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The Influence and Impact of Bernadette Brooten Not Only on LGBTIQ+ People in Germany

The Influence and Impact of Bernadette Brooten Not Only on LGBTIQ+ People in Germany Angela Standhartinger (bio) As we all know, Bernadette Brooten is an impressively polyglot person. She knows Norwegian, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, French, and of course German. Actually, she is the best non-native German speaker I have ever met in my life. In preparation for this contribution, I solved the riddle of Brooten's facility: she started her career with a maxima cum laude BA in German from the University of Portland, Oregon, including one year of study in Salzburg in Austria. Immediately after, she studied theology for another two years at Tübingen in Germany before entering the PhD program at Harvard, which included a year at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.1 At Tübingen she became involved in the critical discussion, at that time, of the recently closed Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church and its failure, among other reforms, to begin ordaining women as priests. So her famous rediscovery of the female apostle Junia was published in the volume Women Priests: A Catholic Commentary on the Vatican Declaration, edited by Leonard and Arlene Swidler.2 The following year, the Junia article was published in one of the premiere German publications on feminist theology, the book Frauenbefreiung (women's emancipation), edited by Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel.3 With Moltmann-Wendel and Hans Küng, Brooten developed a research project, "Women and Christianity," part of which resulted in her famous paper "Early Christian Women and Their [End Page 183] Cultural Context: Issues of Method in Historical Reconstruction."4 The German Volkswagen Foundation funded the Women and Christianity project, under the category "unconventional ideas," with 732,000 DM. From 1982 to 1984 Brooten held an academic research position at the University of Tübingen to publish in the area of "Sexualität, Ehe und Alternativen zur Ehe in den ersten vier Jarhunderten christlicher Geschichte" (sexuality, marriage, and alternatives to marriage in the first four Christian centuries). However, when she decided to focus on "Frauen, Macht und Sexualität: Röm 1,26 im Kontext" (women, power, and sexuality: Rom 1:26 in context), Hans Küng, the only chair holder in the group, saw this as a fundamental thematic change of topic. Because of this academic freedom dispute, Bernadette Brooten left Tübingen and moved to Harvard and later to Brandeis. Yet she had already initiated two political movements in Germany. One movement was the discussion of anti-Jewish patterns in Christian feminist theology. Brooten's engagement in this debate was triggered by the 1981 issue of Concilium, the international journal dedicated to critical Catholicism and perhaps the first mainline journal in Germany to publish on feminist theology.5 That same year, Brooten responded to the initial volume her paper "Jüdinnen zur Zeit Jesus" (Jewish women at the time of Jesus).6 She openly criticized the anti-Jewish stereotyping involved in constructing a feminist Jesus through a contrast with the (other) alleged patriarchal Jewish teachers and the accompanying tendentious selections of Jewish sources, in order to rescue early Christianity from patriarchy. The next year she republished most of the Concilium articles in her coedited book Women in a Men's Church, in which she included her own article and two from Jewish feminists Naomi R. Goldenberg and Judith Plaskow as well as one from Jacquelyn Grant entitled "Black Theology and Black Women."7 In so doing, [End Page 184] Brooten wrote in the foreword, she hoped to initiate a dialogue between Jewish and Christian feminists in Germany—a goal the book accomplished.8 While the German debate on anti-Judaism in feminist theology reached its high point in 1986–87, Brooten's 1981 article is still remembered as the starting point.9 One typical apologetic argument of that time was that Jesus rescued women from the patriarchal arbitrariness of Jewish men through his general prohibition of divorce. Brooten countered with extensive source work in "Konnten Frauen im Alten Judentum die Scheidung betreiben? Überlegungen zu Mk 10,11–12 and 1 Kor 7,10–11" (Did Jewish women divorce themselves from their husbands? Considerations on Mark 10:11–12 and 1 Cor 7:10–11).10...

A proteomic atlas of atherosclerosis: regional proteomic signatures for plaque inflammation and calcification

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Foundation. Main funding source(s): This study was mainly supported from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) supporting Prof. Manuel Mayr as a Chair Holder (CH/16/3/32406) with BHF programme grant support (RG/16/14/32397) and Dr. Theofilatos with BHF programm grant support (G/20/10387). Background Using proteomics, we strove to reveal novel molecular subtypes of human atherosclerotic lesions, study their associations with histology and imaging and relate them to long-term cardiovascular outcomes. Methods 219 samples were obtained from 120 patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy. Sequential protein extraction was combined with multiplexed, discovery proteomics. Parallel reaction monitoring for 135 proteins was deployed for targeted validation. A combination of statistical, bioinformatics and machine learning methods was used to perform differential expression, network, pathway enrichment analysis and train and evaluate prognostic models. Results Our extensive proteomics analysis from the core and periphery of plaques doubled the coverage of the plaque proteome compared to the largest proteomics study on atherosclerosis thus far. Plaque inflammation and calcification signatures were inversely correlated and validated with targeted proteomics. The inflammation signature was enriched with neutrophil-derived proteins, including calprotectin (S100A8/9) and myeloperoxidase. The calcification signature contained fetuin-A, osteopontin, and gamma-carboxylated proteins. Sex differences in the proteome of atherosclerosis were explained by a higher proportion of calcified plaques in women. Single-cell RNA sequencing data attributed the inflammation signature predominantly to neutrophils and macrophages and the calcification signature to smooth muscle cells, except for certain plasma proteins that were not expressed but retained in the plaque, i.e., fetuin-A. Echogenic lesions reflect the collagen content and calcification of plaque but carotid Duplex ultrasound fails to capture the extent of inflammatory protein changes in symptomatic plaques. Applying dimensionality reduction and machine learning on the proteomics data defined 4 distinct plaque phenotypes and revealed key protein signatures linked to smooth muscle cell content, plaque calcification and structural extracellular matrix, which improved the 9-year prognostic AUC by 25% compared to ultrasound and histology. A biosignature of four proteins (CNN1, PROC, SERPH, and CSPG2) independently predicted the progression of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular mortality with an AUC of 75% Conclusion We combined discovery and targeted proteomics with network reconstruction and clustering techniques to provide molecular insights into protein changes in atherosclerotic plaques. The application of proteomics and machine learning techniques revealed distinct clusters of plaques that inform on disease progression and future adverse cardiovascular events.

Anthropology and development in Germany

The history of anthropology’s engagement with development in the post-World War II German-speaking world (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) can be divided into three phases: from being strongly rejected by most professorial chair holders (to around 1980), through the emergence of a subfield of anthropology (from 1980) and into the mainstream of the discipline (since around 2000). However, this perspective presupposes a broad definition of “anthropology of development” that encompasses more than the application of anthropological knowledge in development cooperation, as is often implied by the term “development anthropology”. In the slow modernisation process of German anthropology over the last fifty years – as defined by the discipline’s turn towards the modern world and its rapid internationalisation – the critical study of development as a field of professional practice has played a pioneering role by providing important theoretical and methodological stimuli. Together with their European colleagues, not least from APAD, German-speaking anthropologists have developed a particular style that has also been referred to as the “anthropology of development based on anthropology in development”. Today, the anthropology of development has evolved into an ethnographic inquiry of global social engineering.

Does Fairness Perceptions of Academic Staff Interfere with the Managerial Effectiveness?

The growth of Indian higher education sector has brought about a shift from collegialism to managerialism and management issues have now become need of the hour for any institution. Thus managerial effectiveness of people in command is now considered as a preeminent ingredient of prosperity and endurance for these institutions of higher learning in this competitive era of global scenario. To understand thisdifferent influential factors to employee’s behavior and attitude should be explored. Organizational justice is one of those important aspect that are used in explaining staff member’s behaviors like job satisfaction, employee turnover intentions, organizational commitment etc. which are the prerequisites for managerial effectiveness. This study is an earnest effort to measure the influencethat organizational justice has on managerial effectiveness of chair holders i.e. director general, director, secretory, principal, and head of the departments in the higher education institutions. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Pearson correlation, structural equation modelling and stepwise multiple regression analysis were used. The findings revealed that faculty’s perceptions of distributive justice, and interactional justice has a significant positive influence on managerial effectiveness while procedural justice depicted as not having significant positive influence on managerial effectiveness of heads in institutions of higher learning. It is observed that by concentrating on justice issues institutions and chair holders may be able to create a healthier and more productive workplace and chairpersons’ overall managerial effectiveness can be enhanced.

Germanistik in Wien: Das Seminar für Deutsche Philologie und seine Privatdozentinnen (1897–1933) by Elisabeth Grabenweger

Reviewed by: Germanistik in Wien: Das Seminar für Deutsche Philologie und seine Privatdozentinnen (1897–1933)by Elisabeth Grabenweger Katherine Arens Elisabeth Grabenweger, Germanistik in Wien: Das Seminar für Deutsche Philologie und seine Privatdozentinnen (1897–1933). Quellen und Forschungen zur Literatur-und Kulturgeschichte 85. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. 280 pp. Germanistik in Wienis one of those seemingly modest books that can transform received accounts in fundamental ways. Originating in a 2014 dissertation (Vienna), Elisabeth Grabenweger's study provides us with new visions about the early history of females teaching at the University of Vienna and about how that university exercised its political wishes in the era. Her case studies are three exemplary careers that are carefully contextualized within the history of German philology at the time and within turbulent historical times, culminating in the institution's 1920s history, which was generally elided after the Nazi era. She also documents clearly how a history of female participation in this university found no resonance in the institution's post-war history. The first section's four parts trace the field's configurations at the University from 1848 through 1933, the evolution and constitution of Germanistikfor the moment that it emerged into the university curriculum. The section is incredibly well documented, tracing the various chair holders and their projects and providing valuable keys to who these people were and what they represented—some names, such as Wilhelm Scherer (who was there 1868–1872), Paul Kluckhohn, and Josef Nadler, still resonate. Grabenweger also uses documents from university history to track how appointments were made, who was on short lists, and who fought for which candidates—a primer in how academics were run at the time. After 1912, with the death of Jakob Minor, the 1848 first chair was split into two, one each for older and newer literature. In this institution-based history, Grabenweger also clarifies what, in practice, differentiated what we know today as philology and Geistesgeschichte. For instance, Nadler was not willing, on empirical grounds, to separate Austrian from German literature in his great (and, eventually, problematic) Literaturgeschichte(55), but he did insist on maintaining the presence of the two nations, giving Austria pride of place; in consequence, firing Nadler was not the equivalent of purging anti-Semitism from the university. The second large section of the book presents as independent case studies three women who taught in the humanities at the University of Vienna, [End Page 104]each with their biographies and bibliographies, and contextualizes them in university history and recounts their struggles for credentials and positions. They are linked here through their status as the first in their categories and as women who persisted to become important in their respective specializations. Christine Touaillon (1878–1928) was, in the 1897/98 winter semester, one of the first women admitted to the University. After retroactively completing her Reifeprüfung, she completed her Promotionin 1905 with a study on Zacharias Werner's Attila, König der Hunnen. After her marriage, she became an activist in the women's movement, editing a women's journal until 1920 and publishing in the Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung; she also declined a nomination as a candidate for the Landtagin Steiermark. In 1919, she tried for her Habilitation. The University of Graz, where she studied for a year, had turned down her application for the venia legendiin 1919, after she presented Der deutsche Frauenroman des 18. Jahrhunderts, a volume establishing an early version of a female literary canon. After a long series of discussions in Vienna among the professoriate, she was allowed to proceed to the interview stage< ?> and her qualification lectures, finally leading to her Habilitationin 1921 and to her employment, also setting a precedent for how women could be afforded the status of docents in the Austro-Hungarian educational system. Grabenweger's second case study, Marianne Thalmann (1888–1975), remembered even today for her work on Romanticism and popular literature, spans Vienna and the US. She completed her Promotionin 1918 on Tieck but resisted classical philology in favor of a more formal aestheticism and Geistesgeschichte. She taught in secondary schools while completing her Habilitationsschrift, which was published in 1923...

Meanings of competing: The multiple understandings of the championship experience among elementary school students

Olympism is a philosophy of life idealized by Pierre de Coubertin, whose principle was the search for values through sport. From the Coubertin’s vision, the Olympic Education was structured and could be applied to disseminate such values, whose role is to enable the student to construct their conscience as an autonomous instance of reflection and, the sport, potentiates the discussion of values and exercises human relationships. This paper aims to describe what are the best and worst moments by students after a competition. Twenty-four students (7 to 11 years old), both sexes, members of the dodgeball team of a public school. Results: Best moments: 54,16% related to the team's victory, 41,66% to personal success and 4.1% to moments with friends. Worst moments: 29.16% related to defeat, 37.5% to personal failures, 20.83% to personal perceptions, 8.3% to a wrong referee’s choice and, to 4.16%, there was no worse time. It is concluded that, although this Olympic Education proposal enhance ethical conduct and the development of values, victory/defeat still emerge as the main concerns of the team. This leads to the search for other strategies to renew possible social representations about the competition and sport in general. References 1 Binder DL. Teaching olympism in schools: Olympic education as a focus on values education: university lectures on the olympics [internet]. Bellaterra: Centre d’Estudis OlA­mpics (UAB). International Chair in Olympism (IOC‐UAB), 2010 [acesso 01 abr. 2017. DisponA­vel em: http://olympicstudies.uab.es/2010/docs/binder_eng.pdf. 2 Brownell S, Parry J. Olympic values and ethics in contemporary society. Chair Holder Ghent University: Annick Willem; 2012. 3 Chatziefstathiou D. Olympic education and beyond: Olympism and value legacies from the olympic and paralympic games. Educational Review. 2012; 64(3): 385-400. 4 Kidd B. The legacy of Pierre de Coubertin. Vancouver, BC: Olympic Academy of Canada; 1985. 5 Muller N. Olympic education: University lecture on the Olympics [internet]. Barcelona: Centre d’Estudis Olimpics (UAB). International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB). 2004 [acesso 01 abr. 2017]. DisponA­vel em: http://olympicstudies.uab.es/lectures/web/pdf/muller.pdf. 6 Naul R. Olympic education. Aachen: Meyer & Meyer Verlag; 2008. 7 Perez CR, Zimmermann MA, Quintilio NK, Marconi JR. Olympic education: Reports of a Brazilian reality. Journal of Sport Science and Physical Education. Bulletin; 2016; 70: 73-79. 8 Perez CR, Rubio K. The understanding of olympic values by brazilian olympic athetes. International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education. 2014; 1(12): 37-43. 9 Futada FM. EducaA§A£o olA­mpica: Conceito e modelos. In: Rubio K. (Ed.). EducaA§A£o olA­mpica e responsabilidade social. SA£o Paulo: Casa do PsicA³logo; 2007. 10 IOC. Olympic Agenda: 20+20 recommendations. Lausanne: IOC; 2014 [acesso 01 mai. 2019]. DisponA­vel em: https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Olympic_Agenda_2020/Olympic_Agenda_2020-20-20_Recommendations-ENG.pdf. 11 IOC. Olympic values and education program. Lausanne: IOC; 2017 [acesso 01 mai. 2019]. DisponA­vel em: https://www.olympic.org/olympic-values-and-education-program. 12 Kung H. Uma A©tica global para a polA­tica e a economia mundiais. PetrA³polis, RJ: Vozes; 1999. 13 Parry, J. Olympism at the beginning and end of the twentieth century – immutable values and principles and outdated factors. 28th Young Participants Session. Ancient Olympia: International Olympic Academy; 1988. p. 81‑94. 14 Rubio K. Olympic education: a teaching proposal for public schools of SA£o Paulo. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research. 2013; 1(4): 109-120. 15 Santos MF. DicionAirio de filosofia e ciAancias culturais. SA£o Paulo: Logos, 1964. 16 Abbagnano N. DicionAirio de Filosofia. SA£o Paulo: Martins Fontes; 2007. 17 Japiassu H, Marcondes D. DicionAirio bAisico de filosofia. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor; 2001. Jodelet D. (Ed.). Les reprA©sentations sociales. Paris: PUF; 1989. p. 31-61. 19 Alves-Mazotti AJ. RepresentaA§Aµes sociais: Aspectos teA³ricos e aplicaA§Aµes A educaA§A£o. Revista MAoltiplas Leituras. 2008; 1(1): 18-43. 20 Rubio, K. O imaginAirio da derrota no esporte contemporA¢neo. Psicologia & Sociedade, v. 18, n. 1, 2006.

Revolution ohne Kiel und ohne Revolution – Die quantitativ-theoretische Geographie in Erlangen

Abstract. This article aims at expanding the predominant narrative of a Quantitative Revolution in German-speaking geography, to develop a more complex and multifaceted perspective on this chapter of the discipline's history. For this purpose, I take a closer look at the institute of geography in Erlangen. Eugen Wirth, the long-term chair holder in Erlangen, argued that here, in contrast to the majority of other institutes, the implementation of quantitative methods started in 1932, when Walter Christaller submitted his thesis: Central Places in Southern Germany. According to Wirth a dissertation supervised by him in 1969 was a further step towards the use of quantitative methods. I argue that Wirth made a significant contribution to the debate on quantitative theoretical geography in Germany with his textbook Theoretical Geography published in 1979, although the book was subsequently criticised and strongly rejected by Bartels and others as a conservative embrace. By examining this local negotiation process, I develop one of many narratives, that stand opposed to a unified account with which the general assembly of geographers in 1969 and Bartels' Geographie des Menschen uniquely motivated the abandonment of the concept of Länderkunde.

Finnish Water Services: Experiences in Global Perspective

Finnish Water Services: Experiences in Global Perspective, the latest book by UNESCO Chair holder Tapio S. Katko, challenges the reader to assess critical sector issues:Can 24/7 access to safe drinking water be taken for granted?What threats does deterioration of water and sewage networks pose?Who are responsible for providing and producing water services?Why do many international water-related comparisons rank Finland among the top countries?This book is a timely contribution to the discussion on water services. In addition to water professionals, Finnish Water Services: Experiences in Global Perspective is suitable for anyone interested in water and its use.ISBN: 9789526697260 (Print)ISBN: 9781780408743 (eBook)

In Memoriam: Dr. Clive L. Dym (1942–2016)

In Memoriam: Dr. Clive L. Dym (1942–2016)

Glasgow time signals

From 1859 to 1864, both visual and audio one o’clock time signals operated in Glasgow. Although the University carried a remit to provide the city’s time, following convoluted processes of establishment, a local chronometer-maker operated a time ball for 4 years. Towards the end of the period, time guns were triggered by telegraph from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Both exercises caused aggravation for the University. For the ball, the Professor of Astronomy, John Pringle Nichol, failed to convince the City Council that the “drop” control should originate from the University’s Observatory. For the guns, Robert Grant, the newly appointed Astronomy Chair holder, was aggrieved by the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Piazzi Smyth, appearing to operate above his station. Rather than having only a once per day reference, both projects were abandoned as the University laid a dedicated telegraph cable from its observatory to control many public clocks and additional clocks with large sweep fingers indicating exact time to the second.

Special issue WGP: “Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics”

This special issue contains a number of publications in the area of production research. The intention is to give innovative examples of the work of research institutes and to show some of recent developments from the interdisciplinary field of automation and robotics. Nowadays automation is no longer only technology for producing big numbers of identical products. The challenges of the market have changed more and more: requests for more customer specific products are going along with a reduction of the time-to-market as well as a high production quality and a zero fault tolerance. And robots are no longer only applied for their former typical production purposes: robots—or other applicable kinematical structures—are also serving in repair and machining domains more and more. These demands are the basis and the challenge for the research area, in universities and institutes as well as in R&D departments of companies. And the diversity of demands results in research in multiple areas, ranging from gipping technologies up to new structures for activating robot links, with software based methods for planning, simulating and setting up the systems. But it is not only basic research that has to be done— applying the results to implementations in industrial systems is the next step. Therefore this issue presents achievements that are ready for the market, with developments being motivated, driven, evaluated and confirmed by industrial partners— results representing the practical impact that will bridge the gap between research and successful industrial applications. The aim of this issue is to present innovative approaches and realizations on the overall way from the product idea via construction and engineering processes to an appropriate production system. This issue was initiated by the ‘‘Academic Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotic’’ (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft fur Montage, Handhabung und Industrierobotik (MHI)). The ‘‘Academic Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotic’’ is an organization of university professors being heads of institutes or chair holders. The members do basic research and application engineering in assembly, handling and robotics industry. MHI has currently 18 members representing approximately 1.000 scientists in their institutes and chairs. The society works in close cooperation with the German Engineering Federation (VDMA). In addition, MHI is supported by an industrial advisory board, consisting of about 12 members from industrial companies, representing technology supplier as well as users in the areas of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. This is also the place to thank all the people that were involved in initiating this issue, contributing by papers as well as serving as reviewers and editorial committee or were part of the overall process to bring this special issue into a printed booklet.

Design and validation of a child seat pretensor device

MAPFRE foundation and others have reported that every year around 6,500 children in Latin America in traffic accidents result in death [1]. The accident data related to infant deaths that do not carry a child restraint system that offers the protection levels as evidenced by the current safety devices are alarming. Although current child restraints systems have a good level of protection it is possible to design others that improve the performance of the current ones, being the improvement of child safety the main motivation for this study. This study is divided into two phases: the first one corresponds to the design of a pretensioner prototype which is attached to a baby chair holder and the second stage shows the operation of this device with simulated crash tests in vehicle forward facing direction. In the experimental phase is found that this device is able to decrease the forward excursion of the head, the neck efforts supported, the head and chest acceleration levels during a collision. Moreover, the results show the increased levels of protection offered to children, as well as the improved retention capacity for a chair restraint system equipped with the pretensioner developed in this work.

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Commentary to the articles of M. Stier (Normative preconditions for the assessment of mental disorder) and T. Schramme (On the autonomy of the concept of disease in psychiatry)

Commentary to the articles of M. Stier (Normative preconditions for the assessment of mental disorder) and T. Schramme (On the autonomy of the concept of disease in psychiatry)

Society of Surgical Oncology Distinguished Service Award: Honoring David P. Winchester, M.D.

It is a distinct honor and singular privilege for me to introduce the Society of Surgical Oncology’s inaugural Distinguished Service Awardee, David P. Winchester, M.D. (Fig. 1). Let me walk you through this remarkable man’s life, and you will readily see why he was chosen to be the first recipient of one of our Society’s highest honors. David was born and raised in Illinois by his mother, Virginia, and father, Allan. In 1959 he received his Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. While in college David married his high school sweetheart, Marilyn, and started a long-term partnership that is still going strong, now for more than 55 years (Fig. 2). This in itself is somewhat remarkable considering that 55 years ago his surprise choice of an ideal honeymoon destination for Marilyn and him was St. Louis, Missouri. David graduated in 1963 from Northwestern University Medical School and then did his internship at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Illinois. Following his surgical internship, David served in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Vietnam in 1966 as a Captain in the Medical Corps. This was certainly a harbinger of a life committed to both service and improving the lives of others. David returned home to complete his general surgery residency at Northwestern University Medical Center, followed by a surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. David has been an attending surgeon for 40 years at Evanston Hospital, where he has also served in many leadership positions, including Head of Surgical Oncology and Chief of the Division of General Surgery. In 1995 he was chosen to be Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Evanston Northwestern Health Care, and he remained in that leadership position until 2007. During that time, David was a Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University Medical School and currently holds that same academic title at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. David’s academic accomplishments during the early part of his career are extraordinary and what you would envision for a leading figure in academic surgery. David has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and also has ten book chapters and five books to his credit. He has been a member of numerous editorial boards of both surgical and oncology journals including: Cancer, the Journal of Surgical Oncology, the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, and, of course, our Society’s journal, the Annals of Surgical Oncology. David has had bestowed upon him numerous awards, medals, named lectureships, and an endowed chair in his name, the David P. Winchester, MD, Chair of Surgical Oncology, with the first chair holder being his accomplished son, David J. Winchester, MD. One of David’s proudest academic achievements is being awarded on multiple occasions (1990, 1993, 1998, 2006, and 2007) the Outstanding Faculty Teacher of the year in the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine recognizing his enduring dedication to education and surgical training. David has had a long-term commitment to the mission and values of the Society of Surgical Oncology for decades and has served on its Executive Council for 10 years, named Secretary in 1993 through 1996 and served as our President in 1997–1998. While most individuals would have sat on their laurels, David was just getting started, and, therefore, it is what he has accomplished following his term as SSO president that truly distinguishes this surgical leader. First let me quickly summarize his tenure at the American College of Society of Surgical Oncology 2013

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Duitse Geopolitik in vooroorlogs en bezet Nederland: tussen welwillende ontvangst en resolute afwijzing in de wetenschap

The German science of geopolitics in the Netherlands, 1920-1945. In the 1920s, Karl Haushofer founded Geopolitik in Munchen as a form of applied political geography. German geopoliticians perceived territorial loss of their country after 1918 through the social darwinist lens. They considered states as types of organisms that rivalled over territories (Lebensraum). ‘Natural’ selection determined the outcome. Geopolitics was aligned with the nazis despite theoretical differences (space vs. race). The reception of German geopolitics among geographers in Dutch universities (especially in the geography departments of Utrecht and Amsterdam) during the Interbellum and the German occupation varied. Keen interest in the highly reputed sister-universities across the border did not result in uniform reactions to the academic implications of the nazi rise to power, as was also evident in other ideologically sensitive fields such as archeology and eugenetics. This article analyses the cooperation of S.R. Steinmetz and L. Van Vuuren, the main chair holders in Dutch human geography, in German geopolitical publications and the reactions of their successors. While H.N. ter Veen, Steinmetz’ eventual successor, strongly rejected the geopolitical project, J.G. Loohuis, Van Vuuren’s erstwhile student, reacted approvingly. He was the only academic geopolitician to work at a Dutch university, nominated during the war at the strong request of the occupation authorities.

Novel CUX1 missense mutation in association with 7q− at leukemic transformation of MPN

Novel <i>CUX1</i> missense mutation in association with 7q− at leukemic transformation of MPN

Professorial roles: a study of the professorial populations within nursing and midwifery, social work and allied health professions

The professorial populations in nursing/midwifery, social work and allied health are relatively new in academia compared to longer established professions, such as medicine and dentistry. Less is known about the roles, career pathways, characteristics and career aspirations of the professoriate within these emerging professions. A survey was undertaken from sample populations in each of the three professorial groups in order to obtain qualitative and quantitative data on professorial roles and activities, career pathway information and support mechanisms for professorial positions. This paper discusses the findings of the survey that relate specifically to professorial roles and activities and whether the identified roles reflect the professorial activities proposed by the National Conference of University Professors (NCUP). Other aspects of this survey, including career pathways, findings relating to gender and support mechanisms, will form the basis of future papers. The findings suggest that the professorial roles studied in this survey reflect those described by the NCUP. Professors of nursing, allied health professions and social work balance a wide range of roles and activities. Research, and related activities, as one would expect, constitute a substantial aspect of work activity, but many professors express frustration with an environment that requires a heterogeneous role profile combined with an unrealistically high workload in order to successfully pursue their research careers. The survey highlighted support networks as a critical success factor in terms of professorial career development. However, professors from across the disciplines commented on the lack of support (institutional and external) available to professors in both pre-professorial and professorial grades. Established and personal chair holders appear to have similar roles, with few statistically significant differences found between these two sub-populations.