Gold Medal Research Articles

Competitive works of A.V. Shchusev (1873-1949) and his participation in the international exhibitions

On September 26, 2023, we will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding architect of the first half of the XX century A. V. Shchusev (1873-1949). Alekseу Viktorovich was born in 1873 in Chisinau on Leovskaya Street (today Shchusev Street, where the museum of this architect is located). During his 76 years of life, he managed to fully realize his talent in architecture, becoming the author of the masterpiece in the construction of the mausoleum on the Red Square in Moscow. He became a laureate of four Stalin Prizes, and educated more than one generation of talented architects. He also founded the State Museum of Russian Architecture. Researching the many-sided architectural creativity of Academician Shchusev, in the article the author presents only the most important works of this great master which entered in competition. After graduating in 1897 with a gold medal from the Higher Petersburg Art School, A. V. Shchusev was awarded the title of artist-architect with the rank of the 10th class having the right to engage in designing buildings independently. Thus, he took part in architectural competitions for the construction of a new St. Petersburg hospital (19011902), a branch of the state bank in Nizhniy Novgorod (1910-1911), Kazanskiy railway station in Moscow (1913), the Russian pavilion for the XI International art exhibition in Venice (1913 -1914), the shelter for the children of fallen soldiers near the city of Chisinau (1916), etc.

Op. Dr. İlhami Güneral (1914–2006), author and illustrator of the first original dissection manual in Turkish and his contributions to anatomy

Objectives: İlhami Güneral was a Turkish physician and surgeon whose contributions to anatomy education and medical illustration remained under-appreciated until this day. This study aims to outline his achievements throughout his career and acknowledge his unreported contributions to anatomical sciences in Türkiye. Methods: A series of interviews were conducted with his surviving family, relatives, and friends. Additional documents were also collected from various national and international institutions. Results: İlhami Güneral was born in 1914 in Anadolu Kavağı, İstanbul. He attended İstanbul University Faculty of Medicine and graduated in 1942. Upon graduation, he published his first book titled “Diseksiyon Atlası” which he also illustrated himself. His illustrations were later used in Prof. Dr. Zeki Zeren’s dissection handbook published in 1953. He visited and worked with renowned neuropathologist Philipp Schwartz between 1958 and 1960 in Warren, Pennsylvania. During his stay, he co-constructed a detachable “Transparent Brain Model” for teaching brain anatomy which was awarded with the Billings Gold Medal at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association. After his return to Türkiye, he published his final illustrated anatomy atlas in 1972, the “Atlas Cerebri Humani”. He spent the remaining days of his life in his long standing home in Ödemiş, İzmir, as a private physician and surgeon. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993, and passed away due to his illness in 2006. Conclusion: This interesting and unique dramatis persona is the author and illustrator of the first original dissection manual printed in Turkish.

Less-known pages of the history of Georgian-Baltic scientific relations: George Akhvlediani and Jānis Endzelīns

Professor George Akhvlediani (1887-1973) was the great Georgian scholar with multiple interests. He worked in several areas of linguistic inquiry. He wrote major works on general linguistics, general and experimental phonetics, speech therapy, Indo-Europeanand Kartvelian languages, some of them being seminal. After having received higher education at Kharkiv and Petrograd universities, Akhvlediani returned to his homeland and became one of the founders of Tbilisi University (26/1/1918). He pioneered in such disciplines as general linguistics and general phonetics. He was in charge of the Department of General Linguistics which played a historical role in the emergence and development of the linguistics thought in Georgia. It should be noted that Jānis Endzelīns (1873-1961), the great Latvian philologist and linguist, immensely contributed to Akhvlediani’s training as a scholar. He has been aknowledged as a major expert of the Baltic languages and an ornament in the field of comparative-historical linguistics. George Akhvlediani was awarded a gold medal for his oeuvre “An essay of the history of liquid and nasal consonants in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Slavic languages”. Professor Endzelīns wrote a comprehensive review on the work and highly appreciated it. George Akhvlediani always recalled the consideration and care shown by Jānis Endzelīns with great gratitude, evidenced by their correspondence. Five letters, sent by Endzelīns to Tbilisi, addressed to Akhvlediani, are kept in the Museum of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

STEPAN POZNIAK: SOIL SCIENTIST, FOUNDER OF THE LVIV SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF GENETIC SOIL SCIENCE, TEACHER

Due to the 80th anniversary of the outstanding Ukrainian soil scientist, founder of the Department of Soil Science and Soil Geography of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, the life and scientific path, in particular, the Odessa period of scientific activity of Professor, Doctor of Geographical Sciences Stepan Pavlovich Pozniak, is highlighted. The scientific growth of Professor Pozniak S. P. associated with the Odessa University named after I. I. Mechnikov, where he studied and worked from 1969 to 1993 inclusive. He began his scientific activity in 1966 with the study of modern geomorphological processes in the Carpathians mountains. Futher, he continued large-scale surveys of the lands of Northern Kazakhstan and Transbaikalia. Since 1970, he studied the problems of genesis and ecology of chernozems of the steppe zone of Ukraine. Since 1993, he has been the head of Department of Geography of Ukraine at the Ivan Franko University of Lviv, where the scientist’s scientific activity is related to the study of soil and ecological problems of the western region of Ukraine. Stepan Pozniak – scientific supervisor and consultant of 21 candidate’s and 9 doctoral theses; launched the publication of the scientific series «Soils of Ukraine» and «Ukrainian Soil Scientists». Stepan Pozniak is an honorary member of the Ukrainian Society of Soil Scientists and Agrochemists, the head of the Lviv branch of USSSA, an honorary member of the Ukrainian Geographical Society, a member of the International Society of Soil Scientists, a member of the European Society for Soil Protection. Has awards and distinctions: Outstanding Education of Ukraine (1998), Laureate of the Yaroslav the Wise Award of the Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine (2010), Gold Medal of the Polish Society of Soil Scientists (2012), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine (2018).

A Conversation with Mary E. Thompson

Mary E. Thompson (née Beattie) was born September 9, 1944, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1965, and earned M.Sc. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Waterloo as a Lecturer in 1969 and became an Assistant Professor in 1971. In 2004, she was awarded the honour of University Professor and in 2011 became Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Waterloo. She has served in many leadership roles including Chair of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, President of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) and Chair of the COPSS Presidents’ Award Committee. She chaired the Development Committee for the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) and was its founding Scientific Director. Thompson has received numerous honours and awards including the SSC’s Gold Medal, the Elizabeth L. Scott Award, the Waksberg Award of Survey Methodology and the Governor General’s Innovation Award. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, an Honorary Member of the SSC and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Royal Society of Canada and the Fields Institute. Thompson has made fundamental contributions to several areas in statistics including sampling theory and the analysis of surveys. She is the author of two books in these areas: Theory of Sample Surveys (1997) and Sampling Theory and Practices (2020 with C. Wu). She has also made key contributions in estimation theory and stochastic processes. As the author of over 150 published, refereed papers, Thompson has influenced the theory and practice of statistics. The following conversation took place virtually in September 2022 with interviewer Rhonda J. Rosychuk of the University of Alberta.

Is Doping Wrong Anyway?

Doping is the action or substance use which is prohibited by international regulation. Why do they dope when they already know that it is prohibited. Athletes who dope are seeking to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals. But athletes seek to gain competitive advantages in numerous ways & many of these are not banned. The consequences of doping are health, social, financial and legal problems. The consequences of health are physical and mental problems. Surely, most of the players and populations think that doping should be prohibited. As it is against the defined rules & laws governing sport. It is unfair and goes against the level playing field ideal. The World Anti-Doping Code (WADA Code) states that “Anti-doping programs seek to preserve what is intrinsically valuable about sport.” Doping, like no other issue, hits athletes where it hurts: at their one shot at glory, at their own opportunity of a gold medal. That is why we must continue to work together to protect clean athletes.

Reflections of The Evolution of The Pole Used in Pole Vaulting on The Olympic Games Podium

Pole vault is one of the disciplines in athletism. The material used in manufacturing of pole has been changing from time to time. Material of traininand competition in sports is one of the factors that determine performance. In this study, it is aimed to investigate reflection of pole evolution to olimpic marks on pole vault. The data of this study consist of highest jumping heihts and average values of these marks for gold, silver and bronze medals in pole vault branch of Olimpic Games (n=28) for the games between 1896-2016. The data are obtained from WA official internet site. It was seen at the end of study that allowing the develop maretial technology in poles resulted in obtaining higher performance in pole vault branch.

New Varieties of Ornamental Plants

The article elucidates the retrospective of the breeding of flowering plants in the Laboratory of Ornamental Plants of the National Botanical Garden (Institute) for about six decades, and also the recent results obtained in the field. The mobilization and introduction into culture of thousands of intraspecifi c taxa generated unique collections of ornamental flowering plants, which served as a basis for obtaining new varieties. More than 300 cultivars have been obtained by: the method of induction of mutations, directed hybridization, selection of spontaneous mutations and natural pollination. Approximately 150 varieties have been certified, homologated, and some patented with the support of the State Agency on Intellectual Property, and also abroad. Currently, 56 ornamental varieties are registered and maintained in the Catalog of Plant Varieties of the Republic of Moldova. In the last decade, more than 60 cultivars were selected, of which 12 were patented. The work of the breeders was appreciated with gold and silver medals, diplomas for participation in national and international inventions exhibitions.

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Eduardo Salas.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Eduardo Salas for his impactful work in team science. Eduardo Salas is the preeminent expert in what is known about teamwork and team training and how to apply that knowledge to practice. As a role model for scientist-practitioners, he has spent more than 40 years developing evidence-based principles to help organizations design, manage, and develop teams. Dr. Salas has developed training models and frameworks for the military, law enforcement, NASA, health care, and numerous corporations in the private sector, including an aircrew coordination training for the U.S. Navy which has been in use since 1992. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Mark L. Hatzenbuehler.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Mark L. Hatzenbuehler for his paradigm-shifting approach to understanding and attenuating mental health disparities. Mark L. Hatzenbuehler has worked to position structural stigma as a fundamental cause of population disparities in psychiatric morbidity and other health outcomes and to identify the mechanisms through which stigma compromises health from a theoretically driven multimethod research program focused on biopsychosocial mechanisms. His research has explored the impact of stigma and discrimination on minority communities, specifically lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations. More than any other person in the field, Dr. Hatzenbuehler has given life to so-called structural stigma by creatively deploying data about contexts to show how they affect the mental health, suicide risk, and even longevity of gay and lesbian individuals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Lenore E. Walker.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Lenore E. Walker for her groundbreaking work with a particularly vulnerable population, those with a syndrome she named Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS). Lenore E. Walker's work has had a transformational impact in psychology, in the courts, in public policy, and in the lives of countless women over a period of more than 40 years. BWS is accepted as a criminal defense in federal court and all state courts and may be raised as 'state of mind' for damages in personal injury cases and in family courts. The central tenet of Dr. Walker's contributions is that the victims of trauma from familial and intimate partner violence, abuse, and degradation all share experiencing common trauma symptoms that may need effective trauma-specific assessment and treatment. Her work has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of abused women and their families and continues to be used and expanded upon today. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Joseph P. Gone.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Joseph P. Gone for his dedication to making psychological services more fully accessible, culturally appropriate, and demonstrably effective for alleviating disabling distress among Indigenous peoples and individuals of other diverse backgrounds. Dr. Joseph Gone has cultivated a distinctive and impactful scholarly vision that is anchored in psychology while remaining robustly interdisciplinary and committed to advancing the well-being of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples. Dr. Gone is the leading expert on Native American psychology, and his work is cited in one in four of all publications that exist in psychology on Native groups. His participation in the communities he studies has made his work particularly impactful and allowed for collaborative interventions that otherwise would not be possible. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Jillian C. Shipherd.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Jillian C. Shipherd for her extensive work to improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) veterans. Jillian Shipherd has pioneered national training programs for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on all facets of transgender health care to support policy changes and improvements, positioning clinicians to evaluate and treat this previously ignored and stigmatized group of veterans. Her research has received wide attention in the media and in senior management within the VA. Dr. Shipherd has taken her research findings and applied them to make groundbreaking change throughout the VA spanning education and policy. Her trailblazing work has had a transformational impact on the lives of LGBTQ+ veterans and will continue to affect access to care for generations to come. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

APF Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology: Beth Morling.

The APF Gold Medal for Impact in Psychology recognizes Beth Morling for for her dedication to advancing the teaching of psychology and the scholarship of education. Dr. Morling's contributions make a difference to the field of psychology and positively influence faculty and students not only within her institution but throughout the nation. Her research methods textbook is robust and took the novel approach of training students to be critical scientific consumers, rather than just producers of scientific knowledge. Dr. Morling is highly respected by her colleagues and students and is dedicated to training the next generation of teachers through her work with the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology and beyond. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Analisis kondisi vo2max pemain hoki indoor putri Gresik dalam menunjang keberhasilan meraih medali emas

The VO₂Max condition of the Gresik women's indoor hockey players should be fulfilled. Since VO₂Max includes a baseline that represents general fitness which is good condition VO₂Max it can be assumed other physical endurance will follow. The purpose of this study was to find out the level of aerobic endurance (VO₂Max) possessed by Gresik women's indoor hockey players in supporting the success of winning a gold medal at Situbondo in 2022. Quantitative descriptive was used in this research method with 12 research subjects. The multi-stage fitness test (MFT) was used as an instrument in this study. The results of the analysis of aerobic endurance (VO₂Max) data from female indoor hockey players in the category "very poor" 0.00% (0 players), "less" 0.00% (0 players), "enough" 0.00% (0 players), “good” 50.00% (6 players), “very good” 41.70% (5 players) and “excellent” 8.30% (1 player). The average of this data analysis was 39.34. Based on these results, the level of aerobic endurance (VO₂Max) of Gresik women's indoor hockey players was in the “very good” category. It can be concluded that to meet good VO₂Max conditions, the results of this study can be used as a benchmark for other hockey teams when preparing for matches.

Metode Desain Karakter Aaron Blaise dengan Penerapan Antropomorfisme dalam Animasi Lakontara sebagai Upaya Pelestarian Ketoprak

The Marmalade team with their animation titled "Lakontara" has successfully won a gold medal in the GEMASTIK XV 2022 event. In their animation, Marmalade raises the issue of the low interest of the community in traditional Javanese theater (ketoprak) performances, and how ketoprak can remain relevant and compete with other modern entertainments. In the character design of Lakontara, it can be seen that the characters are predominantly non-human characters given human attributes and behaviors, indicating that the characters are designed using anthropomorphism. This is commonly found in popular animations such as Cars, Toy Story, and SpongeBob SquarePants. Anthropomorphism is claimed to make animations appear funnier and more appealing because it can bring something impossible in the real world into the animation.

Long-term development of performance, physiological, and training characteristics in a world-class female biathlete.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the long-term development of performance, physiological, and training characteristics in a world-class female biathlete, with emphasis on differences between junior and senior athlete seasons. The participant is a highly decorated female biathlete with 22 (10 gold) medals from international championships and 28 individual World Cup wins. Performance development (ages 17-33), physiological tests (ages 22-33), and day-to-day physical and shooting training (ages 17-33) were analyzed. Training data were systemized by endurance [low-intensity training (LIT), moderate-intensity training (MIT), and high-intensity training (HIT)], exercise mode, and strength training. Shooting training recorded for each session included the number of shots fired during rest, LIT, MIT, HIT, or competitions and time spent on dry fire training. The annual volume of physical training (409-792 h·season-1) and number of shots fired (1,163-17,328 shots·season-1) increased from the age of 17 to 28 followed by a subsequent reduction in physical training (range 657-763 h·season-1) and shots fired (13,275-15,355 shots·season-1) during the seasons of peak performance at ages 31-33. Maximal oxygen uptake in roller ski skating increased by 10% (62.9-69.2 ml·kg-1·min-1) from the age of 22 to 27. The physical training volume was 48% higher (694 ± 60 vs. 468 ± 23 h·season-1, P = .030), with 175% more shots fired (14,537 ± 1,109 vs. 5,295 ± 3,425 shots·season-1, P = .016) as a senior athlete than a junior athlete. In the physical training, these differences were mainly explained by higher volumes of LIT (602 ± 56 vs. 392 ± 22 h·season-1, P = .032) and MIT (34 ± 1 vs. 7 ± 2 h·season-1, P = .001) but less HIT (27 ± 1 vs. 42 ± 3 h·season-1, P = .006) as a senior than a junior. In line with this, shooting training as a senior included more shots fired both at rest (5,035 ± 321 vs. 1,197 ± 518 shots·season-1, P = .011) and during LIT (7,440 ± 619 vs. 2,663 ± 1,975 shots·season-1, P = .031), while a smaller insignificant difference was observed in the number of shots fired in connection with MIT, HIT, and competitions (2,061 ± 174 vs. 1,435 ± 893 shots·season-1, P = .149). This study provides unique insights into the long-term development of physical and shooting training from junior to senior in a world-class female biathlete. The major differences in training characteristics between junior and senior athlete seasons were higher sport-specific volumes of LIT and MIT and less HIT. These differences were accompanied by more shooting training, particularly at rest, and in connection with LIT.

Fifty years of operational research: 1972–2022

In July 2022, I received the EURO Gold medal at the 32nd EURO Conference held in Espoo, Finland. This paper is based on the presentation I made at the medal award ceremony. It covers 10 topics on which I have worked throughout my career. These are the seriation problem, rotating work schedules, deterministic vehicle routing, stochastic vehicle routing, examination timetabling, districting, waste management, metro network design, green transportation, and humanitarian logistics.

Oleksa Novakivskyi: Unknown pages of study and life from Archival Materials of the Krakow Academy of Arts

The paper aims to study and publicize educational activities and exhibitions in Krakow by Oleksa Novakivskyi (1872– 1935), an outstanding Ukrainian artist — symbolist, expressionist, graphic artist, and educator, who over 20 years lived in Krakow (1892–1913) and Lviv (1913–1935) and founded his own art school in Lviv (1923–1935) for 100 students. The archival documents of the 1890s–1900s from the Archives of the Krakow Academy of Arts about Oleksa Novakivskyi’s studies in 1892–1904 were investigated. Oleksa Novakivskyi’sreport cards of 1892–1904 from the Krakow School and the Academy of Fine Arts were first introduced into scientific circulation. It was discovered that in 1892–1898 Oleksa Novakivskyi studied at the Department of Drawing of the Krakow School of Fine Arts (with a pause in 1893–1895) and received an “award in the competition” (1896), silver medals on July 15, 1897 and July 23, 1898 at the course of prof. Unierzyski, Stanislawski. In 1898–1901 Oleksa Novakivskyi studied at the Department of Fine Art, where he received a silver medal (1899) and a gold medal on July 15, 1900, on the course of Prof. Wyczółkowski, Stanislawski. In 1901–1904 Novakivskyi continued his studies at the Department of Fine Art at the School of Prof. Wyczółkowski at the Krakow Academy of Arts. It was established that Novakivski’s teachers in Krakow were the professors Florian Cynk, Jozef Unierzyski, Leon Wyczółkowski, Jan Stanislawski. In addition, personal documents of the painter’sspouse (whom the researchers previously listed as Anna-Maria) from the archives of Lviv and Krakow were introduced into scientific circulation (the identity card of Maryanna Rozalia Nowakowska, 1916; Birth Certificate of Maryanna Rosalia Palmowska, 1888), as well as the Polish specialized and popular periodicals of the 1890s–1930s that mentioned Oleksa Novakivskyi’s exhibitions participation in Krakow and Warsaw.

Conscientious, competent and caring: producing the junior doctor of the future.

This article is based on the Association for the Study of Medical Education Gold Medal Plenary for 2022, given by the first author. It outlines different ways in which medical training can be approached, based on his career and his work with colleagues. Among the attributes that it would be desirable to promote in future doctors are conscientiousness, competence and care for patients as individuals. This article explores each of these in separate sections. The first demonstrates that the trait of conscientiousness can be observed in first and second year medical students by their compliance in routine low level tasks such as attendance and submission of required work on time. A 'conscientiousness index' calculated on this basis is a statistically significant predictor of later events such as performance in exams, the prescribing safety assessment, and the UK situational judgement test in subsequent years, and also in postgraduate assessments such as Royal college exams and the annual reviews of competence progression. The second proposes that competence in tasks undertaken by junior doctors is better achieved by teaching on medical imaging, clinical skills and living anatomy than by cadaveric dissection. The final section argues that the incorporation of arts and humanities teaching into medical education is likely to lead to better understanding of the patient perspective in later practice.