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The University of Iowa Neuroendocrine Tumor Clinic

The Iowa Neuroendocrine Tumor (NET) Clinic was founded and developed by two remarkable physicians, Thomas and Sue O’Dorisio. Tom was an Endocrinologist and close friend and colleague of Aaron Vinik. Both men were pioneers in studies of gastrointestinal hormones and the management of patients with NETs. Sue was a Pediatric Oncologist and research scientist with great expertise in new drug development and clinical trials. She and Tom were leaders in bringing somatostatin analogs and somatostatin-conjugated radioligands to the clinic for the therapy and diagnosis of NETs. All three physicians received lifetime achievement awards for their contributions to the field of NETs. This is the story of how the Iowa NET Clinic developed over the years to become a model for the multidisciplinary mantagement of patients with NETs, culminating in its designation as a European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society NET Center of Excellence, and the receipt of a Specialized Project of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant for the study of NETs from the National Institutes of Health.

Faculty Mindset, Goal Orientation, and Likelihood of Seeking Feedback About Teaching

Growth mindset and learning goal orientation are related to positive outcomes and experiences for both students and instructors in the higher education context. The present study examined growth mindset and learning goal orientation toward teaching as predictors of instructors’ likelihood of seeking feedback about their teaching. Considering that all feedback may not be perceived as equally valuable, we also examined the sources from which instructors were likely to seek feedback. Full-time faculty members (n = 103) responded to measures of general mindset, teaching mindset, teaching goal orientation, and likelihood of seeking feedback about teaching from multiple sources. They reported being more likely to seek feedback from students and department colleagues than from more distant colleagues. Learning goal orientation mediated the relationship between teaching mindset and likelihood of seeking feedback from students; instructors with more of a learning goal orientation reported a more growth-oriented mindset for teaching and greater likelihood of seeking feedback from students. We conclude that instructors who are learning goal-oriented are more likely to perceive teaching as a skill to be developed and thus are more likely to seek feedback, especially from students and close colleagues. Professional development programs (and reward systems in universities) may do well to focus on encouraging learning goal orientation in order to improve instructor performance.

Behind That Intimidating Exterior: A Tribute to “Uncle Michael” Scriven

Former student and close colleague of the late Michael Scriven's for 26 years, Jane Davidson shares some insights into his personal side to shed light on where he was coming from as an evaluation theorist.

The Frame for the Not-Yet Existent: How American, European, and Soviet Scholars Jointly Shaped Modern Mathematical Economics

This article tells the story of the first international topological conference in Moscow (1935), an outstanding event that, for the first time, brought together the most notable American, European, and Soviet mathematicians, including those who would later play decisive roles in the mathematization of economics: John von Neumann, Leonid Kantorovich, and Albert W. Tucker. The fact that Kantorovich was in contact with von Neumann and his closest colleagues, Solomon Lefschetz and Garrett Birkhoff, is hardly appreciated in the histories of mathematics and mathematical economics. Their brief academic exchange was interrupted by the increasing international isolation of Soviet mathematics and by the wars that ensued. The article provides a historical account of the conference and traces the intellectual and personal affinities of Soviet and non-Soviet mathematicians, as well as their conceptual innovations. It argues that the conference, as a singular event linking several research communities, mattered for the development of various formal frameworks and their dissemination, contributing to the intellectual landscape in which postwar mathematical economics could emerge. The article calls for a deeper analysis of conceptual affinities and motivations in applying mathematics to economics and for a more nuanced narrative linking these motivations to social and political contexts of economic modeling.

Otec a syn ve službách státu. Činnost Augustina a Augusta Adolfa Popelkových

This article presents the life of two overlooked Czechoslovak jurists, Augustin and August Adolf Popelka. Both led very successful careers as state officers. Augustin (1854–1938) started his career as a private lawyer in Brno. In 1899, he became a member and later president of The Administrative Court in Vienna. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, he became the first president of the new Supreme Court. He held this position until his retirement in 1930. He also briefly (1920–1921) served as the minister of justice in the first caretaker government. His son, August Adolf (1887–1951), studied at the law faculty of the University of Vienna. In 1919 he became a member of The Office of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic. He was very close friend and colleague of chancellor Šámal and helped to the master of ceremonies Guth-Jarkovský to establish The Order of the White Lion. He remained in the Office after year 1938 and in 1941 became the chancellor of president Hácha’s office.

Experiences of Women Living with Cervical Cancer: A Study in the Tamale Metropolis

Background: Cervical cancer cases are increasing globally, including in Ghana. Nevertheless, despite the increasing prevalence of this ailment among women, there has been a dearth of extensive research conducted on the subject. Research conducted in several countries has shown that individuals who have survived cervical cancer face numerous difficulties, including socioeconomic, medical, and psychological issues. This study aims to investigate the experiences of women in this particular group, with a focus on the psychological, socio-economic, and hurdles encountered when seeking care.
 Methodology: The study employed an exploratory descriptive qualitative design. The research was carried out in the Tamale Metropolis, with a specific focus on women who have received a diagnosis of the condition and are now receiving treatment at the Tamale Teaching Hospital. Participants for the study were recruited using purposive sampling. Participants were interviewed face-to-face using a semi-structured interview guide. The interviews recorded on tape were transcribed exactly as spoken and subsequently evaluated manually using the content analysis method. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the results.
 Findings: The results indicate that women residing in the Tamale Metropolis who have cervical cancer encounter a disturbance in their social lives, as shown by their unsatisfactory interactions with others. While certain close relatives, acquaintances, and colleagues offer support, others are left behind at times of necessity.
 Recommendations: Policymakers and the government should implement measures to cover the expenses associated with cervical cancer treatment, similar to how it is done for other diseases through the NHIS. Women diagnosed with cervical cancer should undergo counseling to alleviate the psychological distress they experience.

Source of SARS-CoV-2 infection: results from a series of 584,846 cases in France from October 2020 to August 2022

BackgroundWe aimed to study the source of infection for recently SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals from October 2020 to August 2022 in France.MethodsParticipants from the nationwide ComCor case–control study who reported recent SARS-CoV-2 infection were asked to document the source and circumstances of their infection through an online questionnaire. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify the factors associated with not identifying any source of infection.ResultsAmong 584,846 adults with a recent SARS-CoV-2 infection in France, 46.9% identified the source of infection and an additional 22.6% suspected an event during which they might have become infected. Known and suspected sources of infection were household members (30.8%), extended family (15.6%), work colleagues (15.0%), friends (11.0%), and possibly multiple/other sources (27.6%). When the source of infection was known, was not a household member, and involved a unique contact (n = 69,788), characteristics associated with transmission events were indoors settings (91.6%), prolonged (> 15 min) encounters (50.5%), symptomatic source case (64.9%), and neither the source of infection nor the participant wearing a mask (82.2%). Male gender, older age, lower education, living alone, using public transportation, attending places of public recreation (bars, restaurants, nightclubs), public gatherings, and cultural events, and practicing indoor sports were all independently associated with not knowing the source of infection.ConclusionTwo-thirds of infections were attributed to interactions with close relatives, friends, or work colleagues. Extra-household indoor encounters without masks were commonly reported and represented avoidable circumstances of infection.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov registration number: NCT04607941.

Remembering Judy….

In the last issue of The Journal of Perinatal Education (JPE 32.4), we dedicated a special column "In Memoriam: Judith Lothian, PhD, RN, LCCE, FAAN, FACCE," the associate editor of JPE. In this issue of the journal, our dedication continues with the editor and a number of Judy's close friends and colleagues sharing some special reflection to remember Judy.

The Emotional Impact and Coping Mechanisms Following Adverse Patient Events Among Canadian Vascular Surgeons and Trainees.

This study's objective is to evaluate the emotional experiences, coping mechanisms, and support resources for Canadian vascular surgeons and trainees following an adverse patient event or near miss. This is a cross-sectional survey study of all Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery (CSVS) members from October to November 2021. We collected data on participant experiences with adverse events, their emotional responses, the coping mechanisms used, and their perceptions on available support resources. The survey was sent to 233 CSVS members yielding 66 responses. The majority (77%) of respondents had experiences with adverse event causing serious patient harm. The most common negative experience following an adverse event included feelings of negativity towards oneself, general distress, and anxiety about potential for future errors. The most common coping mechanism was seeking advice from a mentor or close colleague. Peers (82%) and senior colleagues (59%) were the most preferred sources of support. Most of the respondents would reach out to a mentor if they had 1, but 30% reported no mentor or close colleague for support. Adverse patient events and near misses have serious negative impact on the lives of Canadian vascular surgeons and trainees. Peers and senior colleagues are the most desired source for support, but this is not universally available. Organized efforts are needed to bring awareness in our vascular surgery community on the ubiquitous nature and detrimental effects of adverse events.

Fellow travellers in transformative times: a reflection on 21 years membership of the European Health Policy Group.

It must have been early 2000, around the start of the new Millennium. I was working as a junior lecturer/researcher at the then Institute for Health Care Policy and Management at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Still barely familiar with Dutch health care as a policy system, let alone with European health care policy systems I decided that it would be a good idea to attend a seminar of the recently established European Health Policy Group. I had heard good stories about this new multidisciplinary group, founded by Elias Mossialos and Adam Oliver. My PhD thesis supervisor, Tom van der Grinten, also went there, as did some of my colleagues from the Department of Health Economics and Health Insurance, people like Erik Schut and Wynand van de Ven for example. They were close colleagues of me, although our respective disciplines from which we studied health care policy were different.

Zusammenklang

There has been much speculation about a possible connection between Leo Kanner (1894-1981) and Hans Asperger (1906-1980), who wrote about autism around the same time (1943/1944) in the United States and Austria respectively. In recent years, it has come to light that there indeed was a direct connection between the two pioneers: the couple Anni Weiss (1897-1991) and Georg Frankl (1897-1975), two Jewish colleagues of Asperger’s who fled to the United States in the 1930’s and became close colleagues of Kanner. Especially Frankl played an important role in the conceptualization of Kanner’s autism diagnosis. Th is article describes the life and work of Weiss and Frankl and refutes previous speculations about the possible connections between Asperger and Kanner.

Dutch workers' attitudes towards having a coworker with mental health issues or illness: a latent class analysis.

Workplace mental health stigma is a major problem as it can lead to adverse occupational outcomes and reduced well-being. Although workplace climate is largely determined by managers and co-workers, the role of co-workers in workplace stigma is understudied. Therefore, the aims are: (1) to examine knowledge and attitudes towards having a coworker with Mental Health Issues or Illness (MHI), especially concerning the desire for social distance, (2) to identify distinct subgroups of workers based on their potential concerns towards having a coworker with MHI, and (3) to characterize these subgroups in terms of knowledge, attitudes, and background characteristics. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among a nationally representative internet panel of 1,224 Dutch workers who had paid jobs and did not hold management positions. Descriptive statistics and a three-step approach Latent Class Analysis (LCA) were used to address the research aims. Concerning the desire for social distance, 41.9% of Dutch workers indicated they did not want to have a close colleague with MHI, and 64.1% did not want to work for a higher-ranking manager who had MHI. In contrast however, most workers did not have negative experiences with interacting with coworkers with MHI (92.6%). Next, five distinct subgroups (SG) of workers were identified: two subgroups with few concerns towards having a coworker with MHI (SG1 and SG2; 51.8% of the respondents), one subgroup with average concerns (SG3; 22.7% of the respondents), and two subgroups with more concerns (SG4 and SG5; 25.6% of the respondents). Four out of five subgroups showed a high tendency towards the desire for social distance. Nevertheless, even in the subgroups with more concerns, (almost) half of the respondents were willing to learn more about how to best deal with coworkers with MHI. No significant differences were found between the subgroups on background characteristics. The high tendency to the desire for social distance seems to contrast with the low number of respondents who personally had negative experiences with workers with MHI in the workplace. This suggests that the tendency to socially exclude this group was not based on their own experience. The finding that a large group of respondents indicated to want to learn more about how to deal with a co-worker with MHI is promising. Destigmatizing interventions in the workplace are needed in order to create more inclusive workplaces to improve sustained employment of people with MHI. These interventions should focus on increasing the knowledge of workers about how to best communicate and deal with coworkers with MHI, they do not need to differentiate in background variables of workers.

What is the importance of friendship and mental health in pandemics?

What is the importance of friendship and mental health in pandemics? Terence j Ryan, from the University of Oxford, explores the importance of friendship and mental health in relation to pandemics and immunity. In the last three years, there has been a significant rise in impaired mental health. Many have asked whether this rise is due to the COVID-19 infection itself or if it is a consequence of how officials managed the pandemic. A close colleague of mine, together running NHS and academic departments without a cross word for fifty years, had suffered from mild dementia and COVID in a care home and, as a result, was isolated from seeing his family and friends for over a year, except through a window. This was during the same period that I was a trustee of Actasia, working to prevent the cruelty and caging of wild animals. It is clear from conducting this work, that such cruelty impairs immunity and resistance and thus increases susceptibility to infection.

Do principals discriminate against school parents less when having close minority colleagues? A field experiment

ABSTRACT Interethnic contacts are generally assumed to reduce discrimination and prejudice. According to this optimistic view – and in conflict with Allport’s well-known theory – contacts have positive effects even when they are rather distant. However, findings of recent experimental field research indirectly cast doubt on this belief. To our knowledge, this is the first field experiment thoroughly investigating close as well as more distant contacts simultaneously. In a correspondence study (n = 3015), Swedish elementary school principals were randomly contacted by fictional parents with Arabic- or Swedish-sounding names asking school-related questions. The unique design also used registry data (e.g., on ethnicity). The results support Allport’s more pessimistic view: working closely with minority members of school management was associated with lower levels of ethnic discrimination regarding important qualitative aspects of the principals’ communication with the school parents, but no such pattern was observed for more distant workplace contacts with minority teachers.

At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine

Reviewed by: At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine John Zerzan DOUGALD HINE At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies White River Junction, Vermont. Chelsea Green. 2023. 224 pages. WITH AN UNWIELDY subtitle for a somewhat unwieldy book, At Work in the Ruins is largely a continuation or an updating of an essay Dougald Hine co-authored with Paul Kingsnorth in 2009, "Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto." At Work in the Ruins is wide-ranging, drawing from a myriad of conversations, talks, books, and observations. It is not a hopeful book, and an overarching challenge seems to be responding to the charge that he and Kingsnorth have surrendered, have given up any hope of ultimately coming out on top in this time of great crisis. The context for the book: Hine's better-known colleague, Kingsnorth, set the stage more than a decade ago. Turning away from his Dark Mountain activism, Kingsnorth decided that environmental collapse was inevitable. He became quite sympathetic to Brexit, and later to the anti-vaxxers; he converted to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Kingsnorth's change of orientation was rewarded by New York Times Magazine with a long, favorable piece titled "It's the End of the World as We Know It . . . and He Feels Fine" (2014). Hine has not gone as far off the rails as his close colleague, but it is clear that he is no longer a battler against the deepening Dead Zone that is today's reality. One giveaway is his constant use of the term "climate change," on pretty much every page of At Work in the Ruins. Climate change is a weak euphemism for the unfolding overall catastrophe, a telling usage. There are, however, worthy explorations undertaken in the book. Hine repeatedly returns to science as a problematic project rather than as some kind of saving grace. [End Page 80] He not only claims that we ask too much of it but that the culture of science is itself limiting. Hine suggests that the Covid pandemic presented us with a fork in the road, the possible emergence of a new politics of science. He points out that science has not proven to be an effective safeguard against misinformation but does not provide much as to what a new way of approaching science would look like. At Work in the Ruins acknowledges that science "is behind the project of making this living planet into an object of technological management and control" but doesn't linger with that insight or develop it. Hine also notices, in passing, the costs of industrial modernity and asks, "Is this the way to inhabit a planet?" Hine surveys some of the shallow and false paths to comprehending or challenging our predicament—and then follows suit, in my opinion, with a major failure of his own. Fifty pages in, he sees 2018 as "a great opening," with the appearance of Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation thesis and the emergence of the Extinction Rebellion protest movement. But the two phenomena seem contradictory or opposed. Bendell sees collapse as inevitable, while Extinction Rebellion counsels nonadaptation: "In the face of extinction, we say Rebellion!" In January 2023 E.R. abandoned disruptive protests as a tactic and hasn't offered much by way of radical analysis. Hine lauds Greta Thunberg and Joe Biden in his chapter "Here Come the Grown-Ups." Odd choices for a liberatory future. Thunberg represents moral protest minus action, and Biden is a more than obvious case of status quo as matters get graver ever faster. Hine hops around throughout the book with scores of passing references to recent years. In search of a contrasting energy, he might have considered going back a bit further: to the antiglobalization movement of 1999-2001, for example, that raged in such places as Eugene, Seattle, Quebec City, Prague, and Genoa. That last location saw three hundred thousand in the streets and all-out fighting. No mention of this phenomenon by Hine. In the chapter "Shades of Denial," Hine debunks...

George Bereday Award for 2022

Previous articleNext article FreeAwardGeorge Bereday Award for 2022PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreEach year the George Bereday Award Committee selects the most outstanding Comparative Education Review (CER) article for the George Bereday Award. The selection committee includes scholars who are chosen for their breadth of methodological skills and intellectual rigor. This year’s committee was chaired by Keita Takayama (Kyoto University) and included Nelli Piattoeva (Tampere University, Finland), Amrit Thapa (University of Pennsylvania), Nisha Thapliyal (University of Newcastle, Australia), and Fang Yanping (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). From 29 research articles published in volume 66 (2022) of CER (themselves selected from over 200 annual submissions), the George Bereday Committee awarded the honor to Meixi, Sukanda Kongkaew, Panthiwa Theechumpa, Amornrat Pinwanna, and Alison Ling for their article “Making Relatives: The Poetics and Politics of a Trans-Indigenous Teacher Collective,” published in August (66 [3]: 442–64). The committee reported the following: “‘Making Relatives’ was written by educators and researchers who have been deeply involved in the establishment and management of an Indigenous school in Northern Thailand, which adopted an Indigenous educational model from Mexico called Tutoría. The piece is not only beautifully written and wonderfully rich in its contextualization and empirical details but also admirably creative in its operationalization of conceptual tools drawn from interdisciplinary literature around storywork and social poetics.” The CER editors congratulate the authors on this honor.The committee also noted the high quality of other articles and in particular offered an honorable mention to Susanne Ress, Nancy Kendall, Sophia Friedson-Ridenour, and Yaa Oparebea Ampofo for their article “Representations of Humans, Climate Change, and Environmental Degradation in School Textbooks in Ghana and Malawi,” published in November ( 66 [4]: 599–619).George Zygmunt Fijalkowski Bereday, born in Warsaw in 1920, was both the founding editor of the CER and a cofounder of the Comparative Education Society, along with his close colleague William Brickman. A graduate of London and Oxford (while also serving in the British army during World War II), Professor Bereday subsequently arrived in the United States for PhD studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Later he received a JD from Columbia Law School, where he studied while teaching comparative education, sociology, and juvenile law at Columbia Teachers College from 1955 until his untimely death in 1983. William Brickman (writing in the fall of that year in Western European Education) called Bereday an extraordinarily talented and gifted personality: “A polyglot, he read, spoke, comprehended, and lectured in several Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages … and he attained a practical ability in the use of Japanese.” Brickman also enthused that “Professor Bereday represented a rare blend of the classical and the modern, of Eastern and Western European education and scholarship, and of the Occidental and Oriental cultures” and that he “exhibited endless evidence of humanism toward other cultures and humanitarianism toward persons of all ethnic, racial, and national backgrounds.” Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 67, Number 2May 2023 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/724822 © 2023 Comparative and International Education Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Life and Legacy of Danijela Kulezic-Wilson

The Life and Legacy of Danijela Kulezic-Wilson

VALIDITY OF LEASE AGREEMENT SIGNED BY UNAUTHORIZED LEGAL SUBJECT REPRESENTING A BUSINESS ENTITY (CASE STUDY OF PANGKALPINANG DISTRICT COURT VERDICT NUMBER: 36/PDT.G/2020/PN.PGP Jo. BANGKA BELITUNG HIGH COURT VERDICT NUMBER: 24/PDT/2020/PTBBL)

An agreement is a legal relationship of wealth/property between two or more people, which gives the power inherent in certain rights to one party to obtain achievement and at the same time obliges the other party to fulfill the achievement. The validity of an agreement is determined by the fulfilment of the conditions contained in the provisions of Article 1320 of the Civil Code. Regardless of the protection by these legal norms, the majority of business actors or investors in Indonesia often make decisions based on trust in their close colleagues or relatives in running or managing their businesses. This sense of trust often causes problems in business activities. The consideration of appointing someone as an employee especially as a business manager/manager solely on the grounds that they have been long-time close friends (even considered as a family member) is not a guarantee that someone has the ability, integrity, and responsibility to develop and run a business as was the case in Pangkalpinang. The author describes the legal consequences that occur following lease transactions carried out on the basis of trust in friends. The method used is a normative juridical research method, while the data collected in this study is secondary data.

Routinised practices of community librarians: Daily struggles of Dutch public libraries to be(come) social infrastructures

Next to their traditional role as places for information provision and knowledge transmission, public libraries increasingly also function as important social infrastructures contributing to the everyday life in cities. As such, they can help to address systemic challenges such as social fragmentation, loneliness, exclusion and precarity. However, the library not merely is a social infrastructure, but becomes one each operating day through continuous labour by a network of stakeholders. This paper specifically examines library staff and their routinised practices to provide, perform and maintain the library as social infrastructure. The empirical research was carried out in four public libraries in the Netherlands and focussed on staff members who were in a 1-year post-graduate programme to become a community librarian, and their close colleagues. It consisted of two phases: first librarians were shadowed at work, followed by a focus group interview on the multiple problems librarians encounter to (re)make their library into social infrastructures. These include coping with limited space, collaborating with other institutions, difficulties to reach out to the community, financial struggles and differentiating interpretations of the library’s primary function.

Ann Oakley: new learning and global influence from working across conventional boundaries

Ann Oakley, pioneering social researcher for nearly 60 years, is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at IOE (Institute of Education), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society (University College London, UK). This article explores the innovation and influence of her work and the work of her close colleagues at the Social Science Research Unit (SSRU) and its Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre). It describes advances in research and knowledge that have their roots in listening to what women have to say about their lives. The resulting novel research methods have straddled academic boundaries – between qualitative and quantitative methodologies, between disciplines, and between academia and wider society – to enhance understanding of complex social issues and approaches to addressing them within the public sector. The impact of this work is seen in terms of influencing science, knowledge management, policy decisions, professional practice and the general public. These achievements come from approaches that are outward looking and straddle academic disciplines to produce evidence that is relevant to policymaking and to practice, with the ultimate aim being to improve day-to-day life.