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A Journey Through Mindset of the Ice and the Adventure to Cape Horn: Ireland Medal Ceremony Invited Address

A Journey Through Mindset of the Ice and the Adventure to Cape Horn: Ireland Medal Ceremony Invited Address

The promise of primatology fulfilled?

In 1972, Sherwood Washburn, one of the forerunners of biological anthropology, gave an invited address during the 4th Congress of the International Primatological Society in Portland, Oregon, in which he expounded his vision for the field of primatology. His address was published the following year in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and titled: "The promise of primatology." In this centennial commentary, we revisit Washburn's "promise", 45 years on. His address and article discuss the constraints acting on the field, including a positioning of the discipline across different kinds of university departments, and within the social sciences, which he viewed as a mixed blessing. Prescient aspects of Washburn's address include a focus on the need to study communication multimodally, and a hope that the study of mechanisms would become foundational within the field. We discuss new promising aspects of primatology, focusing on technological advances in a number of areas highlighted by Washburn that have ushered in new eras of research, and the increasingly large number of long-term field sites, which see the discipline well-set for new developmental and longitudinal studies. We find much to admire in Washburn's keen foresight, and natural intuition. Washburn hoped that primatology would repudiate the notion that "the social should be studied without reference to the biological." In this regard, we consider much of Washburn's promise fulfilled.

Integrative Approaches to Trauma Work with Victims of Postelection Violence in an African Nation

This article is written in the broad context of armed civil conflicts, genocidal wars, transportation accidents, tribal clashes and ritual killings, and the resultant mass trauma of political violence and the brutal and devastating ethnic hostilities that erupt with contested results of most political elections in Africa. The specific context was the terrible situation in which Kenya found itself in the aftermath of the conflicted Presidential Elections of December 2007. The article reports on a trauma counselling workshop that was organised for volunteers and aimed at preparing them to gain a uniform orientation and well-delineated perspective for working with victims of trauma and violence within the returnee university population. The paper presents integrated techniques of trauma work drawn from both African and Western healing traditions which formed the content of the revised invited address delivered by the author during the workshop. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

What is a results/performance-based delivery system? An invited presentation to the European Parliament

The European Parliament has been considering changes to the cohesion (or regional) policy of the European Union (EU) that forms a key instrument for the EU to promote social, economic and territorial cohesion. It would like the new policy to be more results oriented and invited experts to advise it in this regard. This article consists of an invited address given to the European Parliament Committee on Regional Development. This presentation briefly touched upon the following considerations: 1. What does it mean to have a results-oriented system? 2. Why is this important, and what does it involve? 3. How can the EU Cohesion Policy move in this direction, distinguishing between the illusion and the reality of a results-oriented strategy and implementation? The key message of the presentation is that a results-oriented approach means orienting all aspects of planning and management on outcomes rather than on process. This represents a new way of thinking and managing that needs to be reflected in all aspects of management. Indicators can represent one form of support for a results-oriented system, but they have significant limitations as well as strengths, and by themselves do not constitute a results orientation.

Meet the Human Factors Pre-Market Review Team from FDA (HFES'11 Healthcare Technical Group Invited Address)

The session will introduce you to FDA’s process, priorities, and rationale for reviewing human factors content in pre-market submissions for new medical devices. Critical components of the review process will be highlighted: 1) the types of information FDA needs to see in a successful device submission in order to ensure prompt reviews, and 2) the types of data that provide sufficient evidence of reasonably safe and effective device use for the intended users, uses, and use environments. The presenters will also discuss FDA guidance documents, including the new and updated human factors guidance document and the human factors content contained in the new infusion pump guidance, as well as relevant national and international standards that can assist manufacturers in performing effective human factors design, evaluation and testing to ensure devices are optimally safe and effective during their use, and will also in assist in preparing the human factors component of new device submissions. The speakers wil...

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Cultural materialism and behavior analysis: An introduction to harris

The year 2007 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of Marvin Harris (1927–2001). Although relations between Harris’ cultural materialism and Skinner’s radical behaviorism have been promulgated by several in the behavior-analytic community (e.g., Glenn, 1988; Malagodi & Jackson, 1989; Vargas, 1985), Harris himself never published an exclusive and comprehensive work on the relations between the two epistemologies. However, on May 23rd, 1986, he gave an invited address on this topic at the 12th annual conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, entitledCultural Materialism and Behavior Analysis: Common Problems and Radical Solutions. What follows is the publication of a transcribed audio recording of the invited address that Harris gave to Sigrid Glenn shortly after the conference. The identity of the scribe is unknown, but it has been printed as it was written, with the addendum of embedded references where appropriate. It is offered both as what should prove to be a useful asset for the students of behavior who are interested in the study of cultural contingencies, practices, and epistemologies, and in commemoration of this 80th anniversary.

Cultural materialism and behavior analysis: Common problems and radical solutions

Brian D Kangas The year 2007 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of Marvin Harris (1927–2001). Although relations between Harris' cultural materialism and Skinner's radical behaviorism have been promulgated by several in the behavior-analytic community (e.g., Glenn, 1988; Malagodi & Jackson, 1989; Vargas, 1985), Harris himself never published an exclusive and comprehensive work on the relations between the two epistemologies. However, on May 23rd, 1986, he gave an invited address on this topic at the 12th annual conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, entitled Cultural Materialism and Behavior Analysis: Common Problems and Radical Solutions. What follows is the publication of a transcribed audio recording of the invited address that Harris gave to Sigrid Glenn shortly after the conference. The identity of the scribe is unknown, but it has been printed as it was written, with the addendum of embedded references where appropriate. It is offered both as what should prove to be a useful asset for the students of behavior who are interested in the study of cultural contingencies, practices, and epistemologies, and in commemoration of this 80th anniversary.

"Back to the Future": Philosophy of Education as an Instrument of Its Time

In this 2006 John Dewey Society Invited Address, I place Dewey in a larger philosophical and historical context. My hope is that by doing so we can learn more about the future prospects for the role of philosophy of education. I see Dewey as one of those rare canonical philosophers whose reputation as a philosopher is intricately tied to their writings on education and I want to explore why this tie makes sense with some canonical figures, such as Plato and Rousseau, but not with others, such as Aristotle, Locke, Whitehead, and Russell, who have also contributed to our understanding of education.

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Whither the Garden Path? Some Gnomes Revisited and Some Others Worth Considering

AbstractIn 1991 Dr Kevin Walsh, the founding President of ASSBI, presented an invited address entitled “Some gnomes worth knowing” in which he discussed examples of common errors and difficulties in neuropsychological test interpretation in the form of “gnomes” or aphorisms from prominent clinicians. His paper was aimed at demonstrating “the need for improvement in the education of all psychologists who are likely to be faced with essentially neuropsychological problems”. The current paper will examine the extent to which such improvement has occurred over the past eight years and will consider directions for the future. The major areas of concern outlined by Dr Walsh will be reviewed in terms of current clinical practice. Additional areas of controversy and concern which have emerged more recently, such as the assessment of mild head injury, the assessment of malingering and the impact of neurochemical changes in certain psychiatric conditions, will also be considered. The importance of considering the client in a more holistic manner, which takes into account a range of issues that may impact upon test scores, is emphasised. It is hoped that this presentation will assist in formulating more clearly the challenges facing all those involved in research, assessment and treatment of brain disorders as we approach a new millennium.

9.1 INVITED ADDRESS : Processing of Thick Resists with Scanning Projection Uthographic Tools(9.PHOTOLITHOGRAPKY AND PHOTORESIST COATING)(1999 Display Manufacturing Technology Conference Report)

9.1 INVITED ADDRESS : Processing of Thick Resists with Scanning Projection Uthographic Tools(9.PHOTOLITHOGRAPKY AND PHOTORESIST COATING)(1999 Display Manufacturing Technology Conference Report)

6.2 INVITED ADDRESS : Advanced Dry Etch Processes for Use of Aluminum Alloys in AMLCDs(6.THIN FILM MATERIALS AND DEPOSITION)(1999 Display Manufacturing Technology Conference Report)

6.2 INVITED ADDRESS : Advanced Dry Etch Processes for Use of Aluminum Alloys in AMLCDs(6.THIN FILM MATERIALS AND DEPOSITION)(1999 Display Manufacturing Technology Conference Report)

From the fast track to the fast lane — To what?

The following is an invited address to an audience of parents, teachers and mental health workers at the Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, October, 1989.

An Appreciation of Kronecker

I am especially honored by the invitation to speak at this annual joint session of the mathematics section and the history section of the Academy because my predecessor last December was Andr6 Weil. As you well know, Weil said nothing last year about the man who is my subject tonight, but, as you probably do not know, he might well have. In fact, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1950, he gave an invited address which could have borne the title of my talk tonight, "An Appreciation of Kronecker". I will return to the content of Wefts Cambridge address later in my talk. First, I had better begin with the basic facts about Kronecker, since I imagine that even many of the mathematicians among you know little more about him than that he gave his name to the "Kronecker delta". Leopold Kronecker was born in 1823 in the Silesian town of Liegnitz--now in Poland, then in Prussia-into a wealthy Jewish family. The source and the extent of the family weal th is unknown to me. Frobenius's memorial speech on Kronecker, which is, I believe, the source all others have used for biographical informat ion about Kronecker, refers to Kronecker's father as a "businessman", but he also mentions banking and land in connection with the family wealth. Wherever it came from, there seems to have been plenty of it. Kronecker's father took great care with the boy's education, in the early years hiring a tutor for him and then sending him to the gymnasium in Liegnitz. The boy was an avid and gifted student. At the gymnasium he had the good fortune to have as his mathematics teacher the young E. E. Kummer, who later won world renown not only as a creative mathematician but also as an outstanding teacher. From his time with Kummer at the gymnasium forward, Kronecker appears to have been committed to mathematics, although he had a lifelong interest in many other subjects--philosophy, the classical languages, and history among them. After Liegnitz, he studied primarily at the University of Berlin, although he also spent semesters at the Universities of Bonn and Breslau, the latter while Kummer was there. To give mathematicians an idea of mathematics in Berlin at this time, it will suffice to say that Dirichlet, another great teacher and great mathematician, was at his zenith then, and in Berlin, and that both Jacobi and Eisenstein were there, too. Kronecker received the doctorate from Berlin in 1845 at the age of 22. Then he did a strange thing. He left Berlin and its lively mathematical environment to return to Silesia and manage various family properties. He appears to have been mathematically active during this time, but he published nothing. Frobenius says that he maintained an energetic scientific correspondence with Kummer and that he said in later years that the period of isolation in Silesia had had the fortunate consequence " that he was able to mature slowly." Frobenius goes on to say, "For his colleagues, however, it

Context and process: An ecological view of the interdependence of practice and research: An invited address by James G. Kelly

SummaryJames G. Kelly has made important and wide‐ranging conributions to community psychology. The field is fortunate to have a member with his vision and commitment. In the paper presented here, Jim discusses the advantages that arise when scientists and citizens work as collaborative partners in community research. As with his previous work, his ideas provide new insights into the role of community psychology in and for the community.

Participation by Women in Behavior Analysis

The participation of women in behavior analysis as authors of articles published in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB) and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA), as members of the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA), and as contributors to the 1982 ABA convention was examined. Since the inception of JEAB and JABA, men have appeared as authors far more frequently than women, although women have published relatively more frequently in the latter journal than in the former. Across years, there has been an upward trend in the proportion of JEAB authors who are female; this is not the case for all JABA authors, although it does hold for senior authors. In 1980-1981 and 1981-1982, females represented approximately half of ABA's student and affiliate members but less than a third of its full members. Approximately a third of the contributors to posters and symposia and a seventh of those delivering invited addresses at the 1982 ABA convention were women.

Educational R&D Trends and Implications for Educational Evaluation

This paper is a revision of an invited address delivered at the Fifth Annual Conference of the California Association of Program Evaluators, San Francisco, May 11, 1979. ing the historical development of science; theoretical physicists acquired a new pragmatism ... while even the purest of pure mathematicians found it acceptable to dabble with computers. All across the spectrum, scholars and scientists returned to confront the historical temporal world in all its concrete detail, [with] a shift from narrowly discipline-oriented research to wider and more problemoriented issues. (p. 159)

Training Technical Interest Group—Invited Address Training Research in the 70s: Many Questions and a Few Answers

A 10 year review conducted of Training in Work Organizations for the 1980 Annual Review of Psychology will be discussed. The presentation will focus on trends and issues on the following types of topics: needs assessment; evaluation methodology; intervention issues; training for various populations; individual differences methodology; fair employment practices, etc.