Arithmetic Section

1950 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Ben A. Sueltz

Three new courses of study in arithmetic are reviewed. These represent California, New York, and Pennsylvania. They indicate that real progress is being made in the teaching of arithmetic. This is particularly true on the curriculum level. However, the most important task is that of bringing our best thinking into the classrooms. How can this be done? It is interesting to note that each of the courses of study was prepared by a comparatively few people but in each case this was done after wide consultation with teachers and supervisors. Many curriculum workers believe that the wider the participation in the preparation of syllabi and courses of study the more real value to the teachers and to the boys and girls. Do we need many special workshops and institutes in order that our teachers in service might gain the benefit of our best thinking about aims, methods, procedures, materials, and modes of evaluation in arithmetic?

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-194
Author(s):  
Hyun-Sook So

Abstract In 2012, large amounts of white marble Buddhist statues of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties were unearthed from the Buddhist sculpture hoard at Bei Wuzhuang in Ye City Site. This paper makes a comparative study on a bodhisattva statue in meditation seated in half-lotus posture (resting right ankle on the knee of pendent left leg and holding right hand upward) among them and another sculpture of the same type and made in the same period unearthed at the Xiude Monastery site in Dingzhou; from the double-tree, stupa and coiling dragon designs shown by them, this paper explores the commonalities and differences of the Buddhist arts in these two areas. Moreover, this paper reveals that this motif emerged earlier in the Ye City area than in the Dingzhou area, and diffused to the latter after it became popular in the Ye City area. By these conclusions, this paper infers that the white marble meditating statue seated in half-lotus position with the date of the second year of Wuding Era (544 CE) in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA was produced in Ye City area.


2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Easterly

Jeffrey Sachs's new book (The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Penguin Press: New York, 2005) advocates a “Big Push” featuring large increases in aid to finance a package of complementary investments in order to end world poverty. These recommendations are remarkably similar to those first made in the 1950s and 1960s in development economics. Today, as then, the Big Push recommendation overlooks the unsolvable information and incentive problems facing any large-scale planning exercise. A more promising approach would be to design incentives for aid agents to implement interventions piecemeal whenever they deliver large benefits for the poor relative to costs.


1986 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Nelson

Recent discussions of the history of American communism have generated a good deal of controversy. A youthful generation of “new social historians” has combined with veterans of the Communist party to produce a portrait of the Communist experience in the United States which posits a tension between the Byzantine pursuit of the “correct line” at the top and the impulses and needs of members at the base trying to cope with a complex reality. In the words of one of its most skillful practitioners, “the new Communist history begins with the assumption that … everyone brought to the movement expectations, traditions, patterns of behavior and thought that had little to do with the decisions made in the Kremlin or on the 9th floor of the Communist Party headquarters in New York.” The “new” historians have focused mainly on the lives of individuals, the relationship between communism and ethnic and racial subcultures, and the effort to build the party's influence within particular unions and working-class constituencies. Overall, the portrait has been critical but sympathetic and has served to highlight the party's “human face” and the integrity of its members.


1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
R. B. Michell

At the first International Meeting on Radio-Aids to Marine Navigation held in London in May 1946 some 105 delegates of twenty-three maritime nations met to discuss and witness demonstrations of some of the remarkable advances made in radio-navigation during the war and to consider the progress made in relation to their peacetime uses for marine transport.At the invitation of the U.S. government a second meeting was held a year later, in New York and New London, to show the progress made in America, to illustrate, with demonstrations, the U.S. policy and to pave the way to international standardisation. The U.K. delegation was led by Sir Robert Watson-Watt.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-102
Author(s):  
Dr Adil Daud ◽  
Steven Fling ◽  
John Rossi ◽  
Dr Majid Ghoddusi
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PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-382
Author(s):  
Randolph K. Byers

This rather modest-looking monograph deals not only with the large experiences of the author in relation to febrile seizures, but also presents an extensive review of the modern relevant literature (266 references in the bibliography). The most useful point made in the book, it seems to me, is that febrile convulsions are just that: i.e., convulsions coinciding with fever, the result of illness not directly involving the brain or its meninges. Such a seizure may be an isolated occurrence in the life of the individual, or it may recur a few times with fever; it may be the first sign of idiopathic chronic epilepsy, or it may be evidence of more or less apparent cerebral injury of a static sort; or, it may be the presenting symptom heralding progressive cerebral disease.


2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Aaronson

Serono International SA is one of the world's largest biotechnology companies with sales in 2004 of almost US$2.5bn made in over 90 countries. The company presently has eight biotechnology products and operates in four market areas: neurology, reproductive health, growth and metabolism, and dermatology. Serono's shares are traded on the Swiss Exchange as well as the virt-x exchange and its American depositary receipts (ADRs) are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its results were released on 1st February, 2005. The company has its headquarters in Geneva.


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