Lecture

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    COMMENT ON NAVIGATING REFORMS: LESSONS FROM INDIA, THE 2008 WINCOTT LECTURE, GIVEN BY ARUN SHOURIE

    ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 3 2009
    Razeen Sally
    Economic growth in India has been impressive in recent years. However, development has largely by-passed agriculture and labour-intensive industry, the sectors with the most potential to drive up living standards in the long term. Despite welcome recent efforts at reform, large parts of the Indian economy continue to be hindered by poor governance and over-regulation. [source]


    Food Safety and Regulation: Evaluation of an Online Multimedia Course

    JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE EDUCATION, Issue 4 2005
    Stephen J. Pintauro
    ABSTRACT: The effectiveness of, and student attitudes toward, an online Food Safety and Regulation course (WEB) were compared with lecture (LECTURE) and combined lecture/online (COMBINED) courses. All students took identical pre-tests, post-tests, and attitude assessments. No significant differences were detected in pre-test scores. Post-test results for WEB, LECTURE, and COMBINED groups were 65.9±3.02, 67.1±2.62, and 73.5±2.59 (mean±SEM), respectively. After controlling for the pretest, the COMBINED score was significantly higher (P < 0.05) than the LECTURE and WEB scores. Some student attitude scores in the LECTURE and COMBINED groups were better than the WEB group. The results indicate that students perform as well in the Web-based course as the lecture-based course and that student performance is maximized by combining online and lecture methods. [source]


    TEAM LEARNING VERSUS TRADITIONAL LECTURE: MEASURING THE EFFICACY OF TEACHING METHOD IN LEGAL STUDIES

    JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION, Issue 1 2001
    Laurie A. Lucas
    [source]


    THE INAUGURAL NOEL BUTLIN LECTURE: WORLD FACTOR MIGRATIONS AND DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS

    AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2004
    Jeffrey G. Williamson
    This lecture explores the connection between demographic transitions, mass migrations and international capital flows. It reviews how demographic transitions influence the size of age cohorts, and then how these changes in age distribution influence excess demands in receiving regions and excess supplies in sending regions. The lecture offers four examples , two from the first global century and two from the second global century , where shocks generated by demographic transitions have had an enormous impact on factor flows: European mass migrations to the New World before 1914; African mass migrations to the OECD over the past two decades; British capital export to the New World before 1914; and capital flows across East Asian borders after 1950 and before the melt down of the 1990s. The lecture concludes with an assessment of the demographic contribution to the East Asian miracle (and slowdown) over the past half century. [source]


    THE GULLIFORD LECTURE: Bullying or befriending?

    BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, Issue 1 2010
    Children's responses to classmates with special needs
    Children with special educational needs are generally less accepted, more rejected and more likely to be victims of bullying than their typically developing classmates. However, they are sometimes treated more favourably than classmates, more like friends than acquaintances. In this article, based on her contribution to the Gulliford Lecture series, Norah Frederickson of University College London argues that attributional processes which appear central to the establishment of peer acceptance and supportive relationships are more likely to be triggered when a child's difficulties are severe or obvious, classmates are older and explanatory information is given to them. Schools are sometimes reluctant to discuss the special needs of a pupil with their classmates due to concerns about labelling. However, the literature on labelling suggests that such concerns have been exaggerated and that labels can sometimes serve a protective function. Norah Frederickson suggests that respectful, helping relationships between typically developing classmates and pupils with special needs are valued by young people, their parents and teachers, and can build to friendships within a context of positive opportunities for interaction. [source]


    PL1 , PLENARY LECTURES

    JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY & VENEREOLOGY, Issue 2002
    Article first published online: 11 OCT 200
    [source]


    SEPTEMBER 15, 2003,PLENARY LECTURES

    BRAIN PATHOLOGY, Issue 2003
    Article first published online: 5 APR 200
    First page of article [source]


    Guest Lecture 9.00,9.45 Wednesday 17 September 2003

    CYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 2003
    Peter A. Hall MD PhD FRCPath
    The past decades have seen an explosion in our knowledge of the molecular events underpinning the pathogenesis of many disease processes. Furthermore, there have been enormous technical advances with the ability to identify, clone and sequence genes and to characterize their protein products now being common place in research settings. However, despite many claims as to the utility of molecular and biochemical methods in pathology only very few laboratories employ such methods in a clinical setting. Indeed the impact of molecular medicine has been more talked about than real. Why is this? The goal of this presentation is to address this question and present some perspectives on the future of Molecular Pathology. I shall overview, for the BSCC, the current state of the technology available for gene analysis and to explore the developments needed before the mirage of molecular pathology becomes a clinical reality. [source]


    Developmental psychopathology in adolescence: findings from a Swiss study , the NAPE Lecture 2005

    ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, Issue 1 2006
    H.-C. Steinhausen
    Objective:, Presentations of selective findings coming from the Zurich Adolescent Psychology and Psychopathology Study with two major aims: i) the study of the prevalence, course, and correlates of mental disorders in adolescence, and ii) the study of the determinants and processes of mental disorders in adolescence. Method:, A representative sample of n = 1964 children and adolescents was studied in the canton of Zurich in 1994. Additional waves of data collection took place in 1997 and 2000/2001. Mean ages at these three assessments were 13, 16, and 20 years. Each wave contained a two-stage procedure of assessment with screening by questionnaires and consecutive interviewing. The main constructs used were general and specific measures of psychopathology, life events, coping styles, self-related cognitions, and quality of the social network. Results:, Prevalence rates of any mental disorder in school-age at the time of assessment was 22.5% fitting into a transcultural range of 18,26% based on DSM-III-R criteria. Furthermore, the derivation and validation of a four-group adolescent drinker typology was demonstrated. Additionally, the prevalence and continuity of functional-somatic symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood was shown. Another piece of the research tested for the identification of risk, compensatory, vulnerability, and protective factors influencing behaviour problems and found remarkably different frequencies across the four types of moderating factors. Conclusion:, The presented findings provide further understanding of the developmental psychology and psychopathology of adolescence and the service, intervention, and prevention needs of this age-group. [source]


    Psychiatric epidemiology of old age: the H70 study , the NAPE Lecture 2003

    ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, Issue 1 2004
    I. Skoog
    Objective: To describe methodological issues and possibilities in the epidemiology of old age psychiatry using data from the H70 study in Göteborg, Sweden. Method: A representative sample born during 1901,02 was examined at 70, 75, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 90, 92, 95, 97, 99 and 100 years of age, another during 1906,07 was examined at 70 and 79 years of age, and samples born between 1922 and 1930 were examined at 70 years of age. The study includes psychiatric examinations and key informant interviews performed by psychiatrists, physical examinations performed by geriatricians, psychometric testings, blood sampling, computerized tomographies of the brain, cerebrospinal fluid analyses, anthropometric measurements, and psychosocial background factors. Results: Mental disorders are found in approximately 30% of the elderly, but is seldom detected or properly treated. Incidence of depression and dementia increases with age. The relationship between blood pressure and Alzheimer's disease is an example of how cross-sectional and longitudinal studies yield completely different results. Brain imaging is an important tool in epidemiologic studies of the elderly to detect silent cerebrovascular disease and other structural brain changes. The high prevalence of psychotic symptoms is an example of the importance to use several sources of information to detect these symptoms. Dementia should be diagnosed in all types of studies in the elderly, as it influences several outcomes such as mortality, blood pressure, and rates of depression. Suicidal feelings are rare in the elderly and are strongly related to mental disorders. Conclusion: Modern epidemiologic studies in population samples should be longitudinal and include assessments of psychosocial risk factors as well as comprehensive sets of biologic markers, such as brain imaging, neurochemical analyses, and genetic information to maximize the contribution that epidemiology can provide to increase our knowledge about the etiology of mental disorders. [source]


    Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture 2008 Gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) revisited: a new therapeutic target for obesity,diabetes?

    DIABETIC MEDICINE, Issue 7 2008
    P. R. Flatt
    Abstract There is increasing realization that gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) has actions outside of the pancreas and gastrointestinal tract. Most significant is the presence of functional GIP receptors on adipocytes and the appreciation that GIP, secreted strongly in response to fat ingestion, plays a role in the translation of excessive amounts of dietary fat into adipocyte tissue stores. Such effects open up the possibility of exploiting GIP receptor antagonism for the treatment of obesity and insulin resistance. This is borne out by studies in high-fat-fed mice or ob/ob mice with either genetic knockout of GIP receptor or chemical ablation of GIP action using the GIP receptor antagonist, (Pro3)GIP. By causing preferential oxidation of fat, blockade of GIP signalling clears triglyceride deposits from liver and muscle, thereby respectively restoring mechanisms for suppression of hepatic glucose output and cellular glucose uptake. Further studies are needed to determine the applicability of this research to human obesity,diabetes. However, proof of concept is provided by emerging evidence that rapid cure of diabetes in grossly obese subjects undergoing Roux-en-Y bypass surgery is mediated in part by surgical bypass of GIP-secreting K-cells in the upper small intestine. [source]


    Ions, genes and insulin release: from basic science to clinical disease Based on the 1998 R. D. Lawrence Lecture

    DIABETIC MEDICINE, Issue 2 2000
    M. J. Dunne
    Summary In 1968, reports of the first microelectrode recordings of insulin-secreting cells were published. Thirty years later it is now established that electrical responses of ,-cells play a critical role in stimulus-secretion coupling. It is now also clear that defects in ion channel genes compromise the mechanisms which govern secretion and lead to the onset of disease. Here, the physiology of insulin release is reviewed in the context of ion channels, the ionic control of insulin release and the pathophysiology of hyperinsulinism of infancy. [source]


    Plenary Lecture: Broadening of the Indications for Endoscopic Surgery: Upper Gastrointestinal Tract

    DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPY, Issue 2000
    Shuji Inatsuchi
    First page of article [source]


    Plenary Lecture: Applications of Magnifying Endoscopy and Endoscopic Ultrasonography to Colorectal Neoplastic Lesions

    DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPY, Issue 2000
    Masao Ando
    First page of article [source]


    NAVIGATING REFORMS: LESSONS FROM INDIA

    ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 3 2009
    Arun Shourie
    In the 2008 Wincott Lecture, the author argues that huge obstacles stand in the way of desperately needed economic reforms in India. Liberalisation initiatives have been undermined by poor governance, ineffective institutions and powerful vested interests. Unless these problems are addressed, high rates of economic growth are unlikely to be sustained in the long term. [source]


    Economica Coase Lecture: Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm

    ECONOMICA, Issue 299 2008
    OLIVER HART
    I argue that it has been hard to make progress on Coase's theory of the firm agenda because of the difficulty of formalizing haggling costs. I propose an approach that tries to move things forward using the idea of aggrievement costs, and apply it to the question of whether a transaction should be placed inside a firm (in-house production) or in the market place (outsourcing). [source]


    Pathways to discovery in epilepsy research: Rethinking the quest for cures

    EPILEPSIA, Issue 1 2008
    Daniel H. Lowenstein
    Summary This paper, based on the 4th Annual Hoyer Lecture presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, first provides a general view of the current limitations in therapies aimed at achieving the goal of "no seizures, no side effects" for patients living with epilepsy. Some of the seminal discoveries in epilepsy research over the past 100 years are then reviewed, with an emphasis on the pivotal role of basic and clinical/translational science in leading the way to new and effective means for diagnosing and treating for epilepsy. The paper concludes with a view of the future course of epilepsy research. Scientific advances will increasingly rely on the collaboration of multidisciplinary teams of reseachers using the analytic and storage capabilities of machines, and linked together by communication tools such as the Internet and related technologies. [source]


    Ethnography, Comparison, and Changing Times

    ETHOS, Issue 4 2005
    ROBERT I. LEVY
    This article, based on Levy's Distinguished Lecture at the 2001 meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, summarizes his views on how the psychologies of actors and the community forms and structures in which they are embedded, dancers and their dances, are mutually constituted. In particular, he contrasts two distinct communities where he did field research: Piri, a small village in French Polynesia; and Bhaktapur, a religious city in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, suggesting that the particular cultures of these two places give rise to different forms of public life and childrearing, resulting in differing kinds of learning during childhood and ultimately in distinctive experiences of the self. [source]


    Hodgkin lymphoma: a curable disease: what comes next?

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY, Issue 2005
    Volker Diehl
    Bonadonna Lecture at the Sixth International Hodgkin Lymphoma Congress Cologne, 19 September 2004. [source]


    Elements of a neurobiological theory of hippocampal function: the role of synaptic plasticity, synaptic tagging and schemas

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, Issue 11 2006
    R. G. M. MorrisArticle first published online: 8 JUN 200
    Abstract The 2004 EJN Lecture was an attempt to lay out further aspects of a developing neurobiological theory of hippocampal function [Morris, R.G.M., Moser, E.I., Riedel, G., Martin, S.J., Sandin, J., Day, M. & O'Carroll, C. (2003) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci., 358, 773,786.] These are that (i) activity-dependent synaptic plasticity plays a key role in the automatic encoding and initial storage of attended experience; (ii) the persistence of hippocampal synaptic potentiation over time can be influenced by other independent neural events happening closely in time, an idea with behavioural implications for memory; and (iii) that systems-level consolidation of memory traces within neocortex is guided both by hippocampal traces that have been subject to cellular consolidation and by the presence of organized schema in neocortex into which relevant newly encoded information might be stored. Hippocampal memory is associative and, to study it more effectively than with previous paradigms, a new learning task is described which is unusual in requiring the incidental encoding of flavour,place paired associates, with the readout of successful storage being successful recall of a place given the flavour with which it was paired. NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity is shown to be critical for the encoding and intermediate storage of memory traces in this task, while AMPA receptor-mediated fast synaptic transmission is necessary for memory retrieval. Typically, these rapidly encoded traces decay quite rapidly over time. Synaptic potentiation also decays rapidly, but can be rendered more persistent by a process of cellular consolidation in which synaptic tagging and capture play a key part in determining whether or not it will be persistent. Synaptic tags set at the time of an event, even many trivial events, can capture the products of the synthesis of plasticity proteins set in train by events before, during or even after an event to be remembered. Tag,protein interactions stabilize synaptic potentiation and, by implication, memory. The behavioural implications of tagging are explored. Finally, using a different protocol for flavour,place paired associate learning, it is shown that rats can develop a spatial schema which represents the relative locations of several different flavours of food hidden at places within a familiar space. This schema is learned gradually but, once acquired, enables new paired associates to be encoded and stored in one trial. Their incorporation into the schema prevents rapid forgetting and suggests that schema play a key and hitherto unappreciated role in systems-level memory consolidation. The elements of what may eventually mature into a more formal neurobiological theory of hippocampal memory are laid out as specific propositions with detailed conceptual discussion and reference to recent data. [source]


    'Everything is relative': Comparison processes in social judgment The 2002 Jaspars Lecture

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 6 2003
    Thomas Mussweiler
    Any judgment involves a comparison of the evaluated target to a pertinent norm or standard, so that comparison processes lie at the core of human judgment. Despite this prominent role, however, little is known about the psychological mechanisms that underlie comparisons and produce their variable consequences. To understand these consequences, one has to examine what target knowledge is sought and activated during the comparison process. Two alternative comparison mechanisms are distinguished. Similarity testing involves a selective search for evidence indicating that the target is similar to the standard and leads to assimilation. Dissimilarity testing involves a selective search for evidence indicating that the target is dissimilar from the standard and leads to contrast. Distinguishing between these alternative mechanisms provides an integrative perspective on comparison consequences in the realm of social comparison and beyond. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


    Ethnography in/of Nations GAD Distinguished Lecture, 2003

    GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY BULLETIN OF THE GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY DIVISION, Issue 2 2004
    Lila Abu-Lughod
    First page of article [source]


    "THE FARTHER REACHES OF HUMAN TIME": RETROSPECT ON CARL SAUER AS PREHISTORIAN,

    GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2002
    DAVID R. HARRIS
    ABSTRACT. Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889,1975) is widely regarded as one of the most influential geographers of the twentieth century, admired particularly for his studies in cultural and historical geography. His contribution to the study of prehistory is less widely acknowledged, but, between 1944 and 1962, he published a series of speculative yet scholarly papers that contain many prescient insights into humanity's remote past and the relationships of our ancestors to the environments they occupied,and modified. In this essay, based on the Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture given at the University of California, Berkeley, in October 2001, I reflect on Sauer's contribution to the science of prehistory by examining, in the light of recent advances in knowledge, two major themes of Sauer's work: the early dispersal of Homo sapiens in the Old World, and the origins and prehistoric spread of agriculture. [source]


    On the Road with the Darcy Lecture

    GROUND WATER, Issue 6 2008
    Michael Celia
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]


    COLLINGWOOD, BRADLEY, AND HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE

    HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 2 2006
    ROBERT M. BURNS
    ABSTRACT The central feature of the narrative structure of Collingwood's The Idea of History (IH) is the pivotal role accorded to Bradley, evident in the table of contents and in the two discussions of him. Few readers have noticed that, confusingly, the book's first discussion of Bradley (on pages 134-141) is a revision of the (1935) Inaugural Lecture "The Historical Imagination," which constitutes the book's second discussion of Bradley (on pages 231-249). The differences between these two presentations of Bradley are significant. The 1935 account (presented in IH on pages 231-249) seeks to portray the Bradley of the Presuppositions of Critical History as a Copernican revolutionary in historical thought, even though the neo-Kantian transcendentalism promoted in the Lecture had been the core of Collingwood's approach to philosophy of history from the mid-1920s, many years before he encountered Bradley's essay. By 1935 this transcendentalism was in the process of self-destructing because of inner contradictions. By 1936, once Collingwood's narrative and his criticisms of Bradley left the 1935 claims unsustainable, Collingwood shifted attention to Bradley's later works, in an unsuccessful attempt to sustain the notion of his originality (presented in IH on pages 134-141). Hitherto neglected Collingwood manuscripts held in the Bodleian prove that by 1940 Collingwood recognized this, so that the prominence Knox gave to Bradley in his editing of the IH is demonstrably not in accord with Collingwood's views and plans for The Idea of History. Knox's much-disputed claim that there was a radical shift to historicism in the later Collingwood is, however, confirmed, clear proof being adduced that in the later 1930s the attempt transcendentally to deduce universal and necessary presuppositions of historical knowledge is abandoned for a radically historicist account, paralleled by a demotion of "critical history" as the final form of "history proper" in favor of "scientific history." [source]


    Decade of Behavior Distinguished Lecture: Development of physical aggression during infancy

    INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL, Issue 5 2004
    Richard E. Tremblay
    Violence is a major public concern in our modern societies. To prevent this violence we need to understand how innocent children grow into violent adolescents and adults. It is generally believed that humans are most frequently physically aggressive during adolescence and early adulthood. With longitudinal studies of large samples of children from different countries that followed them from infancy to adulthood, scientists tried to discover at what age individuals learn how to physically aggress. These studies indicated that the peak age for physical aggression was not during early adulthood, adolescence, or even kindergarten, but rather between 24 and 42 months after birth. Although there are important individual differences in children's use of physical aggression, most of them will learn to use socially acceptable alternatives when angry or frustrated before they enter school. To prevent chronic physical aggression and its terrible consequences over the whole life course, modern societies should provide children with the optimal prenatal and postnatal environments. [source]


    Irving B. Harris Distinguished Lecture: Reflective supervision in infant,family programs: Adding clinical process to nonclinical settings

    INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL, Issue 5 2004
    Linda Gilkerson
    Programs that are moving toward relationship-based practice are finding it essential to integrate some form of reflective process into their program practices in order to achieve their goals. Reflective supervision is proposed as a method to support change toward relationship-based practice with infants and their families. The elements and structure of reflective supervision are described and several examples are given showing the implementation of this approach in two different settings: neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and community-based early intervention programs. [source]


    Neisser Lecture, Lower Silesian Dermatological Society, Medical University of Wroc,aw, June 2010

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 10 2010
    Robert A. Schwartz md
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]


    Fell-Muir Lecture: Cartilage 2010 , The Known Unknowns

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY, Issue 3 2010
    Timothy E. Hardingham
    Summary Over the past 40 years there have been giant steps forward in our understanding of cellular and molecular biology that have given us the framework by which to understand tissue organization and tissue function on a range of scales. However, although the progress has been great, the more we have discovered, the more we are aware of what we don't yet know. In this article, I would like to flag up some issues of cartilage biology, function and pathology where we still have significant ignorance. As scientists we all provide contributions to add to the greater understanding of science and progress is on a broad front, but gaps are left where particular difficulty is encountered and in life sciences it is no different. Progress is fast where new knowledge and techniques pave the way, but where study is complex and relevant techniques poorly developed the gaps are left behind. In cartilage research and matrix biology, the gaps can particularly be seen at interfaces between disciplines and where technology development has lagged behind and in the particular challenges of understanding how molecular properties can explain tissue macro properties. [source]


    Berend Houwen Memorial Lecture: ISLH Las Vegas May 2009

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LABORATORY HEMATOLOGY, Issue 3 2009
    The pathogenesis, management of thrombotic microangiopathies
    Summary Thrombotic microangiopathies are a relatively rare group of congenital and inherited disorders caused by defects in processing the ultra large forms of von Willibrand factor which pathologically give rise to platelet rich microthrombi in the micro arterial circulation leading to end organ damage particularly in the brain, heart and kidneys. Identification of the ADAMTS 13 gene has led to the definition of congenital deficiency of its activity or failure of activity due to the development of an inhibitory IgG antibody. The idiopathic autoimmune form of the disease is the most common. There are various subgroups of acquired TTP associated with HIV infection, pregnancy, pancreatitis, associated with bone marrow transplantation, various disseminated malignancies and certain drugs, particularly Clopidogrel. Diagnostic assays are now becoming widely available to identify ADAMTS 13 activity and also acquired antibodies to the enzyme. Mainline treatment is associated with daily plasma exchange with associated other immunosuppressant treatments particularly steroids and recently the use of Rituximab, a monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody. Despite improvement in treatment modalities there is still significant mortality of 10,20%, particularly if there is a delay in initiating plasma exchange. Relapse also occurs in 20,50% of patients although this may be improved by Rituximab therapy. [source]