and prices during the past half-decade.

scholarly journals Care for victims of sexual violence, an organization pushed to its limits: The case of Médecins Sans Frontières

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (894) ◽  
pp. 601-624
Author(s):  
Françoise Duroch ◽  
Catrin Schulte-Hillen
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medecins Sans Frontieres ◽  
Médecins Sans Frontières ◽  
General Assistance ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The One

AbstractOver the past ten years, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided medical care to almost 118,000 victims of sexual violence. Integrating related care into MSF general assistance to populations affected by crisis and conflicts has presented a considerable institutional struggle and continues to be a challenge. Tensions regarding the role of MSF in providing care to victims of sexual violence and when facing the multiple challenges inherent in dealing with this crime persist. An overview of MSF's experience and related reflection aims to share with the reader, on the one hand, the complexity of the issue, and on the other, the need to continue fighting for the provision of adequate medical care for victims of sexual violence, which despite the limitations is feasible.

Coronavirus disease 2019: A disease of equal opportunity, nature and nurture

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Titus Sunday Ibekwe ◽  
Perpetua U. Ibekwe
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nature And Nurture ◽  
Control And Management ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Half Decade

Coronaviruses are responsible for over 50% of all cases of flu in human and animals for the past half-decade. Most of the diseases were largely seasonal, mild, and self-limiting save for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and currently coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnosed in 2003, 2012, and 2019, respectively. COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat to the entire globe with conflicting and controversial information, challenges in the pathogenesis, control, and management. A common denominator is that it has proven to be an equal opportunity disease and that of nature and nurture with hard psycho-socio- economic lessons for the entire globe.

The Pain in the Gift and the Gift in the Pain

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Herdt
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ecological Consciousness ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Vision Of God ◽  
The One ◽  
Past Half

If we are searching, over the past half-century or so, for the finest articulation of the Augustinian vision of God as the One who satisfies the deepest desire of our heart by way of uprooting desires that more often than not feel like our deepest desires, we would do well to sit at the feet of Gilbert Meilaender. Meilaender rightly suggests that it is only when we see as God does that we can fully recognize what in our created and/or fallen nature is in need of transformation. That said, even where God is not known as the deepest desire of the heart, happiness can be grasped as coming by way of the painful upending of desires. This is what eudaemonist virtue ethics should lead us to expect, even if it is not Christian—as this article seeks to illustrate by way of reflection on ancient Stoic oikeiosis on the one hand, and modern ecological consciousness on the other.

Language attrition: the fate of the start

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 60-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
New Research ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Hesitation Phenomena ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Half Decade

This chapter reviews the literature on psycholinguistic aspects of language attrition over the past half decade. Descriptive data-based studies have continued to dominate during this time, providing needed groundwork for the emerging discipline. A few studies have continued theoretical threads from previous work, however, by examining attrition data from the perspectives of the regression hypothesis and markedness theory. We have also seen the beginnings of promising new lines of research which draw theoretical underpinnings from neighboring disciplines, most notably from the savings paradigm in cognitive psychology and from theories of codeswitching in bilingualism studies. Evidence on the effects in attrition of non-linguistic variables such as age, proficiency level, and literacy has continued to accumulate. Hesitation phenomena in attriter speech have begun to receive serious attention. Relearning, one of the main areas to potentially benefit from language attrition studies, is also gaining new research impetus at the turn of the century.

scholarly journals HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING IN AN INDIAN CEMENT INDUSTRY: A DIOGNOSTIC STUDY

2021 ◽  
pp. 338-341
Author(s):  
Ms. Jeevana Chitreddy ◽  
Prof.G.L. Narayanappa
Keyword(s):  
Resource Planning ◽  
Cement Industry ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Human Resource Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Market Leader ◽  
Unemployed Youth ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Half Decade

The ‘ABC’ Cement Industries Ltd has entrenched in the year 1955 in the most economically disadvantaged and industrially deprived location of Southern India. After words, the industry nourished as a very big cement industry in the region. Subsequently, the founders put their sustained efforts to emerge the ABC industry as a market leader. From the past half decade the company was creating thousands of employment opportunities to the unemployed youth in the region. At the outset the ABC cement industry produced only 200mts per day and later it has increased its production to 4000 TPDs after contraption. The then dynamic founder entrepreneur under whose custodianship the ABC cement industry was flourished, such founder was passed away and the industry is looked after by their heriditaries.

Belief in God: Why People Believe, and Why They Don’t

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Mercier ◽  
Stephanie R. Kramer ◽  
Azim F. Shariff
Keyword(s):  
Central Feature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Adaptive Value ◽  
Proximate Causes ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Half Decade

Belief in a god or gods is a central feature in the lives of billions of people and a topic of perennial interest within psychology. However, research over the past half decade has achieved a new level of understanding regarding both the ultimate and proximate causes of belief in God. Ultimate causes—the evolutionary influences on a trait—shed light on the adaptive value of belief in God and the reasons why a tendency toward this belief exists in humans. Proximate causes—the immediate influences on the expression of a trait—explain variation and changes in belief. We review this research and discuss remaining barriers to a fuller understanding of belief in God.

The U.S. Ambassador & The Modern Age

Worldview ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
James W. Spain
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Post Office ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Instant Communication ◽  
The One ◽  
Past Half ◽  
The U.S

For the past half-dozen years I made my living as an ambassador. People have not stopped asking, “Just what does an ambassador do?” The question is something of an improvement on the one encountered by former ambassador to Great Britain, Kingman Brewster, as reported in Newsweek a year ago: “Do you think ambassadors matter any more?” Perhaps my acquaintences are simply kinder—or less sophisticated— than Brewster's.Most of the classic books on diplomacy try to answer such questions by describing ambassadors as analysts, reporters, and negotiators. The American public favors another, simpler response. So do many top administrators in Washington—especially when they are new to office. They conclude that in this age of jet aircraft, instant communication, summits, and special envoys, ambassadors are mere post office boxes and innkeepers.

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