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Chik, Nicholas. "Disparities in the Medal of Honor Why African American Soldiers Awards were Delayed, and Japanese American Awards were Immediate." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 3, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 633–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/3/2022636.
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The 442nd Infantry Regiment Combat Team, composed mostly of Japanese American soldiers, is the most decorated division in U.S. military history. As a minority combat team motivated by accusations of disloyalty following Pearl Harbor, they sought to demonstrate their patriotism through excellence in battle. President Harry Truman formally recognized the valuable contribution of the 442nd Infantry Team to the Allied victory and assigned a medal of honor to one of the Japanese American soldiers, Private First-Class Sadao S. Munemori, immediately after the war. African American soldiers similarly demonstrated great loyalty and skill in the 332nd Fighter Group, called the Tuskegee Airmen, and the 761st Tank Battalion, also known as the Black Panthers. However, although both units fought with distinction, the granting of medals of honor for African American World War II service was delayed until 1997. Based on memoirs, interviews, and an Army Report Investigation conducted by the Department of Defense, this paper analyzes the reasons for the decades-long discrepancy in the timeline for the acquisition of medals of honor between Japanese American and African American soldiers. The differing experiences and interpretations of discrimination and segregation, both during and after the war, account for the immense positive attention paid to Japanese American efforts compared to the total lack of national honor assigned to African American soldiers. Through their service, Japanese Americans resoundingly exposed the errors of the federal governments decision to intern families of Japanese descent and helped promote a narrative of wrongdoing that the federal government has since acknowledged. In contrast, African American victories, no less impressive than those of Japanese American and white soldiers, were overshadowed by the racial discourse of Jim Crow-era politics. Specifically, African American soldiers continued to face systemic discrimination at home and in the armed forces despite their military accomplishments. It delayed the formal acknowledgement of the significance of African American service.
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McNaughton, James C., Kristen E. Edwards, and Jay M. Price. ""Incontestable Proof Will Be Exacted": Historians, Asian Americans, and the Medal of Honor." Public Historian 24, no. 4 (2002): 11–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2002.24.4.11.
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For more than a century the Medal of Honor has served as a revered symbol of valor and service to the nation. In the 1990s Japanese American veterans requested a review of their service in World War II to determine whether the U.S. Army has overlooked any of their number for the award. In 1996 a team of historians began a review of all Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who fought in that war. Their work resulted in the award of twenty-two new Medals of Honor in June 2000. The review was also a revealing journey into the challenges of amending public memory.
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Volk, Gayle M., James W. Olmstead, Chad E. Finn, and Jules Janick. "The ASHS Outstanding Fruit Cultivar Award: A 25-year Retrospective." HortScience 48, no. 1 (January 2013): 4–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.48.1.4.
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The Outstanding Fruit Cultivar Award is a medal presented annually by the Fruit Breeding Working Group of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) for noteworthy new fruits released over the previous 35 years. Since 1987, 38 cultivars have been recognized with medals presented at the Annual Conference of the Society. The awards celebrate the progress achieved by fruit breeders and their contributions to the world’s fruit industry.
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Rulli, Daniel. "Less Is More." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 32, no. 2 (September 1, 2007): 92–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.32.2.92-97.
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When the Armour and Lewis Institutes of Chicago merged in 1940 to form the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), the director of architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was asked to develop plans and design the buildings for the newly expanded 120-acre campus. Not since Thomas Jefferson's design of the University of Virginia in 1819 had a university campus been the work of a single architect. This responsibility was accorded to van der Rohe just two years after his entry into the United States and foretold the pivotal impact that his architecture would have on America and the world. Soon after his retirement from IIT in 1958, van der Rohe was awarded Gold Medals by both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the American Association of Architects. Five years later, President Lyndon Johnson presented van der Rohe with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award.
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Dyreson, Mark. "Uncertain Blackness: The Mysterious Case of Joseph Stadler." Journal of Olympic Studies 5, no. 1 (May 1, 2024): 48–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/26396025.5.1.03.
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Abstract Historians have identified George Coleman Poage as the first African American Olympian. Poage won two bronze medals in the hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. In that same year, the name of another potential Black Olympian, Joseph Stadler, appeared briefly in a few newspaper stories previewing the games. Stadler clearly competed in St. Louis, winning a silver medal and bronze medal in the now-archaic forms of standing jumps. Whether he should join Poage on the roster of pioneering African American Olympians, however, remains a mystery among Olympic researchers—as does his racial identity. Analyzing the historical record regarding these claims and employing new information from census data and other public records reveals that Stadler was most likely white. His “misidentification,” however, reveals more than just a trivial episode about an inaccurate reading of racial identity from limited sources. The long history of narratives about Joseph Stadler's identity reveals important patterns about the social construction of race, illuminates the complexities of more than a century of seeking to depict the Olympics as a fulcrum of racial progress in American culture, and showcases the dangers of attempting to read “race” from historic photographs.
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Saxe, Karen. "African American Women Honored with Congressional Gold Medals." Notices of the American Mathematical Society 67, no. 03 (March 1, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/noti2051.
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Alexeevich, Andreev Alexander, and Anton Petrovich Ostroushko. "Harvey Williams Cushing - founder of anesthetic monitoring, pioneer of neurosurgery (to the 150th of birthday." Journal of Experimental and Clinical Surgery 12, no. 1 (March 2, 2019): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18499/2070-478x-2019-12-1-84-84.
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Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) graduated from Yale College and Harvard Medical School, and worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Boston. He created the first anesthesia card, introduced the term “regional anesthesia” into medical practice, described the Cushing triad, and in 1901, the second in the world, performed a successful operation on the pituitary gland for acromegaly. In 1910, he accepted the offer to become the head of the department of surgery at Harvard Medical School and the chief surgeon at Peter Benton Brigham Hospital, located on the campus. In 1933, Cushing moved to Yale, where from 1933 to 1937. was a professor of neurology. In the US, Harvey Williams Cushing is honored as a pioneer of neurosurgery and the greatest neurosurgeon in world history. Cushing developed and improved the technique of many neurosurgical operations, proved the right to the very existence of intracranial surgery as a separate medical specialty. In 1939, he was honored to become an Honorary Member of the Royal Medical College in London. Harvey Williams Cushing died on October 7, 1939 from myocardial infarction. He was awarded honorary degrees in nine American and thirteen European universities; several state orders and medals; as well as many different awards and prizes. Harvey Williams Cushing was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Natural Sciences, and the American Academy of Humanities and Natural Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, and also an honorary member of about seventy medical, surgical, and scientific communities in Europe, USA, South America and india.
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Yordanov, Radoslav. "Conflicting visions? Cuba in the eyes of a Soviet spy and an American diplomat." International Affairs 95, no. 4 (July 1, 2019): 917–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz118.
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Abstract This review essay considers the books Raúl Castro: un hombre en revolución by Nikolai S. Leonov and Our woman in Havana: a diplomat's chronicle of America's long struggle with Castro's Cuba by Vicki Huddleston. One would be hard-pressed to find more qualified observers with first-hand experience of Cuba's politics than Nikolai Leonov and Vicki Huddleston. A former chief of KGB's analytical department, Leonov held several medals and decorations, including the Ernesto Che Guevara First Degree Order of the Cuban Council of State. Huddleston, on the other hand, headed the Cuban Affairs of the State Department and in 1999 became the first woman to lead the United States' Interests Section in Havana. Both authors offer in their accounts two visions of Cuba which rather complement each other. The keen revolutionary eye of the Soviet spy leans towards temporality. He saw Cuba in East–West terms, where historically the decade-old American aggressive plans and Soviet's withdrawal pushed the island into a corner. On the other hand, the seasoned American diplomat, well versed in the complex ebb and flow between her state and its southern neighbour, sides with positivity. To her, Cuba is a ‘natural ally’ to the United States. Our woman in Havana admits there is more to the erstwhile Cold War, and with this Ambassador Huddleston's seeks to awaken the ‘better angels’ of US foreign policy towards the island nation.
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Billings, Andrew, and James Angelini. "Equity Achieved? A Longitudinal Examination of Biological Sex Representation in the NBC Olympic Telecast (2000–2018)." Communication & Sport 7, no. 5 (July 17, 2019): 551–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479519863652.
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This report focuses on (a) how National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) primetime Olympic telecasts have presented athletes competing as male and female, specifically in relation to the 2018 Pyeonchang Winter Olympic coverage and (b) how the Pyeongchang coverage fits into a longitudinal analysis of the past two decades of NBC’s coverage. Results show that women athletes received the majority of clock-time and name mentions during the 2018 coverage of the games, continuing a trend toward increased focus on women’s sports and athletics over the two-decade composite. The fact that American women are also winning a higher proportion of the medals at the Olympics is argued to be the most primary driver of this change over time. Implications and ramifications of the findings are also extrapolated.
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Eccleston, Sasha-Mae. "Medals and Metals: Speculating Freedom in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home from the Wars." Modern Drama 64, no. 1 (March 2021): 24–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.64.1.1100.
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This article argues that Suzan-Lori Parks situates metal discursively in Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (2015) to highlight speculation’s emancipatory potential. Throughout American history, essentializing logics of value have connected metal, money, and racial difference. Critiquing these essentialisms, Wars dramatizes how imagining alternative futures motivates communities to operationalize logics of value that resist racist strictures in the present. A brief coda summarizes how the concluding gesture of this play set in the Civil War period looks to a time where speculative finance’s racialization of homeownership prompts reconsideration of (neo-)liberal multiculturalism’s principles.
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Wright, James R., and Leland B. Baskin. "Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Support for the American Expeditionary Forces by the US Army Medical Corps During World War I." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 139, no. 9 (September 1, 2015): 1161–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2014-0528-hp.
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Context Historical research on pathology and laboratory medicine services in World War I has been limited. In the Spanish American War, these efforts were primarily focused on tropical diseases. World War I problems that could be addressed by pathology and laboratory medicine were strikingly different because of the new field of clinical pathology. Geographic differences, changing war tactics, and trench warfare created new issues. Objectives To describe the scope of pathology and laboratory medicine services in World War I and the value these services brought to the war effort. Methods Available primary and secondary sources related to American Expeditionary Forces' laboratory services were analyzed and contrasted with the British and German approaches. Results The United States entered the war in April 1917. Colonel Joseph Siler, MD, a career medical officer, was the director, and Colonel Louis B. Wilson, MD, head of pathology at the Mayo Clinic, was appointed assistant director of the US Army Medical Corps Division of Laboratories and Infectious Disease, based in Dijon, France. During the next year, they organized 300 efficient laboratories to support the American Expeditionary Forces. Autopsies were performed to better understand treatment of battlefield injuries, effects of chemical warfare agents, and the influenza pandemic; autopsies also generated teaching specimens for the US Army Medical Museum. Bacteriology services focused on communicable diseases. Laboratory testing for social diseases was very aggressive. Significant advances in blood transfusion techniques, which allowed brief blood storage, occurred during the war but were not primarily overseen by laboratory services. Conclusions Both Siler and Wilson received Distinguished Service Medals. Wilson's vision for military pathology services helped transform American civilian laboratory services in the 1920s.
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Loturco, Irineu, Lucas A. Pereira, Ciro Winckler, Jaime R. Bragança, Roger A. da Fonseca, Ronaldo Kobal, Cesar C. Cal Abad, Katia Kitamura, Fabio Y. Nakamura, and Emerson Franchini. "Performance Changes of Elite Paralympic Judo Athletes During a Paralympic Games Cycle: A Case Study with the Brazilian National Team." Journal of Human Kinetics 60, no. 1 (December 28, 2017): 217–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hukin-2017-0111.
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Abstract The aim of this study was to describe the variations in power performance of elite Paralympic judo athletes across three consecutive training cycles of preparation for the ParaPan American Games, the World Championship and the Paralympic Games. Eleven Paralympic judokas from the Brazilian National team participated in this study. They were repeatedly assessed using squat and countermovement jumps, mean propulsive power (MPP) in the jump-squat (JS), the bench press and prone bench pull at several moments of the preparation. Training supervision based on the optimum power zone (range of loads where power production is maximized) was provided in the final cycle, prior to the Paralympic Games. Magnitude-based inference was used to compare the repeated measurements of power performance. Lower and upper limb muscle power gradually increased throughout the cycles; however, the best results in all exercises were observed prior to the Paralympic Games, during which the team won four silver medals. As an illustration, prior to participation in the Paralympic Games the MPP in the JS was likely to very likely higher than prior to the World Championship (effect size [ES] = 0.77) and ParaPan American Games (ES = 0.53), and in January and March 2016 (ES = 0.98 and 0.92, respectively; months preceding the Paralympic Games). Power performance assessments can provide information about the evolution of Paralympic judokas, and training at the optimum power zone seems to constitute an effective method to improve lower and upper limb power in these athletes.
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Hunt, Thomas M. "Countering the Soviet Threat in the Olympic medals race: The Amateur Sports Act of 1978 and American athletics policy reform." International Journal of the History of Sport 24, no. 6 (April 23, 2007): 796–818. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523360701265115.
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Jones, Robin. "Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Culture in Republican China. By Andrew D.Morris. [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xx+368 pp. ISBN 0-520-24084-7.]." China Quarterly 182 (June 2005): 447–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741005310265.
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Over the last decade, there has been a growing media interest in the rise to world prominence of Chinese sport, fuelled first by the startling performances of China's athletes in the mid- 1990s, then by their declared interest in staging the 2000 Olympic Games, and ultimately their successful bid for the 2008 Games. As if to underline this, China leapt into second place in the medals tally of the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, thus ensuring that the media took full note of the Middle Kingdom. However, in the corresponding period (and in fact much further back) there has been little serious interest amongst Western authors writing specifically about sport in China. Indeed, of the four hundred or so references in Marrow of the Nation, just a handful are by Western authors.In finely honed detail, Andrew Morris traces the development of sport in Republican China from the early years of the 20th century, drawing a carefully argued distinction between the Anglo-American and the Euro-Japanese influences that had a major effect in shaping China's early sporting identity (although the separation of the two influences, associating Anglo with American and Euro with Japanese, glosses over the importance of European figures in British sporting history). What is striking in unravelling the threads of Chinese history, is the manner in which China “swayed with the winds of foreign influence” as the leaders tried to develop a national and modern sporting consciousness. As chapter two reveals, by the 1920s, there were also clear traces of Soviet influence – fitness and hygiene, new nationalism, new Chinese man, new meanings for sport.
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Andreev, Alexander Alexeevich, and Anton Petrovich Ostroushko. "Alexander Alekseevich SHALIMOV – the chief surgeon of the Ministry of health of Ukraine, Director of the Kharkiv Institute of General and emergency surgery, Kyiv Institute of Hematology and blood transfusion, Kiev Institute of clinical and experimental surgery, editor in chief of the journal "Clinical surgery", Hero of Socialist labour of the USSR." Vestnik of Experimental and Clinical Surgery 11, no. 1 (April 8, 2018): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18499/2070-478x-2018-11-1-83.
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In 1918 into a peasant family, was born A. A. Shalimov, who, after finishing school and technical school he enrolled in the Kuban medical Institute (1936-1941), he worked as a doctor in hospitals near Krasnodar, in Chita oblast (1941), in the cities of Bryansk and the eagle; chief surgeon of the Orel region (1949). In 1951, A. A. Shalimov returned to Bryansk, he defended his dissertation and received the title of Honored doctor of the RSFSR. Later A. A. Shalimov moved to Kharkov, he defended his doctoral dissertation (1957) and was appointed head of the Department of thoracic surgery and anesthesiology of the Ukrainian Institute of advanced training of physicians (1959), Director of the Kharkiv Institute of General and urgent surgery (1965), head of the Department of thoracoabdominal surgery of the Kiev Institute of improvement of doctors, as head of the surgical Department, the Director of Kiev research Institute of Hematology and blood transfusion (1970) and Kyiv Sri of clinical and experimental surgery (1971), chief surgeon of the Ministry of health of Ukraine (1980). A. Shalimov was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1969), academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1978). A. A. Shalimova awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor of the USSR (1982), Hero of Ukraine with the order of Powers (2005).
Alexander Shalimov 870 author of scientific papers, including 35 monographs, 112 inventions, he has trained 50 doctors and nearly 100 candidates of medical Sciences. A. A. Shalimov was awarded two orders of Lenin and red banner of Labor, order of the October Revolution, the order of the Ukrainian State (2005) and "For merits" of three degrees, medals and orders and medals of foreign States.
Oleksandr Shalimov was a member of the Board of the Association of surgeons im. N. And. Pirogov, the International Association of surgeons, the all-Union scientific society of surgeons, gastroenterologists and cardiologists, Chairman of the Ukrainian Republican scientific society of surgeons, full member of the new York Academy of Sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal "Clinical surgery", Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR 8-10 convocations. The international chamber of the American biographical Institute, he was elected "Man of the year – 1997", awarded diploma of the International biographical centre of Cambridge University for achievements in medicine of the twentieth century. Died Alexander Shalimov February 28, 2006.
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Hyndman, Roy. "Edward Irving FRSC CM. 27 May 1927 — 25 February 2014." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 61 (January 2015): 183–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2015.0004.
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Dr Edward (Ted) Irving, one of Canada's most respected geoscientists, died on 25 February 2014 in Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada, aged 86 years, leaving his wife, Sheila, children Katie, Susan, Martin and George, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. After his early work as a student at Cambridge, England, he moved first to Australia and then to Canada. Over more than 60 years his scientific career was devoted mainly to the use of magnetic remanence recorded in ancient rocks to address fundamental geological questions. This seemingly simple technology proved to have remarkably many applications. Through his measurements and analyses of rock samples that recorded the magnetic field at the time of their formation, Ted was in the forefront of demonstrating that continental drift was real, at a time when the theory was out of favour. His meticulous work on rocks from many areas of the world was instrumental in showing how continents have been constantly moving, breaking up and colliding to make new larger continents and then breaking up again. He published more than 200 articles in international scientific journals. His reference text Paleomagnetism and its applications to geological and geophysical problems is still widely used. Applying remanent magnetism to study the motion of continents, and to other important geological problems, required careful analyses and interpretations. These included showing that the secular change in the Earth's magnetic field direction averaged over time aligns with its rotation pole, that the Earth's magnetic field has reversed its polarity at irregular intervals of a few million years, and that overprinting by re-magnetizations of rocks at different geological times can be separated by special laboratory techniques. Other contributions included important research in ancient climates, continental glaciations, the origin of mountain systems, and the relative displacements of parts of continents (terranes), especially the inferred large northward movement of parts of western North America, a conclusion that remains controversial. His most important results depended critically on his developing and using the best field sampling methods, laboratory instrumentation and procedures, and methods of data analysis. During his career he established world-class palaeomagnetic laboratories in Cambridge and Canberra, and in Ottawa and Victoria in Canada. Ted Irving had broad interests and knowledge. He was a serious gardener and horticulturalist and wrote several scholarly articles on plants, especially on the biogeography of rhododendrons and magnolias. He received numerous awards and medals and wide recognition, including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. He also received many awards and medals from professional geological societies. Ted Irving received honorary doctorates from three universities, and the Order of Canada, in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions.
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Ushakov, I. B., A. A. Blaginin, and S. I. Lustin. "To the 90th birthday of professor Stanislav Alekseevich Bugrov." Bulletin of the Russian Military Medical Academy 22, no. 2 (June 15, 2020): 252–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/brmma50082.
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June 10, 2020 it is the 90th anniversary of the birth of major General of the medical service, doctor of medical Sciences, Professor, honored doctor of Russia, head of the State research and testing Institute of aviation and space medicine of the Ministry of defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1984-1988), head of the air force aviation and space medicine service - Deputy head of the Central military medical Department of the Ministry of defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1988-1991), Head of the faculty of training doctors for the Air force of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (from 1975 to 1982), Chairman of the State medical Commission for selection of cosmonauts, Chairman of the State Commission for the preparation and launch of a series of biosatellites Cosmos, co-chair of the subgroup Space medicine joint Soviet-American working group on space exploration (1988-1991), member of the International Academy of Astronautics, a member of the fighting in Afghanistan, Chevalier of the order of the red Star, For service to Motherland in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Armed forces III degree, and numerous medals, veteran of the Armed forces of the Russian Federation, honorary doctor of the State research and testing Institute of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation (aviation and space medicine) and honorary Professor of the Voronezh N.N. Burdenko state medical University.
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Haas, Claus. "Antiracistiske protester i sport-spectacles." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 50, no. 133 (June 6, 2022): 119–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v50i133.132775.
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As two Afro-American sprinters, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were staged to receive the gold and bronze medals at the Olympic Games in Mexico 1968, they transformed the victory ceremony, one of the most well-known rituals in global sport – og popular culture, into an anti-racist protest. The image of Smith and Carlos at the victory stand went around the world. In this article, the writer interrogates, why this more than 50-year-old image functions as an image with iconic appeal also today. First, this is carried out, by positioning the issue within a social constructivist theory of culture, and a theory of the concept sports-spectacle. Secondly, by taking a closer look at the signifying rituals and symbols, ingrained in the ideological hyper-structure of the Olympic Games. Thirdly, by showing how the meaning of Smith and Carlos’ protest has been revitalized in the aftermath of the NFL quarterback Colins Kaepernicks kneeling protest in 2016, strikingly enough, also among Danish athletes and within Danish public debate. The conclusion is that by closer look, the seemingly consensus about the iconic status of the image of Smith and Carlos is precarious and conflictual, mobilizing both counter protest and polarization. Not least due to the fact that sport-spectacles to an increasing degree are enmeshed in the prevailing dynamics and conflicts concerning ‘race’ and identity formation in liberal democracies in general.
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Graf, Friedrich Wilhelm. "Paul Tillichs Bundesverdienstorden." Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 31, no. 1 (May 1, 2024): 90–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/znth-2024-0005.
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Abstract Kein anderer deutscher Emigrant, der 1933 ins amerikanische Exil gegangen war und nach der Ausbürgerung aus Deutschland und dem Erwerb der amerikanischen Staatsbürgerschaft zum Emigranten wurde, ist nach dem Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs so oft nach Deutschland zurückgekehrt wie Paul Tillich. Auch wenn er die Remigration auf den Frankfurter Lehrstuhl ablehnte und auch Rufen an die Universität Hamburg und die Freie Universität Berlin nicht folgte, lehrte er als Visiting Professor an mehreren deutschen Universitäten. Auch hielt er vor zahlreichen Hörerinnen und Hörern Hunderte von Vorträge in westdeutschen Städten und im Westteil der einstigen deutschen Hauptstadt Berlin. Tillich wurde zu einer Projektionsfigur, zum Idealbild des guten Deutschen. Dies bezeugen auch die zahlreichen Ehrungen und Orden, mit denen er ausgezeichnet wurde. Die folgende Edition dokumentiert die Quellen, die zur Ehrung Tillichs mit dem „Großen Verdienstkreuz (Halskreuz)“ Federal Order of Merit 1956 und fünf Jahre später, zu seinem 75. Geburtstag, mit dem „Großen Verdienstkreuz mit Stern“ führten. No other German emigrant, who went into exile in America in 1933 and became an emigrant after expatriating from Germany and acquiring American citizenship, returned to Germany as often as Paul Tillich after the end of the Second World War. Even though he refused to remigrate to the Frankfurt chair and did not accept calls to the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Berlin, he taught as a visiting professor at several German universities. He also gave hundreds of lectures to numerous listeners in western German cities and in the western part of the former German capital Berlin. Tillich became a projection figure, the ideal image of the good German. This is also evidenced by the numerous honors and medals with which he was awarded. The following edition documents the sources used to honor Tillich with the „Great Cross of Merit (Neck Cross)“ of the Federal Order of Merit in 1956 and five years later, on his 75th birthday, with the „Großen Verdienstkreuz mit Stern“.
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Miles, Andrew, and Jonathan Elliott Asbridge. "On the need for transformational leadership in the delivery of person-centered clinical practice within 21st Century healthcare systems." European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 2, no. 3 (September 28, 2014): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v2i3.938.
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We write this Editorial Introduction following the conclusion of the First Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare (ESPCH) hosted by Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain, on 3 & 4 July 2014. The Conference proved an important event which successfully brought together a very wide range of distinguished speakers and delegates from across the length and breadth of Europe, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. Following the close of Day One of the Conference, and prior to the Conference Dinner, we were pleased to confer on particularly eminent colleagues, the Society's Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals, the Presidential Medal and the Senior Vice Presidential Medal and, in addition, to award the Society's Essay Prize and Book Prize. A full Conference Report, with the usual obligatory photographs and a YouTube videolink to highlights of the proceedings, has been included within the first e-Bulletin of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare, the Society's new bi-monthly and detailed Newsletter.
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Laporte, Léo. "Matching Mind and Method with Material: John Imbrie and Quantitative Facies Analysis." Earth Sciences History 30, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 163–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.30.1.g18rn80l2r21024n.
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John Imbrie (b. 1925) always had deep mathematical insight and facility. At Yale University he completed his PhD (1951) under Carl Dunbar working on Middle Devonian brachiopods where he employed a statistical technique—'reduced major axis regression'—to differentiate several subspecies. Later, in a study with Edwin Colbert at the American Museum of Natural History, he used the same technique to determine subtle, yet significant, variations in the growth patterns of Triassic Metoposaurid amphibians (1956). At about the same time as sedimentary facies analysis was becoming of increased interest, Imbrie sought to test what one might do with quantitative facies analysis by undertaking a decade-long study of the Lower Permian Florena Shale (Kansas) using multivariate cluster analysis to characterize different litho- and biofacies. Despite much hard work in the field and with a highdecibel desk calculator, the hoped for results were lackluster. But neither the man nor the methods were wanting. The materials—fragmented, scattered invertebrate fossils imbedded in shales and limestones—permitted no more understanding than qualitative, eye-ball analysis. Even a late stage attack with the IBM computer at Columbia University merely groaned and brought forth similar mousey results. What was needed was a problem whose material components (abundant planktonic microfossils) within well-characterized stratigraphic sequences (deep-sea Pleistocene cores) were suitably matched to the man's mind and his quantitative procedures. And, of course, the result was phenomenal: his empirical demonstration of the deep-sea data for the validity of Milankovitch Cycles as the forcing factors for large-scale global climate change. His scientific success was duly honored by awards, prizes, medals, and elections to distinguished honorary societies. How did this happen?
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Anjum, Shakeel, Muhammad Muazzam Ali Khan, Muhammad Asif Iqbal, and Phool Hussain. "Socio-Economic Determinants of Sports Performance: An Empirical Investigation among the Countries of the World." Research Journal for Societal Issues 5, no. 1 (March 31, 2023): 417–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.56976/rjsi.v5i1.157.
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The present study has explored socioeconomic determinants of sports performance among the world's countries. The countries' sports performance has been measured using the total number of gold, silver, and bronze medals. The weights of gold, silver, and bronze medals have been assigned 4, 2, and 1, respectively. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, health, education, and population determine sports performance. The education and health index proposed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has been used as a proxy for education and health. The influence of regions was captured by using dummy variables. Balanced panel data of 113 countries that participated in all Olympic events from 1972 to 2022 with four-year intervals have been used. However, a separate empirical analysis has been made for 80 countries that attained at least one gold, silver, or bronze medal from 1972 to 2022. Three econometric models have been estimated for each case by applying a fixed and random effect approach. Hausman test has been applied to identify the appropriation of fixed effect and random effect models. Using descriptive statistics, we have found that GDP per capita, education, health, and population are positively and significantly associated with sports performance. Results of dummy variables indicate that the European region has better sports performance than Asia, Australia, America, and Africa. Improvement in GDP per capita, education, and health has been suggested as a strategy to improve sports performance.
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Baker, David B., and Kevin T. Mahoney. "The Howard Crosby Warren Medal: Psychology’s First Award." American Journal of Psychology 118, no. 3 (October 1, 2005): 459–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/30039075.
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Abstract This article explores the development of the first major award given in American psychology, the Howard Crosby Warren Medal. Administered by the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the award was first given in 1936. The first recipients of the Howard Crosby Warren Medal were Ernest G. Wever and Charles W. Bray of Princeton University. The Howard Crosby Warren Medal remains among the most prestigious awards in American psychology.
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Wali, Mohan K. "Introduction." Canadian Journal of Botany 66, no. 12 (December 1, 1988): 2603–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b88-355.
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The year 1985 was a landmark in Canadian biology, for it witnessed both the first Canadian Congress of Biology and the 80th birthday of Professor Vladimir Joseph Krajina. Because Krajina's work has had an impact on more than one biological discipline, we believed that the congress would be an appropriate forum to pay tribute to one of Canada's premier ecologists and botanists. Krajina has done much to awaken Canada's environmental consciousness and shape its ecological thinking and, in the process, has made major contributions to the international discipline of ecology.Professor Krajina was born in 1905 in Slavice, a small Moravian village in Czechoslovakia. Historians of science have characterized 1905 as “the miraculous year.” That was the year Albeit Einstein published the theory of relativity and George Santayana began his book The Life of Reason with the following first line printed in boldface, “Man affects his environment, sometimes to good purpose.” E. M. Forster published his Where Angels Fear to Tread, Vladimir Lenin his Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, and Sigmund Freud his Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex. That year, the English novelist and science educator C. P. Snow was born, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were formed.It was a very significant year for ecology as well. The first American textbook, Research Methods in Ecology, was published by a then little-known ecologist named Frederick E. Clements. Carl Raunkiaer in Denmark published his Types biologiques pour la géographie botanique, later to be cited in ecological literature as Raunkiaer's system of life forms and biological spectra. In addition, Karel Domin, who would become Krajina's mentor, published Das böhmische Mittelgebirge in Czechoslovakia.Krajina received his doctorate at the age of 22 from Charles University in Prague. There, he rose to become Professor of Botany and Head of the Department of Plant Sociology and Ecology. Krajina was a major force in the Second World War. A champion of democracy and possessing immense foresight and fortitude, he provided strategic information to the Allies, not without great personal hardship. This aspect of his life is beyond the scope of this review, but many volumes are available that document his indomitable courage and his contributions (see, for example, J. Korbel, The Communist Subversion of Czechoslovakia, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1959). After the war, he received both military and civilian medals and was elected to the Czechoslovakian parliament.He arrived in Vancouver in 1949. Not in possession of his transcripts or even a reprint of his own work, he joined the University of British Columbia as Lady Davis Foundation Fellow and Special Lecturer, and later attained the rank of full professor. It was here that he developed the ecological schema that bear his imprint and guided 33 students through their doctoral and master's programs. Highly respected as a teacher and researcher, he has left an indelible mark on Canadian ecology. His contributions have been recognized by honorary degrees from major universities, by medals of honor from many societies, and in several feature films on environment from the National Film Board of Canada. Even today, he remains active in finalizing his massive treatise on the ecology of British Columbia vegetation.In presenting this series of papers as a tribute to Professor Krajina, it was the intention of the organizers to reflect on two contemporary topics of ecology, rather than present a comprehensive overview or a complete documentation of Krajina's contributions. What is presented here, therefore, is a series of ecological vignettes on community organization and ecosystem conservation, areas of science in which Professor Krajina has played a major role.The organizers extend their warm thanks to Professor Jennifer Shay of the University of Manitoba for her help and assistance, to Professor Jack Major for writing the epilogue, to Professor Taylor A. Steeves, who encouraged the publication of this symposium, and to Professor Paul F. Maycock, Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Botany, who edited this series of articles.
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Reis, Ed. "A Man for His People." Mechanical Engineering 130, no. 10 (October 1, 2008): 32–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2008-oct-3.
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This article discusses the stature of George Westinghouse as an engineer who is rivaled by his skill and integrity as a leader. Beginning with the railroad air brake, Westinghouse’s inventiveness formed the basis of a commercial empire. Given the evidence of his companies when he controlled them, there is another case to be made for George Westinghouse that he may also have been America’s greatest living industrial manager. George Westinghouse was honored in many ways during his lifetime. In 1874, he was awarded the Scott Legacy Medal by the Franklin Institute. He was made a member of France’s Legion of Honor in 1895. The American engineering societies in 1905 honored him with the John Fritz Medal. He was awarded the Edison Medal, named for his greatest competitor, in 1912. In 1913, he became the first American to receive the Grashoff Medal from Germany.
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Amirfar, Catherine. "Introductory Remarks by Catherine Amirfar." Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 115 (2021): 63–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/amp.2021.131.
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Welcome everyone to the 2021 Hudson Medal Presentation. The Manley O. Hudson Medal, the Society's highest honor, has been awarded since 1959 to a distinguished person of American or other nationality for outstanding contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law. The medal has been conferred on many luminaries, including Rosalyn Higgins, Tom Franck, Michael Reisman, Eli Lauterpacht, John Jackson, Bruno Simma, Peter Trooboff, and Stephen Breyer.
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Levin, Jonathan, and James Poterba. "Amy Finkelstein: 2012 John Bates Clark Medalist." Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 4 (November 1, 2012): 171–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.26.4.171.
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Amy Finkelstein is the 2012 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association. The core concerns of Amy's research program have been insurance markets and health care. She has addressed whether asymmetric information leads to inefficiencies in insurance markets, how large social insurance programs affect healthcare markets, and the determinants of innovation incentives in health care. We describe a number of Amy's key research contributions, with particular emphasis on those identified by the Honors and Awards Committee of the American Economic Association in her Clark Medal citation, as well as her broader contributions to the field of economics.
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Eberly, Janice, and Michael Woodford. "Emi Nakamura: 2019 John Bates Clark Medalist." Journal of Economic Perspectives 34, no. 1 (February 1, 2020): 222–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.34.1.222.
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Emi Nakamura is the 2019 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association. Emi is an empirical macroeconomist whose work has studied the nature of price-setting and the effects of monetary and fiscal policies, among other issues, and has been notable for using less aggregated data, while addressing central questions about the macroeconomy. We describe Emi's key research contributions, with particular emphasis on those identified by the Honors and Awards Committee of the American Economic Association in her Clark Medal citation, as well as her broader contributions to the field of economics.
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Hamilton, Eric. "The Access 2000 Chicago Partnership." Industry and Higher Education 7, no. 3 (September 1993): 151–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095042229300700305.
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In January 1993, the Access 2000 Partnership received the prestigious Anderson Medal, awarded by the Business–Higher Education Forum of the American Council on Education. The Medal is awarded annually to an ‘exemplary three-way partnership of higher education, local business and public schools working together to improve the performance of American students’. In this article, against the background of the evolution of Access 2000, Eric Hamilton focuses on seven ways in which the business and education communities can cooperate effectively to enhance educational and work opportunities for American students. The benefits for both the business and education sectors are great, he argues, if priority is given to solving major social and economic problems, rather than simply to such short-term advantages as image-warming for industry or cash injections for education.
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Tucker, Ross, Vincent O. Onywera, and Jordan Santos-Concejero. "Analysis of the Kenyan Distance-Running Phenomenon." International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance 10, no. 3 (April 2015): 285–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2014-0247.
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Purpose:To investigate the ethnicity of Kenya’s most successful international runners, tracking their evolution over the period of their international emergence and current dominance.Methods:The authors analyzed male track distance events from 800m upwards from all the major global athletics championships from 1964 to 2013, and the annual Top-25 world marathon performances since 1990.Results:The percentage of top-25 marathon performances and medals won by Kenyan and Kalenjin runners have increased over time with Nandi subtribe outperforming the rest of the world outside Africa (r > .70, large effect). However, Europe, North America, Oceania, Asia, and South America decreased over time in top marathon performances and track medals won (r > .70, large effect). The tribe and subtribe distribution was different in the marathon than in the track: Maasais were more likely to feature in medals won in shorter track events than in the top 25 of the world marathon rankings (risk ratio [RR] = 9.67, very large effect). This was also the case for Marakwets (RR = 6.44, very large effect) and Pokots (RR = 4.83, large effect). On the other hand, Keiyos, Kikuyus, Kipsigis, Sabaots, and Tugens were more likely to succeed in the marathon than in shorter track events (RR > 2.0, moderate effect).Conclusion:These data emphasize that the previously documented emergence of African distance runners is primarily a Kenyan phenomenon, driven by the Kalenjin tribe and in particular the Nandi subtribe. This supports the complex interaction between genotype, phenotype, and socioeconomic factors driving the remarkable dominance of Kenyan distance runners.
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Gaitniece, Lāsma. "Citizens of Liepāja city Teodors and Nikolajs Bredžs-Briedis in business and engineering sciences." History of Engineering Sciences and Institutions of Higher Education 2 (November 1, 2018): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7250/hesihe.2018.009.
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The article is dedicated to the citizens of Liepāja city Teodors Bredžs- Briedis (1885–1940) and Nikolajs Bredžs-Briedis (1909–1989) – father and son. Father Teodors Bredžs-Briedis was an entrepreneur in Liepāja city, but his son, Nikolajs, graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry (1936) of the University of Latvia, emigrated to the United States of America at the end of the Second World War. Nikolajs Bredžs-Briedis had a brilliant scientist’s career – his research work in the metal welding industry was valued in 1955 by the Lincoln Gold Medal Award of the American Welding Society. In 1956, he was admitted to the US Honorary Society of Scientists and Researchers. Nikolajs Bredžs-Briedis has received 27 patents and is the author of 14 scientific publications.
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Wood, Gerald C. "Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote. By Laurin Porter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003; pp. 233. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper." Theatre Survey 45, no. 2 (November 2004): 286–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557404240261.
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Horton Foote has won many distinguished awards, including two Academy Awards for screenwriting, the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Lucille Lortel Award, an Emmy, the William Inge Award, lifetime awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the Writer's Guild of America, an Outer Critics Circle Award, the Master American Dramatist Award of the PEN American Center, and the National Medal of the Arts. Yet there has been relatively little written about this important American—and southern—writer. Partly that is because he has written in various media, including theatre, film, and television, gaining substantial but limited fame in each, and much of his work is either produced regionally or staged for a small circle of aficionados in New York, where seemingly simple, understated dramas about coastal southeast Texas are never the rage. This tendency is exacerbated by the production history of the nine plays in The Orphans' Home, the subject of Laurin Porter's book. Staged over twenty years, from readings of the first plays in 1977 to the premiere of the final one, The Death of Papa, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in February of 1997, the plays have never been staged together.
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Pha, Kong Pheng, and Kari Smalkoski. "De-exceptionalizing Sunisa Lee: Uneven Gymnastics and a Hmong American State-less Critique." American Quarterly 75, no. 3 (September 2023): 609–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aq.2023.a905866.
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Abstract: Hmong American gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee won the gold medal in the individual all-around event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This essay analyzes the media frenzy surrounding Lee's rise to Olympic stardom in US gymnastics. In particular, it focuses on how the media narrate Lee's family and Hmong ethnic history of being refugees to becoming an Olympic gold medalist. This essay deconstructs how the state exceptionalizes this history in the context of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in service of the imperial US nation-state in ways that recuperates US empire and bolsters US nationalism. The essay reveals the ways that ongoing anti-Asian racism in the US contradicts the state's claim to Lee's gold medal. Ultimately, the essay argues that Hmong American writing during Lee's Olympic journey presents a "state-less critique" that situates Lee's success in her ethnic Hmong American community and not within the nation-state.
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Bassler, Bonnie L. "From Biochemistry to Genetics in a Flash of Light." Genetics 215, no. 2 (June 2020): 287–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.120.303285.
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The Genetics Society of America (GSA) Medal recognizes researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the past 15 years. The 2019 GSA Medal is awarded to Bonnie L. Bassler of Princeton University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in recognition of her groundbreaking studies of bacterial chemical communication and regulation of group behaviors.
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Schreiber, Mary. "And the Newbery Goes To . . . A Picturebook?" Children and Libraries 15, no. 2 (June 15, 2017): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/cal.15n2.29.
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In 2016, the top prize for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children went to a picturebook: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña. Previously, only one other picturebook had won the Newbery Medal.As a member of the 2016 Newbery Award Committee, I had a voice in selecting a picturebook for the coveted Newbery Medal. But after the announcement, I started to wonder just how many picturebooks had received either the medal or the honor title in the past.
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Linning, Lyn. "In the Words of the Winners: The Newbery and Caldecott Medals, 2001–2010.Association for Library Service to Children and The Horn Book. Chicago: American Library Association, 2011. 219 pp. US$50.00 (US$45.00 ALA members) soft cover ISBN 9780838935866." Australian Library Journal 60, no. 4 (November 2011): 370–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2011.10722667.
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Bolshoy, Alexander V., and Oleg I. Zagrevsky. "Relevant aspects of the Soviet system of training qualified weightlifters for competitions." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, no. 478 (2022): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/15617793/478/18.
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The first performance of Soviet weightlifters at the Olympic Games took place in 1952 in Helsinki. There they won three gold medals, taking away the palm of the championship from American weightlifters. The basis for the success of Soviet weightlifters on all world platforms was the system of sports training, which was based on the principle of optimal dosing of training load. The use of this system made it possible to form a national team capable of holding a leading position in the world until the end of the 20th century. The aim of the study was to identify the main features of the training process of qualified weightlifters of the Soviet Union, concerning the dosing of loads and the organization of training, in the period from 1972 to 1992. During the preparation of the article, we analyzed scientific and methodological literature on the research topic, and the diaries of eight athletes who underwent competitive training in the main and reserve composition of the USSR national team in the period from 1978 to 1991. In conclusion, we give recommendations regarding the distribution and dosing of the load of qualified weightlifters in preparation for competitions. As a result of the conducted research, we have found that the amount of load by volume in the preparation of weightlifters for competitions should be 1,000-1,300 number of rod lifts per month, depending on the athlete's athletic qualifications. The parameters of the load volume (number of rod lifts and tonnage) increase with the increase in weightlifters' athletic qualifications. Tonnage increases more significantly than the number of rod lifts. At the same time, the training load of qualified weightlifters should consist of 75-85% of sets for 1, 2 and 3 repetitions in jerk and push exercises. We have revealed that qualified weightlifters should perform a new amount of load in preparation for competitions in competitive and specially preparatory weightlifting exercises. The relative intensity of the load in the preparatory and competitive periods of training of qualified weightlifters should be more than 70% in competitive exercises and more than 90% in special preparatory exercises. Load planning of weightlifters in different periods of competitive training should be carried out taking into account the principle of variability, in particular, by various microcycling schemes using several types of microcycles with a load value from 10% to 40% of its total volume per mesocycle. Based on the data on the optimal amount of load in terms of volume and intensity, as well as data on the distribution of load by the number of repetitions in the approach and by types and groups of weightlifting exercises obtained as a result of the study, it is possible to develop universal models of various types of microcycles of competitive training.
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Elsner, Paul A., and Janet Beauchamp. "The Think Tank." Industry and Higher Education 6, no. 3 (September 1992): 178–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095042229200600310.
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In January 1992, the Think Tank project received the prestigious Anderson Medal, awarded by the Business-Higher Education Forum of the American Council on Education. The Medal is awarded annually to an ‘exemplary three-way partnership of higher education, local business and public schools working together to improve the performance of American students’. Given their potential impacts on the future graduate flow, workforce, and social health, such partnerships are considered by many to be crucial developments in the formulation of strategies to combat the crisis in education and training. The active participation of the higher education and business partners in such projects are essential to their success. In this article, Paul Elsner and Janet Beauchamp describe the development and current activities of the Think Tank and the contributions of the various partners, and illustrate the many benefits that can accrue from successful collaboration of this kind.
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Colombo, Emanuele. "“So What?”: A Conversation with John W. O’Malley." Journal of Jesuit Studies 7, no. 1 (January 7, 2020): 117–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00701008.
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John W. O’Malley, a member of the Society of Jesus, is currently a university professor in the Theology Department of Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He holds a PhD in history from Harvard University. His specialty is the religious culture of early modern Europe. O’Malley has written and edited a number of books, eight of which have won best-book awards. The First Jesuits (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), perhaps his best-known work, received both the Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History from the American Philosophical Society and the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society for Church History. It has been translated into twelve languages and its publication opened a new era in the study of the Society. Since then, the Jesuits have attracted greater attention from scholars of all disciplines on an international basis. O’Malley has continued to write about early Jesuits and the subsequent history of the Jesuits: his main essays on Jesuit history are now collected in the first volume of Brill’s Jesuit Studies series, Saints or Devils Incarnate?: Studies in Jesuit History (Leiden, 2013). In the last few years, O’Malley published with Harvard University Press a trilogy on the three last councils in the history of the Catholic Church: What Happened at Vatican ii (2008), Trent: What Happened at the Council (2012), and Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church (2018). A comparative view of the three councils is offered now in his most recent book, When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican ii (2019). O’Malley has lectured widely around the world to both professional and general audiences. He is past president of the Renaissance Society of America and the American Catholic Historical Association. He holds the Johannes Quasten Medal from The Catholic University of America for distinguished service in religious studies. In 1995, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 1997, to the American Philosophical Society; and in 2001, to the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan. He holds lifetime achievement awards from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Catholic Historical Association. At the origin of the following interview there are three conversations Emanuele Colombo had with O’Malley in Chicago, in 2017 and 2018, as a follow-up of a lecture he gave on his life, “My Life of Learning,” now published in The Catholic Historical Review. 1
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Seaborg, Glenn T., and Andrew A. Benson. "Melvin Calvin. 8 April 1911 — 8 January 1997." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 54 (January 2008): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2007.0050.
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Melvin Calvin died in Berkeley on 8 January 1997, at the age of 85, from a heart attack following years of declining health. He was widely known for his mental intensity, skill in asking questions, and impressive presentation of his research and ideas. During the period1946–57 Calvin directed laboratories utilizing carbon–14 and other radio–isotopes in the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, founded by Ernest Orlando Lawrence. Among his achievements was the delineation of the path of carbon in photo synthesis, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1961. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1954. Among his many honours were the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society in 1978, the US National Medal of Science in 1989, and the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in1964.
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Lyman, Charles. "Award Nomination Deadline is November 15." Microscopy Today 21, no. 6 (November 2013): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1551929513001119.
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The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) has a number of awards to honor achievements in microscopy. The series of Distinguished Scientist Awards and Burton Medal Awards began in 1975. For Distinguished Scientists, awards are made to individuals in both biological sciences and physical sciences who have had a long-standing career in microscopy or microanalysis. The Burton Medal recognizes scientists under the age of 40. Taken together there have been 117 awardees in these three categories.
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Kelley, W. N. "2005 Association of American Physicians Kober Medal. Acceptance of the 2005 Kober Medal." Journal of Clinical Investigation 115, no. 10 (October 1, 2005): 2952–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1172/jci26872.
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Dobson, Jerome E. “Jerry.” "Geography's Second Twilight." International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 8, no. 1 (January 2017): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijagr.2017010101.
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Jerome E. Dobson, professor emeritus, University of Kansas; president of the American Geographical Society; and recipient of the 2014 James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, discusses his career in the context of America's academic purge of geography. Highlights include his time as a Jefferson Science Fellow with the National Academies and U. S. Department of State. Dobson has been recognized with two lifetime achievement awards for his pioneering work in geographic information systems (GIS) and as Alumnus of 2013 at Reinhardt University. His contributions include the paradigm of automated geography, his instrumental role in originating the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, and his leadership of the LandScan Global Population Database, the de facto world standard for estimating populations at risk. His recent research includes testing a new system for mapping minefields; designing and promulgating the current world standard for cartographic representation of landmines, minefields, and mine actions; and leading six AGS Bowman Expeditions.
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WHITFIELD, STEPHEN. "Necrology: Daniel Aaron (1912–2016)." Journal of American Studies 51, no. 2 (May 2017): 471–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817000378.
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Present at the creation of American Studies, Daniel Aaron belongs on the short list of the academy's most learned and admired custodians of the nation's culture, for which President Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 2011. That would have been close to seven decades after the inauguration of Aaron's teaching career. A president of the American Studies Association (ASA), he held the rank of Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard, where his service included chairing its Committee on American Civilization. The lengthy span of Aaron's life in the profession, punctuated by many other honors (including the ASA's Bode-Pearson Prize), has few, if any, counterparts in duration and distinction. Such was the arc of his career and concerns that, as this necrology is intended to suggest, the field of American Studies will not see his like again.
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Casale, Jarett. "Harris Peyton Mosher, MD: The Educator, Artist, and Pioneer behind the Mosher Award." Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery 160, no. 3 (February 5, 2019): 510–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0194599818823734.
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Harris P. Mosher, MD, was a pioneer in the development of modern-day otolaryngology. The prestigious Mosher Award was named after him and is awarded annually for recognition of excellence in otolaryngology clinical research. Dr Mosher’s contributions to the field include innovative research, technique and instrument development, and advancement of all national otolaryngology societies that function to this day. He was regarded as an expert and forerunner in sinus anatomy and started the first sinus anatomy course in the United States. He was also the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Royal Society of Medicine of London’s Semon Medal as well as the American Laryngological Association Gold Medal. The yearly administration of the Mosher award highlights the legacy and passion of Dr Mosher for the advancement of the field of otolaryngology.
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Wiggins, David K. "Milt Campbell: Olympic Decathlon Champion “Famous for not being Famous”." Journal of Olympic Studies 1, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 60–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jofolympstud.1.1.0060.
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Abstract Milt Campbell, an outstanding African American athlete from Plainfield, New Jersey, captured the silver medal in the decathlon in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki and garnered the gold medal in the same event in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. Despite these great performances, Campbell is arguably the least known of all the decathlon gold medalists from the United States and was very slow to receive the honors and awards he deserved relative to his Olympic triumphs in track and field’s most grueling event. This essay assesses the possible reasons why Campbell received belated honors and has been lost from historical memory, ultimately contending that it resulted from the years he spent living in Canada in relative obscurity, his outspoken position on racial issues, his tendency to shun the spotlight, and a combination of other factors.
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Poterba, James M. "In Honor of Lawrence H. Summers, Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal." Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, no. 1 (February 1, 1995): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.9.1.165.
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This paper summarizes the research contributions of Lawrence Summers, who was awarded the 1993 John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association. It focuses on research in four subfields of economics: public finance, labor economies, financial economies, and macroeconomics. The paper describes the substantive importance and impact of Summers's research in each area, as well as the general research style and strategy that runs through his work.
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Ariel, Yaakov. "In the Shadow of the Millennium: American Fundamentalists and the Jewish People." Studies in Church History 29 (1992): 435–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400011463.
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In 1982 Menachem Begin, then Israel’s Prime Minister, presented Jerry Falwell, an evangelist and leader of the fundamentalist group ‘the Moral Majority’, with a medal of the Jabotinsky Order, an organization associated with Begin’s Likud Party. Observers both of American religion and Middle East politics could not help but notice the friendship that had developed between the Israeli government and conservative evangelical elements within American Protestantism. The special interest this segment of American Protestantism had in the fate of the Jewish people, and their support for a national Jewish home in the Land of Israel was evident from the early beginnings of the fundamentalist movement and was derived from their interpretation of biblical prophecy regarding the end of history—in which they see a prominent role for the Jewish people.
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Dergacheva, V. E., and Yu G. Chernyshov. "Installation “Breakthrough”, Implementation and Memorialisation of the “Cold War” in the USA." Izvestiya of Altai State University, no. 5(121) (November 19, 2021): 58–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.14258/izvasu(2021)5-09.
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Using the installation “Breakthrough” as an example, the article examines the widespread in the United States assessments and methods of memorializing the results of the Cold War. The authors note that the thesis of a US victory in the Cold War was central to official US political rhetoric in the early 1990s. This is confirmed by the politics of memory — in particular, the creation of the installation “Breakthrough”, the establishment of the commemorative medal “Cold War Victory Medal”, etc. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is considered the most symbolic event of the end of the Cold War. One of the fragments of this wall is called “The Breakthrough”, it is now in Westminster College in Fulton (Missouri), where W. Churchill in 1946 pronounced his famous speech and where (in a symbolic sense) the Cold War began. Installation “Breakthrough”, being a symbol of the beginning and end of ideological confrontation, carries a certain ideological message — it is a “breakthrough to freedom” and victory in the “cold war”. However, by the early 2000s, when passions subsided in society and wider access to not only American, but also Soviet archival documents was opened up, more ba-lanced assessments of the causes and results of the Cold War began to appear in American scientific circles. Some American historians started talking about the common victory of the USA and the USSR over the ideological confrontation, which could develop into a dangerous “hot war.” Globalization also influenced the perception of the outcome of the Cold War: this confrontation is assessed by some American researchers as a natural stage in the development of international relations, which led to a new redistribution of centers of influence on the map of the “multipolar” world.
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