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Education matters: SEG Honorary Lecturer to teach on petroleum reservoir seismic anisotropy

Education matters: SEG Honorary Lecturer to teach on petroleum reservoir seismic anisotropy

Introduction to keeping lessons alive in engineering geology

In the evening of 1959 the residents of Frejus, France, were devastated by a deluge of water flowing from the collapsed Malpasset Dam. By the following morning they would learn that the disaster had claimed the lives of over 400 of their neighbours. Today, the remains of the Malpasset Dam squat over the Reyran, both as a memorial to the disaster and as a sobering warning to keep the lessons alive. The Malpasset Dam is a classic case-study in engineering geology and was the subject of the honorary lecture given by Pierre Duffaut at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Engineering Group of the Geological Society. Our conference theme explored how we might keep such lessons alive, and how this preservation may lower risk in the future. Our honorary presentation is summarized in Duffaut & Larouzee (2019), which describes how both the failure in identifying and interpreting risk from ground conditions, together with a breakdown of risk management during operation, contributed to the disaster. While there have been significant improvements in minimizing risk in engineering geological projects over the past …

Kenneth Michael Citron

Kenneth Michael Citron studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London, where he won the Golding Bird medal in bacteriology and the Leonard Lubbock prize in clinical pathology. After house appointments at...

’Relapse’ May Be Outmoded Term in AUD Recovery

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Clinical & ResearchFull Access’Relapse’ May Be Outmoded Term in AUD RecoveryNick ZagorskiNick ZagorskiSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:13 Aug 2019https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2019.8b26AbstractAt NIAAA’s 2019 Mendelson Lecture, Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., discussed the role of relapse in helping people learn to change their behaviors and suggested the term might better be removed from the lexicon of addiction.“I think it’s time we retire the term ‘relapse,’ ” when thinking about the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD), said Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., at the start of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Jack Mendelson, M.D., Honorary Lecture in July. Initiated in 2009, the Mendelson Lecture recognizes the contributions of the late psychiatrist Jack Mendelson in establishing alcohol use disorder as a medical condition and helping to pave the way for the formation of the NIAAA in 1970.NIAAA Director George Koob, Ph.D. (right), presents the 2019 Mendelson Lecture Award to Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., for his groundbreaking work in characterizing the process of healthy behavioral change.NIAAADiClemente, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and co-developer of the transtheoretical model (TTM, the concept that people go through discrete “stages” when undergoing a behavioral change), then proceeded to make his case to the assembled audience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Md.Though the term relapse is used to describe the return of symptoms of other disorders such as depression, it is tightly associated with alcohol and drug use, DiClemente noted.“But what is a relapse?” he asked the audience. For many, relapse is seen as the opposite state of recovery, but DiClemente disagreed. “I think this belief is stigmatizing and contributes to a fatalistic worldview for those looking to quit,” he said.“I don’t see it as the opposite of recovery, but rather an event that may be necessary for recovery,” he continued.DiClemente came to this conclusion after working to adapt the TTM (which was initially conceived following observations of people trying to quit smoking) for alcohol use disorder. He looked at characterizing relapse as a stage alongside the established stages of behavioral change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.“But we found that people who reported a relapse looked very different,” he said. “Some went back to the precontemplation stage and kept drinking, but others cycled directly to contemplation or preparing to quit.” DiClemente also noted that people could relapse from any stage. This led him to consider relapse as part of the process toward behavioral change. At each step people need to complete certain tasks in order to fully embrace their change; if they are not ready to adequately complete those tasks, then they might cycle back to a previous step.“For problem drinkers, alcohol has become an important part of their lives,” he said. “Learning how to overcome these changes takes time, energy, and focus. There will be errors along the way, but if we focus on how patients can benefit from the experience of failure, and not the failure itself, it can change the perspective of research and clinical practice.”If the term “relapse” should be retired, what should take its place then? “Let’s call it a recycling,” DiClemente said. “A recycling on the road to recovery.” ■More information on the Jack Mendelson Honorary Lecture series is posted here. ISSUES NewArchived

Developments in chemotherapy for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

Mark Drummond obtained his medical degree from the University of Glasgow (UK) and since then has trained as a hematologist in the West of Scotland and the Canterbury District Health Board (Christchurch, New Zealand) and back at Glasgow University, where he also gained a PhD in chronic myeloid leukemia. He is currently a consultant hematologist and honorary senior lecturer at the Beatson Cancer Centre (Glasgow, UK) as well as an investigator on multiple UK and international clinical trials.Here he talks to Commissioning Editor Jennifer Straiton, commenting on the recent announcement from the Scottish Medicines Consortium, regarding their acceptance of the use of the combination chemotherapy treatment Vyxeos® (daunorubicin and cytarabine) for the treatment of high-risk acute myeloid leukemia in adults. He then discusses the ongoing and future clinical trials in this disease area and then turns to more personalized treatments.

David Ivor Keith Evans

David Ivor Keith Evans was awarded a Saunders scholarship to read classics at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1951. He went on to study medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School. He met his future wife, Brenda, while they were working as junior doctors in Carshalton. They moved to Manchester with their young family in 1965, where he worked briefly as senior registrar in pathology (haematology) before being appointed consultant haematologist at Monsall Hospital (1966-1987), and the Royal Manchester and Booth Hall children’s hospitals (1966-1992). He was honorary lecturer in child health at the University of Manchester (1970-1992), with nearly 100 articles to his name. David was a medical pioneer who dedicated his career to setting up and running …

Geophysics Bright Spots

I have had great fun being the SEG Honorary Lecturer for North America this fall. I was impressed by the enthusiasm from students and professionals alike. I was surprised at the diversity; each place focused on different problems and different applications of geophysics. I hope that much of this work will culminate in peer-reviewed papers in Geophysics. Meanwhile, check out the interesting and diverse group of papers below, which were nominated by the editors.

Review of *D. H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire*, by David Game

Preconceptions of another country can take hold of an artist’s imagination – as ‘America’ did Kafka’s and Lorca’s – but who knew that D. H. Lawrence developed a comprehensive idea of ‘Australia’ long before his one hundred-day visit? Or how central that was to his later work? The objective of David Game, Honorary Lecturer at the Australian National University, is modestly expressed: to ‘throw new light on the significance of [Lawrence's] overall engagement with Australia – its place in his life and art’ (7). He does much more in a work of major scholarship.

Commemoration of Kárpáti Gizella, the first woman who took her degree in medical science in Kolozsvár at Ferenc József University

Abstract On 31st of December 1895 Gyula Wlassics (1852-1937), minister of religion and education, published his Decree No 72 039, which allowed women to study medical science, pharmacy and humanities at universities. In Kolozsvár Gizella Kárpáti was the first woman who registered at the Faculty of Medicine of Ferenc József University. Gizella Kárpáti was born in Kolozsvár on 3rd August 1884. After finishing secondary school in June 1902, in the autumn of the same year she registered at the Faculty of Medicine. The marks she got at the university examinations in the following 10 semesters proved that she could cope with her task. In the years spent at the university she met medical student József Szabó (born in 1882) whom she married later. They both started their medical career at Károly Lechner’s Neuro-Psychiatry Institute. From 1909 Gizella Kárpáti was a payed assistant, from 1911 she became assistant lecturer. Her husband became an assistant lecturer from the year 1908, then he was appointed lecturer and then honorary lecturer. Meanwhile he had to go to the front where he was followed by his wife. In 1919, after the professors of the university refused the act of swearing the oath of allegiance, they both made their escape from Kolozsvár together with the greater part of their fellow professors. After a short time they settled in Szeged, where József Szabó was appointed university professor. Here he published his book „Elmekórtan” in 1925. In the 1927-28 academic year he became dean, then vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, but in the year 1929 he died unexpectedly. In Szeged, Gizella Kárpáti being engaged in bringing up her two children, did not work as a physician. One of her children, Miklós, continued his parents’ profession, and became a physician. Gizella and her children returned to Kolozsvár for a short time, between 1940-1944, then they moved to Budapest and finally they settled in Szeged again. In 1929 József Szabó and in 1953 Gizella Kárpáti were entombed in one of the graves of honour of the Szeged central cemetery.

Frank Arthur Fairweather

Frank Fairweather started his long and distinguished career at the Ipswich group of hospitals before returning to the Middlesex Hospital as a pathologist in 1956. He became chief medical adviser...

Midwifery education: Reflecting on the past and changing for the future

In 1993, Dr Lesley Briscoe was a clinical midwife, while Elinor Clarke, who wrote for the inagural issue, was a tutor and honorary lecturer. They look back on 25 years of midwifery education Midwifery education is dynamic and responsive to changes in society, population demographic, theory and policy. Changes to education since British Journal of Midwifery began in 1993 have been phenomenal. The overarching aim of midwifery education is to prepare undergraduate students to be eligible to register as a midwife following a programme of theory and clinical practice and to enhance the potential of a midwifery workforce via postgraduate education. Reflecting on the past 25 years of midwifery education provides insights into the challenges of midwifery practice and the need to prepare midwives to be reflective and responsive to transformation as we advance towards 2025.

AR-V7 Androgen Receptor Variant as a Predictor of Response to Androgen-receptor Targeting Agents Used to Treat Castration-refractory Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Several systemic treatment options are currently available for patients with metastatic castration-refractory prostate cancer (mCRPC), including the androgen-receptor targeting agents (ARTA) enzalutamide and abiraterone, the taxanes docetaxel and cabazitaxel, and the radioisotope drug 223-radium dichloride. In some patients with mCRCP, alternative splicing of androgen receptor (AR) mRNA occurs, resulting in the formation of a truncated AR lacking the androgen-binding domain. These receptors activate downstream signalling pathways even without the ligand. Recent studies show that the presence of the AR-V7 (ARV - AR variants) splicing variant is associated with resistance to ARTA. Bec>ause the presence of AR-V7 does not affect the efficacy of other systemic therapies used in mCRCPs, particularly taxanes, AR-V7 is a candidate predictive biomarker for the individualisation of mCRCP treatment. Two types of assays based on mRNA or abnormal protein detection are used to detect AR-V7 in circulating tumour cells. To describe the current status of AR-V7 testing in mCRPC and possible applications of this method for predicting outcomes of ARTA therapy. The percentage of CTC AR-V7+ in ARTA-naive men is relatively low at baseline, but in patients pretreated with ARTA, the prevalence of AR-V7 increases to 19-34%. Given the relatively high expected prevalence, AR-V7 testing may be economically feasible in this population. The proportion of AR-V7+ patients responding to ARTA retreatment appears to be very low, at only 4.8%. AR-V7 testing could thus be useful if an ARTA switch is considered in a patient progressing onto an ARTA drug. Both protein-based tests and mRNA-based tests are currently undergoing clinical validation in prospective studies, with results expected within a year.Key words: prostate cancer - abiraterone - enzalutamide - alternative splicing - drug resistanceSubmitted: 30. 8. 2017Accepted: 5. 11. 2017 doc. MUDr. Tomáš Büchler, Ph.D. received honorary lectures and publications from Astellas and Janssen and a travel grant from Janssen. Supported by Ministry of Health, Czech Republic - conceptual development of research organization Thomayer Hospital - TN 0064190. The Editorial Board declares that the manuscript met the ICMJE recommendation for biomedical papers.

Honorary Lectures

MycosesVolume 60, Issue S2 p. 5-5 HONORARY LECTURESFree Access Honorary Lectures First published: 26 September 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/myc.12670AboutPDF 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 No abstract is available for this article. Volume60, IssueS2Special Issue: 8th Trends in Medical Mycology, Organised under the auspices of EORTC-IDG and ECMM, 6-9 October 2017, Belgrade, SerbiaSeptember 2017Pages 5-5 RelatedInformation

Honorary Lectures.

Honorary Lectures.

The Challenges and Possibilities of a Truly Quiet Helicopter 29th Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lecture

The Challenges and Possibilities of a Truly Quiet Helicopter <i>29th Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lecture</i>

Fifty Years of Industry Perspective: 36th Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lecture

Fifty Years of Industry Perspective:<i> 36th Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lecture</i>

Professional Development

I served as the SEG Honorary Lecturer (HL) for the Latin America region from August to December 2015. I love communication, presentations, exchange of ideas, and workshops dealing with knowledge and experience transfer, as they are a great part of my work, but I never expected to do something like the HL tour. My nomination and election were completely unexpected, but I assure you that it has truly been a great privilege and a very high honor to be part of this effort. I am a much better professional — and human being — after the tour. Let me explain why.

SEG Foundation's mission: Fund-raising for SEG programs

The SEG Foundation raises funds to support 16 programs, which are managed by the SEG. Many of the programs are for students and early-career geoscientists, but members of all ages benefit from programs such as Honorary and Distinguished Lectures (see sidebar).

Property, Duress, and Consensual Relationships

Professor Seana Valentine Shiffrin has produced an exciting new book, Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law. Shiffrin’s previous rigorous, careful, and morally sensitive work spans contract law, intellectual property, and the freedoms of association and expression. Speech Matters is in line with Shiffrin’s signature move: we ought to reform our social practices and legal and political institutions to, in various ways, address or accommodate moral values—here, a stringent moral prohibition against lying, a strident principle of promissory fidelity, that is, the principle that one ought to keep one’s promises, and the general value of veracity. The book grows out of Shiffrin’s Hempel Lectures at Princeton University and honorary lectures she has given at Cornell and New York Universities. Shiffrin cotaught a seminar with the late Professor Ronald Dworkin, which discussed a prepublication draft of the book (pp. ix–x). The volume is organized into six essentially independent chapters or lectures. Chapters One, Two, and Six began as independent, stand-alone lectures; Shiffrin crafted Chapters Three, Four, and Five to further expand on the arguments of One and Six (p. 4). While the volume bears a unifying theme, Shiffrin intended the chapters to retain their independence as distinct lectures, and she welcomes readers to delve into the chapters independently of one another (p. 4). Speech Matters is, at its core, a rich discussion of moral agency and the normative values of sincerity, truth telling, promissory fidelity, and the effect they ought to bear on personal and social relations, and political and legal institutions. This Review brings forward this unifying theme and provides a critical appraisal, contrasting Shiffrin’s stridently Kantian approach with an alternative foundationally deontic, if less severe, distributive approach.