2,617 research outputs found
Howard N. Jacobson Oral History Interview
No full textCharles Mahan records an oral history on Howard N. Jacobson, M.D. from notes taken on weekly visits to him at his home in Plant City in the first five months of the year 2015. Mahan speaks on Jacobson’s education in Minnesota and his subsequent service in the Navy, as well as many of Jacobson’s accomplishments and life history. Particular notes of interest are Jacobson’s fondest memories in the Chicago Maternity Center, his time spent at Harvard, and Jacobson’s observations on many medical approaches to various conditions from cancer prevention to autism
Proper Ferroelectricity in the Dion?Jacobson Material CsBi2Ti2NbO10: Experiment and Theory
No full textA diverse range of materials and properties are exhibited by layered perovskites. We report on the synthesis, characterization, and computational investigation of a new ferroelectric?CsBi2Ti2NbO10, an n = 3 member of the Dion?Jacobson (DJ) family. Structural studies using variable temperature neutron powder diffraction indicate that a combination of octahedral rotations and polar displacements result in the polar structure. Density functional theory calculations reveal that the wider perovskite blocks in CsBi2Ti2NbO0 stabilize proper ferroelectricity, in contrast to the hybrid-improper ferroelectricity reported for all other DJ phases. Our results raise the possibility of a new class of proper ferroelectric materials analogous to the well-known Aurivillius phases
Hermippus, Pythagoras and the Jews
No full textJacobson Howard. Hermippus, Pythagoras and the Jews. In: Revue des études juives, tome 135, n°1-3, janvier-septembre 1976. pp. 145-149
Public Health Rep
No full textGreat progress on key issues in maternal nutrition has been made in the past few years, mainly because of the legislative requirements of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program). These advances are most timely because of the general recognition that, in this period of finite resources, we will need to make optimal use of resources such as the food package, nutrition education, and health services that together make up the WIC Program benefits. Major progress has been made in the following critical areas: (a) agreement on nutritional risk criteria; (b) identification of dietary risk factors; (c) increased availability of a variety of computer-assisted techniques for collecting, managing, and analyzing dietary intakes on large numbers of patients; and (d) recognition of the need for and availability of a variety of alternative dietary standards in the provision of overall services to pregnant women. Of even greater importance is the recognition that we can no longer treat nutrition as a single variable, independent of the many other forces that together influence the course and outcome of a pregnancy. Rather, we recognize that there is a seamless web of influences, all of which need to be taken into account in attempts to provide for the needs of pregnant women at risk of poor pregnancy outcomes. The timely application of all of these advances will greatly facilitate a more efficient and effective use of resources such as are provided by the WIC Program. They will also provide both the patients and their health care providers with more realistic expectations of what might be accomplished towards improving the outcomes of pregnancies at nutritional risk
Author Correction: Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (880), 10.1038/s41467-019-08469-7)
No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of a member of the CAAPA Consortium, Hrafnhildur Bjarnadóttir which was incorrectly given as Hilda Bjarnadóttir. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
The Total Assessment Audit for industrial assessment: Application to a plastic injection molding facility
No full textWith the staggering pace of technological advancement and the increasing demands on quality and restrictions on energy use and waste production, the need for industrial assessment has never been greater than it is today. Companies with capable staff need to perform routine self-assessments. Companies too small to support such staff must rely on consultants for this service. In either case, there are proven methods that lead to good decisions, as well as popular methods that have undesirable effects. This document describes a number of these methods, pointing out the pros and cons of each. The theory of constraints (TOC) is a method that provides the proper thought process used to scrutinize all other methods and actions and to identify problems and develop solutions. This method is given considerable attention.
Besides applying the right management methods, the industrial assessment itself must be performed properly. Most assessment processes look at energy, waste, or productivity issues separately, missing positive or detrimental effects actions may have with respect to the other areas. The Total Assessment Audit (TAA) is a holistic approach to industrial assessments that looks at these three issues collectively. The TAA is being developed at Iowa State University. A detailed description of this process and a case study example are provided. Since any action requiring capital expenditure must be justifiable, financial considerations, such as corporate taxation, are also discussed
On Generalized Periodic-Like Rings
No full textLet R be a ring with center
Z, Jacobson radical J, and set N of all nilpotent
elements. Call R generalized periodic-like if for all x∈R∖(N∪J∪Z) there exist positive integers m, n of opposite parity for which xm−xn∈N∩Z. We identify some basic properties of such rings and prove some results on commutativity
Supporting safe motherhood : a review of financial trends : summary
No full textAn estimated 500,000 women, 99 percent of them from the developing world, die each year from pregnancy-related causes. About three quarters of these deaths are the direct result of obstetrical complications -- hemorrhage, infection, toxemia, obstructed labor, and abortion (under primitive and illegal conditions). An estimated equivalent number of infants do not survive their mother's death. For surviving mothers, the consequences of pregnancy have a severe impact on health and family economics. The strategy for safe motherhood is based on two approaches. First, the encouragement of activities that indirectly improve maternal health. These include education, policies to improve women's rights and working conditions, health care and nutrition, transportation and communication systems, water and sanitation facilities, and increases in family income and food production. The second approach targets activities to reduce maternal deaths. These activities include reducing unwanted pregnancies through the provision of family planning services, and through national policies that recognize the importance of this issue. A second objective is to reduce the risks of pregnancy through providing community-based family planning and prenatal services to identify high-risk cases'adequate referral services for the complications of pregnancy, and communication and transport systems to support patient referral procedures.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Gender and Health,Early Child and Children's Health,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems
The theatre of promiscuity : a comparative study of the dramatic writings of Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker
No full textThe word 'artist serves as a pivot to the major concerns of this study. Consideration of its application and meaning in relation to contemporary society facilitates a detailed exploration and analysis of selected dramatic writings by Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker. The comparative nature of this work begins by charting the parallel journeys of these writers - within widely differing cultural contexts - from a critique of social determinations which serve to define and bound authorial intent to a process of "promiscuous" self-definition whereby the artistic imagination is used to name and designate a specific relationship to the cultural and social structures within which their work will be received.
Working from a theoretical base which, in the case of Soyinka, finds its foundations in critique and commentary upon nationalist discourse, and in the case of Barker,
rests upon contemporary critiques of Enlightenment reason, the study debates their development of theatrical form within both social and cultural contexts. Emphasis is
placed upon the relationship of the author to the dramatic text, the creation of character and the defined channels of communication through which dramatic performance is to be received by the spectator. The concept of 'transgression' is
explored as a key principle by which to define the 'theatrical' as opposed to the 'social' text.
Chapters Four and Five link the work of Howard Barker and Wole Soyinka through the application of Nietzschean philosophy, with especial emphasis being placed upon
the concept of genealogical history, the creation of the aesthetic, and the consideration of 'tragedy' as a means by which to offer resistant critique to the social
imperative of national citizenship as a badge and boundary to identity. The formation of the 'tragic' or 'catastrophic' individual is explored through key dramatic texts, thus allowing dramatic form the status of a discourse in its own right.
Throughout the study an attempt is made to develop an argument which allows the artist to be distinguished as one who speaks to his nation, rather than for his nation.
With regard to the work of Barker and Soyinka this has involved both the exposure and exploration of a theatrical space unmapped by social cartography, and a peopling
of the stage with creations who could be described as 'ethical' rather than 'political' individuals
- …
