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clade as indicated by craniodental morphology: Implications for evolutionary biogeography
No full textHas food price volatility risen?
No full textThe high food prices experienced over recent years have led to the widespread view that food price volatility has increased. However, volatility has generally been lower over the two most recent decades than previously. Variability over the most recent period has been high but, with the important exception of rice, not out of line with historical experience. There is weak evidence that the volatility of grains and vegetable oils prices may be increasing but it is too early to make a definite statement. Important open issues remain with respect to biofuels, climate change and the possible effects of the financialization of agricultural food markets
Anomalies in Economics and Finance
No full textThe term “anomaly” played a crucial role in Thomas Kuhn’s characterization of scientific progress. For Kuhn, an anomaly is a puzzle which challenges an accepted paradigm. Puzzles only achieve anomalous status once an alternative paradigm becomes available which allows explanation of the puzzle. Anomalies were introduced into the finance literature by Michael Jensen but more as resolvable puzzles than Kuhnian anomalies. They entered economics via Richard Thaler who saw behavioural economics as the alternative to the neoclassical paradigm. Both authors use the term anomaly in a deliberately Kuhnian manner. Kuhn formulated his ideas by looking back across the history of physics. By contrast, behavioural economists use Kuhn’s concepts in a forward-looking manner as a marketing tool for their ideas.anomaly, behavioural, effects.
Route of drug administration may influence toxicological levels in the liver
No full textChristopher Bierton, John D Gilbert, Chris Kostakis, Neil E I Langloi
Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Episode 06: Summer 2010
No full textWe interviewed Gilbert C. Din, Professor Emeritus at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is the author of several books on colonial Louisiana and a frequent contributor to the FHQ. We interviewed him about his work on William August Bowles and about his article that appeared in this issue, titled “William August Bowles on the Gulf Coast, 1787-1803: Unraveling a Labyrinthine Conundrum.”https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/1005/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Meilaender
No full textThis interview was conducted with Gilbert Meilaender as part of “Moral Histories: Voices and Stories from the Founding Figures of Bioethics,” an oral history project of the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics. Professor Meilaender is a Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University. His areas of expertise include theological ethics, Christian ethics, human dignity, the philosophy of friendship, and adoption. He is the author of several books, including Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, Not by Nature but by Grace: Forming Families through Adoption, and Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics. Professor Meilaender discusses his upbringing as the son of a Lutheran pastor, his education at Concordia Senior College and his path to academia after being ordained as a Lutheran minister. He discusses his graduate studies at Princeton University with mentor Paul Ramsey. He talks about his identity as a theological ethicist in a time when higher education was trying to distinguish the academic study of religion from theological study. He also discusses his experience with foster care and adoption, which shapes his view on reproductive technologies and the implications of the unquestioned use of such technologies. Professor Meilaender talks about his involvement with The Hastings Center and his work on the President’s Council on Bioethics during the George W. Bush administration. He notes that the Council’s work was philosophical, in contrast to law- and policy-oriented bioethics. He discusses the influence of the Council’s work on his thinking about human dignity, as well as the limits of bioethics, his approach to politics, and his belief in including religious views in public debate. The conversation concludes with reflections on his influences, friendships, correspondence with readers, and views on end-of-life care
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Meilaender
No full textThis interview was conducted with Gilbert Meilaender as part of “Moral Histories: Voices and Stories from the Founding Figures of Bioethics,” an oral history project of the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics. Professor Meilaender is a Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University. His areas of expertise include theological ethics, Christian ethics, human dignity, the philosophy of friendship, and adoption. He is the author of several books, including Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, Not by Nature but by Grace: Forming Families through Adoption, and Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics. Professor Meilaender discusses his upbringing as the son of a Lutheran pastor, his education at Concordia Senior College and his path to academia after being ordained as a Lutheran minister. He discusses his graduate studies at Princeton University with mentor Paul Ramsey. He talks about his identity as a theological ethicist in a time when higher education was trying to distinguish the academic study of religion from theological study. He also discusses his experience with foster care and adoption, which shapes his view on reproductive technologies and the implications of the unquestioned use of such technologies. Professor Meilaender talks about his involvement with The Hastings Center and his work on the President’s Council on Bioethics during the George W. Bush administration. He notes that the Council’s work was philosophical, in contrast to law- and policy-oriented bioethics. He discusses the influence of the Council’s work on his thinking about human dignity, as well as the limits of bioethics, his approach to politics, and his belief in including religious views in public debate. The conversation concludes with reflections on his influences, friendships, correspondence with readers, and views on end-of-life care
Buffington, Hailman, and Gilbert at Collins Speaker Series
No full textRex Buffington, Executive Director, John C. Stennis Center, John Hailman, author of From Midnight to Guntown, and Dr. Jerry Gilbert, Provost and Executive Vice President MSU during the Collins Speaker Serie
The e-Learning Assessment Landscape
No full textAssessment is one of the more established areas of e-learning. However, it cannot be described as mature due to the disparate nature of the tools and standards available. As part of our efforts within the FREMA project to create a reference model for assessment we have produced a domain in the shape of a database of resources developed by the community. As a way of presenting and navigating that definition we have also developed concept maps that describe the domain and place the resources in context. In this paper we present the process concept map, describe the method of its creation, its purpose and validation, and also an initial analysis of the resources behind the map in an effort to map the e-Learning Assessment landscape and show where most development effort has been spent
Harmony and discord within the English ‘counter-culture’, 1965-1975, with particular reference to the ‘rock operas’ Hair, Godspell, Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar
No full textPhDThis thesis considers the discrete, historically-specific theatrical and musical sub-genre of ‘Rock Opera’ as a lens through which to examine the cultural, political and social changes that are widely assumed to have characterised ‘The Sixties’ in Britain. The musical and dramatic texts, creation and production of Hair (1967), Tommy (1969), Godspell (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and other neglected ‘Rock Operas’ of the period are analysed. Their great popularity with ‘mainstream’ audiences is considered and contrasted with the overwhelmingly negative and often internally contradictory reaction towards them from the English ‘counter-culture’. This examination offers new insights into both the ‘counter-culture’ and the ‘mainstream’ against which it claimed to define and differentiate itself.
The four ‘Rock Operas’, two of which are based upon Christian scriptures, are considered as narratives of spiritual quest. The relationship between the often controversial quests for re-defined forms of faith and the apparently precipitous ‘secularization’ and ‘de-Christianization’ of British society during the 1960s and 1970s is considered.
The thesis therefore analyses the ‘Rock Operas’ as significant, enlightening prisms through which to view many of the profound societal debates – over ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ in the widest senses, sexuality, the Vietnam war, generational conflict, drugs and ‘spiritual enlightenment’, and race – which were, to some considerable extent, elevated onto the national, political agenda by the activities of the broadly-defined ‘counter-culture’. It considers subsequent representations of the ‘counter-culture’ as the root of a contested but enduring popular legacy of ‘The Sixties' as a period of profound cultural change
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