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Remembering the Mathematics of Robert Brown Gardner

Robby Gardner, one of the organizers of this Summer Research Institute, passed away on May 5, 19981. Robby led an extremely active mathematical life producing more than fifty papers, three books, eighteen masters students and thirteen Ph.D students. He seemed to spend a sizeable fraction of every year traveling to conferences and meetings around the world. I was continually amazed by the number...

JEAN - PAUL THIERY , ROBERT BRACKENBURY , and GERALD

We have previously identified a molecule (named cell adhesion molecule [CAM]) that is involved in the in vitro aggregation of neural cells from chick embryos. In the present report, specific anti-CAM antibodies have been used to demonstrate that CAM is localized in neural tissues, and is associated with the plasma membrane of retinal cells and neurites. Furthermore, it has been shown by antibod...

Hockings: Principles of Visual Anthropology

Anthropology and Medicine: Empathy, Experience and Knowledge

Even though the issue of empathy is widely debated in disciplines such as anthropology and medicine, anthropologists' relationship with their informants cannot be likened to that of doctors and their patients. Likewise, the empathic dimension, considered to characterize the relationship in both cases, is not the same. In this article examples drawn from various case studies are used in a crossc...

Robert C . Gardner , Motivation and Second Language Acquisition : The Socio - Educational

This is another very interesting publication by Robert C. Gardner analyzing the socio-educational model as well as the different scope and coverage of studies on the role of motivation in second or foreign language acquisition. In the Preface the author first of all discusses certain ambiguities and misunderstandings that tend to be associated with the nature of motivation for foreign language ...