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Dr. Steven Vogel Lecture
No full textDr. Steven Vogel will give a public Sigma Xi Distinguished Scientist lecture and a research seminar in the School of Marine Sciences seminar series. A noted author on bio-mechanics, Dr. Vogel\u27s expertise spans many disciplines including biology, marine science, physics, mathematics, and engineering. His public seminar will address the physics of living, and touch on strategies for engaging K-16 students in learning physics
Steven Vogel, Visiting Professor at the EHESS
No full textMarketcraft : A series of lectures by Steven Vogel (UC, Berkeley) Marketcraft Japanese-Style: What Japan Tells Us About the Art of Making Markets Work Date: 14th June 2017, 13:00 - 15:00 Venue: 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris, Room A07_51 (7th Floor) In Sébastien Lechevalier's seminar « Comprendre le changement institutionnel en Asie. Une perspective comparée avec les États-Unis et l’Europe » Marketcraft: What Does It Really Take to Make Markets Work? Date: 16th June 2017, 14:00- 16:00 Ve..
Interview with Petr Vogel
No full textAn interview in two sessions, December 2002 and January 2003, with Petr Vogel, Senior Research Associate in Physics, Emeritus in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. Born and raised in Prague, Vogel recalls his family's experiences in the concentration camp in Theresienstadt, his post-World War II experiences growing up under Communism; college preparation in the LaGuardia Gymnasium; transfer from Charles University to the Prague Institute of Technology; post-graduate work at the Nuclear Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences near Prague in the early sixties; contacts with scientists from Russia (Vadim Soloviev) and from the West at a summer school in 1962 in Slovakia and transfer to the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna (USSR), where Vogel finished his graduate studies (1966) and returned to his job at the Prague Institute. He recalls the Prague Spring of 1968 and its collapse; postdoctoral work at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and his interactions there with Kai Neergaard (1968-70), working on pure nuclear structure problems; and his arrival at Caltech in 1970 to work with Felix Boehm. Vogel also began collaborating with Aage Winther on the problems of mu-mesic atoms; and also with Steven Koonin and Brian Davis having to do with work done in Boehm's group on some effects that looked like time reversal. He comments on the interest in neutrino physics at the end of the seventies by Fred Reines's (at Irvine) and Boehm's group; theoretical calculations on the neutrino spectrum at nuclear reactors that led to important experimental work in the eighties; Reine's claim that he had discovered neutrino oscillations (and Richard Feynman's efforts to disprove it); and his work with Feynman on the supposed existence of a fifth force, also a wrong claim
Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants/ Steven Vogel.
No full textIn English.This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. The book will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of biomechanics. On one hand, organisms cannot alter the earth's gravity, the properties of water, the compressibility of air, or the behavior of diffusing molecules. On the other, such physical factors form both constraints with which the evolutionary process must contend and opportunities upon which it might capitalize. Life's Devices includes examples from every major group of animals and plants, with references to recent work, with illustrative problems, and with suggestions of experiments that need only common household materials.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Constraints and opportunities -- 2. A variety of variables -- 3. Size and Shape -- 4. Dimensions, gradients, and summations -- 5. Gases and liquids -- 6. Viscosity and flow -- 7. Pressure and flow -- 8. Diffusion versus convection -- 9. A matter of materials -- 10. A matter of materials -- 11. Insinuations about curves -- 12. Systems of support -- 13. The mechanics of motility -- 14. Staying put and getting away -- 15. Energy and afterthoughts -- Appendix 1. Notes on numbers -- Appendix 2. Problems and demonstrations -- List of symbols -- References and index of citations -- Subject Index1 online resourc
Japan remodeled how government and industry are reforming Japanese capitalism
No full text"As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s, Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven K. Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why there are enacted." "Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players."--BOOK JACKET
Japan remodeled : how government and industry are reforming Japanese capitalism /
No full text"As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s, Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven K. Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why there are enacted." "Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players."--Jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.The Japanese model and institutional change -- The crisis of Japanese capitalism -- Policy reform Japanese style -- The varieties of reform -- Corporate restructuring Japanese style -- The varieties of restructuring -- Japan's new model."As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s, Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven K. Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why there are enacted." "Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players."--Jacket.The Nippon Foundatio
Returning Back Pain Patients to Work: How Private Musculoskeletal Practitioners Outside the National Health Service Perceive Their Role (an Interview Study)
No full textBackground Private musculoskeletal practitioners treat a large section of people with back pain, and could play an important role in returning and maintaining patients to work. Method We conducted a qualitative study to explore the self-perceived role of such practitioners in the UK. We interviewed 44 practitioners, including chiropractors, osteopaths and physiotherapists. Results Thematic analysis of the interview transcripts indicated that return to work is a high priority for patients, many of whom are self-employed. Although in general work was perceived as beneficial to health, practitioners perceived work as a threat for some of their back pain patients. They perceived their role as giving ergonomic, postural and exercise based advice, but were more reluctant to address psychosocial problems related to back pain. A common view was that patients' reluctance to take a break from work impacted badly on their condition, and many practitioners advocated a short time off work duties to focus on rehabilitation. Contact with employers was very limited, and determined by the patients' request. Conclusion In summary, the study identifies several areas in which further education could expand the role of musculoskeletal practitioners and benefit their back pain patients. However, further study is required to determine whether these results are generalisable beyond the limits of this qualitative study UK based study
Vogel- en Habitatrichtlijn: Consequenties voor Rijkswaterstaat
No full textRijkswaterstaat heeft als bevoegd gezag met betrekking tot de rijkswateren en als initiatiefnemer van (grootschalige) projecten de verantwoordelijkheid om zorgvuldig om te gaan met de Europese Vogel- en Habitatrichtlijn. Binnen Rijkswaterstaat zijn in de afgelopen periode vele vragen gesteld met betrekking tot deze richtlijnen, die zowel procesmatig als inhoudelijk van aard zijn. Veel van deze vragen hebben betrekking op activiteiten van Rijkswaterstaat in de kustzone. Om aan deze vragen tegemoet te komen heeft het RIKZ op verzoek van het hoofdkantoor van Rijkswaterstaat dit document opgesteld. Het document geeft een overzicht van de verplichtingen die voortvloeien uit beide richtlijnen en op welke manier (regionale) directies van Rijkswaterstaat hiermee om kunnen gaan bij de uitvoering van hun activiteiten. De nadruk wordt hierbij gelegd op het toetsen van plannen en projecten aan beide richtlijnen. De toetsing aan beide Europese richtlijnen wordt in twee schema\u92s gepresenteerd. Deze schema\u92s kunnen binnen bestaande procedures (b.v. vergunningverlening) worden toegepast. Iedere stap in het schema wordt expliciet toegelicht. Dit document kan geen antwoord geven op alle vragen, maar is bedoeld om medewerkers van Rijkswaterstaat die betrokken zijn bij toetsing aan de Vogel- en Habitatrichtlijn de juiste weg te wijzen. Een drietal activiteiten waarbij Rijkswaterstaat in de kustzone te maken krijgt met toetsing aan de Vogel- en Habitatrichtlijn worden als voorbeeld nader toegelicht
Reassurance during low back pain consultations with GPs: a qualitative study
No full textBackground:Reassurance is commonly recommended in guidelines for the management of low back pain in primary care, although it is poorly defined, and what it means to patients remains unknown.Aim:To explore low back pain patients’ perceptions of practitioners’ reassuring behaviours during consultations.Design and Setting:Twenty-three Patients who had recently consulted for non-specific low back pain were recruited from General Practice (GP).Method:Semi-structured interviews explored what patients had found reassuring during their consultations and the effect of such reassurance since their consultations. Transcripts were analysed using the Framework Method. The thematic framework was developed between two researchers, with consensus achieved through discussion.Results:Patients each brought experiences, beliefs, expectations and concerns to their consultations, which they wanted the doctor to hear and understand. Patients were reassured implicitly when it seemed that the doctor was taking them seriously and wanted to help, as well as through relationship-building and feeling that the doctor was readily available to them. However it was only explicit, informational reassurance which directly addressed patients’ concerns by providing explanations which ruled out serious disease, and helped them to understand and cope with their pain.Conclusion:The themes of implicit and explicit reassurance uncovered here correspond with ideas of affective and cognitive reassurance, respectively. While the findings support the use of information and education to alleviate concerns, the role of implicit reassurance through relationship building and empathy remains less clear. The impact of these behaviours on outcomes should form a priority for future research
Af9/Mllt3 interferes with Tbr1 expression through epigenetic modification of histone H3K79 during development of the cerebral cortex
No full textMutations of leukemia-associated AF9/MLLT3 are implicated in neurodevelopmental diseases, such as epilepsy and ataxia, but little is known about how AF9 influences brain development and function. Analyses of mouse mutants revealed that during cortical development, AF9 is involved in the maintenance of TBR2-positive progenitors (intermediate precursor cells, IPCs) in the subventricular zone and prevents premature cell cycle exit of IPCs. Furthermore, in postmitotic neurons of the developing cortical plate, AF9 is implicated in the formation of the six-layered cerebral cortex by suppressing a TBR1-positive cell fate mainly in upper layer neurons. We show that the molecular mechanism of TBR1 suppression is based on the interaction of AF9 with DOT1L, a protein that mediates transcriptional control through methylation of histone H3 lysine 79 (H3K79). AF9 associates with the transcriptional start site of Tbr1, mediates H3K79 dimethylation of the Tbr1 gene, and interferes with the presence of RNA polymerase II at the Tbr1 transcriptional start site. AF9 expression favors cytoplasmic localization of TBR1 and its association with mitochondria. Increased expression of TBR1 in Af9 mutants is associated with increased levels of TBR1-regulated expression of NMDAR subunit Nr1. Thus, this study identified AF9 as a developmental active epigenetic modifier during the generation of cortical projection neurons
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