Century Of Service Research Articles

Half a Century in Service: Professor Leonid Gerasimovich Marchenko (1941–2019)

This text is a dedication to the Professor Leonid Gerasimovich Marchenko, a graduate of the Leningrad Institute of Chemical-Pharmaceutical Sciences. Throughout his career in education, L.G. Marchenko progressed from being an assistant to eventually heading the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology of Medications. Apart from his teaching activities, he was actively involved in administrative work: serving as deputy dean, and from 1983 to 1986, as the dean of the Pharmaceutical Faculty; from 1986 to 2005, he was the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, then from 2005 to 2008, the First Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, and from 2008 to 2009, an advisor to the rector. The essay draws on family archival materials, thanks to the active support of Ekaterina Anatolievna Marchenko, who carefully preserves the memory of her husband, L.G. Marchenko. For almost half a century, Leonid Gerasimovich's life was inseparably linked to the Saint Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical University. Here he studied from his student years, continued his education in graduate school, and then worked in the university for more than 40 years. Leonid Gerasimovich embodied the principles of academic integrity and responsibility. He always attached great importance to the quality of his work, sought perfection, and inspired his colleagues to achieve high results.

Three sisters and a century of service

Three sisters and a century of service

‘Essentially an American Institution Planted on Foreign Soil’: The American Library in Paris, the Paris Herald, the Paris Tribune and Ex Libris

In 1920, the American Library in Paris (ALP) was incorporated, with the desire to ‘be a somewhat adequate representation of American life and thought’ in the city. This paper will argue that the ALP - an institution established for overseas soldiers in 1918, which became its own entity in 1920 and celebrated a century of service in 2020 - would do more than represent America in the interwar period: it would play a role in shaping American identity as well. Through archival materials, this paper explores the ALP’s representation in the three periodicals most imbricated with its interwar existence: the Paris editions of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Herald, and the little magazine, Ex Libris. I argue that the ALP - in both its physical and psychic forms - was an important site for the formation of transnational American identity in the interwar period, and that it strived to weigh in on conversations about emerging literary movements, including modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. American identity, as the Library represented it, combined national exceptionalism with a true desire for transnational cooperation. It was firmly at home on international soil, and well-versed in the era’s literary debates.

A century of service: a history of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, 1919–2019. By Mark Loughrey. Pp 546. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2019. €24.95.

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Carnegie Libraries of Britain: Assets or Liabilities? Managing Altering Agendas of Energy Efficiency for Early 20th Century Heritage

ABSTRACT After over a century of service, many Carnegie library buildings in Britain are at risk, often condemned for presumed poor energy performance with heritage protection perceived as a further burden to negotiate. Although most now have heritage status, saving them from demolition, demands to meet changing agendas for efficiency mean that increasingly these buildings are being sold and re-used. A more nuanced reading of measures of performance is necessary. By interrogating operational data in context and establishing indicators for life-cycle analysis, this paper aims to offer generalizable steps to justify their continued service in promoting wellbeing.

More than half a century of service to commodity science

This anniversary article is devoted to the journey through life and creative activity of the famous scientist and educator Prof. Nikolaeva M.A., PhD in Technical Sciences, who is the author of more than 20 textbooks and manuals in the field of commodity science, standardization, product marketing,and teaching methods, and the creator of such innovative areas in commodity science as identification and detection of goods falsification, commodity information, commodity policy, and assortment science.

Russian police: three centuries of service to the Fatherland

Russian police: three centuries of service to the Fatherland

Journey from food toxins to food safety: Transition over a century in service of nation.

Since the first report of lathyrism in 1926, the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) at Hyderabad, India, has made tremendous contributions in the field of food toxins/food safety for the benefit of the people. The present article highlights the Institute's work on various food toxins/foodborne diseases since its inception and discusses the important contributions made in the context of public health protection that formed the basis for several national policies on their prevention and control. The investigations on food toxins, in the initial decades, were limited to the description of lathyrism and its endemicity. Subsequently, the horizon was broadened to include the problem of mycotoxins and mycotoxicosis, which had received global attention and variety of other disease outbreaks investigations leading to total food safety transition in the forthcoming decades. Important contributions in epidemiological investigations, reproduction of the disease in experimental animals, surveillance and monitoring studies, development of methods for detection of food toxins and contaminants, evolving strategies for prevention and control and developing the concept of risk assessment and risk management for addressing food safety issues in the country are discussed.

Crafting the third century of the National Library of Medicine

In 20 years the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will enter its third century of service to the nation. From a small bookshelf in the office of an army surgeon to a dynamic suite of resources for discovery and care, the NLM assures that the information needed for discovery and care is available where needed, when needed, and, increasingly, in the format needed. This week I begin my tenure as the 19th appointed director of the NLM. I am using this opportunity to reach out to colleagues in the biomedical and health informatics community to solicit your guidance about how to invest in and grow the NLM. What kind of library and library services are needed to determine whether a foodborne pathogen is a new species or a known species? How many infrastructure standards, predictive algorithms, natural language processing–guided tumor interpretations, and vocabulary cross-mappings must be in place to support an automated query soliciting the next step in cancer screening for a specific patient in a given community? Is it possible to describe and …

A century of service: the contribution of the RCN to the nursing profession.

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses how the Royal College of Nursing has helped support the fledgling nursing profession since before registration was achieved in 1919

Not For Glory: A Century of Service by Medical Women to the Australian Army and its Allies

82 BOOK REVIEWS relied heavily on input from the APS and a conference organiser specialising in the pain management area, and that project funding came from a pharmaceutical company active in the pain relief medications sector. Judged on the restricted time to completion, this book can be seen as a valiant effort. One cannot help but wonder however what heights it might have reached had its production time been less constrained. ANN WESTMORE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Susan J. Neuhaus and Sharon Mascall-Dare. Not For Glory:ACentury of Service by Medical Women to the Australian Army and its Allies (Salisbury, Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2014). ISBN 9781925046663 (PB). B&W and colour illustrations, xxii + 322pp. Not For Glory: A Century of Service by Medical Women to the Australian Army and its Allies is a vital contribution to the history of Australian medical women at war. It spotlights the lives of nonnursing women who performed exceptional professional work in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, and places them centre stage in a brief but compelling collection. The authors are award-winning Canberra-based journalist Susan Mascall-Dare, currently military public affairs officer in the Australian Army Reserve, and Susan J. Neuhaus, an Adelaide-based surgeon who has worked for twenty years in military medicine. Their experience brings great credibility to this work. As Neuhaus has pointed out, nursing is the dominant narrative of women’s service in war. This book challenges that narrative by unearthing the strikingly overlooked contribution of women doctors, physiotherapists, medical scientists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, and dieticians in medical units of the Australian Army over the past one hundred years. The writers have sourced extensive research material from archives, journals, and women’s magazines, as well as through interview. The book opens with an introduction to the earliest pioneer women physicians in military medicine dating back to Ancient Greece, and follows with chapters documenting the contributions of Health & History ● 17/2 ● 2015 83 Australian women medicos in World War I through to contemporary operations in the Middle East. Duly recognised is Dr Phoebe Chapple, the first Australian and only woman doctor to receive the military medal in World War I for gallantry in the field, and Captain Carol Vaughan-Evans, the first woman awarded the medal for gallantry for service during the massacre of civilian refugees in Rwanda in 1995. The book ends with an inspiring piece about Brigadier Georgeina Whelan, a current example of how far women’s roles within the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps have evolved since its inception. As we live through present World War I commemorations, these important stories about the pioneer Australian woman doctors who wanted to serve in this war, but were rejected by their own army, need to be especially remembered. They show how determined these women were to use the professional training they had gained at immense personal sacrifice, and the creative ways they circumvented the rejection they experienced at every step of their careers. Defying convention by using their own money to travel overseas, these women doctors served with distinction in non-nursing military roles with Australia’s allies under atrocious conditions, yet the British Army never formally gazetted their rank for their wartime roles, or allowed them to hold commissions. The writers adeptly illustrate the severe consequences of this discrimination, which resulted in their absence from the official Australian histories of Australian Army medical services in World War I. If even one of these published stories is now retold, it will be a step towards a more balanced narrative of the Australian women surgeons, doctors, and pathologists who served in Britain, France, Belgium, Malta, Egypt, and the Western Front. This book has broad appeal and would interest military and medical historians, as well as readers wanting to know more about Australian women’s history. How many Australians are aware, for example, that pioneer woman pathologist Captain Elsie Dalyell received a military OBE in World War I? Or that medical scientist Major Josephine Mackerras bred mosquitoes to reduce malaria in soldiers during World War II, and had her recommended MBE rejected? These women should be household names in Australia, yet due to prejudice from the medical profession, the military, and the society...

Fatigue Resistance of Typical Fatigue Prone Riveted Steel Railway Bridge Structural Detail

There are still a lot of riveted steel railway bridges built in the first half of 20th century in service, and so it is important to pay attention to their evaluation. Their fatigue resistance represents one of the most determining factors on decision making process oriented to possibility of their further exploitation after finishing their planned service life. The standard method of fatigue assessment according to Eurocode EN 1993-1-9 is based on categorization of structural details, which reflects their predisposition to fatigue failure. The paper deals with laboratory investigation of the riveted connection of stringer to cross beam of a railway bridge deck. This structural detail is typical by frequent occurrence of fatigue cracks, but its categorization according to standard mentioned above is at least questionable. In order to investigate and define the fatigue category of this detail more properly, the laboratory tests on specially adapted specimens were performed.

Laboratory tests of a typical fatigue prone riveted steel railway bridge structural detail

There are still a lot of riveted steel railway bridges built in the first half of 20th century in service, and so it is important to pay attention to their evaluation. Their fatigue resistance represents one of the most determining factors on decision making process oriented to possibility of their further exploitation after finishing their planned service life. The standard method of fatigue assessment according to Eurocode EN 1993-1-9 is based on categorization of structural details, which reflects their predisposition to fatigue failure. The contribution deals with laboratory investigation of the riveted connection of stringer to cross beam of a railway bridge deck. This structural detail is typical by frequent occurrence of fatigue cracks, but its categorization according to standard mentioned above is at least questionable.

Implications of harmonizing the future of the federal depository library program within e-government principles and policies

For more than 150 years, the United States Government Printing Office (GPO), along with its Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), has supported an informed citizenry and democracy by ensuring access and preservation to a broad swath of federal government information. This collaborative national public information program between local libraries and the national government, if it is to survive beyond its second century of service, must overcome profound challenges within a rapidly evolving complex of e-government policies and principles. The FDLP can (and must) find a way to serve its traditional values – permanent and public access to government information – that allows for growth and change within the demands of a dynamic electronic environment between the governors and the governed.

Looking Forward to a Century of Service, Support, and Success

Looking Forward to a Century of Service, Support, and Success

Media Review: MENC: A Century of Service to Music Education 1907–2007

Media Review: MENC: A Century of Service to Music Education 1907–2007

Extension Plant Pathology: Bringing Our Service to the Public, A Century of Service.

Extension Plant Pathology: Bringing Our Service to the Public, A Century of Service.

Pressure's On

This article discusses the steamboat has been described as America’s first great invention. The river steamboat helped shape the United States and the world we live in. Steamboats and engines came to define many disciplines of mechanical engineering, and ultimately led to mechanical engineering education and the formation of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. After two centuries of service, the steam engine created its own obsolescence as it provided the springboard technologies for internal combustion engines, turbo machinery, and electric power. Fulton’s steamboat was a dramatic success. Scheduled passenger and transport immediately followed the first voyage. It was named the Clermont, for the huge Hudson River estate of Robert Fulton’s partner, Robert Livingston, who had funded the project. Robert Fulton’s steamboat and steam engines became things of the past, but we feel their influence all around us. They were the machines that helped create many industries, and were forebears of the marvelous engines and machines of our modern world.

A Century of Service: The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire in Grey County

A Century of Service: The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire in Grey County

Summary of the American College for Advancement in Medicine November 2004 Conference on Emerging Concepts in Immunology

Summary of the American College for Advancement in Medicine November 2004 Conference on Emerging Concepts in Immunology