Charlie Brown, Amblyopia, and Me: A (Not so Short) Personal History of the Past Forty Years of Diagnosing and Treating Amblyopia

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D. France
Keyword(s):  
Personal History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals A Personal History of Using Crystals and Crystallography to Understand Biology and Advanced Drug Discovery

Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 676
Author(s):  
Tom L. Blundell
Keyword(s):  
Growth Factors ◽  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Cell Surface ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Personal History ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Surface Receptors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
History Of

Over the past 60 years, the use of crystals to define structures of complexes using X-ray analysis has contributed to the discovery of new medicines in a very significant way. This has been in understanding not only small-molecule inhibitors of proteins, such as enzymes, but also protein or peptide hormones or growth factors that bind to cell surface receptors. Experimental structures from crystallography have also been exploited in software to allow prediction of structures of important targets based on knowledge of homologues. Crystals and crystallography continue to contribute to drug design and provide a successful example of academia–industry collaboration.

scholarly journals On Remembering Le premier festival culturel panafricain d’Alger 1969

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Jayne Kimmel
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Third World ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Remarkable Event ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pandemic Response

This assembled interview centers both Elaine Mokhtefi and Le premier festival culturel panafricain d’Alger 1969 (PANAF), a festival which she organized and attended as a part of the Algerian Ministry of Information, noting it as an exemplary instance of the power of performance at the nexus of political ideology, activist history, and the subsequent nostalgia for that era of liberation. It is equally an attempt to overcome a distant relationship to each, reflecting on the potential of oral histories to open up new pathways through the past. This history—of entangled international relations negotiated under the guise of a festive performance, a complicated trajectory of global politics which culminated in a remarkable event of celebration and solidarity—remains understudied, a footnote to more “political” concerns of Third World agendas, decolonial reorderings, and capitalist critiques. Yet through Mokhtefi’s testimony, interwoven with searching tendrils of archival detail, we can see that this festival was not a superficial exaltation in extravagance, but a pivotal moment in foreign affairs. More importantly, through her personal history, we can trace the central role that women played in these politics, if often unacknowledged. Edited in 2020, it also counters the pejorative label of non-essential labor applied to most cultural activities during the contemporary pandemic response to COVID-19.

On One Approach to the Control of Uncertain Systems

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (2B) ◽  
pp. 373-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Leitmann
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Lyapunov Stability ◽  
Stability Theory ◽  
Uncertain Systems ◽  
Lyapunov Stability Theory ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Control Of Uncertain Systems

This paper is a personal history of one area of research with which I have been concerned over the past twenty years and which continues to attract my albeit waning attention, the control of dynamical systems based on uncertain models. Thus, it is a subjective account of various factors which I believe to have steered me to approach the problem via a constructive use of Lyapunov stability theory.

scholarly journals PERSONAL HISTORY OF MY ENGAGEMENT WITH CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, 1986–2010

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP W. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
Personal History ◽  
New Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cuprate Superconductivity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All

Six months ago, I was asked to write a personal history of my engagement with the high-Tc problem of the cuprate superconductors, in a rather informal and autobiographical style. As the work proceeded, I realized that it was impossible and would have been dishonest to separate out my rather amusing but seminal early fumblings from the complete restructuring of the problem which I have achieved during the past decade. But the result became considerably too long, by over half, for its intended recipient. The assignment had left me with no obligation to deal with all the fascinating but irrelevant phenomenology which I had more or less instinctively ignored on my way, but that feature also fails to endear the article to any conceivable editorial board containing knowledgeable experts on the subject. Also, their purpose was for it to serve as an "introduction to the more technical debates", but its message is that almost all of these are not relevant. They are not, on the whole, focused on achieving understanding of the crucial experimental anomalies, many, if not most, of which are now understood. The key to the problem is a new method of dealing with the constrained Hilbert space which follows from the necessity of Gutzwiller projection.

scholarly journals Dinesh Bhugra: a personal history of Psychiatry

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-08 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Bhugra
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Care ◽  
International Medical Graduate ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Medical Graduate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Personal Histories ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
And Training

AbstractIn the past 40 years, the practice of psychiatry has changed dramatically from asylums to community care to personalized home-based treatments. The personal history of working in various settings and changing NHS indicates that an ability to change one’s clinical practice is a critical skill. Being a migrant and an International Medical Graduate brings with it certain specific challenges. Personal histories provide a very specific account that is inherently incomplete and perhaps biased, but personal accounts also give history a tinge that academic accounts cannot. In this account, changes in the NHS have been discussed with regards to changes in clinical care of patients with psychiatric disorders as well as research and training.

scholarly journals Presidential Address: The Personal and the Historical

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Judith Fingard
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Points ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract In her 1998 Presidential Address to the Canadian Historical Association, Judith Fingard poses a question which has been on our collective minds for some time: “Does the personal history of the historian determine the choice of her or his subject matter, approach, and ongoing professional development?” By delving into the personal reflections of celebrated Canadian historians, Fingard has been able to shed light on this contentious issue. According to Fingard, the personal and professional intersect at several key points (or at least have for her sample of historians working in Canada in the past twenty years). The obvious, it seems, is true. Gender, class and stage of life all influence scholarly pursuits whether it be in terms of subject matter chosen or the amount of time one is able to devote to research and writing. Certainly the past twenty years has seen great change in Canadian academia; particularly, one can argue, in the field of history. It is clear that those sampled in Fingard's survey drew upon their personal backgrounds not only to forge a passion for the past - sometimes against all odds - but a professional identity based on the study of history of the margins. Ultimately, we can conclude that social historians of the past twenty years personify the field they played such a role in developing. To varying degrees, the profession is indeed personal.

Norman Sartorius: A personal history of psychiatry

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Norman Sartorius
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
History Of Psychiatry ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Current History

AbstractAs part of the intention to document the recent and current history of psychiatry, I was asked to present memories of my involvement in psychiatry over the past 50 years. Reviewers suggested that I should start this personal history of psychiatry with a summary of my curriculum vitae because this will make it easier to place the events I describe into their historical context. Here it goes, then.

scholarly journals Framing of Identity and Personal History through Multiperspective Narratives in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Dev Mayurakshi
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shifting Identities

: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) is an engagement in layers of shifting identities and their eventual unravelling. The novel is dominated by the character and voice of Iris Chase, an octogenarian who slowly and fumblingly presents to the reader the fragmented and complex personal history of her family. The novel becomes an exercise in historiography through Iris’s visitations to her and her sister Laura’s youth in order to explain their tenuous relationship which is achieved through three parallel sources: Iris’s own attempts at a memoir, journalistic documents and letters from the past, and excerpts from an infamous novel published forty years previously. My paper will explore the three narrative structures present in the novel, and attempt to understand the questions of authorship and writing, and their importance in building a historiographic narrative. It will try to examine the ways in which retrospective interventions into public history helps to counter and create identities which were hitherto repressed under social decorum. This paper will borrow from Linda Hutcheon’s writings of the postmodern metanarratives in order to compose a lucid understanding of what alternative historiography in literature can achieve, keeping at the centre Atwood’s novel.

The causal analysis of development in the past half century: a personal history

Development ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 116 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Salome G. Waelsch
Keyword(s):  
Causal Analysis ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Analytical Evaluation ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Past Half

I feel greatly privileged having been asked to talk to you here and I want to begin by thanking the organizers for this invitation. My task of preparing this talk has caused me considerable worry. Obviously, I shall not be able to present here a sound and objective history of embryology over the past 50 years. If nothing else, my great admiration for my close friend Jane Oppenheimer would keep me from being bold enough to step onto her territory, and there have been other serious attempts of an analytical evaluation of embryology during the past half century, e.g. the Nottingham symposium in 1983, published in 1986. What I intend to present here are my personal reflections based on reminiscences over the years during which I had the good fortune of seeing our science develop and of getting to know personally many of the scientists actively involved in the causal analysis of development.

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