404 research outputs found
Terry Waite: Iraq, Guantanamo and Human Rights
No full textLong devoted to humanitarian causes, intercultural relations and cultural resolution, Waite garnered international recognition in the 1980s when he successfully negotiated the release of hostages in Iran and Libya. In 1987, while negotiating the release of hostages in Beirut, Waite himself was taken hostage. In captivity for 1,763 days, four years of which were in solitary confinement, he was beaten, chained to a wall and subject to mock executions. Released from captivity in 1991, Waite now devotes his time to humanitarian efforts around the world. What I have tried to do is take the positive side of the experience of being a hostage and build on it, he says. It has given me increased empathy with those who are victims of warfare or oppression. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the media have frequently called upon Waite for his expertise. He has been featured on national news networks, including CNN and BBC, to discuss the topics of Islamic fundamentalism, the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and numerous hostage situations in Iraq. Waite is the author of Taken on Trust, Travels with a Primate and Footfalls in Memory: Reflections from Solitude
Chief Justice Waite and the Twin Relic : Reynolds v. United States
No full textIn the landmark case of Reynolds v. United States, the United States Supreme Court held that a general law prohibiting polygamy did not abridge the religious freedom of members of the Mormon faith guaranteed by the first amendment. The author here explores the background of Chief Justice Waite\u27s opinion in Reynolds v. United States: the tenets and development of the Mormon faith in the United States, the character of the Waite Court, and the sources and development of Chief Justice Waite\u27s opinion in the case
Genetic identification of cultivars and marker analysis in olives (Olea europaea L.) / Genet Teshome Mekuria.
No full textIncludes copies of articles co-authored by the author during the preparation of this thesis at back of thesis.Bibliography: leaves 130-144.vii, 146 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Horticulture, Viticulture and Oenology, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, 200
Review of Criminology, by E. H. Sutherland
No full textProfessor Waite muses that It seems rather unfair for a lawyer to review a textbook on criminology, especially as the author himself says, and quite truly, \u27Little attention has been paid by law schools, lawyers, or judges to the improvement of the criminal law....\u27
Happily: ...[T]he reviewer finds nothing but good to say of the book (once he gets past how thin the paper is) and gives the reader a generous listing of chapters in the first paragraph
Morrison R. Waite High School; a celebration of 100 years
No full textA celebratory look at the administration, faculty, students and athletes involved in the first 100 years of Morrison R. Waite High School in the East Side of Toledo, Ohio. The school building, designed by architect David L. Stine, opened it's doors in 1914. The authors cover the changes in the physical building as well as changes in the people who worked and learned there. Book scanned is a gift from author Larry Michaels
Object-oriented programming in C++ / Robert Lafore.
No full textRev. ed. of: Waite Group's object-oriented programming in C++, c1999.Includes index.xix, 1012 pages.
Valuing selected WAItE health states using the Time Trade-Off methodology: findings from an online interviewer-assisted remote survey
No full text\ua9 2024, The Author(s).Purpose: The Weight-Specific Adolescent Instrument for Economic Evaluation (WAItE) is a physical weight-specific patient reported outcome measure for use in adolescence. The purpose of this study was to use the Time Trade-Off (TTO) methodology, administered using an online interviewer-assisted remote survey, to obtain utility values for several health states from the WAItE descriptive system from a sample of the UK adult general population. Methods: The adult sample was gathered using a market research company and a sample of local residents. All participants completed the same interviewer-assisted remote survey, which included rating WAItE states of varying impairment using the TTO. Results: 42 adults completed the survey. Utility values were gathered for four health states, ranging from low impairment to the most severe health from the WAItE descriptive system (the Pits state). Consistent orderings of the WAItE health states were observed; the health state with the lowest level of impairment was valued highest and the Pits state was valued lowest. Several respondents (n = 7, 17%) considered the Pits state to be worse than death; however, the mean value of this health state was 0.23. Conclusions: The utility value of the Pits state relative to death generated from this study will be used to anchor latent values for WAItE health states generated from a Discrete Choice Experiment onto the 0 = death, 1 = full health Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) scale as part of a valuation study for the WAItE in the UK population. This study also provides further evidence that interviewer-assisted digital studies are feasible for collecting TTO data
Alone and Everywhere: Influences on Pamela Colman Smith in her Illustrations of the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck
No full textabstract: The Rider-Waite Tarot deck is arguably the most popular divinatory Tarot deck in use today. This is the deck most new readers learn with, myself included. I began reading the Tarot in late 2015 in an academic setting. I learned on the Rider-Waite deck and have yet to find another deck I would rather read with. The artwork by Pamela Colman Smith is both simple and complex, continuously revealing deeper meanings the more I study it. This is why I decided to research Smith and uncover what influenced her when illustrating these cards. Every image is picked with a purpose, some more obscure than others, especially to someone not well versed in mystic beliefs and history. I was not knowledgeable in any occult beliefs or teachings when I first saw the deck, aside from some Greek imagery. Details such as the T.A.R.O. on the Wheel of Fortune card or the Egyptian creatures on the World card made no sense to me. At first I thought they had little meaning beyond a creative flair by the artist. But these minute details reveal the ties her cards have to world history and the mystic universe. Pamela Colman Smith was a well-known and esteemed artist in the early nineteen-hundreds. However, she is hardly seen or recognized in modern texts. Her biggest legacy, the Rider-Waite Tarot deck hardly gives her any credit. The only evidence of Smith's work is her initials in the bottom right corner of every card. This makes Pamela Colman Smith quite the mysterious woman. Even in life, her colleagues found her an enigma, or a mystic pixie. She worked sporadically, with paints littered about her apartment. Smith was chosen by Waite to work on his new Tarot deck mostly because she was in the right place at the right time. She was a good artist, but not actively sought after for big projects like this. What impacted Smith in illustrating the Rider-Waite deck? Pamela Colman Smith was influenced by her personal art style/life, the Tarot's history, the teachings of the Golden Dawn, and important people in her life when illustrating the Rider-Waite Tarot deck
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