Purpose Of My Visit Research Articles

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Contemporary Women Filmmakers in Myanmar: Reflections on a Visit in February 2019

Existing accounts of Myanmar’s film industry available to English speakers are more than twenty years out of date. Opening with a brief overview of cinema in Myanmar since 2000, this article is based on a recent visit to the Myanmar Motion Picture Development Department and the Yangon Film School, on conversations with staff, students and alumnae of these institutions and of the National University of Arts and Culture, and with local independent filmmakers. The purpose of my visit was to begin the groundwork needed to answer basic questions: Who are the women making films in Myanmar today? Where are they trained? What are the conditions in which they work? What kind of films they make? How do they fund production? How do their films circulate? And finally: Is there a women’s cinema in Myanmar? What follows thus outlines the context in which women in Myanmar make films today and introduces the work of a small number of them. I conclude with reflections on three short films: A Million Threads (2006, by Thu Thu Shein), Now I am 13 (2013, by Shin Daewe), and Seeds of Sadness (2018, by Thae Zar Chi Khaing), two of which can be found online (at http://yangonfilmschool.org/___-free-yfs-film / and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX0LUZQcMCQ ).

A Study on Management Information System of Nepal Television

This report is prepared as a summary of the Organizational visit to Nepal Television for the fulfillment of course requirement to Management Information System offered on MBA program at Apex College under Pokhara University. During my visit I consulted to the Engineering department of NTV in order to gather the required information for the case study. The main purpose of my visit was to analyze the management information system of NTV and prepare a case study report for academic purpose. For this, I gathered necessary information by using observation method and interviewing with employees of NTV.

Transnational American Studies: Response to the Presidential Address

Entering experience this time. An atmosphere of rigid control surrounded the procedure of passing through immigration and customs in the era of digital fingerprints and instant photographs. The official representative of the United States, who enforced these new requirements of the Homeland Security Office, asked the usual question about the purpose of my visit. My answer, attend the convention of the Studies Association, triggered the further question about the nature of this association and its purpose: What is studies? To which I replied, American studies is you. On the flight from New York to Atlanta, I sat next to a businessman who read the Wall Street Journal. A similar conversation led to the same question, What is studies? and my perplexed answer: American studies is you. The amazing discovery of Americans turned into an object of study by a foreigner sojourning in the United States directly relates to Shelley Fisher Fishkins presidential address and her concept of transnational At the same time, it raises questions about the reception and recognition of studies in public. From the 1990s on, there have been a number of isolated attempts to launch a campaign of internationalizing studies. It accompanied the process of (economic) globalization spearheaded by the Clinton administration and a world linked by the internet. In the same way in which the ASA responded to a changed situation in which globalization was often conflated with Americanization, national studies associations worldwide took up issues and topics of a changed presence of the United States abroad. The branching out of studies from the United States to bordering areas and cultures in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans was reciprocated by studies outposts in the rest of the world. In this spirit, Bernard Mergen, the editor of Studies International organized two workshops of studies journal editors (in Washington, D.C., in 1997 and in Montreal in 1999), and ASA presidents made ef-

Aquaporin Water Channels (Nobel Lecture)

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Aquaporin water channels (Nobel Lecture).

Thank you very much. I am humbled, I am delighted; I am honored. It is every scientist s dream to give the Nobel Lecture in Stockholm. But I would not be honest if I did not tell you that I am having a little anxiety being on this platform. I have lectured a number of times in Sweden, and I thought I would share with you some events preceding a special lecture that I gave here a few years ago. Arriving at Arlanda Airport, I waited in line at the Passport Control behind a group of businessmen in suits with briefcases. I heard the first in line asked by the control officer to state the purpose of his visit to Sweden. When the man replied “business,” the officer approved and stamped his passport. One at a time, each stepped forward and was asked the same thing; each answered “business” and was approved. Eventually it was my turn, and I was dressed in rumpled clothes after spending the night in the Economy Minus section of an SAS jetliner. The officer asked me the purpose of my visit, and I said “I am here to give the von Euler Lecture at Karolinska Institute.” The officer immediately looked up, stared at me, and asked, “Are you nervous?” At that point I became intensely nervous and said “Yes, I am a little nervous.” The officer looked up again and stated “Well, you should be!” So if the lecturers look a little nervous, the problem is at Arlanda.

Aquaporin Water Channels

Thank you very much. I am humbled, I am delighted; I am honored. This is every scientist's dream: to give the Nobel Lecture in Stockholm. But I would not be honest if I did not tell you that I am having a little anxiety being on this platform. I have lectured a number of times in Sweden, and I thought I would share with you some events preceding a special lecture that I gave here a few years ago. Arriving at Arlanda Airport, I waited in line at the Pass Control behind a group of businessmen in suits with briefcases. I heard the first in line asked by the control officer to state the purpose of his visit to Sweden. When the man replied "business," the officer approved and stamped his passport. One at a time, each stepped forward and was asked the same thing; each answered "business" and was approved. Eventually it was my turn, and I was dressed in rumpled clothes after spending the night in the Economy Minus section of an SAS jetliner. The officer asked me the purpose of my visit, and I said "I am here to give the von Euler Lecture at Karolinska Institute." The officer immediately looked up, stared at me, and asked, "Are you nervous?" At that point I became intensely nervous and said "Yes, I am a little nervous." The officer looked up again and stated "Well, you should be!" So if the lecturers look a little nervous, the problem is at Arlanda.

Psychiatry in post-apartheid Namibia: a troubled legacy

I recently spent 6 months in Namibia as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. The purpose of my visit was twofold: the establishment of a database for trauma-related mental health disorders and the development of a validated, self-report screening instrument for mental illness. In the process, I was able to meet with Namibian colleagues and visit a number of health care centres in the country. This article will focus on my impressions of psychiatry in Namibia that were formed during my visit. A brief summary of Namibian history, in particular the country's relations with neighbouring South Africa, will help place my observations in a more meaningful context.

Navajo Indian Health Promotion

AbstractIn the summer of 1990, I was awarded a National Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee Scholarship to visit The Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, U.S.A. The purpose of my visit was to investigate the health problems arising from the settlement of nomadic people. Among the topics I chose to study during my two month trip were: disease prevention, health promotion and methods of health education provided by the Indian Health Service.

Visit to the gastroenterology INSERM units of France.

On personal invitation, which is here gratefully acknowledged, of Professor C. Burg, the general director of the Institut National de la Santé et de la Récherche Médicale (INSERM), I had the privilege and pleasure to spend the month of October 1976 in France touring Gastroenterology INSERM Units. The INSERM is the French analog of the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the United States. The purpose of my visit was to see the organization and performance of these research units, compare them with what I know about the gastroenterology research laboratories in the United States, and exchange scientific information with the French researchers on the topics of mutual interest. Professor Serge Bonfils was chosen with his kind approval as the host of my visit. His INSERM Unit (number 10) at the Hospital Bichat in Paris, was elected as the "Host Unit" where my visit started and ended, and where the visits to the other units were organized. I owe him sincere gratitude for his guidance and help. After completing my tour, I was left with the feeling that what I had seen would be of interest to American gastroenterologists. Dr. John Farrar, the editor of this journal, encouraged me to review my tour and my impressions.

The Founders of Neurology.

Some years ago, when writing the biography of a British brain-surgeon, I wrote to ask the late Sir Gordon Holmes if he could help me. In his reply he said that his memory was excellent, he probably had information for me, but he was not prepared to write a long letter. He invited me to visit him. He bade me come on any day except Thursdays which were sacred to golf; he was then 86 years old. When next in London I set an afternoon aside and took a train to Farnham. After we had disposed of the main purpose of my visit the conversation became more general and to my delight he reminisced about his early years at the National Hospital, Queen Square. At the time Ferrier had a big practice and spent little time at the hospital. Jackson, in retirement, was consulting physician and came there once or

Negative-Contrastive Constructions in Standard Modern English

T HERE ARE SEVERAL negative constructions in English which have been infrequently, and then superficially, examined. We shall here investigate only one of these-but one which participates in several transformations and involves all the major form classes. This construction is characterized by the particle not used to introduce and modify an element contrastive with a parallel positive element. We call such phenomena negative-contrastive constructions, and shall first examine those headed by nouns. Negative-contrastive constructions headed by nouns or noun phrases permit several transformations. The examples below provide an initial survey. (There seems to be a certain variability in the junctural patterns applied to these constructions by different speakers. Throughout this article we indicate by commas or dashes what seem to be the most common patterns: we find no firmly established conventions for punctuation.) la. Business, not pleasure, is the purpose of my visit. b. Not pleasure, but business, is the purpose of my visit. 2a. My purpose is business, not pleasure. b. My purpose is not pleasure(,) but business. 3a. Those books-not this one-are acceptable. b. Those books-but not this one-are acceptable. c. Not this book, but those, are acceptable. 4a. This book-not those-is acceptable. b. This book-but not those-is acceptable. c. Not those books, but this one, is acceptable. A comparison of Nos. la and lb with Nos. 2a and 2b indicates that when a negative-contrastive (noun-headed) construction occurs post-verbally, juncture between its two elements is optional if the negative element precedes the positive. Otherwise and elsewhere the junctural pattern is set: the second element is set off by double-bar junctures, as if a nonrestrictive element. It should be immediately noted, however, that the element so set off is not necessarily the nonrestrictive of the two: in Nos. 3c and 4c, as in No. lb, a quite different situation prevails. A simple dropping test proves that it is

LETTER FROM EUROPE.

Major Girard, Surgeon U. S. Army, to Professor Senn. No. III. HEIDELBERG—PROFESSOR CZERNY — STRASSBURG — PROFESSOR LUECKE—PROFESSOR VON RECKLINGHAUSEN—BALE— PROFESSOR SOCIN. Heidelberg, Feb.14, 1894. Dear Dr. Senn: —The purpose of my visit to Heidelberg was to see Professor Czerny and observe the management of his clinic. If I am a little disappointed I must ascribe the major cause to the miserable weather and lack of expected news from home, both of which will to a certain degree affect even a stoic. Perhaps, to the taste of the distinguished Professor, I was not a big enough personality, and when on inquiry, if I was a Surgeon-General, I replied in the negative I thought I perceived a shade of difference in manner, all of which may be a result of my mental depression and goes to show that, even with the most honest intentions, reports of clinics depend to a certain