Marvelous Work Research Articles

A Life Committed

Memoirs are usually one of the best avenues to understand people’s lives. They provide a first-hand account of one’s life from different perspectives. One of the problems with them is that they are expectedly full of biases. It is difficult for a memoirist to criticize herself and reveal everything. Perhaps at first glance, this is what one might expect from a memoir of a person like Essop Pahad (1939-2023). However, it is a marvelous work that offers a reader with great historical accounts of events and life well lived. Pahad served as the Minister in the Presidency from 1999 until 2008 under former President Thabo Mbeki who wrote a foreword to this book, “I am happy to commend this educative tour through many decades of exciting struggles for our liberation and a better world, as contained in this autobiography” (p17). To have served Thabo Mbeki for such a long time and remained his close ally for years is a significant sign that Pahad was a distinguished politician and intellectual in his own right.

Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue

Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue

Marching towards Amritkaal @G20 with Ayurveda – The Soft Power of India

We the Indians are fortunate to have G20 presidency this year i.e., 2023. India has lot to contribute to improve world’s economy by achieving sustainable development goals. Indian knowledge system of Ayurveda which is soft power of India is capable of achieving universal health. G20 is a platform to showcase the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda which is not only meant for human beings but also for animals, plants & environment. Ayurveda the traditional Indian system of medicine which is in our culture has the potential to become future medicine of the world. As the latest researches in conventional medicine & IT sector are only decoding the scientific aspects of the Ayurvedic fundamental concepts. As Ayurveda science has unique description of human body which is the latest global trend in research like Artificial intelligence and machine learning is indulged to know the complex description of human body as mentioned in ancient texts. Similarly, science of epigenetics has revealed the interaction of environment and their impact on human genes which was already described in traditional texts of India. The latest global research trend of merging ancient wisdom of subtle body with the science of quantum physics to bring wellness through integrative quantum health is achieving many mile stones. The science of bioinformatics and Ayurveda (Ayurinformatics) has already done a marvellous work for in silico molecular finding for Covid-19 which has proven the potential of Traditional Indian medicine in dreadful pandemic.

Portrait of a (Latter-day) Saint

Portrait of a (Latter-day) Saint

Bright ecological wisdom in Baruch 3:33–35

This short study seeks to highlight the rhetorical use of creation imagery in the sapiential Torah exhortation of Baruch 3:9–4:4. A methodology of rhetorical criticism will principally be used to investigate the style of this “ecologically” insightful part of the poem as well as its function in the wider message of the exhortation. The few short phrases of 3:33–35 effectively bolster the overall exhortation to adhere to the divine commandments as Israel is thereby invited to an imitation of creation in its reverent, unhesitating, joyful and Patriarch-like obedience to the divine will. To paraphrase this idea, “Hear O Israel, be like the light and the stars! Learn from creation and you will live.” Finally, this study seeks to contribute to the more recent attention to the Book of Baruch by commenting further on the previously accentuated unoriginality of this marvelous short work of Second Temple Jewish literature, especially with regard to its employment of some bright “ecological” wisdom.

Covers and Contents: Why iot is a Marvelous Work of Art

Covers and Contents: Why iot is a Marvelous Work of Art

A landmark in the field of genome size evolution: Maria Gabriella Manfredi Romanini’s contributions

The interest for genome evolution started quite early during the academic career of prof. Maria Gabriella Manfredi Romanini (MGMR, as all her pupils were used to call her; she knew that, and she was pleased we were confidentially nicknaming her!). She taught Anthropology since 1964 while holding the course of Histology and Embryology for the degree in biology. She was immediately attracted by the new coming vision that shifted from the physical anthropology to the molecular level at which the human evolution could be followed. Strong believer, she never put her beliefs before the scientific data: she invited us (her pupils and students) to read carefully Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a great palaeontologist who took part in the discovery of the Peking man but, at that time, also an heterodox Jesuit philosopher whose writing were censored by the Catholic Church because of his view of the original sin and the evolutionary theories. At the same time, MGMR was often stressing that we had to learn all of the new coming techniques to get a deep vision of the evolutionary story of the Mammals. Just to remember one of her teachings of the ’60, she convinced all of us to carry on the new techniques of DNA denaturation and hybridization by simply using hot water solutions and cold ice! (a technique that stimulated inspiration to an entire generation of biologists). She was continuously teaching, even during the summer holidays when she was asking all of us to come to her lake’s villa (discomforting her husband, that rightly was recalling MGMR that was already dinner time!) and inspiring curiosity, fascination for the livings and wishes to fully participate to the international academic community. Over time, she inspired even the F2 of her pupils thanks to her enthusiastic and positive view for our exceptionally lucky chance to carry on the “most marvellous work”, as she defined our job. Having much younger pupils she was always able to learn even the most advanced molecular techniques that she always tried to apply even in very difficult environmental situations (while the Italian Universities only encountered a drastic shortage of human capitals and economic resources): she prompted us to go abroad to collaborate with the best institutions worldwide (Germany, Holland, France, England, Japan, Brazil, to mention a few). While teaching and doing research she took the very hard gamble to launch at an international level the European Journal of histochemistry (born as “Rivista di Istochimica normale ed applicata”, the first journal on Histochemistry worldwide, founded on 1954 by her tutor and master, Maffo Vialli). Here we will briefly present one of the many interest and activities carried on by Maria Gabriella Manfredi Romanini; the one on Mammalian genome size, especially looking at the deep human and scientific relationships she had (apart with the coauthors who were her pupils) with Ernesto Capanna.

Larry Cohen, indomitable pioneer.

Larry Cohen, indomitable pioneer.

Evaluation and assessment of bonding of heat cure acrylic resin to cobalt-chromium alloy: Old ideas employing newer concepts

Literature has evidenced marvelous work on increasing bond strength between acrylic resin and partial denture casting alloys in past by various pioneer workers. Several systems have been employed to increase the bond strength between acrylic resin and partial denture casting alloys. Some of the popular methods were silicate layer silane coupling agents, active acrylate monomers: Polyfluormetacrylate bonding agents, tin oxide layer, and bifunctional monomer (dual function group). With the exception of air abrasion, most techniques are associated with expensive equipment, technique sensitivity, and harmful chemicals. Air abrasion, however, consistently has been associated with improved bond strengths. Traditionally, denture base acrylic resin is attached to the metal framework by three types of retentive aids: Mechanical, chemical, or combination of both. Advantage of retentive elements weakens the acrylic resin base by creating stress and by replacing its bulk on which resin depends for strength. Failure of the resin at the interface is a common source of problems when forces exceed the capacity of the retentive mechanisms. Here, authors have sought to review the bonding strength between acrylic resin and partial denture casting alloys along with their clinical applicability that can best retain the said prosthesis with minimal failure.

The Sacrament of the Word

When I was a parish priest, sacraments were my medium. I knew what to do with bread, wine, water, and oil: first touch them, making bodily contact with these ordinary things of earth. Then say blessings over them, not to confer holiness on them but to recognize holiness already in them. Then use them to touch other people, holding them out to feed, soothe, refresh, and strengthen faithful. The general principle was that matter mattered to God, and that God stood ready to act through most ordinary things in world with people who were willing to entrust their own bodies to process. Since we also spoke of the sacrament of word in church, I knew that words somehow belonged on this list of ordinary holy things, but their bodies were harder to find. What were words made of so that I could get my hands on them? Was it as obvious as picking up a sacred text and reading it out loud, or did it have more to do with lips that read and ears that heard? When I sat down to write a sermon, did my pencil and paper satisfy material requirement for sacrament, or was my own body body of word, absenting itself for a morning from computer, telephone, laundry, stove, in order to give myself fully to mystery of Word? Now that I am a teacher instead of a parish priest, I have more time to think about these things. Words are my main sacraments now. I sometimes order pizzas for my students, but I do not give them bread and wine. If I laid hands on one of them I would probably hear from dean before week was out. Words are what I have to touch my students with—words I say to them, words I require them to read, words I ask them to write for me, words I invite them to say to one another. Like quarks, these words do marvelous work without leaving a mark on air. All I have to do is stir some up. Then I sit back and watch them moving people, upsetting people, changing people's minds, shifting how they see world and their own places in it. This is a very great mystery. Apparently I am still a priest. Because I cannot get enough of this sacrament of word, I practice it in private as well as in public. I write words I may or may not ever say out loud. I spend hours and hours choosing words for people I will never see, whose re- sponses I will never witness. Even if words went no further than ends of

Polity, A Generation Ago

I have been retired ten years now, and have sunk from the noble study of politics to the scribbling of poetry. This alone is fair warning of the decline of my mental powers, leaving open to doubt anything I may recall. As to the future of political science, I claim little power of foresight. One prediction I dare: It is likely that in the future, as in the past, various competing modes of political will be embraced. Many practitioners will see approaches other than their own as ill-advised or simplistic or worse. The most generous-minded political scientists, and many merely diligent journeymen in their best moments, will see value in different avenues to the truth. With luck, no one perspective will triumph everywhere at any time. Neither philosophy nor mathematics, neither literature nor biology, nor any one method of study or system of thought will say it all or finally close off discussion. I celebrate our marvelous diversity of thought, if only it is marked by real quality in each instance. Having said that, I confess to having had no personal interest or competence in some forms of political science, but have tried not to take my own limits as evidence of the defects of those who pursue paths not open to me. For example, the more mathematical work is beyond my grasp, though counting things in ways open to all readers, as in the marvelous work of David Mayhew, I regard as first-rate, fascinating, accessible scholarship. Concerning Polity, the late Bill Havard, who came from LSU to Amherst to chair the University of Massachusetts department, was a key founder of the Northeastern Political Science Association and of Polity. He and our department, where Polity was long sequestered, tended to a political theory-based, nonquantitative study of politics, with little expectation of devising a science analogous to physics or chemistry. However, just as we were not uniform politically, we had members who used numbers as fundamental to their method, children of the great V O. Key. Central figures included our good friends Jack Fenton and David Mayhew (who was with us during 1963-1968). There was a sense within the department that political theory is the queen of the discipline, but our theorists varied widely; over the years they included Glenn Tinder, Felix Oppenheim, Jerry King, Bill Connolly, and Jean Elshtain, all winning our deep respect. I say this to suggest the soil in which Polity was nourished. We genuinely

Sprawl: a compact history

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficient, socially inequitable, environmentally irresponsible, and aesthetically ugly. Robert Bruegmann calls it a logical consequence of economic growth and the democratization of society, with benefits that urban planners have failed to recognize. In his incisive history of the expanded city, Bruegmann overturns every assumption we have about sprawl. Taking a long view of urban development, he demonstrates that sprawl is neither recent nor particularly American but as old as cities themselves, just as characteristic of ancient Rome and eighteenth-century Paris as it is of Atlanta or Los Angeles. Nor is sprawl the disaster claimed by many contemporary observers. Although sprawl, like any settlement pattern, has undoubtedly produced problems that must be addressed, it has also provided millions of people with the kinds of mobility, privacy, and choice that were once the exclusive prerogatives of the rich and powerful. first major book to strip urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, Sprawl offers a completely new vision of the city and its growth. Bruegmann leads readers to the powerful conclusion that its immense complexity and constant change, the city-whether dense and concentrated at its core, looser and more sprawling in suburbia, or in the vast tracts of exurban penumbra that extend dozens, even hundreds, of miles-is the grandest and most marvelous work of mankind. Largely missing from this debate [over sprawl] has been a sound and reasoned history of this pattern of living. With Robert Bruegmann s Sprawl: A Compact History, we now have one. What a pleasure it is: well-written, accessible and eager to challenge the current cant about sprawl. Joel Kotkin, The Wall Street Journal There are scores of books offering solutions to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book. Witold Rybczynski, Slate

A Marvelous Work and a Possession: Book of Mormon Historicity as Postcolónialism

A Marvelous Work and a Possession: Book of Mormon Historicity as Postcolónialism

Telling Tales about Angela Carter

Cristina Bacchilega make a distinct addition to the growing body of scholarship available on Angela Carter, focusing productively on Carter's revisionary fairy and folk tales. Although the bulk of the essays attend to Carter's marvelous work in her classic volume The Bloody Chamber, several examine her use of the fairy tale in other venues, including her early picture books for children, her novels, and her later short-story collections. In addition to ten illuminating essays of literary criticism proper (five on The Bloody Chamber, including three on the title story), the collection provides a helpful introduction, an excellent bibliographic essay, and four moving pieces that recall or pay tribute to Carter through memoir, interview, and short fiction. A rich and briskly paced anthology that probes several veins of Carter's rich imagination, the volume originally appeared as a special issue of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies; all the essays are reprinted verbatim except for an expansion of the introduction and the bibliographic essay. In the introduction, Roemer and Bacchilega assert that the "volume has no one thesis" (7), but within the context of a finely tuned exploration of "Angela Carter and the Literary Mirchen" (the 1996 elling Tales about Angela Cart r

Duplicity Writ Large: A Response to The Silence of Sodom

Mark D. Jordan's marvellous work reveals the deep layered lies of the Roman Catholic Church. This essay explores the Catholic gay structures of duplicity, the economics of ecclesial injustice and the implications of Professor Jordan's analysis for women. It is an appreciative view that invites further critical reflection on the misogynist dimensions of kyriarchal Catholicism and the gay male welfare system called Catholic theological education.

American Psychiatry After World War II: 1944–1994

Introduction. I -- The Experience and Lessons of War. Military psychiatry since World War II. War, peace, and PTSD. Silver linings in the clouds of war: a five-decade retrospective. II -- Postwar Growth of Clinical Psychiatry. American psychoanalysis since World War II. Psychiatric education after World War II. The evolving role of the psychiatrist from the perspective of psychotherapy. Psyche and soma: struggles to close the gap. Postwar psychiatry: personal observations. III -- Public Attitudes, Public Perceptions, and Public Policy. The National Institute of Mental Health: its influence on psychiatry and the nation's mental health. Mental health policy in late twentieth-century America. Deinstitutionalization and public policy. Antipsychiatry. The consumer movement. The cultural impact of psychiatry: the question of regressive effects. Managed care and other economic constraints. IV -- The Rise of Scientific Empiricism. American biological psychiatry and psychopharmacology, 1944--1994. Functional psychoses and the conceptualization of mental illness. Diagnosis and classification of mental disorders.V -- Differentiation and Specialization. Child and adolescent psychiatry comes of age, 1944--1994. A brief history of geriatric psychiatry in the United States, 1944--1994. Addiction psychiatry: the 50 years following World War II. Forensic psychiatry after World War II. VI -- Principles and People. Ethics in the APA after World War II. Women psychiatrists in American postwar psychiatry. Minorities and mental health. Epilogue: transition. Index.

American Psychiatry After World War II: 1944-1994

American Psychiatry After World War II: 1944-1994

That man is little to be envied ...

What is special about Scottish Geology? I think the answers are quite simple. The country has an astonishingly varied geological make-up in a small area, and partly for that reason is astonishingly beautiful. And marvellous work has been done on it by remarkable people, many of whom were not only great scientists but great writers too. Let me try to justify this outpouring of adjectives. Sit on top of the Sgurr of Eigg, or stand, if you can, against the gale. You are on top of the youngest volcanic rock in the country. You can see the Lewisian gneisses of the Outer Isles, the Caledonian mountain chain of the Highlands, the Jurassic of the Hebrides basin just below, the basaltic plateaus of Skye and of Eigg itself, the Tertiary plutons of Skye, Rum and Ardnamurchan, and everywhere the evidence of recent glaciation and uplift. The only comparable area that I know anything about is Switzerland, which is about the same size as the Highlands but much more densely populated. It is comparably beautiful and complex, and equally bound up with the history of our science. But it is Scotland that we are celebrating. Scottish geology is diverse in its appeal and it should encourage a diversity of response. It should foster curiosity, and an eclectic approach to what we find interesting. I think we underestimate the influence of the beauty of scenery in our science, almost as though we are ashamed of it. I don't know why. I do know . . .

El beato de Liébana

Four months after the Codex of Liebena was stolen from the Dioceses Museum of Seu d'Urgell on September 29th, 1996, the Director of the Guardia Civil delivered this marvelous miniature work to the bishop Monsignor Juan Marti Alanis in the romantic setting of the cathedral on February 14th, 1997. The speedy recuperation by the Guardia Civil of this prized work of the cathedral archives spoke well of the efficiency of this cops. Once this valuable manuscript was recuperated, it was publicly exhibited in the palace of the Generalidad de Cataluna on the day of St. George, Wednesday, April 23rd, 1997, giving the Barcelona populace a chance to admire this precious work and to celebrate its recuperation.

The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders

American schools are in a state of crisis. At the root of our current perplexity, beneath the difficulties with funding, social problems, and low test scores, festers a serious uncertainty as to what the focus and goals of education should be. We are increasingly haunted by the suspicion that our educational theories and institutions have lost sight of the need to perpetuate a core of moral and civic knowledge that is essential for any citizen's education, and indeed for any individual's happiness. Mining the Founders' rich reflections on education, the Pangles suggest, can help us recover a clearer sense of perspective and purpose. With a commanding knowledge of the history of political philosophy, the authors illustrate how the Founders both drew upon and transformed the ideas of earlier philosophers of education such as Plato, Xenophon, Milton, Bacon, and Locke. They trace the emergence of a new American ideal of public education that puts civic instruction at its core to sustain a high quality of leadership and public discourse while producing resourceful, self-reliant members of a uniquely fluid society. Pangles also explore the wisdom and the weaknesses inherent in Jefferson's attempt to create a comprehensive system of schooling that would educate parents and children and offer unprecedented freedom of choice to university students. An original closing section examines the Founders' ideas for bringing all aspects of society to bear on education. It also shows how Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin presented their own lives as models for the education of others and analyzes the subtle, provocative moral philosophy implicit in the self-depiction of each. The Learning of Liberty is historical and scholarly yet relentlessly practical, seeking from the Founders useful insights into the human soul and the character of good education. Even if the Founders do not provide us with ready-made solutions to many of our problems, the Pangles suggest, a study of their writings can give us a more realistic perspective, by teaching that our bewilderment is in some measure an outgrowth of unresolved tensions embedded in the Founders' own conceptions of republicanism, religion, education, and human nature. A marvelous work, full of learning and wisdom, certain to interest and enlighten its readers. authors raise the current discussion of the problems facing American education to a level that towers above the usual topics. They ask what is education for and make a powerful case that in a democratic republic it must focus on civic and moral questions. Their sympathetic and critical account of the ideas and lives of such men as Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin is fascinating in itself and a superb way to illuminate the issues. Donald Kagan, author of The Fall of the Athenian Empire and coauthor of The Western Heritage.