scholarly journals Sticky models

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Harris ◽  
John Nott
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Historical Practices ◽  
The University

This paper explores the material histories which influence contemporary medical education. Using two obstetric simulators found in the distinct teaching environments of the University of Development Studies in the north of Ghana and Maastricht University in the south of the Netherlands, this paper deconstructs the material conditions which shape current practice in order to emphasise the past practices that remain relevant, yet often invisible, in modern medicine. Building on conceptual ideas drawn from STS and the productive tensions which emerge from close collaboration between historians and anthropologists, we argue that the pull of past practice can be understood as a form of friction, where historical practices ‘stick’ to modern materialities. We argue that the labour required for the translation of material conditions across both time and space is expressly relevant for the ongoing use and future development of medical technologies.

AD CAMPAIGNS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. A123-A123
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical School ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
College Newspapers ◽  
Health Careers

As medical education has become something of a buyer's market, a Midwest medical school and a Texas university are resorting to advertising for students. The Medical College of Ohio in Toledo has taken out ads in 23 Ohio college newspapers urging premed students to consider applying. Meanwhile, the University of Texas System, in a broader appeal, is running TV ads urging young Texans to choose health careers. University of Texas officials hope their ad campaign will help stem a decline in enrollments in the state's medical and related schools, the same trend observed nationally for the past 15 years. Medical-school enrollments declined 37% nationwide between 1974 and 1988, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Fashion literature collection development at Stockholm University Library

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
Maud Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Library ◽  
Fashion Studies ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University

The Centre for Fashion Studies was established at Stockholm University in Sweden, in July 2006 through a generous donation from the Erling Persson Family Foundation, connected to clothing manufacturer H&M.Fashion Studies at Stockholm University is an independent, theoretical discipline with an interdisciplinary approach looking at the past, present and future, and it includes different areas of critical discourse within the humanities and social sciences. Stockholm University Library plays a key role in research and education conducted at the university, and the library works in close collaboration with all disciplines to provide adequate support to researchers and students in a rapidly changing information society. In this article I will focus on and describe the process of acquiring fashion literature at Stockholm University Library from 2006–2013.

Address to the Opening Session of the XV International Congress of the History of Science, Edinburgh, 11 August 1977

1978 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Joseph Needham
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
International Congress ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Opening Session

My assignment today, as I understand it, is to say something about the Second International Congress of the History of Science, the only previous one held in the United Kingdom; to mention some of the great historians of science which these islands have produced; and to direct our thoughts for a few moments to the historiography of science, technology and medicine, namely the guiding ideas in the light of which one should attempt to write it. So much has already been said in thanks to the city and the university in which we are now assembled that I could hardly add to it, except to express my personal sense of elation at coming on this occasion to the ‘Athens of the North’ where so many distinguished men have lived in the past, from mediaeval times onwards.

VI.—Recent Discoveries in the Bodleian Library

Archaeologia ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. N. L. Myres
Keyword(s):  
Bodleian Library ◽  
The West ◽  
City Wall ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Divinity School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The group of medieval and seventeenth-century buildings which forms the subject of this paper lies in the centre of academic Oxford, between the site of the city wall on the north, Exeter College and its garden on the west and south, and the old Schools Quadrangle on the east. It constitutes indeed the heart of the medieval university. In writing to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, on 14th July 1444 the authorities described the site as eminently suitable for a library because it was somewhat remote from secular noises. In spite of a marked increase in secular noises over the past 500 years in traffic-ridden Oxford, this description remains substantially true today. The buildings, erected then and later, remain in external appearance almost exactly as they are depicted in David Loggan's Oxonia Illustrate. of 1675 (pl. xxvii). They comprise the Divinity School, for which the university was already collecting money and laying the foundations in 1423 ; Duke Humphrey's Library, built over it in the forty-five years following the letter to Duke Humphrey of 1444; Arts End and the Proscholium added at right angles to the east by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1610–12; and Selden End with the Convocation House below, attached similarly to the west in 1637–40. The three upper rooms, Duke Humphrey, Selden End, Arts End, form the core of the ancient buildings of the Bodleian Library: they have been continuously in use for library purposes for between 320 and 360 years.

scholarly journals Foreword to the Issue

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
George H. Sage
Keyword(s):  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Past President ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Colorado ◽  
Hall Of Fame ◽  
American Society ◽  
University Of Northern Colorado ◽  
The University

<p>George H. Sage is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Kinesiology at the University of Northern Colorado. He has published more than fifty articles and is the author of many books, including <em>Globalizing Sport: How Corporations, Media, and Politics Are Changing Sports</em> (Paradigm 2010). He was inducted into the National Association for Sport and Physical Education Hall of Fame in 2006. He is the past president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.</p>

scholarly journals Reasons for and obstacles to cycling in opinions of residents of Debrecen, Hungary

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Nikolett Kosztin ◽  
József Tőzsér ◽  
László Csernoch ◽  
Ildikó Balatoni
Keyword(s):  
Web Pages ◽  
Physiological Effects ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Plain Region ◽  
Jel Code ◽  
The University ◽  
Clear Goal ◽  
The Web

It is a basic aim of the European Union that due to the developments in 2014-2020 the bicycle would become one of the most often used transportation, touristic, and sports equipment. We were interested to see to what extent is bicycling present in the transportation system of Debrecen and what are the most important reasons for its residents to use the bicycles. The dedication of Debrecen to promote cycling is clearly proven by the number of newly built or resurfaced bike paths and by the fact that the University of Debrecen has introduced – alone in the region – UniBike which is a bicycle renting system brought forth by the need of its students. Here we present the developments that took place in the North Plain Region in the past few years. We have also analyzed the national and European strategies and reports on bicycling. A survey was conducted among the youth of Debrecen to explore their cycling habits. The data were evaluated using the EvaSys program. Until the end of 2011 with the help of different funds 862 km of bike paths had been built in Hungary. In the North Plain Region due to funds totaling 777 million HUF 15.7 km long bike paths had been constructed until 2015. The development of tourism in this direction is promoted by the web-pages and brochures offering bicycle-tours around Debrecen. Nevertheless, bicycling in the neighboring townships is present not as an instrument for sports and/or tourism, rather as a mean of transportation. It is a clear goal in Europe and thus in Hungary to have bike paths that can provide the means of safe cycling. In parallel, it is also important to promote the benefits of bicycling, including positive physiological effects, cost-effectiveness, and environment-friendliness to increase the proportion of those who select bicycling as an alternative. JEL Code: I15

A Probable Association of Mammoth and Artifacts in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

1941 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. S. Cressman ◽  
W. S. Laughlin
Keyword(s):  
Cascade Range ◽  
Willamette Valley ◽  
Large Mammal ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The University ◽  
Small Bone

Some eleven years ago, about three miles outside of Lebanon, Oregon, on the north side of an extension of the foothillsof the Cascade Range, a rancher, in cleaning out his spring, discovered a fossilized bone of a large mammal. In response to his communication, Dr. S. B. Laughlin of the Department of Sociology at Willamette University, in Salem, went to the site with Professor Monk and Professor Clark, and carried out an excavation. Part of a mammoth tooth was found, a portion of a tusk, and a small bone chisel made from the rib of a mammal perhaps the size of a deer.This locality was called to the attention of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon by Professor Laughlin's son within the past year; and in May, he and Cressman, with a number of assistants, went to the site to carry out further excavations.

Comprehensive Medicine: A New Era In Medical Education

1955 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Matarazzo
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
New Era ◽  
Complex Organism ◽  
Relative Term ◽  
The Past ◽  
Civilized World

The civilized world has made major advances in a number of fields of knowledge in the past 50 years. Medicine has shared in this rapid expansion and growth of ideas and thus has shared in the consequent breakdown of barriers that separated the various fields of knowledge. Today, like other specialized concepts held by western man, illness is considered a relative term. It is thought to represent a complex organism-environment relationship. Disease and health are no longer considered defined points but, rather, are felt to represent relative conditions either of which may be influenced by the degree of a person's adaptation to the stresses and complexities of his environment or by his innate potential for health (7, 10). Thus social and psychological, as well as other environmental factors, are being given a wider consideration in modern medicine.

scholarly journals Computer-Aided Chemistry at Surrey — the way ahead

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
G. J. Buist ◽  
B. Howlin ◽  
J. R. Jones ◽  
D. C. Povey
Keyword(s):  
Close Collaboration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This article describes the objectives and rationale of the degree course in Computer-Aided Chemistry at the University of Surrey. The course, which is the first of its kind, represents a sharp break with the past in that industry was intimately involved in the early stages of the planning as well as providing subsequent support; furthermore, much of the teaching is done via a workshop approach. The course aims to produce high-calibre chemists, particularly of the analytical kind, with a firm foundation in computing and having benefited from the close collaboration and cooperation of industry.

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