By Surgeon-Major F. R. Hogg, A.M.D. In the Medical Times and Gazette about three years ago, appeared a paper of mine about a remedy again recommended, and fully to ventilate the subject, condensed quotations from former remarks must unavoidably now be incorporated. In the reign of Charles the Second, a Plymouth practitioner praised the varied qualities of turpentine, the best styptic in the tim...

Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, that output evaluations in academic research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take place. Secondly,...

Since it first emerged more than a decade ago, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been both widely praised as a modern and agile approach to software development and infrastructure architecture and dismissed as a colossal waste of time and money. Far from being dead, however, service oriented architecture is in fact more relevant than ever. The key challenge for companies is to determine h...

Online communities are popular sites for collective sensemaking. This study explores sensemaking in one such community following the closure of Olint Corp, a highly successful Jamaican investment club. After Olint’s disbanding, Jamaicans reconnected through online communities to make sense of their financial losses, to make sense of Olint – seen variously as an altruistic endeavour, a global cu...

HUDSON, Oct. 2 — The Civil Service Employees Association has urged the salary committee of the Columbia County board of supervisors to consider a general salary adjustment for county employees and a revision of the county's present classification and salary plan. The two-step proposal was made j but^a few'Ynstancesi at a meeting of the salary com$2,000 of salary or fraction thereof 3. Five per ...

As documented with examples in this special issue of Ambio, the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) Programme in its first 20 years has focused on both detailed and very comprehensive studies of specific ecosystems in order to monitor and understand ecosystem patterns and processes. An international review of GEM conducted in 2015 praised the programme for its comprehensiveness, but also saw a...

This article will explore the rhetorical and theological significance of metaphor divine adoption in Hebrew Bible. In Ps 22:10–11 71:6–9 God is not only said to pull psalmist out his/her mother’s womb, but a context which many mothers all too often died childbirth, newborn cast upon who steps as adoptive mother. idea further found Psalm 68:5 when described “Father orphans… [who] gives desolate ...

In the given article, author offers an interpretation of work titled Lacedaimonion Politeia, written by ancient political philosopher Xenophon Athens. Judging from Xenophon’s sober and open-minded attitude to regime he researches, focuses on central issue treatise, namely, upbringing a virtuous or good citizen. This became cornerstone Sparta’s success as polis, provided it with fame unique enti...

The New Zealand government has been praised for heeding scientific advice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it comes environmental protections seems be negotiable. Freshwaters have decline decades, despite clear science on limits needed protect them. There are many examples of ‘shifting baselines’, where progressively weakened through agency regulatory capture and political expedie...

Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, that output evaluations in academic research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take place. Secondly,...