208 research outputs found
Abrahamson´s Diseases of the Curriculum and possible cures
No full textIn 1978 Stephen Abrahamson described nine typical problems with medical curricula, which he summarized as "diseases of the curriculum". After the last reform of the national medical license law in Germany, many curricular changes of the German medical faculties were started. Many of the symptoms originally described by Abrahamson occurred in traditional German medical curricula. In the present debate we literally translated Abrahamson´s original article and, with the author, added possible therapeutic options and added later published, additional diseases.Stephen Abrahamson beschrieb 1978 neun typische Probleme der medizinischen Curricula, die er als "Erkrankungen des Curriculums" zusammenfasste. Nach der letzten Reform der Approbationsordnung kam deutliche Bewegung in die Curriculumsplanung der deutschen medizinischen Fakultäten. Viele der von Abrahamson beschriebenen Symptome sind auch in traditionellen deutschsprachigen Curricula zu beobachten. In der derzeitigen Debatte wurde der Originalartikel zunächst wörtlich übersetzt. Anschließend wurden in Zusammenarbeit mit Stephen Abrahamson Therapievorschläge erarbeitet und bisher nicht veröffentlichte weitere Erkrankungen des Curriculums hinzugefügt
Abrahamsons Erkrankungen des Curriculums und mögliche Therapien [Abrahamson´s Diseases of the Curriculum and possible cures]
No full text[english] In 1978 Stephen Abrahamson described nine typical problems with medical curricula, which he summarized as "diseases of the curriculum". After the last reform of the national medical license law in Germany, many curricular changes of the German medical faculties were started. Many of the symptoms originally described by Abrahamson occurred in traditional German medical curricula. In the present debate we literally translated Abrahamson´s original article and, with the author, added possible therapeutic options and added later published, additional diseases. [german] Stephen Abrahamson beschrieb 1978 neun typische Probleme der medizinischen Curricula, die er als "Erkrankungen des Curriculums" zusammenfasste. Nach der letzten Reform der Approbationsordnung kam deutliche Bewegung in die Curriculumsplanung der deutschen medizinischen Fakultäten. Viele der von Abrahamson beschriebenen Symptome sind auch in traditionellen deutschsprachigen Curricula zu beobachten. In der derzeitigen Debatte wurde der Originalartikel zunächst wörtlich übersetzt. Anschließend wurden in Zusammenarbeit mit Stephen Abrahamson Therapievorschläge erarbeitet und bisher nicht veröffentlichte weitere Erkrankungen des Curriculums hinzugefügt
Interview with Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O\u27Halloran
No full textIN SEARCH OF THE SUBTEXT: INTERVIEW WITH LENNY ABRAHAMSON AND MARK O\u27HALLORAN DIRECTOR Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O\u27Halloran are widely acknowledged as two of the most original and exciting young voices in Irish cinema. They first collaborated on Adam and Paul (2004); a bleak but also blackly-humorous portrait of Dublin drug addicts caught in a spiral of fixes and failures. This grim scenario was substantially leavened by quirky and unexpected interludes of absurd dialogue and situations interspersed with moments of tenderness and genuine sympathy for the protagonists\u27 hopeless fate. The film marked a return to working class themes and characters in Irish cinema and signalled a departure from the generic and rural narratives that increasingly dominated Irish film production during the 1990s. The film\u27s originality and sophisticated sensibility was acknowledged in its widespread success at film festivals and among the Irish viewing public and it has since..
“If Irish cinema is going to be really great it has to stop worrying too much about being ‘Irish cinema’”: Q & A with Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O’Halloran
No full textDirector Lenny Abrahamson and screenwriter and actor Mark O\u27Halloran have established a formidable partnership in recent years that has produced some of the most distinctive and celebrated work to emerge in Irish cinema. Their low-budget debut film Adam & Paul (2004) enjoyed commercial success in Ireland and critical acclaim internationally, winning awards at the Sofia International Film Festival, the Gijón International Film Festival, the Evening Standard British Film Awards as well as the Irish Film and Television Award for best director. Their follow up feature, Garage (2007), won 11 major international festival awards including the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the Cannes Film Festival. They were also responsible for the acclaimed television mini-series “Prosperity” (2007). This contribution was given as part of a public interview chaired by Seán Crosson and Mark Schreiber on the occasion of the 7th EFACIS Conference, University of Vienna, 5 September 2009.Not peer reviewe
J.R.R. Tolkien, Fanfiction, and The Freedom of the Reader
No full textStudent paper award, Mythcon 2013. Abrahamson makes a particularly convincing case for the validity of fanfiction by applying Tolkien’s own statements about the “dominion of the author,” the “Cauldron of Story,” and subcreation to the issue. Discusses Tolkien’s experiences with early fanwork and his own use of sources as an author
THE PHYSICAL QUENCHING OF ()
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve UniversityWe have earlier shown that the formation of () can be sensitized by the electronically excited triplet molecule [Davidson and Abrahamson, Photochem, Photobiol, 15, 403 (1972)], and that this species can be quenched, presumably to the lower excited electronic species, , by collision with a large variety of simple polyatomic molecules [Davidson, Kear and Abrahamson, Journ. Photochem. 1, 307 (1973)]. In our recent studies we have demonstrated Chat the quenching efficiency, q, for this process can be quite satisfactorily represented by the empirical equation where K and C are constants characteristic of the molecular size, i.e., diatomic, triatomic, tetratomic, etc., is the energy difference between the and vibronic states, and is the frequency of the highest energy normal mode vibration in the quenching molecule. The above study prompted us to attempt the development of a theoretical quantum mechanical treatment of the physical quenching of by diatomic molecules. Following an earlier lead of Dickens, Linnett and Sovers [Discussions Faraday Soc. 33, 52 (1962)], who treated the quenching of excited atoms, the model, at its present stage of development, yields calculated quenching constants in essential agreement with experiment for those cases where the electronic energy cart be converted almost entirely into vibrational energy of the quencher. Where this energy discrepancy is greater than kT, the model indicates that it is partitioned into rotation and translation modes
Summary of the Abrahamson and Gulerce NGA-SUB ground-motion model for subduction earthquakes
No full text© The Author(s) 2022.A set of region-specific ground-motion models (GMMs) for subduction zone earthquakes are developed based on the database compiled by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Next Generation Attenuation: Subduction project (NGA-SUB). The subset used to develop the GMMs includes 3914 recordings from 113 subduction interface earthquakes with magnitudes between 5 and 9.2 and 4850 recordings from 89 intraslab events with magnitudes between 5 and 7.8. The functional form of the global GMM accommodates the differences in the magnitude, distance, and depth scaling for interface and intraslab earthquakes. In addition to the global model, region-specific GMMs are developed for seven regions: Alaska, Cascadia, Central America, Japan, New Zealand, South America, and Taiwan. The magnitude scaling and the geometrical spreading parameters of the global model are used in all region-specific models, with the exception of the Taiwan region, which has a region-specific geometrical-spreading term. Four region-specific terms are included in the median GMM: the large distance (linear R) scaling, linear site amplification scaling (ln(VS30)), basin depth scaling (for Cascadia and Japan), and the constant term. The aleatory variability is also regionalized with larger aleatory variability at short periods for the Central America, Japan, and South America regions. Estimates of the epistemic uncertainty for the median and aleatory terms for each region are provided. The proposed global and region-specific GMMs are considered to be applicable to sites in the forearc region at distances up to 500 km, magnitudes of 5.0–9.5, and spectral periods from 0 to 10 s. The Cascadia-specific model is applicable to distances of 800 km including the backarc region
Putting the brakes on a cycle: bottom-up effects damp cycle amplitude
No full textPest population density oscillations have a profound effect on agroecosystem functioning, particularly when pests cycle with epidemic persistence. Here, we ask whether landscape-level manipulations can be used to restrict the cycle amplitude of the European corn borer moth [Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner)], an economically important maize pest. We analysed time series from Minnesota (19632009) and Wisconsin (19642009) to quantify the extent of regime change in the US Corn Belt where rates of transgenic Bt maize adoption varied. The introduction of Bt maize explained cycle damping when the adoption of the crop was high (Minnesota); oscillations were damped but continued to persist when Bt maize was used less intensely (Wisconsin). We conclude that host plant quality is key to understanding both epidemic persistence and the success of intervention strategies. In particular, the dichotomy in maize management between states is thought to limit the spatial autocorrelation of O. nubilalis
The development of a system of social services in the Russian Federation
No full textThe paper draws on field studies carried out by the author during the course of a Western-sponsored initiative to support curriculum development in the education of social workers for the Russian Federation. It presents a chronology of the development of Russian social welfare laws and institutions during the 1990s, focusing on the major legislation of 1995. Aspects of the ‘welfare mix’ are examined, to locate Russia on the model proposed by Abrahamson (1992). Within this context, the curriculum for social work education is critically reviewed. The paper concludes that, in current circumstances, there are few positive incentives for young graduates to remain in social work after graduation, and that Russia has experienced a shift in provision towards the Southern European type as expressed in Abrahamson’s model, although expectations remain that the state should be the main provider of benefits and services
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