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P. J. Elmquist: Founding President of the Swedish Bible Institute of Chicago, 1897–1908

P. J. Elmquist: Founding President of the Swedish Bible Institute of Chicago, 1897–1908

Courtroom forensic evidence often lacks scientific validity, report finds

Improvements will require coordination among the US judicial, law enforcement, and scientific communities.

Leslie V. Lewis FIMF: Institute President 1992–94

Leslie V. Lewis FIMF: Institute President 1992–94

Interview with MD, Professor, pediatric surgeon of the highest category, the President of the research Institute of emergency pediatric surgery and traumatology, President of the National medical cha

Interview with MD, Professor, pediatric surgeon of the highest category, the President of the research Institute of emergency pediatric surgery and traumatology, President of the National medical cha

Address by the President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Ms Fiona J. Morrison

Address by the President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Ms Fiona J. Morrison

Leonard P. Freedman

Twenty-eight billion dollars. It’s a shocking amount of money, almost as much as the annual budget of the National Institutes of Health. But it’s how much a recent estimate suggests the U.S. science enterprise is spending each year on preclinical medical research that cannot be reproduced. Irreproducibility is not just a problem because money is misspent on research results that can’t be trusted, explains Leonard P. Freedman, president of the Global Biological Standards Institute, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the use of standards and best practices in research. It also delays the development of potential treatments and adds to already soaring drug development costs. Despite its importance, “nobody had really put a dollar figure on it,” Freedman says. So he and his coauthors estimated those costs in a paper published in June. They also tried to pinpoint the causes of the reproducibility problem and propose solutions (PLOS Biol. 2015, ...

Practical Applications of A Conversation with Paul Smith

Credentialing programs, member services and work in market integrity and investor protection are the three main pillars that Paul Smith will be focusing on in his new role as President and CEO of CFA Institute . As he was gearing up to address delegates to the 68th CFA Institute Annual Conference for the first time, Smith took time out to share his leadership agenda and CFA Institute’s priorities with Institutional Investor Journals . “We need to be more vocal with employers and regulators about demanding higher standards of education and ethics for investment professionals,” Smith advises. “For the industry and regulators to accept a lower standard of qualification is to sell investors—institutional and retail—short.” This report is open.

Practical Applications of Investing with a Purpose

Large asset owners have the potential to have a greater impact on society, if they take a more active interest in the oversight and governance of the companies in which they invest, according to Paul Smithm, President and CEO of CFA Institute. This notion of “fiduciary capitalism” dovetails with the theme of the 68th CFA Institute Annual Conference April 26-29 in Frankfurt, Germany. That is, Investing with a Purpose. In a pre-conference interview, Smith shared some of the highpoints of the first 60 days in his new role as President and CEO of the organization in which he has been a key player since 2012. He pinpointed the conference sessions in which he is most interested, touched on the 2015 Global Market Sentiment survey and suggested some sightseeing opportunities in Frankfurt. This report is open.

Researcher Patricia Martens turned dry data into stories.

Researcher Patricia Martens turned dry data into stories.

An Interview with Jae C. Lee

SummaryJae Chang Lee was born in Chang‐Nyoung, South Korea, on 9 August, 1942. After high school, he attended Seoul National University during a period of military dictatorship. As a leader of the student protest movement, he was forced to flee the country. He completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Ohio State University (PhD 1972) in USA and then joined the faculty at Moravian College in Pennsylvania. He returned permanently to South Korea in 1981 to a faculty position at Korea University. He has held visiting positions at the US National Bureau of Standards, the US Naval Coastal Systems Center, Ohio State University, Temple University, the University of Wollongong and Chuo University. Professional contributions include President of International Statistical Institute, Organiser of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Congress in Seoul in 2001, President of the International Association for Statistical Computing and of the Korean Statistical Society (KSS), Editor, Journal of the Korean Statistical Society and Co‐Editor, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Honours include ISI Methorst Award, Distinguished Service Award (KSS), Presidential Award for Statistical Contribution and Order of Service Merit from the Korean Government, Certificate of Distinguished Contribution from the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics and elected member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology. The interview was conducted during 23–27 April 2013, at Jae C's country home in Pocheon City.

Introducing Professor Sarah Spurgeon, OBE . . . President of the Institute of Measurement and Control 2015–2016

Introducing Professor Sarah Spurgeon, OBE . . . President of the Institute of Measurement and Control 2015–2016

Stirling Auchincloss Colgate

Physicist, astrophysicist, experimentalist, and theorist Stirling Auchincloss Colgate died at home in White Rock, New Mexico, on 1 December 2013 after a prolonged illness. He had a zest for life and a drive to understand that could not be contained in a single subject or career.Stirling Auchincloss ColgateLOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORYPPT|High resolutionStirling was born in New York City on 14 November 1925. As a young man, he attended the Los Alamos Ranch School. He was familiar enough with nuclear physics in 1942 that when a stranger in a fedora showed up to shut down the school, he recognized J. Robert Oppenheimer and deduced that the goal was to build an atomic bomb. Stirling went to Cornell University for a year and then joined the US Merchant Marine in 1944. He amazed his superiors by single-handedly fixing a large electric motor and explaining what happened in Hiroshima.In 1946 Stirling returned to Cornell, where he earned his BS in 1948 and a PhD in nuclear physics in 1952 under Robert R. Wilson. As a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, he was among the first scientists at the birth of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He designed and led the neutron and gamma-ray diagnostics for the March 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test, the first to use the compact lithium deuteride technology. He was 29. Contemplating shock breakout from the device also led him to ponder shock breakout in supernovae. In 1959 Stirling served as a senior scientific adviser to the State Department in the Geneva negotiations on a nuclear test ban treaty. He argued that satellite detectors might mistake supernova emission as a weapon test. A Soviet delegate brushed him off with the question, “Who knows what a supernova looks like?” Stirling took that as a challenge.Beginning with papers on supernova shock breakout, Stirling became a leading contributor to astrophysics. His groundbreaking work in 1966 on the neutrino deposition model of core- collapse supernovae remains the basis of the theory today; the essence of the theory was verified two decades later by the discovery of the neutrinos from SN 1987A. He contributed substantially to our understanding of how radioactive decay powers supernova light curves. While president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 1965 through 1974, he foresaw the era of mass automated detection of supernovae before large detectors and fast computers made it possible. He called the technology “dig-as,” for digitized astronomy, a colorful name that did not catch on.From 1976 until his death, Stirling was a senior fellow in the theoretical division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He had a keen interest in magnetic fields dating back to his days at LLNL, where he led laser fusion and magnetic fusion programs. He was fascinated by the origins of cosmic magnetic fields, cosmic rays, and black holes, and he was a strong proponent of the “magnetic universe.” He argued that a significant fraction of the energy liberated by the formation of black holes at the centers of galaxies is converted by dynamos into magnetic fields, which are then transported to intergalactic space by jets and radio lobes. To the end of his life, he worked at New Mexico Tech on an experiment to demonstrate a magnetic dynamo in rotating cylinders of liquid sodium.Stirling developed techniques of stress engineering to support mine shafts and theories about vision and the origin of human intelligence. He recognized the danger of HIV before the topic was widely discussed publicly, and he called for understanding its biology as the only practical solution. Attempting to understand Oklahoma tornadoes, he flew his private plane and fired instrumented rockets through them. He recognized the dangers of stoichiometric mixing of the liquefied natural gas in a fully loaded tanker and claimed to have saved Heimaey, an island off Iceland, from the threat of a proposed diversion of lava to the sea, where dynamic self-mixing could have released the thermal energy of a thermonuclear bomb.Associated with the Aspen Center for Physics from its earliest days, Stirling promoted astrophysics as one of the key disciplines there. He was also a cofounder of the Santa Fe Institute. He made major behind-the-scenes contributions while working at both LLNL and LANL. He once remarked that one of the most difficult aspects of his life was maintaining that duality: total secrecy in defense work and the total intellectual openness that characterizes academic research.A visionary with a fountain of ideas, Stirling was an inspiration to others and was especially generous to young scientists. His friends and colleagues remember him with warmth as they share Stirling stories.© 2014 American Institute of Physics.

Report: Workshop ‘Collective Redress in South-East Europe’, University of Sarajevo, 28 June 2014

On 28 June 2014, the Faculty of Law of the University of Sarajevo hosted a workshop entitled ‘Collective Redress in South-East Europe’, organised by the Law Faculties of the Universities of Sarajevo and Zagreb with the financial support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The workshop gathered law professors from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. The guest of honour was Ms Diana Wallis, President of the European Law Institute (ELI). Collective redress is a relatively new topic among lawyers in South-East Europe. While certain countries of the region have horizontal legislation on collective redress, legislators in other countries still hesitate to introduce this mechanism, ‘replacing’ it with different forms of organisational claims. Even in countries that introduced a collective redress mechanism, decisional practice is quite scarce. The novelty of the collective redress mechanism in the region of South-East Europe, as well as its relevance in the European Union, especially given the recent initiatives of the European Commission, incited the organisers to arrange this exchange of views between researchers from South-East Europe and the European Union.

The China power grid: a network science perspective

Abstract Power grid is a very large scale and highly non-linear dynamical system, and its stable and reliable operation poses a great challenge to scientists and engineers. As a complex dynamic network has a tendency of catastrophic failure, sophisticated analysis and control are required. In an interview with NSR, Professor Yusheng Xue, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Honorary President of China's State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, talked about the economic impact, technical challenges, and future development of power grid in China.

Practical Applications of Shaping the Future of Finance

Financial services executives are confident that their industry has a strong reputation on ethical conduct. Yet, the industry’s emphasis on strengthening culture notwithstanding, its customers remain skeptical. John Rogers , President and CEO of CFA Institute , will discuss the disconnect between the industry’s opinion of its reputation and the common perception among the general public when he addresses delegates at the 67th CFA Institute Annual Conference on Monday morning. Rogers spoke with us before the conference about how this year’s conference corresponds to CFA Institute’s Future of Finance initiative, which it launched in March, 2013. The project aims to provide the tools to motivate and empower the world of finance to commit to fairness, improved understanding and personal integrity, he explained. Institutional Investor Journals (Booth 317), will be interviewing industry thought leaders, posting reports on panel sessions and identifying post-conference content opportunities. All of our reports will live at www.practicalapplications.com/CFA14 .

Review of Christopher Dole, Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey

‘The one who is not secular, is not a human being’ argues Yekta Gungor Ozden, the former Head of the Constitutional Court, Turkey’s highest judiciary body and also President of the Ataturkist Thought Institute. This stance epitomizes the value set of the official ideology in which secularism takes a central role in the construction of Turkish national identity. Christopher Dole, in this longitudinal research, takes a very unique approach to the discussions of secularism in Turkey. Unlike many others in the same field, his work does not confine the discourse to religion and democratization or to the East versus West dichotomy. He examines Turkish construction of secularism through the lens of various exilic traditions with therapeutic power in the context of suffering, healing and loss. He sheds light on the unremitting contention and interdependencies between the performances of these traditions with the state authority. The author starts with depicting the binary opposition presented by the modernization that Turkey is aiming towards and the traditional that was bequeathed from the Ottoman past (p. 22, p. 56). He then contextualizes secularism in the Turkish experience. He states that secularism is perceived as a ‘normative way of life’ and this refers to the ‘irreducible aesthetic dimension of Turkey’s project of secular modernity‘(p. 8). Therefore,’secularism persists as a core value of the nation’s political imaginary, continuing to organize discourse in an array of institutional and noninstitutional settings’ (p. 11). All facets of quotidian life both in public and private realm were organized with respect to one’s commitment to secular ideals (p. 8). At least that is what the regime demanded from its subjects. Within those lines, for instance around the time that the author collected his data from the two local communities (that constituted a binary opposition in the way they perceived secularism) at the outskirts of Ankara, the state institution that regulates child adoption policies introduced among its provisions a new article which suggests that Cont Islam (2015) 9:351–355 DOI 10.1007/s11562-013-0289-0

Alvin R. Jennings: Managing Partner, Policy-Maker & Institute President

Alvin R. Jennings (1905-1990) was a rare breed of an accountant. He was trained as a practitioner and rose to become a managing partner at Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, but he kept a constant watch on the academic field of accounting research. Jennings served on the influential American Institute of Accountants’ Committee on Auditing Procedure (1946-49) and later as the president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (1957-58). This paper explores these activities and Jennings’ contribution to the professional, academic, and institution discourse of the accounting discipline.

Invited Editorial Comment

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Exploratory Research Regarding Faculty Attitudes towards the Institutional Repository and Self Archiving

Over the past year the Library of the TEI of Athens has launched an Institutional Repository containing Faculty's published and unpublished work, students’ theses and a major collection called “Institutional Archives”. The latter was also used as a vehicle for promoting the Repository and had attracted a lot of interest from all faculty members and the Institute's administration. While in the making, special effort was made to secure faculty's understanding of the undertaking and faculty's participation. Information was communicated through e- letters from the Library, the Deans and the Institute's President as well. A web site was developed and a feedback mechanism was set in place. A system of approaching individually each faculty member and create customized lists of publications to be incorporated in the IR had given surprisingly good results. The assessment of these measures in relation to faculty's willingness to participate in the IR is examined. Furthermore, faculty's attitude towards self-archiving is also examined. A bibliographic review was carried out regarding faculty attitudes and factors that shape it. A questionnaire was distributed to all faculty members in order to assess the effectiveness of the communication system and the degree of their willingness to practice self archiving. This explored faculty reactions and determined the effectiveness of the IR.Major findings include the faculty's positive reception of the IR due to the fact that the information was communicated properly through the aforementioned mechanism and their enthusiasm and overcoming of hesitations after understanding the capabilities of the IR.

1st Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum

The First Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum (EMF) was held in Tbilisi (Georgia) with the cooperation between Grigol robakidze University (Georgia), European Scientific Institute and University of the Azores (portugal). The Forum gave floor to researches from 35 countries: Georgia, Lithuania, UK, USA, russia, Latvia, Macedonia, France, Italy, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, poland, Czech republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, romania, Ukraine, Greece, Jordan, Iran, KSA, Ghana, etc. The EMF was a three-day meeting in 2013 (from October 24 to October 26), where many themes significant for economic development were discussed. The main topics of the forum were as follows: the impact of financial crises on economic growth, banks’ activities’ importance for economics, high education reforms and students’ mobility and inter-disciplinarity, medicine, nature, etc. Mamuka Tavkhelidze, the rector of Grigol robakidze University, Nino Kemertelidze, the vice-rector of Grigol robakidze University, and Jovan Shopovski, the president of European Scientific Institute welcomed the participants and wished them to present their researches successfully, accumulate new information and deepen their knowledge in the field of their interests.