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IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers for 2019

The magnetocaloric effect, that is, the reversible temperature change experienced by a magnetic material upon the application or removal of a magnetic field, has become a topic of increasing research interest due to its potential application in refrigeration at ambient temperature that is energy efficient and environmentally friendly [1] . From a technological point of view, the improvement of magnetic refrigeration systems can have a notable impact on society: A large fraction of the electricity consumed in residential and commercial markets is used for temperature and climate control. From the point of view of magnetic materials, research on this topic mainly focuses on the discovery of new materials with lower cost and enhanced performance. In addition, the characterization of the magnetocaloric effect can be used for more fundamental studies of the characteristics of phase transitions.

Changing Tastes? The Evolution of Dining Out in England

This article, based on “Changing Tastes: The Effects of Eating Out,” the Annual Distinguished Lecture at SOAS Food Studies Centre given on March 21, 2018, focuses on change and continuity in the practice of dining out in England between 1995 and 2015. After briefly describing a restudy in three cities—Bristol, London, and Preston—the article investigates two tendencies that have progressed over the twenty-year period: familiarization and diversification. Dining out has become more common but at the same time variety has increased, allowing the expression of taste in the form of cultural omnivorousness. Behind these patterns can be found a small number of principles which steer the practice of dining out, ones shared almost universally but observed in different ways and to different degrees by sections of the population. Cohort, class, ethnicity, and location are important sources of differentiation, but almost everyone is subject to and influenced by similar imperatives to experience variety, feel comfortable, and display adequate practical knowledge. It is concluded that the rate of change has been relatively slow and that major current trends have been in train since the 1970s.

Managing the power grid: how myoglobin can regulate PO2 and energy distribution in skeletal muscle.

Managing the power grid: how myoglobin can regulate PO2 and energy distribution in skeletal muscle.

Joint PELS\/IAS\/IES New South Wales Chapter Hosts Distinguished Lecturers [Society News

The Joint IEEE Power Electronics Society, Industry Applications Society, and Industrial Electronics Society (PELS/IAS/IES) New South Wales Chapter kicked off 2018 with two Distinguished Lectures. Prof. Udaya Madawala, on behalf of PELS, gave the first lecture "Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles," and Prof. Xinghuo Yu, representing IAS, gave the second lecture, "Smart Grid and Beyond" (Figure 1).

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow in Macao, China [Society News

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow in Macao, China [Society News

Prof. Joachim Holtz Presents Distinguished Lectures in Tianjing and Beijing, China [Society News

Prof. Joachim Holtz Presents Distinguished Lectures in Tianjing and Beijing, China [Society News

PELS Seattle Chapter Hosts Distinguished Lecturer [Society News

PELS Seattle Chapter Hosts Distinguished Lecturer [Society News

Julius H. Comroe Distinguished Lecture: Interdependence of neuromodulators in the control of breathing.

In vitro and in vivo anesthetized studies led to the conclusion that "deficiencies in one neuromodulator are immediately compensated by the action of other neuromodulators," which suggests an interdependence among neuromodulators. This concept was the focus of the 2018 Julius H. Comroe Lecture to the American Physiological Society in which I summarized our published studies testing the hypothesis that if modulatory interdependence was robust, breathing would not decrease during dialysis of antagonists to G protein-coupled excitatory receptors or agonists to inhibitory receptors into the ventral respiratory column (VRC) or the hypoglossal motor nuclei (HMN). We found breathing was not decreased during unilateral VRC dialyses of antagonists to excitatory muscarinic, serotonergic, and neurokinin-1 receptors alone or in combinations nor was breathing decreased with unilateral VRC dialysis of a µ-opioid receptor agonist. Analyses of the effluent dialysate revealed locally increased serotonin (excitatory) during muscarinic receptor blockade and decreased γ-aminobutyric acid (inhibitory) during dialysis of opioid agonists, suggesting an interdependence of neuromodulators through release of compensatory neuromodulators. Bilateral dialysis of receptor antagonists or agonist in the VRC increased breathing, which does not support the concept that unchanged breathing with unilateral dialyses was due to contralateral compensation. In contrast, in the HMN neither unilateral nor bilateral dialysis of the excitatory receptor antagonists altered breathing, but unilateral dialysis of the opioid receptor agonist decreased breathing. We conclude: 1) there is site-dependent interdependence of neuromodulators during physiologic conditions, and 2) attributing physiologic effects to a specific receptor perturbation is complicated by local compensatory mechanisms.

Speaking Regional Truth to Washington Power Over Federal Public Lands

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, Professor (and former ELC Director) Richard Brooks delivered the Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and the Law, entitled Speaking (Vermont) Truth to (Washington) Power. Like many of Professor Brooks’ works, this lecture explored common scholarly themes of federalism, sustainability, land use, and environmental activism, as well as topics unique to his work, including legal value assessments, environmental justice, social justice, and the nature of legal and institutional change. After exploring several examples of the inclusive, progressive nature of Vermont’s laws, Professor Brooks concluded that Vermont’s power to effect change on a national scale was somewhat disproportionate to its size (both geographically and based on population) and arose out of Vermont’s community-focused, inclusive, and progressive legal and social values. Brooks’ Williams Lecture relates in several ways to my own scholarship addressing the national crisis unfolding on federal public lands, driven by the current Administration’s zeal for energy development, mining, and unraveling the protections set in place by previous administrations. From the opening of coastal zones throughout the nation to offshore drilling to the President’s reduction of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, the Trump Administration has charted a course nearly reminiscent of the disposal era of the late nineteenth century, stopping just short of outright transfers of public lands into private and state hands. This is a crisis not only because of the unprecedented speed and breadth of the Department of Interior’s efforts to erode environmental and natural resources protection measures implemented by previous administrations, but because of the permanence of some of these actions, inflicted on landscapes and ecosystems that might not ever be able to recover. Brooks’ Williams Lecture reflects similar themes in mid-nineteenth century Vermont, when industry ravaged the state’s natural resources (and particularly, its forests), leaving a denuded shell of the state’s pre-colonial natural glory, and contains an obvious parallel between that period of Vermont’s history and the present circumstances facing western public lands. This article explores Brooks' theme of speaking local truth to national power west of the 100th meridian, in the public lands states. I have organized this tribute in two parts: (1) an explanation of the Brooks principle of speaking local environmental truth to national power and (2) an application of this principle to the western public lands states.

IAS\/PELS Toronto Joint Chapter Holds Distinguished Lecturer Events [Society News

Presents information on various IAS/PELS Society chapters.

IEEE PELS Raleigh Chapter Hosts Distinguished Lecture on High-Efficiency Wireless Power Transfer Systems [Society News

IEEE PELS Raleigh Chapter Hosts Distinguished Lecture on High-Efficiency Wireless Power Transfer Systems [Society News

Towards a Transforming Constructivism: Understanding Learners' Meanings and the Messages of Learning Environments

This article is based on the ideas and material presented at the invitation to deliver the 17 u, Annual University of Calgary Faculty of Education Annual Distinguished Lecture. This lecture honors the work of a member of Faculty whose research contributions have been judged to contribute significant new insight in the field of Education. The article presents the foundations of research and thinking that have inspired work to deepen knowledge about the value and use of constructivist approaches in research, teaching, and learning. The article deepens the discussion by presenting additional ideas designed to produce a transforming constructivism. A transforming constructivism goes beyond taking into account learner conceptions or ideas in the teaching/learning dialogue. It incorporates thinking about the cultural and social messages presented within the environments of learning that also must be taken into account to build a more complete story of the ways that the learner constructs meaning. illustrative dialogue on children learning about the topic light is presented from my book, What Children Bring to Light: A Constructivist Perspective on Children's Learning in Science, (1994). The article presents findings and further work that has extended and deepened understanding by featuring the messages of science learning environments in the account of learner construction of ideas.

UTP PELS Student Branch Chapter Hosts Distinguished Lecturer [Society News

Presents information on various PELS Society chapters.

IEEE PELS Pittsburgh Chapter Hosts Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Paolo Mattavelli [Society News

Presents information on various PELS Society chapters.

Family Development Theory 30 Years Later

AbstractMattessich and Hill (1987) charted an historical overview of the family life cycle and development perspective in The Handbook of Marriage and the Family. That same year Evelyn Duvall presented a distinguished lecture at the National Council on Family Relations meeting titled, “Family Development's First Forty Years.” These academic works capture the historical foundation of family development theory by two pioneers of the theory and provide a reference point for discussing the history, current state, and future of the theory. In this article, Hill's and Duvall's historical accounts are summarized, contextualized, and used as a reference point to present four challenges to the future relevance of family development theory. Recommendations for future theory, research and practice are suggested.

Sustainable Development in the Age of Contradictions

Development and ChangeVolume 49, Issue 3 p. 695-707 Development and Change Distinguished Lecture 2017 Sustainable Development in the Age of Contradictions Michael Redclift, Michael RedcliftSearch for more papers by this author Michael Redclift, Michael RedcliftSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 February 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12394Citations: 10 This lecture was delivered as the first keynote address at the DSA Annual Conference, University of Bradford, UK (6–8 September 2017). I would like to thank all my students who, over the years, have helped me appreciate the value of keeping sustainable thinking to the forefront of our consciousness. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume49, Issue3May 2018Pages 695-707 RelatedInformation

ATVB Named Lecture Review-Insight Into Author: Jeffrey I. Weitz, MD.

ATVB Named Lecture Reviews– 2017 Scientific Sessions Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis Insight Into the Author: Jeffrey I. Weitz, MD, Department of Medicine, McMaster University and the Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada I like to know why things happen, and scientific investigation allows me to find out. Most exciting is the capacity to use a reductionist approach to better understand the clinical problems that we face in every day practice and to develop novel methods to overcome them. I have had both clinical and scientific role models. Jerry Scott …

A Tale of Two Cities - Fundamental Rights Protection in Strasbourg and Luxembourg

This paper is based on the Annual Mitchell Lecture, delivered at the Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh, on 9th November 2017 and on the Annual Distinguished Lecture, delivered at the University of Galway, on 31st March 2017. The paper tackles the questions on the interrelationship between the Convention and the EU Charter by way of a case study. The cases chosen address two very different issues − surrogacy and the right to private or family life on the one hand, and religious freedom and the wearing of religious symbols on the other. On the surrogacy issue the paper refers to an Irish Supreme Court case as well as case-law from Strasbourg and Luxembourg to illustrate how limits to the jurisdiction of the two European courts is or is not clearly articulated. On the issue of religious symbols the study concentrates on British and French cases before the Strasbourg court and highlights how the Luxembourg court has recently, for the first time, tackled questions of religious discrimination.

DL Prof. Patrick Yue Speaks at IMECAS [Chapters

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Prof. Patrick Yue visited the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMECAS), China, on 12 October 2017. He gave an inspiring talk, "Recent Developments in Visible Light Communication-Applications and SoC Design," which drew over 70 attendees, including IMECAS faculties, graduate students, undergraduate students, and local professionals. After the presentation, many interesting questions were asked and led to a thoughtful discussion. This talk presents two advanced visible light communication (VLC) modulator system-on-chips (SoCs). The first is an IEEE 802.15.7 PHY-I standard-compliant VLC transmitter. The second is an active matrix light-emitting diode (LED) microdisplay driver SoC with embedded VLC function.

Four new distinguished lecturers for 2019–2020

The EMC Society Board of Directors has approved four new Distinguished Lecturers (DLs) for the term 2019–2020. They are Prof. Marcos Rubinstein, Dr. Xiaoxiong (Kevin) Gu, Prof. Seungyoung Ahn and Prof. Liang Zhou. Our other three DLs, Dr. Ihsan Erdin, Mr. Zhong Chen and Dr. Richard Xian-Ke Gao continue their terms through December of 2019.