Sense Of Perspective Research Articles

DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF MINDFUL LEARNING: CHALLENGES, BENEFITS, AND OPPORTUNITIES

Learning is an individual process for each student. People can be aware of own learning or do not think about it at all in the diverse situations of life. However, in the pedagogical reality, the awareness of students' learning is essential as it contributes to self-regulation of behaviour and self-reflection of actions, striving towards continuous self-development. It is important to be aware of oneself mentally and physically, understanding and accepting own thoughts or feelings. The integration of all areas of personal development becomes relevant, as changes in one area are linked to changes in another. Awareness of own learning directs the learner towards the social, emotional and academic dimension, including not only awareness of the knowledge and acquired skills, but awareness of own goals, motivations, emotions, interests, the personal relevance of the learning content and also the variability of the current situation, strategies for future learning, and other elements of the learning process. Mindfulness can also be seen as a powerful 'antidote' to common mental health problems, e.g. fatigue, exhaustion, apathy, anxiety and difficulty in concentrating. Mindfulness practices can be implemented at schools as an element of the lesson, but it is also important to purposefully create a culture of mindfulness at the institutional level, which can be greatly facilitated by the professional development of teachers. Mindfulness is a mental state of being reflective in the present moment. It provides the ability to live intensely in the present moment, acceptance of own thoughts and feelings, a sense of perspective and the ability to cope with stressful situations through conscious concentration. The aim of this publication is to analyze the theoretical aspects of mindfulness, the possibilities of facilitating the learning process through mindfulness practices, as well as to carry out empirical research evaluating 16-19-year-old students` self-awareness skills, the phenomenon of the presence of mindfulness in their learning process and its impact on their learning outcomes.

Ozu in 2.5D

“Ozu’s films are comparable to deep, clear water, perfectly still.” (Maurice Pinguet). The simplicity of Ozu’s images is perfectly apparent. It is in the transparency of these lines that the true depth of his films is played out: Everything happens as if we were dealing with the most natural, most common world, and yet from the outset we notice a lapse—the characters move in an artificial way, their expression is always missing, they seem to float, between presence and absence. This pan.able is an invitation to meditate at the borders between visual arts and the psychology of perception. To think this in-between, between the 2D of the image and the 3D of reality, the 2.5D can be understood both as a new approach to perspective construction and as a specific relationship to the world. In the sense of perspective, the Ozuian image does not seem to be constructed linearly according to the rules of the vanishing point that unify a homogeneous and structured space. Rather, it is constructed according to a principle of superimposed layers, like cartoons. The pan.able shows the passage from an image as a section of the real to an image as a recomposition of the real, from a conception of unified space to a conception of stratified space. Metaphorically, this in-between time of 2.5D reveals that behind the purity and serenity of Ozu’s images a form of drama is at play: the character haunts the world more than he inhabits it. He is in the lining. He is no longer a singular character in a fiction, but a prototype, an idea: There Was a Father, in reference to the title of another Ozu film. The procedure of the pan.able enables us to appreciate this disconnect of the real space and its substitution by an artificial and stratified image. It gives the impression of both looking at a fun flip book and facing a ghost, escaped from its body, lost in its own reverie. Between an amused tenderness and a sensory reflexivity, this is precisely where Ozu’s films take place, between the surface and the depth, between presence and absence, between the singular and the typical—in this in-between space of the 2.5D.

Strategies to enhance energy availability in Mozambique: A comparison of national electricity market regulations and strategies to encourage grid-integrated distributed renewable energy generation

The energy sector in Mozambique faces huge challenges that include low generation capacity and efficiency, affordability, unstable and unreliable energy supplies, low access rates, amongst others. The situation is being worsened by high environmental, social vulnerability and extreme events influenced by climate catastrophes. With the demand of energy consistently on the rise, there is critical need to address policy, investment, market and technical barriers to energy sector development. Mozambican government has made tremendous effort in developing electricity sector regulatory frameworks. However, progress has been uneven across the country. Thus, the aim of the study was to identify potential opportunities to promote the introduction of new distributed generation policies and technologies from renewable sources in Mozambique by analyzing technological and regulatory components of the energy sector in Argentina, Italy and Mexico. Methodologically, the study uses a comprehensive literature review, several national policy frameworks and statistical data from various official sources, with public policy and sectoral performance, as well as organizational and regulatory changes in consideration. Understanding national electricity market regulations and strategies, it will enable to gain a sense of perspective of the major determinants of the sector performance, and both the potential for and constraints on regulatory reform. It was observed that for achieving efficiency in energy provision, fair pricing, equality of access and environmental sustainability, it is important to strengthen the independence of the regulator.

Perspective, the Visible and the Invisible in Chinese Paintings: A Response to Jean-Luc Marion

Abstract In the Chinese translation of The Crossing of the Visible, French phenomenologist Jean-Luc Marion, raised a question about the nature of Chinese paintings: does the relationship between the visible and the invisible commonly found in the Western painting play the same role in Chinese paintings? This essay aims to answer this question. Chinese paintings maintain the acceptance that the sense of perspective is the implementation of the invisible by the varieties of perspective, the invisible vanishing point and the poem. My response to Marion’s call opens a fresh dialogue between the French thought and the Chinese thought.

The importance of mission vision in organizational strategy

The mission is a certain formulation of the economic future of the organization and occupies the first position in the hierarchy of the company’s goals. Virtually, it determines the main direction of the future development of the enterprise as a whole. The vision creates a sense of perspective in the organization’s activities and ensures the continuity of the organization’s subsequent goals. Each goal limits the scope of the organization’s actions, and the vision does not have a final milestone, it creates an impulse for continuous progress.

Exploring perceptions of how nature recreation benefits mental wellbeing: a qualitative enquiry

ABSTRACT Evidence suggests that experiences in nature enhance mental wellbeing. However, we are yet to clearly understand the processes through which this occurs. This study employed an exploratory qualitative approach to investigate how time spent in nature supports mental wellbeing. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 participants. Thematic analysis yielded three dominant themes: (1) ‘a sense of perspective’, (2) ‘mental and emotional sanctuary’ and (3) ‘being immersed in the moment’. Themes echoed relaxation and restoration of mental functioning, enhanced positive affect in natural environments and feelings of oneness with nature. However, participants also described experiences that reflected increased mindfulness, gratitude and awe, gaining a broader perspective on their concerns and feeling humbled in nature. Findings extend previous theoretical perspectives suggesting a more interactive relationship between people and their environment. The implications being that a more nuanced approach may better inform policy, research and practice in this area.

School PE and ‘fat’ kids: maintaining the rage and keeping a sense of perspective

ABSTRACT This paper is about ‘fat’ kids in HPE classes. The motivation for this paper comes as a personal response to my reading of Roxane Gay’s book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Hunger is thoughtful, passionate, articulate, sad and overall troubling. It also raised questions for me about whether health and physical education (HPE) is a safe space for fat young people and whether or not there is any possibility that HPE might be a transformative space that some scholars suggest. It raises issues regarding curriculum choice and pedagogy, but also about dispositional change such that all HPE teachers become more sensitive to the needs, feelings and capacities of young fat kids.

How Might Simulation-Based Accounts of Mindreading Explain Pragmatic Interpretation?

This paper examines the role of simulational mindreading in pragmatic interpretation (conceived of in a Gricean manner). There are two parts to this paper. In part one, I argue that mirroring, in the form of direct or indirect simulation, underdetermines pragmatic interpretation. Nevertheless, to deliver a unique interpretation, mirroring can contribute either by reducing the number of salient interpretations or to be accompanied by theoretical considerations. This results in a hybrid view in which theory and simulation cooperate. The second part of the paper examines the imaginative or perspective-taking sense of simulation. Drawing on evidence from several clinical populations, I will show that subjects with difficulty in pragmatic interpretation often show little or no difficulty in perspective taking, and subjects with difficulty in perspective taking do not always show difficulty in pragmatic interpretation. This, I conclude, suggests that simulation in the sense of perspective taking is not necessary or plays no significant role in pragmatic interpretation.

Asia's Evolving Security Architecture

Asia's Evolving Security Architecture Ralf Emmers (bio) In Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century, Andrew Yeo makes both a conceptual and empirical contribution to the existing literature on the evolving architecture in Asia since the end of World War II. The scholarship on the subject is vast and comprehensive, but it tends to be divided into two sets of approaches that have characterized the international relations of the region: on the one hand, bilateral alliances and other defense ties linking various Asian states to the United States, and on the other, multilateral arrangements mostly driven by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Moreover, the existing literature on the regional architecture has been further divided along economic and security lines, as only a few publications have so far explored the security-economic nexus in Asia. Finally, the literature on the regional architecture is dominated theoretically by constructivism (with its emphasis on norms and community-building) and realism (with its focus on hard and soft balancing). Asia's Regional Architecture is insightful and ambitious. It seeks to bridge the different examples of bilateralism and multilateralism that together form the regional architecture as well as to cover both the economic and security sides of the overall cooperative framework in the region. The empirical evidence is well-known, as bilateralism and multilateralism in Asia have been extensively researched since the end of the Cold War. Other sources have looked at Asia's multilateral architecture in a topical and timely fashion, especially with the architecture's ongoing buildup and rapid evolution. It is true, therefore, that the empirical evidence presented in Asia's Regional Architecture is not particularly new. Yeo contributes to the literature by bringing all of this material together and analyzing it through the application of a less well-known conceptual framework—historical institutionalism. To my knowledge, this has never before been attempted, making the book both original and innovative. The end result is that Asia's Regional Architecture takes a long-term view that enriches the existing analysis and provides a sense of perspective. [End Page 128] The book makes two significant contributions to the existing literature. First, scholarship has for too long studied the hub-and-spoke system and the ASEAN model of cooperative security separately and independently from each other. The author fills this lacuna by exploring the synergies between bilateralism and multilateralism in a historic and systematic way. Second, Yeo goes beyond the standard realism-constructivism debate that has dominated academic discussions of Asian architecture since the 1990s. Historical institutionalism, with its notions of endogenous change, institutional layering, and institutional drift, offers a convincing framework to explain stability and change in the regional architecture. Though some of this has been attempted before on a smaller scale, this book is comprehensive in its attempt to fulfill these objectives. Indeed, Yeo provides a rich, systematic, and detailed account of how the security and economic architecture has evolved since 1945. The importance given to providing a coherent conceptual framework that ties all this empirical evidence together is therefore critical. Furthermore, Asia's Regional Architecture is well-researched. Yeo thoroughly reviews the existing conceptual and empirical literature. He comfortably switches from an in-depth discussion on historical institutionalism to illustrations of economic and security regionalism. Chapter 1 sets the stage by introducing methods and research design and articulating a series of propositions. The structure of the book flows logically and its organization is clear and well-conceived, with the chronological approach adopted in the chapters preventing too much repetition of empirical evidence. The overall writing style is coherent and engaging. Some issues should be mentioned, however. First, as most of us do, Yeo struggles to make sense of the Trump administration and its position on the regional architecture, among other areas of its foreign policy. The book mostly ends with the Obama administration, although the concluding chapter touches on the "America first" principle and Trump's decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trump has so far shown little interest in Asia's architecture, especially in comparison to the Obama administration and its policy of a pivot toward Asia. The wider issue of a possible...

Perceived job demands and resources of newly qualified midwives working in primary care settings in The Netherlands

ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to identify perceived job demands and job resources of newly qualified midwives (NQMs), working in primary midwifery care during their first years in practice. Design/SettingA qualitative study, with semi-structured group interviews was conducted. Midwives working less than three years in primary midwifery care in the Netherlands were invited to join a focus group interview. Measurements and findingsFive focus group interviews were with 31 participants. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed. Data were analyzed thematically by using the different characteristics of the Job Demands Resources model. Working as a locum midwife is demanding for Dutch NQMs, due to a large number of working hours in different practices and a lack of job security. Decision-making and adapting to local guidelines and collaborations demand a high cognitive load. These aspects of the work context negatively impact NQMs’ work and private life. Working with clients and working autonomously motivates the newly graduates. Support from colleagues and peers are important job resources, although colleagues are also experienced as a job demand, due to their role as employer. Strictness in boundaries, flexibility and sense of perspective are NQMs’ personal resources. On the other hand, NQMs perceived perfectionism and the urge to prove oneself as personal demands. Key conclusions and implications for practiceDutch NQMs’ first years in primary midwifery care are perceived as highly demanding. In primary care, NQMs usually work as locum midwives, self-employed and in different practices. Working in different practices requires not only working with different client populations and autonomous decision-making, but also requires adaptation to different local working arrangements. Building adequate support systems might help NQMs finding a balance between work and private life by having experienced midwives available as mentors. Furthermore, training and coaching of NQMs help them to become aware of their personal resources and demands and to help them strengthen their personal resources. Improving NQMs’ working position through secure employments require changes in the organization of maternity care in the Netherlands.

EKSPRESI IDENTITAS KEACEHAN DALAM INTERAKSI SOSIAL DI TENGAH LINGKUNGAN NON-SYARIAT ISLAM (Studi Kasus pada Komunitas Ikatan Pelajar Aceh Semarang)

Student Association Aceh Semarang (IPAS) one of a local youth organization of government of Aceh Province located in Central Java, especially the city of Semarang. IPAS community as a place for students Aceh Semarang to express Acehnese in the Non-Shari'a. This study uses the Identity Theory Anthony Giddens. The results of this study indicate that: (1) The identity attached to IPAS community members as a result of identity construction from the region of origin, every individual has a sense of perspective or different about the identity. IPAS community members individually adjust to the new environment. The new neighborhood would be a challenge for any community member IPAs to make adjustments. (2) Community IPAS did some ways to express Acehnese in the Non-Shari'a, such as through social, cultural religious funds. (3) There are three factors that affect the community IPAS in mengepresikan Acehnese in the Non-Islamic Shari'ah, namely minorities, cultural differences and social environment. It is these factors that trigger IPAS community to show the Acehnese in a new environment.

Research on effective teleoperation of construction machinery fusing manual and automatic operation

BackgroundIt is known that the work efficiency of teleoperated construction machinery is lower than that of directly operated machinery. Assistance via automatic control is expected to improve the work efficiency. However, this assistance might break the feeling of control and prohibit control adjustments by the operator.MethodsWe propose a semiautomatic system that fuses manual and automatic operation while maintaining the same feeling of control as manual operation. The assistance approach to the working trajectory is based on the assumption of the existence of an ideal trajectory for the hoist swing that is a major component of an excavator. We evaluate the feeling of control using a sense of agency.ResultsThe results of an examination using a miniature excavator show that the assistance improved the perspective error from manual with a high sense of agency.ConclusionsTherefore proposed assistance was effective during teleoperation without a sense of perspective.

Ram, Kalpana, and Christopher Houston (eds .): Phenomenology in Anthropology - A Sense of Perspective

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Exploring the financial and investment implications of the Paris Agreement

A global energy transition is underway. Limiting warming to 2°C (or less), as envisaged in the Paris Agreement, will require a major diversion of scheduled investments in the fossil-fuel industry and other high-carbon capital infrastructure towards renewables, energy efficiency, and other low or negative carbon technologies. The article explores the scale of climate finance and investment needs embodied in the Paris Agreement. It reveals that there is little clarity in the numbers from the plethora of sources (official and otherwise) on climate finance and investment. The article compares the US$100 billion target in the Paris Agreement with a range of other financial metrics, such as investment, incremental investment, energy expenditure, energy subsidies, and welfare losses. While the relatively narrowly defined climate finance included in the US$100 billion figure is a fraction of the broader finance and investment needs of climate-change mitigation and adaptation, it is significant when compared to some estimates of the net incremental costs of decarbonization that take into account capital and operating cost savings. However, even if the annual US$100 billion materializes, achieving the much larger implied shifts in investment will require the enactment of long-term internationally coordinated policies, far more stringent than have yet been introduced.Policy relevanceMaintaining momentum towards fulfilling Article 2 of the UNFCCC – avoiding dangerous climate-change – means keeping a sense of perspective on how key financial and investment indicators of progress relate to the underlying macroeconomic reality of the task that lies ahead. There is a wide gap between the level of rhetorical commitment to mitigating and adapting to climate change evident at the Paris COP 21 Climate Summit, and countries’ actual on the ground commitments to emission reduction and investment in climate resilience, and the policies to bring them about. In particular, major shifts in financial flows towards low-carbon energy (renewables and energy efficiency) will be required if this gap is to be reduced.

Dirt Meridian by Andrew Moore

Reviewed by: Dirt Meridian by Andrew Moore Amanda Breitbach Dirt Meridian. Photographs by Andrew Moore. Bologna, Italy: Damiani Publishers, 2015. 132 pp. $50.00 cloth. Aerial photographs tend to make any landscape more abstract, and usually more distant. But that is not the case in Dirt Meridian, a new book by photographer Andrew Moore. Moore brings a tender perspective to his images of the American landscape along the one hundredth meridian, often considered the dividing line between fertile east and arid west. Dwelling in the seldom-pictured heart of the Great Plains, a region sometimes called “flyover country,” Moore sensitively captures a vast, open land marked by a history of human use. Romantic views of stock ponds illuminated by golden light and cattlemen on horseback are balanced by images of crumbling homesteads, munitions storage bunkers, and barracks-style housing for oil-field workers. From a hawk’s-eye view, he shows us both the West of our imagination and the West that is. Back on the ground, carefully framed portraits and interiors fill in a complicated story about people and place. The book reproduces seventy-two of Moore’s photographs, beautifully printed and accompanied by several thoughtful essays. Kent Haruf (late author of Plainsong) sets a contemplative, loving tone in the preface, writing of the Plains landscape, “It may not be pretty, but it’s beautiful if you know how to look at it.” An essay by Toby Jurovics, chief curator at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, places Moore in a lineage from the early survey photographers up through Robert Adams and Emmett Gowin, artists who helped redefine landscape photography by bringing human impact to the forefront. A second essay by Inara Verzemnieks, an assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa, serves as a written companion to the images, telling emotional stories of many of the people and places pictured and off ering us context. Moore’s photographs give us an appreciation for the scale of the Plains landscape and a sense of perspective: people are small here. Images of abandoned schoolhouses and isolated windmills help us understand the tenuous [End Page 338] nature of agriculture in the region and the potential for human failure, while photographs of pipelines, gravel pits, and broken pivots reveal an economy dependent on extracting and exploiting natural resources. Together with these foreboding elements, Moore also gives us hope for the future. Portraits of young people raised on Plains ranches and grazing bison seem to point to a way forward. His book is an honest and unblinking document of the American Great Plains, full of quiet beauty, heartbreak, and hope. Amanda Breitbach Department of Art Truman State University Copyright © 2016 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Predicting performance in manually controlled rendezvous and docking through spatial abilities

Manually controlled rendezvous and docking (manual RVD) is a challenging space task for astronauts. This study aims to identify spatial abilities that are critical for accomplishing manual RVD. Based on task analysis, spatial abilities were deduced to be critical for accomplishing manual RVD. 15 Male participants performed manual RVD task simulations and spatial ability tests (the object-manipulation spatial ability and spatial orientation ability). Participants’ performance in the test of visualization of viewpoints (which measures the spatial orientation ability) was found to be significantly correlated with their manual RVD performance, indicating that the spatial orientation ability in the sense of perspective taking is particularly important for accomplishing manual RVD.

Poly Styrene interview

Abstract A few years ago Punk & Post-Punk editor Alex Ogg interviewed Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex for an American fanzine, which led to subsequent correspondence and meetings. What emerged from those discussions was a woman whose intelligence and sense of perspective was illuminating, despite openly acknowledged bouts of mental illness that led some in the media to ridiculue her. What she had to say also directly related to the female experience of punk from one of its most celebrated exponents, and in particular the way her public image was spun by her one-time manager and boyfriend, whose manipulation extended to the financial arrangements of the band.

Psychosocial effects of Tai Chi exercise on people with rheumatoid arthritis

To investigate the perceived psychosocial effects of participating in taught sessions of Tai Chi on people diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Tai Chi is thought to be psychologically as well as physically beneficial for people with arthritis. This study adopted a qualitative approach to follow-up participants who had previously demonstrated physical and psychological benefits from a specifically modified Tai Chi programme in an attempt to explore perceived psychosocial improvements. Nineteen semi-structured, audio-taped, interviews were carried out with participants who had taken part in, twice weekly, group-based Tai Chi sessions for 12 weeks. Data from transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Analysis suggests that participating in shared Tai Chi sessions provides increased awareness of the links between mind and body; reduces anxiety and depression; and improves self-esteem, self-efficacy and motivation. It was particularly striking to find that the highly structured nature of Tai Chi was felt to improve memory and seemed to offer aesthetic experiences through developing graceful, 'fluid' moves rather than the 'jarring' movements often imposed by having RA. Such group sessions were found to provide social support and help improve participants' sense of perspective. Although small scale, this study suggests that Tai Chi has the potential to offer psychosocial benefits for people with RA. Offering Tai Chi alongside traditional treatments for RA could promote psychological health and well-being, help inform clinical decision-making and prove cost-effective.

Self-reported “best” resources for teachers

In over 80% of the schools where physics is taught, there is only one teacher teaching the subject, so most teachers cannot readily turn to a colleague at their schools for answers or suggestions about issues that deal specifically with physics. When physics teachers do have questions about physics content, the most often reported “best” source for answers is the Internet. Potentially demonstrating a better personal network or a better familiarity with the resources available to them, teachers who had completed physics education courses were significantly less likely to use their class texts as the best answer source. Instead, they were more likely to rely on college or university teachers. Having access to resources beyond the class text can help teachers develop a more nuanced understanding of physics concepts, as well as a better sense of perspective about the content they teach.

Edward G Jones

Edward (Ted) G Jones died unexpectedly on 6 June 2011 while attending a meeting at UCLA Medical Center. He was 72 years of age. Born near Wellington, New Zealand in 1939 and raised under very modest circumstances Ted defied the odds by attending Medical School at the University of Otago where he graduated in 1962. He then worked for a year as a house officer in a community hospital and began working toward an academic medical career at the University of Otago where he was increasingly drawn to basic science. He then obtained a prestigious fellowship to train in Neuroanatomy at the University of Oxford with the eminent neuroanatomist Tom Powell, arriving there in 1965 with his wife Sue and obtaining his PhD. in 1968. His three-year doctoral training period produced 23 papers many of which were of seminal importance. After serving as a lecturer at Oxford and back in New Zealand where he was Associate Professor in the Anatomy Department at Otago, Ted moved to the United States where he joined the Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis and through a period of prodigious productivity rapidly established himself as one of the leading figures in Neuroanatomy and the emerging new interdisciplinary field of Neuroscience. In 1984 he moved to UC Irvine where he took over as Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology. During his time at Irvine Ted also ran a laboratory in Japan at the Riken Institute. In 1998, Ted moved to the University of California at Davis where he became Director of the Center for Neuroscience, a position that he held till his retirement in 2010. During this time he presided over an extraordinary period of growth and development of the Center, transforming it from one with a primary cognitive and systems focus to one that spanned the full range of approaches from molecular, cellular and systems to behavioral and cognitive neuroscience. Ted Jones distinguished himself in many areas of neuroscience. He was unquestionably the world authority on the Thalamus, producing a remarkable two-volume book filled with his own photomicrographs and illustrations. He was a pioneer of the study of cortico-cortical circuitry and the subpopulations of neurons that comprise local cortical circuits and of neuroplasticity in the cortex and thalamus that helped define the field. It has been said that during his career he studied every area of the brain with every important new technique available to him, with extraordinary rigor and a conceptual clarity and sense of perspective that few in the field have attained. He was a leader of the Human Brain Project, an NIH funded neuroinformatics initiative that has led to the development of accessible databases and atlases of human and animal brain anatomy. He was also a pioneer of modern human postmortem analyses of psychiatric diseases, conducting the first modern immunohistochemical studies of postmortem tissue in schizophrenia and introducing the use of array technologies to study gene expression in the postmortem brains of individuals with schizophrenia and mood disorders. The modern view of schizophrenia as a disorder of cortical microcircuitry evolved out of this work, which was conducted through his role in the Pritzker Consortium. He was also an important historian of neuroscience, having trained in the traditions of the classic neuroanatomists and lived through the emergence of the field in the 1960s and its subsequent explosion of knowledge during the next 40 years. Ted Jones was a scientist's scientist, a discerning, traditional scholar who could always be found at his microscope, and who inspired and led his fellow neuroscientists and recruits by example. He had a very broad, integrative and inclusive view of neuroscience that is reflected in the Center that he built at UC Davis. He authored over 400 papers and over 20 books including 2 editions of his volumes on the Thalamus and garnered many accolades during his career, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, president of the Society of Neuroscience and the Cajal Club and Fellow of the ACNP. Ted was also a loving husband, a father of two, grandfather of three, a collector of books and art, and a farmer and winemaker. He leaves a remarkable scientific legacy and impact on all those who had the privilege of knowing and working with him.