Royal Society expeditions in the second half of the twentieth century

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Hemmen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

During the second half of the twentieth century, the Royal Society mounted a number of scientific expeditions to different parts of the world. These expeditions varied considerably in their objectives, size, complexity and duration. Brief outlines of the main Royal Society expeditions of this period and their origins are given, together with mention of resulting Royal Society Discussion Meetings. Reference is also made to some long-term investigations involving the Society in collaboration with other countries' scientific institutions.

What Is Peace? Being an Autoethnographic Account of Methodological Musings From the Beach

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 371-380
Author(s):  
Anandam Kavoori
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Writing Project ◽  
Emotional Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

This autoethnographic essay is focused on methodological space of “problematization”—the wrenching intellectual and emotional process (and lived experience) that a scholar goes through before settling into a long-term writing project—in this case travel to different parts of the world, in an attempt to explore the idea and experience of “Peace” in each of those places. Weaving through elements of family memoir, Georgia history, eco-criticism, and Peace Studies (across different sub fields), the essay illuminates the personal and liminal space of methodological engagement before field work.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gatrell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
John Berger ◽  
Involuntary Displacement ◽  
Different Parts

The English writer and critic John Berger regarded the twentieth century as ‘the century of departure, of migration, of exodus, of disappearance: the century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon’.1 Berger’s characterisation of ‘helplessness’ invites us to consider not only how people were rendered liable to sudden and involuntary displacement, but also how those processes were represented at the time and subsequently. Global conflicts, revolutions and civil wars have played a major part in these processes of movement and loss, exposing combatants and non-combatants to personal risk. Civilians have frequently been the chief actors in the dramas of ‘departure’ and ‘disappearance’. Massive displacement has not necessarily entailed movement across state borders, although it is only relatively recently that policy-makers have taken into account the large numbers of internally displaced persons in different parts of the world....

Homer: A relational mnemohistory

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Erll
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The West ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
European Heritage ◽  
The World ◽  
Century Literature

This article proposes to extend the prevalent short-term and presentist frameworks of research on transcultural memory and to consider its dynamics across long-term relational mnemohistories. After more than two and a half millennia, “Homer” and the Homeric epics still resonate in memory cultures across the world. But they are often erroneously cast as “European heritage” or “foundations of the West.” This is the result of what I call a tenacious “Homeric genea-logic.” Highlighting three moments in the relational mnemohistory of Homer, this article shows, first, that already during their emergence in the archaic age, the Homeric epics were relational objects; second, how during the Middle Ages Homer could arrive in Petrarch’s Italy only as a product of relational remembering between the Roman and the Byzantine empires; and third, how twentieth-century literature (Joyce, Walcott) developed conscious modes of mnemonic relationality connecting diverse cultural memories. Relationality thus emerges as a key term for a reflexive memory culture today, a tool to overcome exclusive memory logics (“Homer as the heritage of Europe”) while enabling the articulation of meaningful long-term transcultural memories (“Homer as relational heritage in Europe”).

scholarly journals Practice makes voters? Effects of student mock elections on turnout

Politics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-393
Author(s):  
Richard Öhrvall ◽  
Sven Oskarsson
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The World ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Different Parts

Student mock elections are conducted in schools around the world in an effort to increase political interest and efficacy among students. There is, however, a lack of research on whether mock elections in schools enhance voter turnout in real elections. In this article, we examine whether the propensity to vote in Swedish elections is higher among young people who have previously experienced a student mock election. The analysis is based on unique administrative population-wide data on turnout in the Swedish 2010 parliamentary election and the 2009 European Parliament election. Our results show that having experienced a mock election as a student does not increase the likelihood of voting in subsequent real elections. This result holds when we study both short- and long-term effects, and when we divide our sample into different parts depending on their socio-economic status and study each part separately.

‘A blow to the men in Pink’: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Opposition to Hunting in the Twentieth Century

Rural History ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL TICHELAR
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cruelty To Animals

AbstractIn 1976 the RSPCA finally adopted a policy of opposition to fox hunting and the shooting of birds for sport after a long history of highly controversial internal debate and external lobbying by pressure groups. This article explores the possible long-term historical reasons behind the change of policy. It seeks to begin to fill a gap in the historical literature and explain the changes in public opinion towards hunting that occurred during the course of the twentieth century by looking at key episodes in the history of the RSPCA up to the 1970s. It shows there was a decline in aristocratic dominance on the ruling council of the RSPCA after the 1920s, but other reasons for the change in policy included the increasing influence of an urban/metropolitan view of the countryside after the 1950s; changing public attitudes towards farmers, who had been traditional supporters of hunting; and the increasing importance of environmentalism and ecology after 1960. By the end of the twentieth century it was no longer possible to argue that hunting was an essential feature of rural society and culture, despite the continuing popularity and survival of fox hunting with hounds.

scholarly journals Covid - 19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CAPA) in Critically Ill Patients : A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 402-406
Author(s):  
Himadri Dutta Vandana Sinha ◽  
Anup Jyoti Dutta Pinku Sarma
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Critically Ill Patients ◽  
Private Hospital ◽  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Pulmonary Aspergillosis ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

In the present study report three cases of covid-19 associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis from covid ICU of a private hospital. There is increased incidence of different co infections including fungal from severe cases of covid-19 requiring ICU care from different parts of the world. None of the patients in our report had any predisposing lung conditions and none of them were on long term steroids treatment. Out of the three cases, two cases clinically improved dramatically after initiation of antifungals. Second case deteriorated even before culture diagnosis was established and the patient died before antifungals could be started. So, possibility of a fungal infection should be always ruled out in all COVID-19 pneumonia cases without any clinical improvement after standard treatment and intensive care. Early diagnosis and treatment will help improve clinical outcomes in such cases.

scholarly journals The Birth of the Clinic and the Sources of Archaeological History

2018 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
François Delaporte
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Year 2013

The year 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of a classic of the historiography of sciences, Michel Foucault’s The birth of the clinic: An archaeology of medical gaze. In different parts of the world, events were organized to reflect on this important work. The article argues that if one cannot draw a direct line linking the work of the leading historians-philosophers of the twentieth-century sciences in France to Michel Foucault’s archaeological study of the clinic, we must recognize that the author of The Birth of the Clinic has taken up from these historians-philosophers the methodological and conceptual tools that made it possible to study the history of science and knowledge in a new way.

One Hundred Years of Learning: The Russian Revolution of 1917

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-236
Author(s):  
Wilson do Nascimento Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Organizational Power ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
The World ◽  
The Masses

This year, 2017, the world celebrates the centenary of the two Russian Revolutions that marked the twentieth century and changed the course of history. This article traces the worldwide impact of the Russian Revolution and its contribution to the awakening of the masses in Europe and the peripheries, in the course of the twentieth century. It also throws light on the imperialist counteroffensive and argues for the ongoing relevance of Leninist doctrine in the struggle against imperialism and bourgeois domination. The article elaborates the teachings of Leninism and its unique organizational power in the interest of long-term struggle.

Preparing for the Confucian Millennium

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-86
Author(s):  
Uri Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Unique Model ◽  
Society Today

Despite its small size and unconventional doctrines, the Korean new religious movement, “Rectified Confucian Way” (Kaengjŏngyudo), exerts considerable influence on Korean society today. Members of the group operate dozens of children’s camps and other educational programs aimed to promote traditional moral behaviors among the population, in line with their millennial vision of an evolving Confucian era. This article offers the first English-language introductory investigation of this fascinating movement. It reviews the early twentieth-century mystical genesis of the religion, its development of scriptures and rituals, and its members’ active, optimistic attempts to lead the world into the Confucian millennium. Based on this data, the paper suggests that this group offers a unique model of a long-term, gradualist—rather than imminent—millennial expectation.

scholarly journals Comparative study on long term climate data sources over South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Ik Kim ◽  
Dawei Han
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
The World ◽  
In Situ Observations ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Global Datasets ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract Long term climate data are vitally important in reliably assessing water resources and water related hazards, but in-situ observations are generally sparse in space and limited in time. Although there are several global datasets available as substitutes, there is a lack of comparative studies about their suitability in different parts of the world. In this study, to find out the reliable century-long climate dataset in South Korea, we first evaluate multi-decadal reanalyses (ERA-20 cm, ERA-20c, ERA-40 and NOAA 20th century reanalysis (20CR)) and gridded observations (CRUv3.23 and GPCCv7) for monthly mean precipitation and temperature. In the temporal and statistical comparisons, CRUv3.23 and GPCCv7 for precipitation and ERA-40 for temperature perform the best, and ERA-20c and 20CR also indicate meaningful agreements. For ERA-20 cm, it has only a statistical agreement, but the mean has the difficulty in representing its ensemble. This paper also shows that the applicability of each dataset may vary by region and all products should be locally adjusted before being applied in climate impact assessments. These findings not only help to fill in the knowledge gaps about these datasets in South Korea but also provide a useful guideline for the applicability of the global datasets in different parts of the world.

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