TO THE MEMORY OF VALENTINA ANTONOVNA KIRPICHNIKOVA (1938–2024)

Widely praised, Greenwood'sBiographical Dictionary of American Educators(Greenwood, 1978) quickly became a standard reference work for students and scholars of American education. This new volume includes biographical sketches of more than 400 notable researchers, leaders, reformers, critics, and practitioners from all major fields of education and extends the coverage of its predecessor to the mid-20th century. Its topical range encompasses such diverse areas as psychology, music, health, measurement and evaluation, science, special education, history, and administration. It treats education at all levels, including early childhood, elementary and secondary, higher, and adult. Most of the educators profiled were active in the 20th century, but several dozen have been included from the 19th century. A special effort has been made to include women and educators of color whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past. Each biographical sketch includes information on family background, a description of the educator's accomplishments, and a digest of the person's education and career, professional and civic service, major publications, and principal honors. Each profile ends with a list of references, and the volume closes with appendices listing birth places, states of major service, fields of work, a chronological listing of educators, and a list of important dates in American education. A comprehensive index concludes the volume. Educators are included from all fifty states and were selected from numerous suggested candidates for inclusion. Most of the educators profiled were active in the 20th century, but several dozen have been included from the 19th century. A special effort has been made to include women and educators of color whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past.

This section includes a biographical sketch of Raymond Bellour, which lists his major publications, and an annotated bibliography of his major works. The biographical sketch is designed to give an outline of the intellectual and cultural factors that shaped Bellour’s preoccupations, the range of his interests, and the course of his career. Apart from the articles reprinted in The Analysis of Film and Between-the-Images, the vast majority of Bellour’s books and articles have been published in French only, and hence are unavailable to readers who are unable to read them in that language. The annotated bibliography provides a brief abstract of each work so as to provide the reader with a sense of the evolution and topography of Bellour’s thought on particular issues. Bellour’s articles that have been subsequently reprinted grouped in his books are arranged according to the book in which they appear, and are presented in chronological order. The listings can thus serve as a guide to specific topics and works discussed in the books, even for readers who are not able to read French. The bibliography also includes a list of articles in English not otherwise republished in Bellour’s books, of miscellaneous articles, and of supplementary interviews.

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Considering the comparative disregard of Fromm’s thought with that of other thinkers from the same period—particularly his Frankfurt School associates and contemporaries, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin,1 and also slightly later thinkers such as R. D. Laing, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, etc.—there is particular benefit in engaging in an intellectual biographical account of Fromm at the outset. This is apt not only because of the general lack of awareness with regard to Fromm and his contribution to twentieth-century thought, but also by virtue of the impressive degree of continuity that characterizes his writings. An intellec- tual biographical sketch can therefore reveal something of the subtle shifts that took place in the development of Fromm’s thought and that contrib- ute to the radical humanist position that emerges from his body of work. Inclusion of a biographical sketch is of particular importance in the case of Fromm in that, as someone for whom human worth was measured by actions and deeds as much as by words, it will reveal something of the extent to which he attempted to enact his philosophy in his personal life, or at least reveal something of his preoccupation with humanism in both theoretical and practical terms. There is also a more utilitarian reason for opening with such a sketch: outlining Fromm’s intellectual biographical details, including a broadly chronological listing of his major publications, will help to situate the discussion of the later chapters in relation to his life, thereby freeing up these chapters for more substantive and unencumbered discussion.

Leveling up citizen science.

Doran H. Ross: His Fabulous Fowler Years

HOLDSWORTH, R. E. & TURNER, J. P. (eds) 2002. Extensional Tectonics: Regional-Scale Processes. Key Issues in Earth Sciences Series Volume 2, part 1. v + 344 pp. London, Bath: Geological Society of London. Price £27.50, US 46.00 (paperback). ISBN 1 86239 115 7 - Volume 140 Issue 4

The authors analyze the scientific and organizational activities of A. V. Andreev as a leader of ornithological research in Russia\'s North-East as well as his personal contribution in organization and development of nature conservation. The article is illustrated with previously unpublished photographs and presents the reference list of A. V. Andreev major scientific publications since 1971.

In response to the 2001 National curriculum review in China, which explicitly promotes scientific inquiry in science-related subjects, many editions of new textbooks were published. Among them, this study explored the quality of scientific inquiry in the most popular science textbooks. There are nine sets of high school science textbooks published by seven major Chinese publishers in this study. Through the content analysis of these textbooks, it is found that all the textbooks included the specific sections dedicated to scientific inquiry. The quality of scientific inquiry in these textbooks was explored on specific aspects including relevance to daily life, the explicit teaching guidance, the complete inquiry process and the openness of inquiry. The findings suggest that 53% of inquiry activities included close connections to daily life. However, there were very few textbooks providing explicit teaching guidance. In particular, regarding the inquiry process of “results implications” and “making new inquiries”, 4% and 9% of inquiry activities in the textbooks came with explicit teaching guidance. Moreover, most of the activities lacked the process of scientific inquiry, especially at the stage of “questioning”. The findings are also in accordance with other literature that states that most textbooks lack high-level, open-ended inquiries. This study suggests that science textbooks should include more relevant scientific inquiries with explicit teaching guidance, opportunities for students to experience the complete inquiry process and more student autonomy in conducting inquiry.

This chapter recounts a highly public—and widely publicized—event on June 7, 1983 that catapulted the twenty-three-year-old Kernis into the national spotlight. At 8:00 that evening, in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, in front of an audience of nearly a thousand, the New York Philharmonic spent an hour reading through and rehearsing Kernis's “dream of the morning sky” (Cycle V), conducted—and critiqued—by music director Zubin Mehta. Nearly every biographical sketch of Kernis cites this event, with varying degrees of accuracy. Major national publications ran stories about it at the time as well. Most critics gave little more than generalized descriptions of Kernis's score. One called it “intoxicatingly beautiful”; a second found its finale “soaring and rhapsodic”; a third called it “rich and imaginative” but “a little spoiled at the last by the rhetorical insistence of the pantheistic text.”

On behalf of the entire membership of the Korean Sociey of Medical and Biological Engineering (KOSOMBE), I sincerely welcome all of you to the first issue of Biomedical Engineering Letters, published by KOSOMBE in collaboration with Springer-Verlag GmbH. This is an epoch-making new project for the Society and its members. We envision that this journal will become a major leading-edge publication in the field of biomedical engineering in the coming years. We hope that the subscribers and those submitting papers to the journal will share this vision with us. First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all who have contributed to the launching of this important journal in the February of 2011, especially to Prof. SangHoon Lee, editor-in-chief, and Prof. Jae Sung Lee, managing editor, as well as Prof. Sun I. Kim, immediate past President of KOSOMBE, who during his administration made a very tough decision to start this new English journal. I am also very grateful to the Springer staff for their superb support and to our printing company for their excellent job. As of 2011, KOSOMBE is proud of its 32-year history. In 2006, it sucessfully co-hosted the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Seoul, with approximately 3,000 participants from all over the world presenting about 2,500 papers under the theme of “Imaging the Future Medicine.” In 2010, we had a busy and productive year as we started another thirty years of history in the making, with the major new initiative on strengthening the scientific activities including the biannual congresses. And now we launch this new English journal under the theme of “Publishing the Future Medicine.” This journal with our new emblem of society on the front cover symbolizing “the collaborative development of medicine, biology, and engineering” will be a very meaningful addition to the chronicle of the biomedical engineering world. I strongly hope that the journal will encompass a wide array of disciplines within and beyond biomedical engineering and provide a creative space for facilitating scientific communication and solving health-related tasks in this aging world. Personally, it has been a great learning experience to be a part of this launching process, and I would like to thank our Board members for having supported the launching of this journal. Now, you are cordially invited to share your scholarly experiences with fellow researchers around the world by publishing papers in Biomedical Engineering Letters.

В статье представляется описание научного становления Г.Д. Лукова — ученика А.Н. Леонтьева, работающего в группе ведущих советских психологов Л.С. Выготского, А.Н. Леонтьева, А.В. Запорожца, как пионера и одного из основоположников военной психологии, первым описавшего предмет советской военной психологии, ее задачи и методы, как научного руководителя первых докторских диссертаций. Раскрывается содержание основных публикаций ученого по вопросам обучения и воспитания советских воинов, формирования у них волевых качеств. Описан фронтовой путь молодого рядового, курсанта полковой школы Г.Д. Лукова с первых дней и до окончания Великой Отечественной войны, на протяжении которой он активно участвовал в боевых действиях, был на передовой. Представлены фотографии из личного архива ученого во вовремя его участия в Великой Отечественной войне и в послевоенный период. Приводятся воспоминания его коллеги и друга К.К. Платонова об их совместной научной деятельности и работе над учебником «Психология», о личностных качествах Г.Д. Лукова, как замечательного человека и достойного офицера. Упоминаются заслуженные награды и основные научные публикации Г.Д. Лукова. The article describes the scientific development of G.D. Lukov, a student of A.N. Leontiev, working in the group of leading Soviet psychologists L.S. Vygotsky, A.N. Leontiev, A.V. Zaporozhets, as a pioneer and one of the founders of military psychology, who was the first to describe the subject of Soviet military psychology, its tasks and methods, as a scientific supervisor of the first doctoral dissertations. The content of the scientist's main publications on the issues of training and education of Soviet soldiers, formation of their volitional qualities is revealed. The frontline path of the young private, a cadet of the regimental school G.D. Lukov from the first days and until the end of the Great Patriotic War, during which he actively participated in the fighting, was on the front line. Photos from the personal archive of the scientist during his participation in the Great Patriotic War and in the postwar period are presented. Memories of his colleague and friend K.K. Platonov about their joint scientific activity and work on the textbook “Psychology”, about personal qualities of G.D. Lukov as a wonderful man and a worthy officer are given. Honored awards and major scientific publications of G.D. Lukov are mentioned.

The article is dedicated to the memory of the teacher and mentor, the outstanding legal scholar Atabay Ishanovich Ishanov, as a tribute and honor for his many years of work in training highly qualified lawyers and great achievements in research activities to improve national statehood and develop the legal science of the country. In addition to the main biographical data, the Alma mater, that is, the years of study, the formation as a scientific researcher in the field of the history of the creation and development of national statehood in Uzbekistan, as well as the resolution of many theoretical problems of the nationwide state, which were embodied in the scientific works of A.I. Ishanov, a number of articles in the republican and allied press, in his editorial activities in relation to major scientific publications. Particular attention is paid to the scientific activity of A.I. Ishanov in the training of highly qualified scientific personnel from local nationalities (Uzbeks, Turkmens, Karakalpaks, Tajiks, Kirghiz, Kazakhs, etc.), characterizing A.I. Ishanov as an internationalist scientist. In addition to the recognition of Atabay Ishanovich Ishanov as a great figure in legal science, a recognized, well-known scientist, public figure, teacher, and mentor of all lawyers in Uzbekistan, his life is presented as a role model, a kind of standard in everything, from behavior in everyday life to legislative activity, in which it is surprising that he combined the best human qualities with excellent professionalism. In general, it should be noted the need for this article is designed to serve as a role model and a service in the preparation of the younger generation.

Bibliometrics is deeply transformed by open science. The unprecedented availability of bibliographic metadata, full text search and additional use metrics creates new opportunities for quantitative studies of scientific corpus. It also challenges the historical focus of bibliometrics on citation data from a few selected journals. New approaches aim to expand its scope to different uses and different publics, especially in regard to the social impact of research. As a field, bibliometrics has been strongly influenced by the first commercial infrastructure for academic publications. In the 1960s, the Science Citation Index laid the fundamental basis of a structured research program on bibliometrics, with a primary focus on citation data and citation network from esteemed English-speaking journals in STM. This selective approach made it possible to run one of the first search engines with the limited computing technologies of the 1960s and has proven to be a direct inspiration for the search algorithm of Google (the “pagerank”). Yet, it also introduces several performative biases, as journals excluded from index on various grounds (non-English language, non-STM research) also become in turn less visible. As bibliometric indicators have been increasingly used in research evaluation and management, it ultimately penalized a large range of scholarly output and harmed the diversity of scientific activities. The development of the web had an immediate impact on bibliometrics. While hyperlinks are analogous to citation data, their use is not limited to scientific publications and can be applied to any publications. Alternative labels like webometrics, infometrics or cybermetrics have attempted to redefine and expand bibliometric analysis to a larger variety of documents and digital objects. The open science movements had originally a mixed relationship to bibliometrics. Publications in open access were initially supposed to have a citation advantage due to increased visibility and bibliometric indicators have been commonly used as arguments in favor of a transition to open science. Yet, bibliometric indexes (like the impact factor of the h-index) have also contributed to secure the position of major commercial publishers and possibly delay the transition to open science. Alternative approaches of bibliometrics (the altmetrics) have aimed to reframe bibliometric indicators to better integrate the values and objectives of open science, by taking into account non-academic uses through log analysis or social data metrics. By the end 2020s, the field of bibliometrics itself underwent an open science revolution. With the opening of scientific data and metadata, commercial vendors like the Web of science are displaced by public and community-led initiatives like the Initiative for Open Citations or Wikidata. Major actors in bibliometrics have started to rethink their methods, their research identity and their relationship with the leading commercial database, and adopting the broader label of Quantitative Science Studies.

The article is a biographical sketch of the life of the Soviet astronomer I. N. Yazev (1895–1955). His fate is briefly described, including the beginning of scientific and pedagogical activity at the Omsk Agricultural Academy (1922–1925), work at the Pulkovo (1926–1928), Nikolaev (1928-1934), Poltava (1934–1938) observatories, universities in Novosibirsk (1938–1948), at Irkutsk State University and its observatory (1948–1955). In 1947–1948, as a result of party investigations, I. N. Yazev was expelled from the party and dismissed in connection with the concealment of the fact of the membership and the work in government bodies during the Kolchak government (1918–1919), as a result of which he was forced to move to Irkutsk. The main directions of his scientific activity are described, and its results are evaluated.