An Appreciation of Gerald (Gerry) James Larson

The Search for Truth: In Appreciation of James J. Heckman

An Appreciation.

I'm worried about my paper. " I had a 25-page seminar paper due in less than two weeks. I'd turned in an eight-page proposal, with an outline and an annotated bibliography, and it had been severely and accurately critiqued by the class the day before. It's spring semester, my first year in graduate school at Indiana University. I'd considered myself a poet—I was getting a Masters in Fine Arts—b...

An appreciation

Qing Zou asked me to contribute some remarks introductory to the book that follows. I have not read it. I have indeed only seen a relatively small number of pages. Moreover, although in the course of my career as a mathematician and, in general, in the course of my life, I have acquired a working knowledge of several languages, Chinese in any of its forms is not one of them. Consequently I have...

An Appreciation

For [contemporary] social anthropologists, the important conclusion, always worth repeating, is that the observation and the labelling of 'behaviour' are inseparable from the importation of socially derived meanings even when observing monkeys. How much more so when the process is reflexive, when the observers and the observed are both 'meaning-makers' ... Edwin Ardener, 1977: Comprehending Oth...

Effects of Methoxyflurane (penthrane) Anaesthesia in Children* by Gerald W. Black and James L. Rea

Some circulatory and respiratory effects of methoxyflurane anaesthesia were studied in ten normal children. Arterial pressure was little altered by this anaesthetic and the changes observed resembled those produced by halothane rather than di-ethyl ether. The degree of respiratory depression during methoxyflurane anaesthesia was intensified by increasing the concentration of the inhaled vapour....