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Selected AbstractsScience World, High School Girls, and the Prospect of Scientific Careers, 1957-1963HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2006Sevan G. Terzian First page of article [source] The maximal axial parameters in equivalent parametrizations of high symmetry crystal-field HamiltoniansPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 2 2007Jacek Mulak The cover picture represents a fingerprint of crystal-field parametrization, that is a map of the normalized crystal-field parameter B40 for the Pr3+ ion in Pr2CuO4 of C4v point symmetry according to the reference frame orientation (based on the data by Riou et al. [2]). This map is equivalent to the angle dependence of the k = 4 component of the crystal-field Hamiltonian. The contour lines are the equipotential lines. The picture relates to the work by Jacek Mulak, Maciej Mulak, and Ryszard Gonczarek [1]. The first author is a graduate in Chemistry (Wroclaw University of Technology, 1962) and Mathematics (University of Wroclaw, 1968), now holding the position of a professor at the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences in Wroclaw, Poland. He specializes in the crystal-field theory and its application to magnetism and spectroscopy. He embarked on his scientific career as an assistant professor to Professor W,odzimierz Trzebiatowski (1906,1982). The paper is then a tribute to Professor W,odzimierz Trzebiatowski, the founder of the physico-chemical school at Wroclaw's Academic Center. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Off the beaten track: Freud, sound and music.THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 5 2008Statement of a problem, some historico-critical notes The authors note that the element of sound and music has no place in the model of mental functioning bequeathed to us by Freud, which is dominated by the visual and the representational. They consider the reasons for this exclusion and its consequences, and ask whether the simple biographical explanation offered by Freud himself is acceptable. This contribution reconstructs the historical and cultural background to that exclusion, cites some relevant emblematic passages, and discusses Freud's position on music and on the aesthetic experience in general. Particular attention is devoted to the relationship between Freud and Lipps, which is important both for the originality of Lipps's thinking in the turn-of-the-century debate and for his ideas on the musical aspects of the foundations of psychic life, at which Freud ,stopped', as he himself wrote. Moreover, the shade of Lipps accompanied Freud throughout his scientific career from 1898 to 1938. Like all foundations, that of psychoanalysis was shaped by a system of inclusions and exclusions. The exclusion of the element of sound and music is understandable in view of the cultural background to the development of the concepts of the representational unconscious and infantile sexuality. While the consequences have been far reaching, the knowledge accumulated since that exclusion enables us to resume, albeit on a different basis, the composition of the ,unfinished symphony' of the relationship between psychoanalysis and music. [source] Reminiscences of a journeyman scientist: Studies of thermoregulation in non-human primates and humansBIOELECTROMAGNETICS, Issue 8 2008Eleanor Reed Adair Abstract After graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 where I majored in experimental psychology I worked at the College for 2 years with the Johns Hopkins Thermophysiological Unit. My graduate work later at the University of Wisconsin, centering on sensory psychology, culminated in my 1955 PhD thesis on human dark adaptation. I continued work in sensory psychology later with Neal Miller at Yale and then moved to the John B. Pierce Foundation,a Yale affiliate,where I began the studies of thermoregulation that constitute the center of my scientific career. Those studies were largely,later wholly,conducted using microwave energy as a thermal load and were thus published in Bioelectromagnetics even as I played an active role in the Bioelectromagnetics Society. In the beginning this work was centered on the responses of Squirrel Monkeys to thermal loads. Later, serving as Senior Scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory at San Antonio, I completed an extensive analysis of thermal regulation in humans. I consider this work of special note inasmuch as the extraordinary human thermoregulatory ability was surely among the attributes that were paramount in initially separating humans from the other anthropoid primates. Bioelectromagnetics 29:586,597, 2008. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Boris Balinsky: transition from embryology to developmental biologyBIOESSAYS, Issue 9 2005Vladimir Korzh This is the story of a textbook that students of developmental biology have used for 45 years. "An Introduction to Embryology" was released soon after a role for genes in the control of development became finally recognized but not yet well documented. Thus this book manifested the transition from embryology to developmental biology. The story of its author, Boris Balinsky, who against all odds survived to write this book, is remarkable on its own. He started his scientific career in the USSR, but due to 20th century social and political upheavals, ended it in South Africa. This article will shed light on the life of Boris Balinsky, a scientist and writer and will explore the origins of his book. BioEssays 27:970,977, 2005. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836,1921): An anatomist who left his markCLINICAL ANATOMY, Issue 3 2007Andreas Winkelmann Wilhelm Waldeyer was anatomist, physiologist, and pathologist during the German Empire (the so-called Second Reich). His scientific career left many traces still noticeable today. Not only is he commemorated in "his" pharyngeal lymphoid ring and other eponyms, but he also coined an impressive range of successful medical terms, including "chromosome" and "neuron." Moreover, Waldeyer left truly physical traces by donating parts of his body to his own Institute of Anatomy in Berlin. His scientific production does, however, also include "pseudoscientific" works, notably his questionable research on African brains. Clin. Anat. 20:231,234, 2007. © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Quality, quantity, and impact in academic publicationEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2010Nick Haslam Publication records of 85 social-personality psychologists were tracked from the time of their doctoral studies until 10 years post-PhD. Associations between publication quantity (number of articles), quality (mean journal impact factor and article influence score), and impact (citations, h -index, g -index, webpage visits) were examined. Publication quantity and quality were only modestly related, and there was evidence of a quality-quantity trade-off. Impact was more strongly associated with quantity than quality. Authors whose records weighed quality over quantity tended to be associated with more prestigious institutions, but had lesser impact. Quantity- and quality-favoring publication strategies may have important implications for the shape and success of scientific careers. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | |||||||||||||