Lion Square Research Articles

A Building Management Evaluation Method Based on B-P Neural Networks

On the basis of in-depth study of the large number of documents, current theoretical research on overseas con- struction management evaluation methods is summarized. Many advanced building management theories and current models are described, as well as learnt government regulations. The study also discussed the basic building management assessment methods employed currently. On the basis of research results based on the major factors influencing construc- tion management in the relevant literatures, a building evaluation system is built for the evaluation of a single object man- agement architecture. The system includes: selecting the artificial neural networks comprehensive evaluation method, ob- taining the sample data by questionnaire method, establishing a management evaluation model based on BP artificial neu- ral network architecture, and applying and testing the model to evaluate the actual construction management. China's existing building area has more than 40 billion square meters, an annual area of approximately 18-20 mil- lion square meters. Building production requires a lot of land. In the construction and operation of the process, the direct energy consumption accounts for nearly 30% of the energy consumption of the whole society. Combined energy consumption of building materials 16.7%, accounting for 46.7% of the total energy consumption of the whole society. Water is 47% of urban water consumption, the use of steel products accounted for 30% of the country's steel consump- tion, cement accounted for 25% overall pollution in the envi- ronment, and construction-related air pollution, light pollu- tion, and electromagnetic pollution accounted for 34%; and construction waste garbage accounted for 40% in total (3). Moreover, the building has increasingly become the city's carbon emissions big resource. It is estimated that 60% of urban carbon emissions are from energy consumption used to maintain the building functions, while car traffic accounts for only about 30% (4). With the continuous improvement of the rapid develop- ment of China's economy and the people's living standards, building energy in the total energy consumption with the proportion of society will inevitably increase. It is foreseea- ble that in the next 20 years, the building will become a ma- jor growth point of China's energy consumption. When peo- ple put forward higher requirements for building manage- ment on the urban development, human beings are adjusting their behavior and taking efforts to create new forms of eco- nomic and social development. Low carbon and eco-building based urban development model is the choice for the future development.

Musings on bricks and mortar

House at Elephant and Castle, which was the Department of Health and Social Security’s headquarters for 25 years. Now converted to apartments, it has recently been Grade II-listed, an illustration of the fact that there is no accounting for taste. Some buildings go out of favour before being restored in the public fancy, as has happened to one of Lasdun’s other major creations, the National Theatre, saved by the clever coloured lighting that illuminates it at night. Buildings and organisations have their history, which may or may not reflect their nature. The still fledgling Royal College of General Practitioners moved into August premises in Prince’s Gate in 1961; acquired, one cannot help but feel, to impress. The most exciting event in its history was when the SAS took it over in 1981 to deal with the Iranian embassy siege next door. In 2012, the college moved into 30 Euston Square, a refurbishment of a building that once housed the headquarters of the national association of approved societies which helped fund health care before the NHS. Its entry security makes getting past the stereotype of a draconian GP receptionist feel easy. The anaesthetists have moved from the Regency of Russell Square in Bloomsbury to the thoroughly modernised Churchill House in Red Lion Square. The General Medical Council’s shift away from its glowering court-like headquarters in Hallam Street to the airy glass and steel of its Euston Road head office felt part of a deliberate statement that this most change-resistant of organisations was finally adapting to the modern world. The physicians built their new college from scratch on the bombed out end of the mighty and, at the time of planning, decidedly run down Nash terraces that face on to Regent’s Park. The physicians like to think of themselves as ‘the thinking man’s doctor’ and a huge amount of thought, inspiration and indeed vision, went into not just the building, but the garden, which is a riveting repository of the history of medicine and plants. Inside it is a stunning blend of the old and what feels even now (50 years on) the very new. It crouches on the edge of the park as a modest but decidedly firm statement that this place is different. An exhibition at the RCP to celebrate its creation runs from September to February. Love it or loathe it, it is something to go to see. BJHCM Nick Timmins, senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the King’s Fund comments on where our national medical associations are housed Musings on bricks and mortar

M. M. (Mollie) Raymer, 1916-2010

M. M. (Mollie) Raymer, 1916-2010

Launching the Specialist Library for Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia

On Wednesday 6 December 2006 the National Library for Health (NLH) Specialist Library for Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia (http://www.library.nhs.uk/theatres/) celebrated a successful five-month pilot scheme, with an official launch at the new quarters of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) in Churchill House, Red Lion Square (London). The event was the culmination of many months of planning and iterative improvements in the design and content of the library, and provided an excellent opportunity for theatre staff from different backgrounds to meet and share ideas.

Physician Liability for Medical Errors of Nonphysician Clinicians: Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

1Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Reprint requests and correspondence: Richard E. Moses, D.O., J.D., 50 Fetters Mill Square, Huntington Pike & Red Lion Square, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006.

London, Conway Hall and Jackson's Lane: Two Graham Williams premières

Graham Williams (Welsh-born, in 1940, but long since London-based) is almost as well known as a facilitator of music as a composer in his own right — a pity, because he has things to say which are worth listening to. My first, belated, encounter with his music came in the form of an Elegy for string octet, premièred by the Artea and Pavão Quartets in the Purcell Room in May 2003, a sober and dignified essay in controlled passion, stylistically somewhere between Alban Berg and the Strauss of Metamorphosen. It was the Artea Quartet which was responsible for my next encounter with Williams' music: they gave the première of his Fourth String Quartet in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, on 21 September 2004 — the three-minute, fourth-movement scherzo trailed four days beforehand in a live performance on In Tune on BBC Radio 3.

REEF-DWELLING GYPIDULOID BRACHIOPODS IN THE LOWER SILURIAN ATTAWAPISKAT FORMATION, HUDSON BAY REGION

Gypidula was a common pentameride brachiopod in the Silurian and Devonian periods and its oldest-known form, Gypidula akimiskiformis new species, occurs as a common component of a distinct Gypidula Association of the rich and diverse reef-dwelling brachiopod fauna in the Lower Silurian (upper Telychian) Attawapiskat Formation of the Hudson Bay Basin. This pioneer species has a high degree of morphological plasticity, with several infraspecific variations significant for the study of gypiduloid taxonomy and early evolution: 1) the sparsely costate shells may have strong to faint medial ribs, with some shells being quasi-smooth and 2) the inner hinge plates are commonly basomedially inclined toward the dorsal valve floor (not united to form a cruralium), but may also be subparallel or slightly basolaterally divergent toward the valve floor (similar to those in Clorinda). This implies that the basomedially inclined inner hinge plates were not a stable character at the initial stage of evolution of Gypidula during the late Telychian. Another gypiduloid from the Attawapiskat Formation, Erilevigatella euthylomatanew genus and species, is characterized by a shell lacking fold or sulcus but having Clorinda-type, basolaterally divergent inner hinge plates and double-flanged crura. Compared to Levigatella, which has been regarded as an intermediate between Clorinda and Gypidula because of its Gypidula-type dorsal sulcus and Clorinda-type inner hinge plates, the rectimarginate shells of Erilevigatella make the distinction between Clorinda and Gypidula even more blurred at the early stage of their evolution. features of the Attawapiskat gypiduloids and to explore their implications for the classification, early evolution, and paleo- ecology of the superfamily Gypiduloidea. STRATIGRAPHIC SETTING From the Late Ordovician to Late Devonian, the Hudson Bay Basin was a large intracratonic basin, with a predominantly car- bonate depositional environment over an area of nearly one mil- lion square kilometers. It is separated from the Michigan Basin to the south by the Fraserdale Arch and from the Williston Basin to the southwest by the Severn Arch. The Hudson Bay Basin (sensu lato) comprises the basin proper and a considerably smaller Moose River Basin at its southern end, with the two sub-basins separated by the Cape Henrietta Maria Arch, which is marked today by the Precambrian inliers in the Sutton Ridges area (Fig. 1). The Lower Silurian succession of the Hudson Bay region con- sists of three formations of carbonates, with the Severn River, Ekwan River, and Attawapiskat Formations spanning the upper Rhuddanian-uppermost Telychian (possibly extending to the low- ermost Wenlock) interval (Fig. 2).

Children at risk: we shall overcome.

Distinguished members of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA) and guests, it is indeed a distinct and unique honor for me to be standing here before you accepting this most distinguished award. The almost 40 years of Armstrong lectureships have spanned a remarkable group of individuals and topic areas, which together form a history of some of the most important issues facing our children and our society over the decades. In many ways, they reflect the mission and vision of George L. Armstrong, the pediatrician whose name we use for this esteemed lectureship. Armstrong represents for us a beacon of dedication and determination toward bringing a healthier world for children in our society, to quote my introduction to the volume of collected lectureships I edited for our organization's 30th anniversary celebration. On the founding, in 1769, of the first dispensary for children in Red Lion Square in London, England, Dr Armstrong's

William Morris Victoria and Albert Museum, 9 May–1 September 1996

Three items, each of which reveals a significant dimension of Morris's work as a designer and manufacturer of textiles, remain in my mind from the Victoria and Albert Museum's splendid exhibition. The first is the 'If I Can' hanging of r856-57; the second a group of letters, dating from r875 and r876, from Morris to Thomas Wardle of Leek; and the third is Burne-Jones's caricature of Morris giving a demonstration of weaving at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in November r888. Of the three, the 'If I Can' hanging is the most poignant, seeming to offer direct contact with Morris at a crucial phase in his career. Behind him lay an idyllic childhood in Walthamstow, the shock of his father's death when Morris was sixteen, the formative but often disappointing years at Marlborough and Oxford, the revelatory force of his exploration of French Gothic architecture in r854 and r855, the abandonment of his plan to enter the Church and his brief and abortive apprenticeship in G. E. Street's Oxford architectural practice. Now, influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and in company with his closest friend, Edward Burne-Jones, he had moved to London to begin his career as a painter. Since childhood he had been under the spell of the Middle Ages and when he found no contemporary furnishings to his taste, he set about designing his own in the medieval style. His visits to Queen Elizabeth's hunting lodge in Epping Forest had demonstrated the potential of wall hangings, and the 'If I Can' hanging represents the only surviving example of his earliest work in this medium. The design of repeating fruit tree with birds in flight was taken from a fifteenth-century manuscript, while the motto is a form of Jan van Eyck's 'Als ich kanne', seen on Morris's trip to the Low Countries in r856. The materials are simple: a plain linen ground with natural dyed wools. The work itself is tactfully described in the catalogue as 'unorthodox flat and patterned stitches', with which Morris may have had some help from Mary Nicholson, the servant at his rooms in Red Lion Square. It is simply done, but it has the charm and force of the naive. It shows Morris, characteristically, encountering a particular decorative need and discovering for himself the resources and techniques to fulfil that need. It was out of Morris's response to similar requirements for the decoration of Philip Webb's Red House, completed in r860, that Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. ('The Firm') was founded. The letters to Thomas Wardle, dating from nearly twenty years later than the hanging, find Morris at a very different stage in his career. By now well-known as both poet and designer, he was at the very beginning of his political activity. He also faced considerable challenges in his business life. In r875 'The Firm' was reconstituted as Morris arid Co., with Morris himself as sole proprietor. His investment income was falling, and it was essential for him to place the company on a sound footing; he therefore needed to ensure a

Pediatric biographies: George Armstrong. 1930.

George Armstrong, one of the most notable figures in the history of pediatrics, was the brother of the physician-poet, John Armstrong, and like him was endowed with a peculiar personality which militated against his chances of continued success. Little is known about him, not even the date or place of birth. Caulfield stated that his father was Robert Armstrong, a minister of Castleton, 1693-1733, which would bring the date of his birth sometime before 1735. He practiced pharmacy at Hempstead, and then, after qualifying as a physician, went to London and started the first hospital and dispensary for the children of the poor in a house in Red Lion Square. Infants up to 4 years of age were treated, as half of those born in London died by that time. This establishment was opened in 1769 and was in operation until 1781, when, according to Buchan, it was closed for

Marie Balmary, Psychoanalyzing psychoanalysis. Freud and the hidden fault of the father, trans. by Ned Lukacher, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 184, £12.00. - C. Barry Chabot, Freud on Schreber. Psychoanalytic theory and the critical act, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. 174, $17.50. (Distributed in the UK by Transatlantic Book

Marie Balmary, Psychoanalyzing psychoanalysis. Freud and the hidden fault of the father, trans. by Ned Lukacher, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 184, £12.00. - C. Barry Chabot, Freud on Schreber. Psychoanalytic theory and the critical act, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. 174, $17.50. (Distributed in the UK by Transatlantic Book Service, 24 Red Lion Square, London WCI R 4PX.) - Volume 27 Issue 3

John Henry Heuland

John Henry Heuland, Fellow of the Geological Society, mineral collector and dealer of 25 King Street, St. James's, London, was born in 1778. He moved in 1839 to 31 Red Lion Square, London, where he remained until after 1850. Few details of his life are known, but his sale catalogues and his intense activity as a collector and dealer during the period when it was fashionable to form collections of minerals have secured him an important place in the historical archives of mineralogy.In what year Heuland began to deal in minerals is uncertain, but it was before 1804 when we have a record of his buying in Lisbon. He subsequently travelled through France, Germany, Sweden, and Russia, collecting and buying minerals wherever possible. About the year 1806 he came into the possession of a fine collection of nfinerals which had been formed on the Continent between the years 1766 and 1806 by his uncle Mr. Jacob Forster.

The New Authoritarianism: Conway Memorial Lecture delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.I, on 22 March, 1949

The New Authoritarianism: Conway Memorial Lecture delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.I, on 22 March, 1949

Fourteenth International Veterinary Congress

THE Fourteenth International Veterinary Congress will be held in London during August 8–13, and the meeting will take place in the Central Hall, Westminster; and in Church House, Westminster (see Nature, February 5, p. 205). It is now known that H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester will be unable to open the Congress. The main theme of the Congress is the veterinary profession's contribution to world food supplies, and at the plenary meetings in the Central Hall the first address will be given by Lord Boyd Orr on "The World Food Situation". At the sectional meetings, papers (printed and circulated in advance) will be presented by delegates, from many parts of the world, who will discuss animal health and disease control problems. Further information on the International Congress may be obtained from the Organising Secretary, Fourteenth International Veterinary Congress, 10 Red Lion Square, London, W.C.1.

Conference on the Family

A CONFERENCE on "The Family : Whose Responsibility?" is to be held under the auspices of the British Social Hygiene Council and the Town and Country Planning Association in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.I, during February 10-11. The chairman of the conference will be Mr. Ivor Thomas, M.P., and chairmen of the various sessions includa Dr. Letitia Fairfield, Mr. Walter Raeburn and Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow. Speakers will include Mr. Maurice Reckitt, Dr. Mary Smith, Dr. William Moodie, Miss W. M. Crossman, Mr. B. G. H. Brooke-Taylor, Sir Wilfrid Garrett and Dr. Macalister Brew. Further information can be obtained from the Secretary, British Social Hygiene Council, Tavistock House North, Tavistock Square, London, W.C.2.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: CONWAY HALL, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London, W.C.1. on Monday, October 27th, 1947

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: CONWAY HALL, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London, W.C.1. on Monday, October 27th, 1947

Science, Religion and the Future Education in World Ethics and Science Conway Memorial Lecture delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.I, on March 28, 1943 Discipline for Democracy

THE "conflict between religion and science", to quote from the title of J. W. Draper's book published in 1874, which was widely read sixty years ago, means practically for most of us the battle between believers in the Biblical accounts of creation and believers in the theory of evolution. That contest has abated its intensity, but there is evidence, that it still exists, though in milder forms, in places much nearer than Tennessee. This is the point of departure chosen by Dr. C. E. Raven, regius professor of divinity in the University of Cambridge, in a vigorously written book which has recently appeared. Insisting on the necessity of outspokenness, he declares that "while the Christian religion as professed by the churches still clings restrictively to a Weltanschauung that is demonstrably unscientific, to superstitions that violate the intelligence and to conduct that shocks the morality of modern man, no such consistency as is essential can be expected. To be a Christian, or at least to hold official position in the churches, is to accept formulae parts of which can only be explained by being explained away, or else to keep secular knowledge and religious belief in permanent estrangement". Dr. Raven gives a characteristically lively account of the conflict which began on June 30, 1860, with the encounter of Huxley and Wilberforce at the Oxford meeting of the British Association, and which “made overt and abiding the cleavage between traditional Christianity and progressive science”. Science, Religion and the Future A Course of Eight Lectures. By the Rev. Charles E. Raven. Pp. x+126. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943.) 7s. 6d. net. Education in World Ethics and Science. Conway Memorial Lecture delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.I, on March 28, 1943. By Sir Richard Gregory. Pp. viii+40. (London: Watts and Co., Ltd., 1943.) Cloth, 2s. net; paper, 1s. net. Discipline for Democracy By T. V. Smith. (Weil Lectures on American Citizenship.) Pp. xiv+137. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press ; London: Oxford University Press, 1942.) 12s. not.

THE OLD AND THE NEW IN INDIA

THERE is a certain appropriateness in contemplating the development of ethical ideas in contemporary India, for there are few countries, Russia and China excluded, where the march of history has engendered such violent conflicts in the mental and moral attitudes of peoples as in Hindustan. Dr. Edward Thompson, who has devoted many years of service to India, did well, therefore, in choosing this theme for his Conway Memorial lecture this year. Ethical Ideals in India To-day Conway Memorial Lecture delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W. C. 1, on March 22, 1942. By Dr. Edward Thompson. Pp. vi + 39. (London: Watts and Co., Ltd., 1942.) Cloth, 2s. net; paper, 1s. net.

The Moral Paradox of Peace and War

IN his highly suggestive and constructive Conway JLMemorial Lecture, “The Moral Paradox of Peace and War”, Prof. J. C. Flugel gives us an acute analysis which is as pertinent to our plans for reconstruction as to the building of a world order from which war has been eliminated. Starting with an analysis of the moral qualities which are responsible for the real challenge of war and which have already led to a certain recognition of the need for a moral equivalent of war, he indicates concisely the points at which this challenge must be met in a progressive society in which full expression is given to legitimate desires and aspirations. Notably he stresses the spirit of adventure, with all it connotes of excitement, un certainty, danger and tenseness or strenuous endeavour. Of this, as well as the social solidarity, the heightened sense of the individual being needed, and the identification with a nobler cause for which he or she is prepared to make any sacrifice, any stable order must take account of, and must seek to satisfy by discovering, a common purpose comparable in intensity with that induced by war. The great task that confronts democracy is to find a formula for integration in harmony with its own essential spirit, which will express our fundamental agreement as to the ultimate goal while preserving our present liberty of thought and discussion as to the best means of attaining this goal. As Prof. Flugel sees it-and in this most scientific workers will concur-we must learn to face the stark realities of man's place in Nature, and find in the challenge and opportunity they afford for the exercise of human genius, combativeness, courage and co-operation, the true moral equivalent of war. The Moral Paradox of Peace and War Conway Memorial Lecture delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1, on March 23, 1941. By Prof. J. C. Flugel. Pp. xi + 52. (London: Watts and Co., Ltd., 1941.) Paper, 1s. net; cloth, 2s. net.

Centenary of the Pharmaceutical Society

IN the afternoon of April 15 several hundreds of pharmacists attended a meeting at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, which was held to celebrate the centenary of the Pharmaceutical Society. Mr. Walter Deacon, who presided, introduced Sir John Anderson, Lord President of the Council who, he said, now had many dealings with representatives of the Society at the Home Office and elsewhere. In his address, Sir John said it was fitting that someone with a knowledge of the circumstances of pharmacy extending over thirty years should attend the meeting as a representative of His Majesty's Government to pay tribute to the Society's past achievements and to wish it well for the future. The founders of the Society, he continued, laid down that its main purpose should be to advance chemistry and pharmacy, and the constancy with which their successors had pursued that aim deserved the fullest recognition. Modern developments of medicine have changed completely the work of the pharmacist, and it is right that the public should now know how successful have been the efforts of the Pharmaceutical Society to keep in line with the advance in knowledge and the great progress of medical science. A play, “Jacob Bell and Some Others”, specially written for the occasion by Mr.?. N. Linstead, secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society, and produced by Donald Wolfit, followed the speeches. It brought vividly to the large audience episodes associated with the Society's foundation.