Discussion on ‘Deglaciation and neotectonics in SE Raasay, Scottish Inner Hebrides’ by Smith et al. 2021 (SJG, 57, xx-yy)

2021 ◽  
pp. sjg2021-013
Author(s):  
Nicol Morton

I congratulate David Smith and his colleagues (2021) on an excellent presentation of their work on the evolution of the morphology and events involved in the evolution of the Beinn na Leac area in south-east Raasay. The summit area is a difficult and even dangerous area to work in, as I know from personal experience – learning to only follow sheep tracks to avoid the many deep fissures with openings often hidden by vegetation.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 906-906
Author(s):  
RICHARD H. SCHWARTZ

I am pleased that Milman and Bennett continue to research and publicize the problems that frequent marijuana use by young people can cause. I am grateful to Dr Milman for her ceaseless efforts to educate the medical community about the many dangers to humans of all ages of smoking marijuana. As one who suffered greatly as a result of believing widely publicized but poorly documented information regarding the innocence of using cannabis, I hope that others will also be enlightened by Milman's findings, and by my own, showing the dangers of drug use by adolescents and the pain that such use can cause.


2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 258-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Rees ◽  
D Cohen ◽  
N Marfell ◽  
M Robling

Abstract Background Understanding of what prevents doctors from seeking help for mental ill-health has improved. However, less is known about what promotes timely disclosure and the nature of doctors’ decision making. Aims This study aimed to define how doctors make decisions about their own mental ill-health, and what facilitates disclosure. It explored the disclosure experiences of doctors and medical students; their attitudes to their decisions, and how they evaluate potential outcomes. Methods Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with UK doctors and medical students with personal experience of mental ill-health. Participants were recruited through relevant organizations, utilizing regular communications such as newsletters, e-mails and social media. Data were subject to a thematic analysis. Results Forty-six interviews were conducted. All participants had disclosed their mental ill-health to someone; not all to their workplace. Decision making was complex, with many participants facing multiple decisions throughout their careers. Disclosures were made despite the many obstacles identified in the literature; participants described enablers to and benefits of disclosing. The importance of appropriate responses to first disclosures was highlighted. Conclusions Motivations to disclose mental ill-health are complex and multifactorial. An obstacle for one was an enabler for another. Understanding this and the importance of the first disclosure has important implications for how best to support doctors and medical students in need.


Scripta ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (37) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
William Valentine Redmond

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article reflects on the many opinions about the author of the of <strong>Crônica da casa assassinada</strong> as a modernist or postmodernist writer.  Examining the narrative techniques used by the author, maybe influenced by his wide reading of foreign literatures <strong>,</strong> it may be possible to clarify a little the question of the position of Lucio Cardoso in relation to the literary movements of the twentieth century. His personal experience as a writer passes through the process of impersonalisation, transforming his masterpiece into a universal symbol.  It is hoped that this paper will show how this transformation of his personal experience comes across to the readers in the form of a modernist and not as some say, a post modernist novel.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Resumo:</strong><strong> </strong></p><p>Este artigo reflete sobre as muitas opiniões acerca do autor da <strong>Crônica da casa assassinada</strong> como um escritor modernista ou pós-modernista. Examinando as técnicas narrativas utilizadas pelo autor, talvez influenciado por sua vasta leitura de literaturas estrangeiras relatadas,  seria possível clarear um pouco esta questão da posicionamento de Lucio Cardoso com relação aos movimentos literários do século XX. A experiência pessoal do escritor passa por um processo de impessoalidade, através da transmutação e amalgamação, transformando a obra em símbolo universal. Espera-se com esta comunicação discutir o modo como essa transmutação chega ao leitor em forma de um romance modernista e não, como às vezes se afirma, como um romance pós-modernista.</p><p> </p>


2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred J. Stucker

Background To review the personal experience of a single surgeon over a 31 year period. Method A retrospective analysis of 7447 rhinoplasties performed by a single surgeon from 1969 to 2000. Ninety-five surgeries performed at educational courses were excluded from this series. Results During the many years of performing rhinoplasties, cartilage splitting, delivery, and external approach are among the most common techniques. In the first decade, 62% were cartilage splitting, 33% delivery, and 3% external. In the second decade, 13% were cartilage splitting, 58% delivery, and 26% external. In the third decade, 11% were cartilage splitting, 52% delivery, and 36% external. Conclusion Over a three-decade period, the techniques of the author have been influenced by national trends, training, and patient outcomes.


2004 ◽  
Vol 155 (8) ◽  
pp. 320-327
Author(s):  
Katja Hürlimann

Shortages of wood and grain threatened pre-modern societies from the Middle-Ages onwards. The many economical societies,which arose in Europe in the second half of the 18th century,tried to combat such shortages by calling for agricultural and silvicultural reforms. The process of such reforms can be nicely illustrated using the example of the Economical Commission of Zurich. Not only does this provide an opportunity to examine the complicity and mutual dependence of the two sectors in question, it also serves to show the discursive character of both wood and food scarcity. The warnings and reform proposals emanating from the Zurich economists were rarely based, it must be said, on any personal experience of shortages.


Author(s):  
Janet O'Shea

Decried as mere brutality on display and celebrated as viscerally real, combat sport has escaped nuanced reflection. Risk, Failure, Play addresses this gap, signaling the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence through risk-based play. Despite its association with frivolity and ease, play is not the opposite of danger, rigor, or failure. Indeed, Risk, Failure, Play demonstrates the ways in which physical recreation allows us to manage the complexities of our current social reality. This book suggests that play gives us the ability to manage difficult conditions with intelligence and that physical play, with its immediacy and its heightened risk, is particularly effective at accomplishing this task. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through considerations of the politics of everyday life exemplified in martial arts practices such as jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and empowerment self-defense. Risk, Failure, Play intertwines personal experience with phenomenology, social psychology, dance studies, performance studies, and theories of play and competition in order to produce insights on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, agency, individual identity, and society. Ultimately, this book suggests that play allows us to rehearse other ways to live than the ones we see before us, challenging us to reimagine our social reality.


1917 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Louisa M. Webster
Keyword(s):  

Believing that courses in mathematics are second to none in value as a mental discipline, it seems meet that the teacher’s best efforts may be profitably spent in devising plans which will stimulate a desire for research. I speak from personal experience when I say that one of our most difficult problems lies in making provision for the many points of a crowded curriculum which must be treated lightly, assigned for outside work or entirely omitted.


Author(s):  
Lesley Rees ◽  
Detlef Bockenhauer ◽  
Nicholas J.A. Webb ◽  
Marilynn G. Punaro

This is a comprehensive, clinically orientated guide to the management of children with all forms of renal disease. Its purpose is to be a portable but complete reference for the day-to-day, bedside, and outpatient management of all conditions, either by the general paediatrician in their own hospital, by specialist paediatric nephrologists, or in shared care between general hospitals and specialized centres. Using bullet points and text boxes, it is easy to use, even in an emergency. The focus is principally on investigation and management, but it also includes some pathophysiology in order to enable better understanding of conditions such as fluid and electrolyte disorders in particular. Where possible, evidence-based recommendations are made, though in the many instances where high-quality evidence is lacking, recommendations are made based on the authors’ personal experience and current best practice. The chapters have been written by four authors who are experienced consultants at three large children’s hospitals in the United Kingdom and the United States.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurit S. Novis-Deutsch

This article outlines the basic structure of a Pluralistic Thinking Model (PTM). The model posits the activity of endorsing multiplicity and complexity as an individual difference factor. Pluralistic thinking is neither the reverse of prejudice, nor synonymous with multiculturalism, and deserves a conceptual space of its own. At its foundation lies a style of interpreting the world through a “both/and” lens. The PTM posits five drivers of pluralism: cognitive attributes, motivational factors (emotional and personality traits), a developmental trajectory, personal experience, and socio-cultural surround. Each of these is supported by research findings. While pluralism may lead to a sustainable embracement of diversity, it is challenging to maintain across domains and targets, indicating its domain-specificity. This paper presents two new tools for measuring pluralistic thinking: the Pluralistic Thinking Scale (PTS) and the Magic Wand Survey (MWS). Suggestions are offered for further exploration of the concept and for its social and ethical implications.


1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
Jan Vladislav

In another article, the journalist Tomasz Mianowicz describes how his first encounter with samizdat transformed his life, turning the young art student from Cracow into first a dedicated editor and ‘underground’ publisher, then an exile in Paris. Also living in Paris, where he emigrated two years ago, is the distinguished Czech poet Jan Vladislav, who spent his last five years in Prague running one of the most interesting of those unofficial literary ventures which give the many banned Czech writers an opportunity to publish their work — even if only a few hundred (or a few dozen) typescript copies. His life, too, was radically changed when in 1975 he decided to incur the displeasure of the secret police by joining his fellow-writers Vaculík, Havel and others in the production of unofficial literature. He collected manuscripts from authors afflicted, like himself, by a ban on all their work, and organised the typing and distribution of the finished books, which he taught himself to bind. Surveillance and intimidation by the secret police inevitably followed: weekly interrogations, harassment and threats. In an interview with Index on Censorship, conducted over two days in his Paris flat last November, Jan Vladislav spoke about the historical roots and present importance of this ‘parallel’ literature, as well as about his personal experience of samizdat publishing and police intimidation. This is an edited and much abbreviated record of that interview.


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