Buchan’s Domestic Medicine and Thomas Huggan, drunken surgeon of the Bounty

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 748-760
Author(s):  
Pieter van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Research Note ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
The Status ◽  
Maritime Museum ◽  
Unpublished Information

The sixth-edition copy (1779) of William Buchan's Domestic Medicine that belonged to Thomas Huggan, surgeon of the Bounty (d.1788 at Tahiti), has been in the National Maritime Museum since 1963. This research note comments on the implications of annotations in it, briefly considers its owner in the context of the status of naval surgeons at the time, and provides hitherto unpublished information on his prior career history and connections.

A Research Note on Delegation of Responsibility in the Observation of a Situation of Obedience to Authority

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Laurens ◽  
Floriane Hanzo ◽  
Pascal Morchain
Keyword(s):  
State Theory ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Status ◽  
Obedience To Authority

The objective of the research described here is to discover whether the features of obedience must be present in order for responsibility to be so attributed or whether the status of the actors and the meaning of the situation are sufficient. In two studies, we present animation showing the movements of three geometrical figures. The subjects are asked to describe the action and to divide 100% of responsibility between the three figures. The first study, conducted face to face (22 subjects), shows that a figure presented as an authority as opposed to a person is seen to take on a determining role in the action and is attributed 40% responsibility (vs. 17.9%). A second study (92 subjects) confirms this mechanism when the figure is presented as having other resources at its disposal (hypnotism and manipulation). The status of the actors and the meaning of the situation are therefore sufficient to prompt the attribution of responsibility to the figure presented as having the resources. These results lend support critiques of the agentic state theory.

The French fleet and the Italian occupation of France, 1940–1942

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niall MacGalloway
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Research Note ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Structures

The scuttling of the French fleet in November 1942 brought an abrupt end to a political tug of war which had been ongoing since the Italian occupation of France began in 1940. The seizure of the French fleet had been explicitly forbidden by the Italo–French armistice, which represented the cornerstone of all Italo–French diplomatic transactions. This research note seeks to demonstrate the role played by the French fleet and its use as a political pawn by both sides to change the existing political structures. For France, the overhaul of the Italo–French armistice would offer greater political power and status, whilst for Italy a more encompassing agreement would allow greater exploitation of France both in a political and an economic sense. This research note argues that the status of the French fleet represented a crucial and often overlooked aspect of this struggle.

Widows View Death: A Brief Research Note

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Kalish ◽  
David K. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Educational Status ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Death Attitudes ◽  
Appropriate Behavior ◽  
The Status

This study is concerned with comparing death attitudes among widows and non-widows. Since the status of widowhood indicates the loss through death of a significant other, it was hypothesized that widows would respond differently than non-widows on a number of death-related interview questions. Attempts were made to match the age, ethnicity, and educational status between the participants. The interview included such topics as expectations and preferences concerning funerals, fear of death, belief in immortality, and feelings as to appropriate behavior for widows and widowers. In general, the role of widowhood seemed to have little or no effect upon death attitudes.

UNWTO Basic Documents, Volume I – Statutes, Rules of Procedure, Agreements

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization

The UNWTO Basic Documents bring together in three volumes essential documents concerning the governance of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The sixth edition of the present volume I, updated as of June 2021, provides a general introduction to the Organization’s legal framework, role and functions. It contains the Statutes, the Rules of Procedure of the UNWTO’s governing bodies and main Committees, as well as the most important documents related to the status of the UNWTO as a specialized agency and its relationship with the host Country and with the United Nations.

scholarly journals Just gender pay gap and motherhood penalty — results of two vignette experiments. A research note

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Wysieńska-Di Carlo ◽  
Zbigniew Karpiński
Keyword(s):  
Research Note ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gender Pay Gap ◽  
Pay Gap ◽  
Job Experience ◽  
Motherhood Penalty ◽  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

Based on previous research and status characteristics theories, we hypothesized that the status (in)consistency between gender, motherhood, and length of experience on the one hand, and job prestige on the other, will be a significant factor contributing to legitimized gender pay gaps. Two multifactorial (vignette) experiments conducted in Poland in 2017 and 2018 showed that job prestige, having more than one child, job experience, and gender have effects on justice evaluations (although the effects of parenthood and gender were very small and sometimes contrary to our predictions). In this note we present the methodology and results of both experiments.

The study of interfacial reactions of nickel thin films on GaAs

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
L.J. Chen ◽  
Y.F. Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Interfacial Reactions ◽  
Metal Contacts ◽  
Nickel Thin Films ◽  
Thin Foils ◽  
The Status ◽  
Si Doped ◽  
Electron Microscopes

One measure of the maturity of a device technology is the ease and reliability of applying contact metallurgy. Compared to metal contact of silicon, the status of GaAs metallization is still at its primitive stage. With the advent of GaAs MESFET and integrated circuits, very stringent requirements were placed on their metal contacts. During the past few years, extensive researches have been conducted in the area of Au-Ge-Ni in order to lower contact resistances and improve uniformity. In this paper, we report the results of TEM study of interfacial reactions between Ni and GaAs as part of the attempt to understand the role of nickel in Au-Ge-Ni contact of GaAs.N-type, Si-doped, (001) oriented GaAs wafers, 15 mil in thickness, were grown by gradient-freeze method. Nickel thin films, 300Å in thickness, were e-gun deposited on GaAs wafers. The samples were then annealed in dry N2 in a 3-zone diffusion furnace at temperatures 200°C - 600°C for 5-180 minutes. Thin foils for TEM examinations were prepared by chemical polishing from the GaA.s side. TEM investigations were performed with JE0L- 100B and JE0L-200CX electron microscopes.

Fate of sperm membrane in fertilized ova

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
Frank J. Longo
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Electrophysiological Recording ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sperm Membrane ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Measurement of the egg's electrical activity, the fertilization potential or the activation current (in voltage clamped eggs), provides a means of detecting the earliest perceivable response of the egg to the fertilizing sperm. By using the electrical physiological record as a “real time” indicator of the instant of electrical continuity between the gametes, eggs can be inseminated with sperm at lower, more physiological densities, thereby assuring that only one sperm interacts with the egg. Integrating techniques of intracellular electrophysiological recording, video-imaging, and electron microscopy, we are able to identify the fertilizing sperm precisely and correlate the status of gamete organelles with the first indication (fertilization potential/activation current) of the egg's response to the attached sperm. Hence, this integrated system provides improved temporal and spatial resolution of morphological changes at the site of gamete interaction, under a variety of experimental conditions. Using these integrated techniques, we have investigated when sperm-egg plasma membrane fusion occurs in sea urchins with respect to the onset of the egg's change in electrical activity.

Revisiting the status of dental ethics instruction

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (11) ◽  
pp. 772-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
JG Odom ◽  
PL Beemsterboer ◽  
TD Pate ◽  
NK Haden
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Instruction ◽  
The Status
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