Ordinary Day Research Articles

Social acceptance of the physically handicapped child in the ordinary school.

It has been recommended by both the Snowdon and Warnock reports that greater efforts should be made to provide integrated education for physically handicapped children. The attitudes of the peer group toward the child with a physical handicap are of particular importance in deciding whether to integrate or segregate the disabled child. The present paper reports an exploratory study carried out in schools in Scotland, the purpose of which was to examine the social acceptability of the physically handicapped child in the ordinary school. The subjects, 38 children in the age group 9--11 years, of normal intelligence and with visible physical handicaps affecting movement, were drawn from ordinary day schools. A normal sample of control children was also studied. A modified version of Centers & Centers Social Discrimination test (1963) was administered. The results obtained show that physically handicapped children were not so well accepted by their peers as were their normal controls. The only characteristics which were positively related to social acceptability of the physically handicapped were certain components of emotional adjustment, extraversion and teachers' estimates of their mathematical ability. It is suggested that peer acceptance might be enhanced by greater dissemination of information and advice to both teachers and the normal peer group.

Subjective wellbeing and temporal patterns of sympathetic-adrenal medullary activity

Sixteen male subjects performed an audiovisual-conflict test during 1 h of an ordinary day of work. Adrenaline and noradrenaline excretion and subjective reactions were measured before, during, and after the test period as well as at corresponding points in time in a control day of ordinary work without interruption. This program was carried out on two occasions, which were expected to differ with respect to the subjects' general mental condition and wellbeing. There were large intraindividual as well as interindividual variations in the rate at which adrenaline output decreased after the stress period. The results support the hypothesis that rapid recovery to baseline levels is positively related to a relaxed, alert and subjectively pleasant state of mind.

Frontiers of Science 1: Introduction to Physics; Frontiers of Science 2: Introduction to Modern Medicine

S T Butler and R Raymond New York: Doubleday 1974 pp 63 price $1.95 A Shattering Experience. It looked like an ordinary day for the handsome intrepid young book reviewer as he settled back in his seat on the London train.

School health service work in the ordinary day schools

School health service work in the ordinary day schools

Junior Year in India

it could provide a high standard of education. I returned to the United States to finish my senior year at Russell Sage College and to graduate with my class. Living, studying, and working in South India was a unique experience. I stepped into a different world when I left the airplane which had brought me the 12,000 miles from New Jersey to Madras. My first impression of India was one of masses of people. The sight hit me like a sle ge hammer and a great feeling of loneliness swept over me. I had never seen so many people at once before in my lifetime; not even during a holiday parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City, yet this was an ordinary day in Madras. As I headed for the bus which would take me to Vellore I felt as

The Johnson ground elevation meter

Abstract The Ground Elevation Meter is a self contained, precision levelling system, fully mobile, suitable for all-weather day or night operation. It is fitted with a high speed transistorized electronic computer which continuously calculates relative elevation data from distance and inclination detectors. This data is presented visually and is also printed as required on paper tape. The rugged construction of vehicle and equipment permits operation over all types of terrain. It will operate under adverse visibility conditions which makes levelling by optical methods impracticable. The advantages of this surveying system over the more usual methods are found in greater speed of operation. Under favourable conditions it is possible to survey as much as 100 miles in an ordinary working day. The accuracy achieved, while not as good as precision spirit levelling, compares favourably with transit alidade, and barometric levelling.

Ganefo I: Sports and Politics in Djakarta

November 10, 1963, was no ordinary day in Djakarta. Already, early in the morning, a steady stream of people were proceeding along the newly-paved Djalan Djeneral Sudirman, festively decorated with thousands of yards of red and white buntings, and along the just-opened Americanbuilt bypass. They were going to witness the opening of GANEFO I, the Games of the New Emerging Forces, to be held at the enormous 10 million dollar Bung Karno sports complex which had been constructed with Soviet aid.

Nursing Care of the Patient with an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

TO THE nursing staff this was just another ordinary busy day as the morning and afternoon shifts met for the exchange report. To the patient who was being admitted to Room 132, however, this was a day of crisis. Seems like this kind of thing only happened to the other fellow, before today, he remarked to the nurse. It is hard when you find yourself in the other fellow's shoes, she responded. Encouraged by her evident understanding, he continued, I've always been well until the last few months. Since then I just haven't felt up to par-a lotta pain, sorta all over my stomach, and even down into my legs. My doc says a big blood vessel that goes straight down my middle has a weak spot in it and it's all blown up like a balloon. He just plain says that if I want to keep on drawing my wages I better get myself to the hospital and get it over with. The nurse knew that this man had an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which requires surgical resection and replacement. Later that day, she spent some time in the hospital library and found that an aortic aneurysm is a condition that is as serious as a malignant disease. Untreated, it is a threat to life. Half the patients who have an abdominal aortic aneurysm die within three years of the time the diagnosis is made, most frequently from rupture of the aneurysm with massive hemorrhage. The patient with a localized area of obstruction in the abdominal aorta is greatly incapacitated and usually has much pain after walking, especially in the legs, thighs, and hips. Today, the diagnosis of aneurysm of the aorta can be made at a com-

National Water Resources Administration

The federal government's relation to water resources is perplexingly complex. So commonplace has such an observation become that the truth it expresses may require revitalization by example. Take Monday, February 4, I957, an ordinary day of proceedings in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Senator Ives introduced and explained a bill for construction of a hydroelectric power project at Niagara Falls by the New York State Power Authority.' Senator Neuberger, from across the continent, introduced and spoke for a resolution proposing a Columbia River basin account, through which federal power revenues would help finance irrigation and reclamation projects.2 Senator Beall obtained unanimous consent to publish in the Congressional Record's appendix an editorial on pollution of the upper Potomac River.3 Senator Symington protested alleged neglect of Missouri in the administration of drought relief by Secretary of Agriculture Benson.4 The Senate adopted Senator Murray's joint resolution for a National Conservation Anniversary Commission to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the I908 conservation conference of state governors called by President Theodore Roosevelt.5 Senator Carlson seized this opportunity to urge Senator Murray and his Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to give favorable consideration to Senator Carlson's bill to establish a commission on the conservation, development, and use of renewable natural resources and particularly problems of drought, decreasing water supply, and the wind erosion of our soil.6

Limits of Effective Human Power

J. S. HALDANE and Yandell Henderson1 have shown that heavy workers can maintain 0.13 effective horse-power on various tasks throughout an ordinary working day, and it has been pointed out 2 float this figure corresponds to the output when walking uphill at the moderately fast rate of 1,500 ft./hr., if gross weight, that is, with clothes and rucksack, is taken at 180 lb. The present purpose is to assemble corresponding figures for record power, according to the duration of the work. In general, they will be based on racing speeds uphill, for they afford an easy means of measurement of power. So does a cycle ergometer, but the recorded measurements scarcely apply, as they do not seem to have been made on specially selected athletes, though some suitable ones by rowing ergometer are available.

A voltage regulator for furnace control

A regulator of simple construction is described, which is capable of maintaining, for long periods of time, an accurately constant root mean square voltage in the circuit of an electric resistance furnace. It is shown that, in ordinary circumstances, a laboratory furnace of medium size, controlled by the regulator, exhibits very small temperature changes, the ordinary day and night variation being inappreciable. The regulator may be used for the largest furnaces by the addition of a relay, or relays, of suitable current-carrying capacity. It cannot be damaged by failure of the power supply, and returns to normal operation when the supply is restored.

SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE OF THE RENAL ARTERY

Because of its rarity, this condition is of more scientific than practical interest. But as it sometimes occurs, I wish to take this opportunity of reporting an interesting case which recently came under my care, especially as I am able to describe for the first time the actual rupture of the artery in any reported case. REPORT OF CASE History. —G. C., man, aged 64, referred to me by Dr. J. L. Allan of Calgary, was married and was the father of eight children, one of whom died of tuberculosis after reaching an adult age. The others were healthy. There was no history of severe injury, nor of any venereal disease. He had never been a very hard worker, and was temperate in his habits. The patient was in his usual health and was ascending the stairs after his evening meal at the end of an ordinary day's work, when

The Fundus Oculi of Birds, especially as viewed by the Ophthalmoscope: A Study in Comparative Anatomy and Physiology

DR. CASEY WOOD is an ophthalmic surgeon with a large practice in one of the busiest cities in America. He is a voluminous writer on subjects connected directly with the science and art of his speciality, and he is the editor of an Encyclopaedia of Ophthalmology, of which several volumes have already appeared. It would seem that in this there was enough to provide labour for more than the ordinary day of any man, yet he has found time to devote himself to the exploration of what may almost be described as an untrodden field of science. It is true that in this country Dr. Lindsay Johnson has done work of a similar kind, but he mainly concerned himself with the ophthalmoscopic examination of the mammalian eye. Dr. Wood is the first to make a systematic examination of the fundus appearances in the eyes of birds, and the present volume, with its beautiful series of illustrations by Mr. A. W. Head, is a sufficient proof that it has been a labour of love. The present writer is not in a position to judge whether the ophthalmoscope will prove to be the valuable aid to the classification of birds and the identification of species that Dr. Wood seems to think, but a strong case has been made out for the use of the ophthalmoscope by the ornithologist. For his benefit two chapters are devoted to a description of the ophthalmoscope and its use; but an hour or two with a friendly oculist in the ophthalmic department of a large hospital would do far more than many pages of description to enable those interested in birds to gain a glimpse of this new field.

Mr. John Angell

ON September 9 there passed away in the person of. Mr. John Angell a figure notable in the educational world of Manchester. He was born in London in 1824, and in his early educational career was chemical assistant to Prof. Thos. Graham, F.R.S., professor of chemistry in University College,. London, and was hon. secretary to the Birkbeck School Committee, whose school was the first established in Great Britain with the object of demonstrating both the desirability and the possibility of teaching soundly and rationally the elements of science as leading everyday subjects in the ordinary day school. In 1852 he accepted an appointment at the Salford Mechanics' Institute as head of the Boys' School established therein, and five years later became the organiser of the day and evening classes of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, then established in a new and commodious building in that city, where he remained for twelve years, resigning his. position in 1869 to accept the senior science mastership in the Manchester Grammar School, then under the vigorous direction of Mr. F. W. Walker, after wards master of St. Paul's School, London. Mr. Angell remained at this post for eighteen years, during which period he greatly raised the reputation of the school by his energetic and intelligent teaching of science, especially in the subject of physics. He was an enthusiastic disciple of George Combe, whose teaching, as exhibited in his work, “The Constitution of Man,” as he said, “completely revolutionised the course of my life.” He was an I ardent and enlightened exponent of the “Socratic” method of instruction, which he applied with much i success in the courses he gave in chemistry, physics, and physiology to day and evening pupils during his career at the Manchester Mechanics' Institution. In 1868 the Institution was visited by a French Imperial Commission appointed to visit and report upon secondary education in England and Scotland. In its report it has nothing but praise for the methods of teaching in use. “If he selects a reagent, it is because some pupil suggested it; if he obtains a gas in his analysis, he has already caused his students to predict its nature.… ‘My object,’ as this excellent teacher told us, ‘is to train the intellect through the study of science.’” His work as a teacher received the approval of such men as Drs. Joule and Angus Smith, and Profs. Clifton, Williamson, and Roscoe. He ceased his duties as a teacher in 1887, but continued his keen interest in scientific subjects in association with many of the literary and scientific societies of Manchester of which he was an active member almost to the day of his death at the ripe age of ninety-two. He was the author of many once widely used science text-hooks.