Highest Honor Research Articles

Asymptotically Optimal Load Balancing

Brief Biography: Xingyu Zhou is a Ph.D. student at the ECE department of Ohio State University, advised by Prof. Ness Shroff. He is currently a Presidential Fellow, the most prestigious award at OSU. His primary research focus is on load balancing in large-scale data center systems. He is heavily involved with the ACM SIGMETRICS community with three full papers published on the ACM SIGMETRICS conference so far. His research results have not only drawn interest from academics (e.g., invited talks at Caltech, CMU and INFORMS Annual Meeting), but also attracted cooperation from industry companies (e.g., Facebook Core System team). He obtained his B.S from BUPT and M.S. from Tsinghua University, both in the Department of Electrical Engineering and with the highest honor. He is also the recipient of various awards including the Outstanding Graduate Award of Beijing city, Distinguished Dissertation Award from BUPT and Tsinghua, National Scholarship of China, and Academic Rising Star Award from Tsinghua.

In Memoriam: James T. Willerson, MD (1939-2020).

In Memoriam: James T. Willerson, MD (1939-2020).

Aram Kalantaryan

The notable archaeologist and historian, Aram Kalantaryan, was a scholar completely devoted to his field. He was born in 1937 and raised by the family that had fled from Akn (historical Armenia) to Abkhazia during the Armenian Genocide. In 1954 he had entered the Department of History of Yerevan State University from which he graduated with high honors in 1959. From 1961-1964 he was a PhD student of archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenian Academy of Sciences. His advisor was the outstanding Armenologist Karo Ghafadaryan. A. Kalantaryan focused his research on medieval Armenian archaeology, history, and epigraphy. At that time he began to actively participate in the excavations (led by his advisor) at the important medieval Armenian capital of Dvin, which predetermined the future focus of his studies. A. Kalantaryan, from his days as a PhD student, participated in several excavations at important archaeological sites like Garni, Armavir, and Artashat. He was in charge of expeditions to Oshakan, Spitak, Ptghni, and Gogaran. In 1964 Kalantaryan was appointed as a junior researcher at the Department of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenian Academy of Sciences. In 1966 he successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled as ‘The Material Culture of Dvin (5th-8th centuries)’.

AN ATTEMPTS OF THE LEGAL CONSIDERATION OF RUSSIAN AUTHOCRACY’S INTERESTS DURING THE WORK ABOUT THE «RULES WICH MALOROSSIAN PEOPLE USING FOR COURT», 1743

The article is devoted to the historical and legal study of the attempts to secure the legal interests of the Russian autocracy in the course of codification work on the drafting of the project "Rights judged by the Little Russian people" in 1743. The text of the monument itself and other historical sources as well as scientific literature are analyzed. topics. It is emphasized that already in the first half of XVIII century. the imperial government set itself the goal of achieving a rapprochement, and in the future, of unifying the legal system of the Hetmanate and Russia. It was for this purpose that a codification commission was created in its first composition in 1728. Decrees of the Government of the Russian Empire in 1728 and 1734 pp. she was granted the status of a state body, and her work was the nature of official systematization of the current legislation in the Hetmanate in the form of codification. It was found that the imperial government, through its representatives in Ukraine, as well as through its higher bodies, the College of Foreign Affairs and the Senate, closely followed the work of the Commission and often issued decrees to hasten the drafting of the Codex. Attention is drawn to the vivid attempts to secure the legal interests of the Russian autocracy in the course of work on the rights under which the Little Russian people are being judged, which, in particular, were found in the chapter "On the highest honor and power of the monarchy." It was here that the prerogatives of the "high-monarchic estate" were enshrined, which apparently constituted a borrowing from the legislation of Peter I and some other sources of law. It was emphasized that during the course of the codification work, which had been carried out for fifteen years and ended in 1743, the Russian autocracy had not been able to fully realize its purpose and impose a code on Ukraine, the norms of which would fully copy the relevant rules of imperial law. Contrary to the task, it still largely reflected the legal norms that existed in the current jurisprudence or in the social consciousness of the overwhelming majority of the elite of the Ukrainian population. In "Rights ..." the most clearly defined are those privileges, to which the Cossack elders and nobles have so eagerly sought legal legitimacy for several decades. That is why the draft code was not officially approved and was buried in the imperial archives.

HOMER AND THE WRATH OF JULIAN

‘Everyone who now reads and writes in the West, of whatever racial background, sex or ideological camp, is still a son or daughter of Homer.’ While the extent to which this claim is accurate has been disputed, it is not wrong in our own day to grant the highest honours for ongoing influence to the author of theIliad. All the more so in Late Antiquity, a period frequently viewed as hermetically isolated from the classical world, but which resolutely viewed itself as part of that unbroken cultural and literary continuum. One of those who made repeated use of Homer's epic was the Emperor Julian (a.d.331–63), one of the most prolific writers among Rome's emperors. In the fourth centurya.d., Homer's influence was still predominant, not only being Julian's favourite and most frequently cited author but also forming for Libanius of Antioch ‘one of the pillars of rhetorical teaching’. Despite Glen Bowersock's statement that Julian's many writings offer unique insight into his character and disposition, Julian is still a historical character who is not easy to ‘know’. Julian's life was shaped by the murder of his father, brothers and uncles by a cabal involving, if not orchestrated by, his cousin Constantius II. This was followed by the removal of his trusted confidant Salutius, again by Constantius. These experiences exhibit an unusual phenomenon, in that, when Julian referred to them, they were prefaced by a spate of Homeric allusions. Julian's wrath at people taken from him was both genuine and politically useful, but the expression of it was dangerous enough that he expressed it obliquely in the language of Homer. These citations and allusions, drawn primarily from theIliad, were far more than Julian's flaunting of his education, but were rather a tool for subtly conveying his desired message, a message with strong political tones. I will treat these passages in the order in which Julian wrote them, although that places the events reminisced about in the reverse order.

Penamaan Diri Masyarakat Bima Sebagai Sapaan Hormat Kepada Orang yang Dituakan: Kajian Fonologis dan Kontribusinya dengan Pengajaran di SMP

The study addresses honorific greeting delivered by Bima community using Donggo dialect to greet others. Specifically, the honorific address is used to greet elders using specific names that the local culturally indicates high respocet and honor. This study used qualitative approach and rooted on the sociolinguistics as the foundation of the understanding of the socio-cultural perspectives. The site of the study was Mbawa village, Donggo ditrict, Bima Regency. A number of local community consisting of 50 adult men and 50 adult women were observed as the informants of the study. Data were collected using direct observation and interview. Results show that Bima community perceive greeting is socially embedded in the culture to raise honor to others, elders, mates and the younger. The culture system in the Bima tradition is using modified self-naming to put respect and honor. The system of honorific address socially expresses politeness and religious values that root from the Islamic teaching. As the address system embeds cultural values that in sociolinguistic refers to politeness this study adversely contributes teaching language for secondary school students, implying that self-naming to express honorific address is contributable to school curriculum.

An evaluation of gender diversity in the American Brachytherapy Society

PurposeRecent evaluation of female representation in major radiation oncology organizations was published by Knoll et al. (IJROBP, 2018) but did not include information about the American Brachytherapy Society (ABS). The objective of this study is to assess trends in gender diversity in the ABS. Materials and MethodsPublicly available information from the ABS and American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) websites were used to determine the proportion of women in various leadership positions and receiving awards and honors. The data were organized by comparing female representation up until 2004 and then from 2005 until current as was done in the article of Knoll et al. to facilitate comparisons with ASTRO. ResultsOf the 579 US physician members of the ABS, 155 (27%) are women. There has been an increase in the proportion of female ABS presidents and female Hensche Award recipients between 1978–2004 and 2005–2018. There was a significant difference in the female makeup of the editorial board of the main journals for the ABS (18%) and ASTRO (43%) (p = 0.02). Two other prominent differences between the ABS and ASTRO, however not statistically significant, were the female representation of 2018 fellows (10% vs. 26%, respectively) and recipients of each organization's highest honor between 2005 and 2017 (25% vs. 6%, respectively). ConclusionsOver the past decade, there has been an increase in women representation in the ABS presidency and Henschke awardees. Representation still remains low, relative to ASTRO, in other areas suggesting room for further improvement. Exploring these trends is imperative in developing potential solutions to improve gender diversity in the field of brachytherapy.

Optimal jersey retirement in the National Basketball Association

One of the highest honors an individual player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) can receive is to have their jersey number retired by a franchise. Players selected for jersey retirement are often chosen carefully, in part because each franchise has only a finite number of jerseys available for retirement. In this work, we present a method to optimize the selection of players to honor with jersey retirement. We first present a Markov Decision Process (MDP) to model the jersey retirement decisions of a given franchise. We then embed this MDP into a nonlinear regression model, which we solve approximately using a modified support vector machine. Our results indicate that most NBA franchises behave approximately in accordance with our optimality criteria. We also use our model to suggest optimal retirement decisions for several NBA franchises.

From the River to the Sea to Every Mountain Top: Solidarity as Worldmaking

This essay questions a key takeaway from the Ferguson/Gaza convergence that catalyzed the current wave of Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity: the idea that “equivalence,” or a politics of analogy based on racial or national identity, or racialized or colonial experience, is the sole or primary grounds for solidarity. By revisiting three recent spectacular moments involving Black intellectuals advocating for Palestine—Michelle Alexander's op-ed in the New York Times criticizing Israeli policies, CNN's firing of Marc Lamont Hill, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's initial decision to deny Angela Davis its highest honor—this paper suggests that their controversial positions must be traced back to the post-1967 moment. The convergence of Black urban rebellions and the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war birthed the first significant wave of Black-Palestinian solidarity; at the same time, solidarities rooted in anti-imperialism and Left internationalism rivaled the “Black-Jewish alliance,” founded on analogy of oppression rather than shared principles of liberation. Third World insurgencies and anti-imperialist movements, not just events in the United States and Palestine, created the conditions for radically reordering political alliances: rather than adopting a politics of analogy or identity, the Black and Palestinian Left embraced a vision of “worldmaking” that was a catalyst for imagining revolution as opposed to plotting coalition.

The Hungryalist Movement in Bengal: A Conversation with Malay Roychoudhury

Malay Roychoudhury (1939) is an Indian Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s which changed the course of avant-garde Bengali literature and painting. His best-known poetry collections are Medhar Batanukul Ghungur, Jakham and Matha Ketey Pathachhi Jatno korey Rekho; and his novels Dubjaley Jetuku Proshwas and Naamgandho. He has written more than hundred books. He was given the Sahitya Academy award, the Indian government's highest honour in the field, in 2003 for translating Dharamvir Bharati's Hindi fiction Suraj Ka Satwan Ghora. However, he declined to accept this award and others. This interview has been executed by the exchange of e mails with the activist-author.

Dr Fran Mandić (1851 - 1924): A Reputed Physician from Kastav and "Croatian Consul" in Trieste

Born in Istria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Fran Mandić (1851-1924) finished a Croatian grammar school in Rijeka and studied medicine in Graz, Austria and in Prague, Bohemia. After graduation, he settled in Trieste, a major Austrian port, where he spent his entire career. After a period in the State Hospital in Trieste, Mandić ran his own practice and held a position of medical adviser of the Austrian State Railway in Istria. Since his student days, he had championed equal political rights for the Croatian people in Istria. Aware of the importance of education, he donated his time and money for a number of new schools to open throughout Istria. For his merits he received high honours from the Emperor and an honorary Citizenship of Opatija, but the greatest recognition was the respect he earned from his patients and their families.

Men’s Perceptions and Emotional Responses to Becoming a Caregiver Father: The Role of Individual Differences in Masculine Honor Ideals and Reputation Concerns

Despite the rising number of men and women in counter-stereotypical roles, it is rare for men to serve as primary caregivers in families with dependent children. In two studies, we examined how British men and women perceive and emotionally react to primary caregiver (vs. breadwinner) fathers, whether their perceptions and reactions are contingent upon individual differences in masculine honor endorsement, and the potential mediators in these relationships. Results showed that both men and women perceived the primary caregiver fathers more positively – warmer and not less competent – than the primary breadwinner fathers, yet endorsement of masculine honor ideals increased men’s (but not women’s) tendency to attribute less positive emotions (e.g., proud and satisfied) and more negative emotions (e.g., ashamed and resentful) to the primary caregiver (vs. breadwinner) fathers. Mediated moderation analyses showed that for men with high masculine honor orientation, their less positive and more negative emotional attributions were driven by perceived loss of reputation among male friends, whereas for men with low masculine honor orientation, their more positive and less negative emotional attributions were driven by perceived gain of wife’s and children’s admiration. By shifting the focus to men’s individual differences and motives, these findings offer nuanced explanations for why some men may feel eager about serving as caregiver fathers, whereas others may feel reluctant to do so.

JoAnne Stubbe named 2020 Priestley Medalist

JoAnne Stubbe, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry and Biology, emerita, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will receive the 2020 Priestley Medal, the American Chemical Society’s highest honor. “JoAnne is the top mechanistic biochemist of her generation,” says Stephen J. Lippard, one of Stubbe’s colleagues in the MIT Department of Chemistry. “Among her major achievements is understanding the controlled generation of radicals in biology.” “Throughout her career, JoAnne has taken on some of the experimentally most challenging problems, and time and time again, she provided insights that, while sometimes controversial when she first introduced them, have stood the test of time,” says Wilfred van der Donk, a chemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was a postdoc in Stubbe’s lab in the 1990s. Stubbe is best known for figuring out the mechanism of ribonucleotide reductase, an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of ribonucleotides used in RNA to

David A. Hamburg (1925-2019).

Renowned physician-psychiatrist and humanitarian

Cross-Cultural Exploration of Honor: Perception of Honor in Germany, Pakistan, and South Korea

The present paper explores the significance of Honor in the context of group dynamics underlying human behavior across three cultures, Germany, Pakistan, and South Korea. While earlier studies on Honor have focused on the negative connotations of Honor, the effects of these still remain as critical as ever. In this paper, Honor is defined as an assignment of recognition for being a member of a prestigious group where members of Honor group are obliged to follow their group’s Honor-code; not sticking to the Honor-code threatens reputation and instigates condemnation. To explore this assumption three studies were conducted: A Pilot Study, Study 1, and Study 2. The Pilot Study socially situates different groups in the assignment of Honor. Based on the findings of the Pilot Study, high Honor group (medical doctors) was chosen as a protagonist group for the studies that follow. Study 1 explores the effects of an Honor-code-related factor and an Honor-code unrelated factor in a vignette-based experiment. Loss of Honor, assessed in terms of an outsider perspective on Honor, is seen as an outcome of the violation of the Honor-code in three countries (Germany/Pakistan/South Korea). Study 2 further explores the effects of Honor-code violations from an insider perspective. The findings of Study 2 showed that the effects of Honor-code violation were stronger than outsider’s perspective. It is concluded that Honor may have a functional role in regulating the prestige of a group via outsiders’ and insiders’ monitoring of adherence to Honor-codes.

“I have the highest GPA, but I can’t be the valedictorian?”: two Black males’ exclusionary valedictory experiences

ABSTRACT Being the valedictorian is the highest honor bestowed upon a senior. Unfortunately, that was not the case for Jeffrey and Autry, the two high-achieving African American male participants in this critical race qualitative study, who were short-changed of their valedictorian status. Their cases reveal three themes: (1) these Black male students were shocked they did not receive this honor and were exploited in the process, (2) there were unfair institutional policies and practices associated with this title, and (3) there were drastic differences regarding the academic expectations for other students who were vying for this valedictory designation. Therefore, these African American male students experienced this academic honor as an exclusionary enterprise. Implications for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers are shared to mitigate the barriers associated with the valedictory accolade.

Deontological violations of community pharmacies in Turkey

DOI : 10.26650/IstanbulJPharm.2019.18009 Deontological violations are important in terms of reputation of public health, pharmacy profession, and protection of public finance. The aim of this study is to determine types and prevalence of deontological crimes reflected in records of High Honor Court (HHC) in Turkish Pharmacists’ Association (TPA), to develop proposals on corrective and preventive occupational policies. Crime types in disciplinary files were classified according to classification method of deontological crimes in 3-groups, and results were evaluated by frequency and percentage distributions. In the study, 32 deontological crime types and 112 criminal cases were detected. Accordingly, it was found that deontological crimes due to competition are in the first rank with 51 cases, TPA, Drug-Pharmacy Legislation violations in the second with 50 cases and Social Security Institution protocol provisions violations in the last rank with 11 cases, and in all types of crime, “collusion” is in the first rank (30.4%).It is thought that “collusion” crime being in the first rank increasing its share from 18.6% to 30.4% in all crimes despite increasing punishments. Persistence of crime despite punitive sanctions aggravated by recent regulations suggests that it is not possible to solve only by punitive sanctions, and it must be get to the bottom of the problem. Cite this article as : Kiran B, Karaca EG (2019). Deontological violations of community pharmacies in Turkey. Istanbul J Pharm 49 (1): 20-24.

Karen Jill Saywitz (1956-2018).

Presents an obituary for Karen Jill Saywitz, who passed on March 17, 2018. Saywitz devoted her life to advancing children's mental health and children's "voice" in the legal system. She completed internship and postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and became director of child and adolescent psychology at Harbor-UCLA. She returned to the main UCLA campus as professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. In February 2018, her research, clinical service, and advocacy on behalf of abused children and their families was recognized by the American Psychological Association's (APA) Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice (Division 37) with its highest honor, the Lifetime Advocacy Award. A month later, Karen lost her valiant fight against cancer. Through science, advocacy, and the translation of science into practice, Karen directly affected more child- and family-relevant laws, policies, and daily forensic practices than virtually anyone else in the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

“We live and love on a fissure”: an Interview with author Jerry Pinto

Jerry Pinto is one of India’s most prominent names in literature; equally appropriated and applauded by staunch critics and connoisseurs. Apart from being an author, he has worked as a journalist and as a faculty member in his native city of Mumbai. Apart from his fiction, non-fiction, poems and memoir, he has written books for children and has put together some very well-received anthologies. Jerry Pinto’s works have won him a plethora of accolades. His first novel, Em and the Big Hoom (2012) was awarded India’s highest honour from the Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi, for a novel in English; the Windham-Campbell Prize supervised by the Beinecke Library, Yale, USA; the Hindu ‘Lit for Life’ Award, and the Crossword Award for fiction. Helen: the Life and Times of a Bollywood H-Bomb (2006) won the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema. His translations from Marathi of Mallika Amar Sheikh’s autobiography I Want to Destroy Myself was shortlisted for the Crossword Award for Fiction. Furthermore, his graphic novel in collaboration with Garima Gupta was shortlisted for the Crossword Award for Children’s Fiction. His translation of the Dalit writer Baburao Bagul’s When I Hid My Caste won the Fiction Prize at the Bangalore Literary Festival in 2018 and his novel Murder in Mahim (2017) won the Valley of Words Prize, and was shortlisted for the Crossword Award for Fiction and the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image Prize.But there was a time when he feared rejection. In this interview Jerry Pinto touches on various issues, revealing the story of how he became a writer, a career option which wasn’t then recognised as a very reliable job prospect in India. He also discusses his social engagements and his connection with the city of his birth, Mumbai.

Poseban monaški status svetogorskog keliota Save, njegov karejski pečat i neopravdane optužbe Dimitrija Homatijana

After departure to Holy Mount Athos and becoming a monk in Vatopedi monastery, a young monk Sava, former Prince Rastko, the youngest son of the Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja, performed, along with other coreligionists, prescribed way of life and obedience, practised strict fasts, prayers and night vigils, expressed forbearance and devotion, deadened and tortured his body by walking barefoot across stones, wore coarse cloth and exposed himself to chill. All the sources tell that Sava spent some periods of his life in the most important centres of monastic asceticism of that time and that the character of his reclusive life was determined by the fact that he was the offspring of the family of rulers and then the head of the church. Sava was received as an official, with highest honours, in accordance with his descent and position, and one can speak about some kind of 'aristocratic eremitism' which was well-known on Athos. Having regard to the autonomy of Serbian monastery of Hilandar on the Holy Mount Athos in the context of ideological imperial programme of Serbian rulers concerning highlighting the identity of the state, the building of Hilandar cell with a church of monk Sava and shelters in Karyes was a logical result. Ohrid archbishop Demetrious Chomatianos (1217-1219), in his criticism, talks about certain autonomous and "free" life of archbishop Sava after his becoming a monk. The criticism of Chomatianos was considered tendentious because it was associated with his disapproval of and opposition to the independence of the Church of Serbia. Chomatianos failed to mention that Sava did not have the status of an ordinary monk. Sava became Karyes monk with a special status before 1196. Karyes cells were built or were hired by people of remarkable origin, who became monks and lived there from their own resources, chose this or that way of life; exempt from labour they were entitled to special nourishment, carriage and monastic and other accompaniment, as well as to the right of free movement with an only obligation of informing the dean about that. As a monk of a special monastic status and the elder of his Karyes cell, Sava was its legal representative and he had the right to participate in the assembly of the Holy Mount Athos and the right to have his own seal. On account of this right he made the Typikon which he validated with his monogram "Sava" by cross like sealing: "In the name of the Father - Sava, and of the Son - Sava, and of the Holy Spirit - Sava, Amen - Sava." In this way, which we believe to be the right one, great viciousness of Ohrid archbishop Demetrious Chomatianos is emphasized and the justification of his strong accusations against the archbishop Sava I is denied.