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Special Edition (special + edition)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Medical Sciences40%
Humanities and Social Sciences20%

Selected Abstracts

Television and Violence in the Economy of Memory

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF JAPANESE SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2002
Mamoru Ito
The present paper aims to consider the cultural function of television as a technology for the creation of a public memory. The television system records past images, preserves them, and broadcasts various historical programs. A viewer owns the public memory jointly, through watching/consuming programs. However, the process of production and consumption of programs is linked with the exclusion of other historical memories from the public space. After all, the creation of public memories in depth is related to social power. Through the analysis in concrete terms of a series of programs of Project X and the second episode of the Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK; Japan Broadcasting Corporation) series, Special Edition: Judging War, the relationship between the organization of public memories and social power is explored. Project X depicts the challenges of engineers of middle standing who initiated new industrial and technological developments in the 1960s and 1970s. Special Edition: Judging War is based on coverage of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery. This program was subjected to revision on the eve of its broadcast. What forms of expression were eliminated? These two programs should help us define more clearly what the Japanese media selects for incorporation into the public memory. [source]

Place, memory and identity: Imagining ,New Asia'

ASIA PACIFIC VIEWPOINT, Issue 3 2005
T.C. Chang
Abstract:,The rapid transformation of Asian societies and landscapes, especially since the mid-1990s, has engendered much conjecture of the ,Asian renaissance' and the rise of a ,New Asia'. This Special Edition of Asia Pacific Viewpoint explores the intersecting themes of ,urban place', ,social memory' and ,cultural identity' in the articulation of and contestation towards New Asia. Specifically, the six articles here offer various interpretations of New Asia , as tourism marketing tool, political vision and social identity , and the politics involved in urban, tourism and cultural development. From colonial hotels in key South-East Asian cities to the historic waterfront of Singapore; from festivals and rituals in Hong Kong, Hoi An (Vietnam) and Penang (Malaysia) to the clash of cultural values in Manggarai (Indonesia), ,selective remembering' and ,ideological forgetting' are central to the construction of New Asian identities. Ultimately, this Special Edition hopes to provoke continuing discussions on the rhetoric of New Asia and its imaginative and contested geographies, sociologies and histories. [source]

Content: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau Special Edition 2008

BETON- UND STAHLBETONBAU, Issue S1 2008
Article first published online: 8 APR 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Content: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau Special Edition 2007

BETON- UND STAHLBETONBAU, Issue S1 2007
Article first published online: 22 AUG 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Special edition: Dendritic cells

APMIS, Issue 7-8 2003
URBAN FORSUM
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Special edition: Prion diseases

APMIS, Issue 1 2002
E. Brummerstedt
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Monitoring and regulation of marine aquaculture in Europe

JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, Issue 4-5 2000
T. F. Fernandes
Summary There is a current need to establish scientific guidelines for Best Environmental Practice for the regulation and monitoring of marine aquaculture throughout the European Union. This paper will demonstrate how the ,MARAQUA' Concerted Action will address this need using several methods including a comprehensive literature review and production of a computerized bibliography, establishment of a ,Register of Experts' and a worldwide website, circulation of a newsletter and a series of workshops. A brief comparison of the regulations and monitoring programmes associated with marine aquaculture in European countries is briefly outlined. These issues are described in depth in the individual country reviews presented in this special edition of the Journal. [source]

Solving nursing shortages: a common priority

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 24 2008
James Buchan
Aims and objectives., This paper provides a context for this special edition. It highlights the scale of the challenge of nursing shortages, but also makes the point that there is a policy agenda that provides workable solutions. Results., An overview of nurse:population ratios in different countries and regions of the world, highlighting considerable variations, with Africa and South East Asia having the lowest average ratios. The paper argues that the ,shortage' of nurses is not necessarily a shortage of individuals with nursing qualifications, it is a shortage of nurses willing to work in the present conditions. The causes of shortages are multi-faceted, and there is no single global measure of their extent and nature, there is growing evidence of the impact of relatively low staffing levels on health care delivery and outcomes. The main causes of nursing shortages are highlighted: inadequate workforce planning and allocation mechanisms, resource constrained undersupply of new staff, poor recruitment, retention and ,return' policies, and ineffective use of available nursing resources through inappropriate skill mix and utilisation, poor incentive structures and inadequate career support. Conclusions., What now faces policy makers in Japan, Europe and other developed countries is a policy agenda with a core of common themes. First, themes related to addressing supply side issues: getting, keeping and keeping in touch with relatively scarce nurses. Second, themes related to dealing with demand side challenges. The paper concludes that the main challenge for policy makers is to develop a co-ordinated package of policies that provide a long term and sustainable solution. Relevance to clinical practice., This paper highlights the impact that nursing shortages has on clinical practice and in health service delivery. It outlines scope for addressing shortage problems and therefore for providing a more positive staffing environment in which clinical practice can be delivered. [source]

Brian Scarlett , Myth, Motivator, Mentor, and Man

PARTICLE & PARTICLE SYSTEMS CHARACTERIZATION, Issue 1 2007
Reg Davies
Few think of Particle Science and Engineering without thinking of Brian Scarlett. His career spanned over 40 years. From his early days in Nottingham to his final days in Florida, Particle Science and Engineering were not only his passion but his life. He was a complex man. Not all found him easy. However, he left an abiding legacy in the many students that he loved and mentored. He believed in providing opportunity for his students in travel, and sometimes accomplished this while stretching budgets. He motivated many into new arenas of technology, and had just begun to fulfil his technical dreams when cancer claimed him. His final years exposed the man; one who was single-minded, driven, and very brave. He did not complete the work he wanted to finish, but still left an indelible mark on the field of Particle Science and Technology for generations to come. In this paper, the life and accomplishments of this complex man are put into perspective; and, in so doing, we honor him in this special edition of the journal. [source]

Foreword for special edition on migration and occupational health

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE, Issue 4 2010
John Howard MD
No abstract is available for this article. [source]