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Carl Becker and the Historian as Priest and Prophet
No full textCarl Becker once made the observation that when eighteenth-century rationalists lifted the religious ideals of the thirteenth century and placed them on a secular base, the historian became the new priest. The author uses this imagery to explore Becker\u27s views of history and to compare his views with those of other influential historians
Ernest Becker's Educational Legacy: A Critical Reflection
No full textThe author reviews the literature in professional education that cites Ernest Becker’s work from the 1960s-70s. Some of Becker’s main ideas from his own writing on education are also reviewed. The purpose here is to establish a sketch, not a full-study, of the importance of Becker’s educational legacy and begin some critique of the biases of professional educators in regard to utilizing Becker’s work. This critical reflectivity is an appropriate model of Becker’s own integrative approach to knowledge and learning. The aim is to ensure that future applications may be cautious to certain reductive tendencies and offer more diverse perspectives that are truer to Becker’s oeuvre and core ideas about human behavior and societies in general, and education specifically. The author concludes that the future of Education, formal and informal, would do well to take a long serious look at Becker’s work, especially as the world’s children, youths and adults are is becoming more and more vulnerable to frightening conditions, with cascading collapse of systems, including extinctions of all kinds already well underway in an era of global threats nearing extremes. Becker’s oeuvre is both realistic and idealistic, offering Education a way to radically improve to help make for a better world
Redescription of Chelifera nubecula (Becker) (Diptera), Hemerodromiinae) from the Canary Islands
No full textThe author redescribes Chelifera nubecula (Becker) (Diptera, Hemerodromiinae) from the Canary Islands. Figures of the male genitalia are provided
Direct costs and cost-effectiveness of dual-source computed tomography and invasive coronary angiography in patients with an intermediate pretest likelihood for coronary artery disease
No full textThe study aims to determine the direct costs and comparative cost-effectiveness of latest-generation dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) and invasive coronary angiography for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients suspected of having this disease
Neoceratitis asiatica Becker
No full textNeoceratitis asiatica (Becker) Figs 2 b, 3 b, 4 a, 5 b, 6 b. Ceratitis asiatica Becker, 1908: 291. Neoceratitis asiatica: Hendel 1927 [new combination; redescription]; Woo et al. 1963 [life history]; Korneyev 1994 [Turkmenistan]; Hancock & Drew 1994 [recognition]. Type material. Syntype, 13, ‘Mitt. Asien’ = CHINA (according to Norrbom et al. 1999): Kurlyk, Baingol East Tsaidam’, 31.V. [18] 95, Rob Kozlov, Becker’s ref number 51915 (MNHU); (female syntype not studied). Other material. CHINA: Xinjang Province, Hami, 13, presented by X.J. Wang (BMNH); 27.VI.1955, 13 (MHNG); 13 1 Ƥ, Ma Shijun, Xia Kailin & Chen Yonglin (IZAS). KAZAKHSTAN: 13, Charyn Valley W Chundza, 43 ° 37 ’N 79 ° 21 ’E, 29–31.V. 2001, 650m, M. Hauser (MHNG). KYRGIZIA: 1 Ƥ, Int [=Interior] Tien Shan, Saz, nr [=near] Dzhaman-Davan riv., 1700m, 29.VIII. 1998, Milko (MHNG). Male. Body length: 3.39 (2.80−3.80) mm; wing length: 3.57 (3.00− 3.90) mm. Head. Antenna yellow, first flagellomere about twice as long as wide; arista short pubescent with hairs shorter than basal width. Frons yellow, dorsal half with golden microtrichia; setae black. Face yellow-white, occiput dorsal third yellowish, ventral half yellow-white. Thorax. Postpronotal lobe black-brown, posteriorly with whitish crescent; crescent not extending to postpronotal seta. Scutum ratio 0.90−0.98; shining black-brown, silver microtrichia in typical pattern (cf Fig. 1 c); dark pilosity except where silver microthrichosity with silvery setulae. Pleura dark brown, anatergite usually with whitish spot confined to dorsal half, rarely missing; one black anepisternal seta. Scutellum (Fig. 2 b) swollen with straight margin near basal seta; black-brown, with white medial spot on disc, white spot neither extending to setae nor to basal margin of scutellum. Legs. Yellow. Wing. With discal, subapical, anterior and posterior apical brown bands (Fig. 3 b), all well developed. Basal brownish part largely confluent with subbasal brown spots and streaks. Subapical band isolated or narrowly touching discal band, not touching anterior apical band. R-M ratio 0.60−0.66. Abdomen. Shining black-brown. Tergite 2 along posterior 2 / 5 and tergite 4 along posterior 1 / 3 with transverse band of silvery microtrichia; anterior part of these tergites with brown microtrichia, laterally reduced. Male terminalia (Fig. 4 a) with surstyli short. Female. Body length: 3.80 mm; wing length: 3.85 (3.80−3.90) mm. As male except following characters: near antennal implant rarely with darker brown spots; femora brown. Oviscape about half as long as abdominal tergites 1–5 jointly, shining black-brown. Aculeus (Fig. 5 b) five times as long as wide; apically (Fig. 6 b) tapered, simply pointed. Distribution. China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgizia. Also reported from Turkmenistan (Korneyev 1994). Hosts. Woo et al. (1963) record the berries of Lycium turcomanicum Turcz. ex Miers. as a host in Tibet.Published as part of Meyer, Marc De & Freidberg, Amnon, 2012, Taxonomic revision of the fruit fly genus Neoceratitis Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 24-39 in Zootaxa 3223 on pages 28-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3223.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/20966
Development of a novel xenotransplantation strategy for treatment of diabetes mellitus in rat hosts and translation to non-human primates
No full textThe history of thoracic surgery at Washington University
No full textPoster for the 49th Historia Medica lecture.https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/historyofmedicine_historia_medica_posters/1027/thumbnail.jp
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