Profile: James Davies

Profile: James Davies

has provoked a lot of interest and comment. For those who haven't read it, how would you summarise the argument? In a nutshell, I argue that psychiatry over the past 40 years, under the dominance of the medical or 'technological' model, has done a lot of harm in the name of helping vulnerable people. Not intentionally, I hasten to add, but as an outcome of taking the medical model too far. Your...

Profile of James M. Berger.

Whether he is restoring his 1976 Triumph TR6 British roadster or analyzing proteins, James Berger is curious about how machines work and what fuels them. Berger, a professor in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, primarily studies biological nanomachines, which are fueled by the cellular energy currency ATP and carry out coordin...

Toward a theory of revolution: the legacy of James C. Davies in historical perspective.

Teaching and learning audit 8 page profile – james nash shs

There is a strong and optimistic commitment by all staff to the school improvement strategy and a clear belief that further improvement is possible. Teachers take responsibility for the changes in their practice required to achieve school targets and are using data on a regular basis to monitor the effectiveness of their own efforts to meet those targets. The school has developed an agenda for ...

Definable Davies’ Theorem

We prove the following descriptive set-theoretic analogue of a Theorem of R.O. Davies: Every Σ2 function f : R× R → R can be represented as a sum of rectangular Σ2 functions if and only if all reals are constructible.