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Searching for red worlds
No full textpeer reviewedThe SPECULOOS project aims to detect terrestrial exoplanets well suited for detailed atmospheric characterization, explains Principal Investigator Michaël Gillon. © 2018 The Author(s)
Moore-Gillon, John: transcript of an audio interview (29-Apr-2016)
No full textInterview with Dr John Moore-Gillon, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 29 April 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Mrs Sarah Beanland. The project management and the technical support were undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Dr John Moore-Gillon MA LLB MD FRCP (b. 1953) is Consultant Physician Emeritus at St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals, London. He was Lead Clinician for tuberculosis for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, formerly Honorary Secretary of the British Thoracic Society, Chairman of the Joint Tuberculosis Committee, and formerly Chairman and then President of the British Lung Foundation. He served as Master of The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London (2014-2015).The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Moore-Gillon, John: transcript of a video interview (29-Apr-2016)
No full textInterview with Dr John Moore-Gillon, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 29 April 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Mrs Sarah Beanland. The project management and the technical support (filming and production) were undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Dr John Moore-Gillon MA LLB MD FRCP (b. 1953) is Consultant Physician Emeritus at St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals, London. He was Lead Clinician for tuberculosis for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, formerly Honorary Secretary of the British Thoracic Society, Chairman of the Joint Tuberculosis Committee, and formerly Chairman and then President of the British Lung Foundation. He served as Master of The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London (2014-2015).The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Soutenance de thèse : F. Gillon, "L’ismaélisme en formation, Traduction commentée du Kitāb al-Kašf ("Livre du Dévoilement"), attribué à Ǧaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman (m.957)", Paris, 06/12/2017
No full textNous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la soutenance de thèse de Fârès Gillon intitulée L’ismaélisme en formation, Traduction commentée du Kitāb al-Kašf ("Livre du Dévoilement"), attribué à Ǧaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman (m.957) menée sous la direction de M. Mohammad Ali AMIR-MOEZZI et M. Daniel DE SMET devant un jury composé de : M. Mohammad Ali AMIR-MOEZZI Mme Carmela BAFFIONI M. Michel BOIVIN (Rapporteur) M. Daniel DE SMET M. Thierry ZARCONE (Rapporteur) La soutenance aura lieu le 6 décembre 2..
Daftary Farhad and Miskinzoda Gurdofarid (eds), The Study of Shi‘i Islam. History, Theology and Law. Londres-New York, I. B. Tauris-The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2014
No full textGillon Fârès. Daftary Farhad and Miskinzoda Gurdofarid (eds), The Study of Shi‘i Islam. History, Theology and Law. Londres-New York, I. B. Tauris-The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2014. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°29, 2014. pp. 46-47
Machinations and Maneuverings: Pre-election Utterances in the New Zealand MMP Elections
No full textNew Zealand has not yet experienced the type of pre-election coalition formations that have been practiced in some other parliamentary democracies. Yet, there have been occasions where individual parties have signalled their unambiguous preference for a coalition partner based on a desired electoral result. Some parties have also clearly stated that they will not form a coalition with a particular party or parties. It would be expected that pre-election signals could be safely relied upon to predict post-election arrangements. A selection of pre-election events, indicators, arrangements and manoeuvrings of the post-MMP elections have been chosen to demonstrate the impact each case study had upon government formations. The position taken by NZ First, in 1996, is contrasted with those taken by the Alliance and Labour parties. Important lessons were learnt, by both Labour and the Alliance, in time for the 1999 election and both parties engaged in a manner which saw them successfully form a new government. During the 2002 and 2005 elections, most parties communicated strong messages indicating their most and their least preferred post-election partners. This paper is part of a wider PhD study on NZ coalitions that is being undertaken by the author. The case studies illustrate the difficulties faced by all parties in maintaining their individual identity and, at the same time, conveying an impression of cooperation and stability. The events outlined in this paper demonstrate that some form of pre-election agreement or electoral coalition is increasingly been reached. The indications are that there is a high level MMP adaptation in the centre but the general voting public appears to have yet to learn to correctly identify the parties’ pre-election signals. It remains to be seen whether voters can correctly interpret whether parties pre-election stances transform into a post-election quick-step or perhaps a sly shuffle
Doctors and Patients
No full textGillon outlines some prima facie moral duties of physicians to
patients that have emerged from his previous articles in a series on
philosophical medical ethics. These duties follow from four general ethical
principles--respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and
justice--plus the self-imposed supererogatory duty of medical beneficence.
From these principles the author derives such duties as providing adequate
information and advice on treatment options, encouraging patient participation
leading to informed decisions, maintaining competence and exposing
incompetence, admitting errors, disclosing personal medico-moral standards,
and acknowledging that other interests may occasionally supersede those of the
individual patient. Gillon concludes that, where self interest conflicts with
medical beneficence, the claim of medicine as a profession requires that the
patient's interests take priority. (KIE abstract
The Principle of Double Effect and Medical Ethics
No full textIn one of a series of articles on philosophical medical ethics,
Gillon examines the Roman Catholic doctrine of double effect as it applies to
discussions of the moral difference between acts and omissions in patient
care. The doctrine holds that, in the context of actions that have both good
and bad effects, an action that has a bad effect is morally permissible if (a)
the action itself is good, (b) its perpetrator's intention is solely to
produce the good effect, (c) the good effect is not achieved through the bad,
and (d) there is sufficient reason to permit the bad effect. Gillon concludes
that, while the doctrine of double effect is unlikely to be accepted fully by
non-absolutists, some of its claims are useful in deciding which clinical
interventions are morally justified. (KIE abstract
Parution : Fârès Gillon, The Book of Unveiling. Early Fatimid Ismaili Doctrine in the Kitab al-Kashf, attributed to Ja‘far b. Mansur b. al-Yaman, Bloomsbury, 2024
No full text The Book of UnveilingEarly Fatimid Ismaili Doctrine in the Kitab al-Kashf, attributed to Ja‘far b. Mansur b. al-Yaman Fârès Gillon I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.The Kitab al-Kashf is one of the earliest Ismaili texts to have reached the present day. Transmitted by the Tayybi Ismaili tradition, it is composed of six treatises, most of which, as this open access study and first English translation argues, go back to the early years of the Fatimid ru..
Lexical Access of Mass and Count nouns: How word recognition reaction times correlate with lexical and morphosyntactic processing
No full textTwo psycholinguistic experiments were carried out in Italian to test the role played by the feature that distinguishes mass nouns from count nouns, as well
as by the feature that distinguishes singular nouns from plural nouns. The first experiment, a simple lexical decision task, revealed a sensitivity of the lexical ac- cess system to the processing of the features Mass and Plural as shown by longer reaction times. In particular, nouns in the plural yielded longer reaction times than in the singular except when the plural form was irregular. Furthermore,
the feature Mass also affected processing, yielding longer reaction times. In the second experiment, a sentence priming task, both the Plural and the Mass effects did not surface when a grammatical sentence fragment was the prime. These data show a direct correlation between the linguistic ‘complexity’ of plural/mass nouns and processing time. They also suggest that this complexity does not affect normal fluent spoken language where words are embedded in a semantic and syntactic context
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