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Schechter, Sam
No full textDiploma Business Administration (Capilano)
MA Professional Communication (Royal Roads)
Sam Schechter is the Chair of the Communications Department at Douglas College. Following a decade of working primarily in government and politics, Sam Schechter has been teaching in post-secondary education since 2009, including at Vancouver Community College, Royal Roads University, and the University of the Fraser Valley. Sam has taught courses in professional writing, media and public relations, social media, and public speaking. In addition to teaching, Sam also offers private consulting services, mostly focused on public affairs and communications.curren
Biography [of Jacob Schechter] 1887-1951
No full textBiographical sketch of American-Jewish lawyer born in Galicia; studies at New York University; travels to Europe; family life.digitizedJacob Schechter was born in Galicia in 1887. He moved to the USA as a child and became a lawyer in New York. He was the father of Johanna Meta Schechter (ME 799).Galici
Mathilde Schechter Collection undated, 1911-1924
No full textThe collection contains six personal letters from Mathilde Schechter to Martha Badt (née Guttman), a fellow Breslauer and intimite lifelong friend; and one personal letter to Martha Badt's daughter, Bertha Badt-Strauss.digitizedMathilde Schechter (née Roth) was married to Dr. Solomon Schechter, a distinguished Jewish scholar and president of the Jewish Theological Seminary. They met at the British Museum, where he tutored Claude Montefiore, a young Jew from a prominent British family. They were married in 1887 and later moved to the United States. Mathilde edited everything her husband wrote and is widely credited for his exquisite style. In 1918, the Women's League for Conservative Judaism was founded under her leadership to coordinate women's work within conservative synagogues
Fall 2016 Supplement to Brauneis & Schechter, Copyright: A Contemporary Approach
No full textThis cumulative supplement contains additional materials for Brauneis and Schechter, Copyright: A Contemporary Approach (1st ed. 2012) that make it current through July 2016. Special features include a hyperlinked table of references to 19 recent cases decided since July 2015, which may be helpful in getting an overview of developments over this past year; a hyperlinked table of contents to all inserts; and a chapter-by-chapter guide to using the supplement, intended for professors who are creating or updating syllabi. The supplement contains nine principal cases with notes, as well as dozens of other updates
Danny Schechter discusses, News Dissecting from Boston to a Global Stage: A Multi-media Pioneer Challenges His Profession and Calls for Media Reform at Ford Hall Forum, audio recording, 4/17/2008
No full textDanny Schechter “The news Dissector,” launched a media career in Boston on WBCN Radio. He became a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard, a reporter at WGBH, a producer at WLVI and WCVB, and then went on to CNN and ABC News where he won two Emmys. However, he believes media, the field in which he has worked for four decades, is harming our democracy. Are major corporations capable of presenting the news effectively? Can independent media — empowered with the tools of a technological revolution — do any better? Schechter looks back on his journey from Boston to the world stage and explore the rapidly changing ways in which we receive our information.https://dc.suffolk.edu/fhf-av/1089/thumbnail.jp
A Left and Right Truncated Schechter Luminosity Function for Quasars
No full textThe luminosity function for quasars (QSOs) is usually fitted by a Schechter function. The dependence of the number of quasars on the redshift, both in the low and high luminosity regions, requires the inclusion of a lower and upper boundary in the Schechter function. The normalization of the truncated Schechter function is forced to be the same as that for the Schechter function, and an analytical form for the average value is derived. Three astrophysical applications for QSOs are provided: deduction of the parameters at low redshifts, behavior of the average absolute magnitude at high redshifts, and the location (in redshift) of the photometric maximum as a function of the selected apparent magnitude. The truncated Schechter function with the double power law and an improved Schechter function are compared as luminosity functions for QSOs. The chosen cosmological framework is that of the flat cosmology, for which we provided the luminosity distance, the inverse relation for the luminosity distance, and the distance modulus
Victor Schechter
No full textSchechter sitting at a lab bench with a microscope with a pipe in his mouth.Inscriptions on image and/or album page: Left: "#2353"Digitized by: MBLWHOI Libraryimage/jpg black and white image reformatted digitalPhotograph
Neil Schechter Oral History.
No full textDr. Neil Schechter begins this interview by describing the state of the pediatric pain field during the late 1970s. As he was training, he felt it was a bit wrong to have the disciplines dealing with physical and emotional/mental well-being so divorced from one another, especially with unaddressed psychosocial care for pediatric patients and families during complex chronic conditions such as cancer and sickle cell. Dr. Schechter also recalls a prevalent fear in the medical community of addicting children to pain medication, which kept clinicians from treating children\u27s pain at all. Dr. Schechter questioned why pain was so chronically undertreated in pediatric patients and participated in numerous academic research inquiries into how to safely prevent pain. With a small community of like minds that he fostered, Dr. Schechter ventured forth into broadly exploring and reframing the way pain was thought of by clinicians. After Dr. Schechter began to develop a pediatric pain program at the University of Connecticut, he found that pain was often thought of as a psychological construct that was divorced from any biological implications. He worried that this commonly held theory was prolonging harm and suffering experienced by pediatric patients, while also weighing heavily on the clinicians that were referred to work with the suffering children. In several of his works, Dr. Schechter investigated common medical practices and concluded that many of them were causing unnecessary biological and psychosocial harm to children. He also challenged his clinician peers to think about why they would do something to children that they would not do to adults getting the same treatments. Dr. Schechter discuss how his work built on the foundational work of his colleagues and peers. He recalls several instances he was able to rally similar minds to collectively publish research texts informing and advocating for medical practices to change. In his local institutions, Dr. Schechter was successful in advocating for institutional reform to improve care that was committed to causing no further biological or psychosocial harm to kids. This also spurred him to found the nonprofit ChildKind that is committed to aiding institutions in preventing pain for pediatric patients. Dr. Schechter then goes on to describe the various challenges he faced in his career including peer clinician resistance, divisive national sensationalism of his work, and medical models that were incomplete or lacking in understanding of holistic human well-being. He also explains that some of the bad habits of the past are continuing into the present day practice. He concludes the interview by describing practices that could be altered to achieve a better understanding of patient health, such as reexamining why hospitals don\u27t prevent needlestick pain when it is within their ability to do so. Dr. Schechter also celebrates the positive advances that have been made for pediatric pain
Semilinear problems in unbounded domains
No full textAbstractAs formulated by Silva [E.A. de B.e. Silva, Linking theorems and applications to semilinear elliptic problems at resonance, Nonlinear Anal. 16 (1991) 455–477] and Schechter [M. Schechter, A generalization of the saddle point method with applications, Ann. Polon. Math. 57 (3) (1992) 269–281; M. Schechter, New saddle point theorems, in: Generalized Functions and Their Applications, Varanasi, 1991, Plenum, New York, 1993, pp. 213–219], the sandwich theorem has become a very useful tool in finding critical points of functionals leading to solutions of partial differential equations. In the present paper, this theorem is strengthened to apply to more general situations. We present some applications
Involvement of 5-HT1A serotonergic receptor on Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC)-induced emotional response in rats
No full textThe major psychoactive constituent of cannabis, Δ9-THC, affects emotional reactivity in humans (Porter and Felder, 2001) and laboratory animals by activating brain cannabinoid receptors (Onaivi et al. 1990; Berrendero and Maldonado 2002). The 5HT system plays a key modulatory role in CNS processes that appear to be dysregulated in psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, fear, depression or aggression (Griebel, 1995). The role of 5HT1A serotonergic receptor, located in serotonergic patways projecting from mid-brain raphe nuclei to limbic areas, in the modulation of anxious states has been particularly well studied (Handley, 1995; Barnes and Sharp, 1999). To date, there is only one report on the involvement of 5HT1A serotonergic receptor in anxiogenic-like response induced by CP 55,940 (Marco et al., 2004). The aim of the present work was to further elucidate the role of 5-HT1A serotonergic receptor on emotional reactivity induced by cannabinoids in rats using the elevated plus-maze (EPM) and forced swimming test (FST). D9–THC (0.015-3 mg/kg), was studied in a EPM apparatus according to Pellow et al. (1985). The test length was 5 min, the total time spent in each arm and the number of arm entries were scored by trained observers in male Sprague-Dawley rats, 30 min after treatment. The FST, evaluated according to Porsolt et al., (1977), consisted in two swimming sessions where the time of immobility during the 2nd 5-min session was an indicator of antidepressant activity. D9–THC showed a biphasic effect being anxiolytic at a low (0.75 mg/kg) and anxiogenic at a high (3 mg/kg) dose. Lower doses as 0.015 and 0.075 mg/kg significantly reduced the immobility time in the FST, showing an antidepressant activity. Pre-treatment with the 5-HT1A serotonergic receptor antagonist, WAY 100635 (0.3 mg/kg) given s.c. 1h before D9–THC, significantly reversed its anxiolytic effect. A synergistic action on anxiolytic effect, when the 5-HT1A serotonergic receptor agonist 8-OH-DPAT (0.0075 mg/kg) was given in combination with D9–THC, was observed. These findings support a key role of 5-HT1A serotonergic receptor in the regulation of D9–THC-induced emotional states
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