Community re-studies: lessons and prospects

Community re-studies have played an important role in the development of knowledge about social relationships and social change although they have had a chequered history. Assessments of their value vary according to whether they are approached as replications of earlier studies or as a different type of project. Re-studies have the potential to undermine the credibility of earlier studies but they can also fill in gaps and provide the basis for assessment of social change at a local level. They are generally characterized by methodological and theoretical innovation, learning from and building on what has gone before and contributing to an accumulating body of knowledge about community relations and how to study them. </jats:p

Frequency discriminator/phase detector

Circuit provides dual function of frequency discriminator/phase detector which reduces frequency acquisition time without adding to circuit complexity. Both frequency discriminators, in evaluated frequency discriminator/phase detector circuits, are effective two decades above and below center frequency

Wide-band doubler and sine wave quadrature generator

Phase-locked loop with photoresistive control, which provides both sine and cosine outputs for subcarrier demodulation, serves as a telemetry demodulator signal conditioner with a second harmonic signal for synchronization with the locally generated code

A continuum of psychosis, one human gene, and not much else - the case for homogeneity

The contention of this paper is that psychoses are not a collection of separate and unrelated diseases, but a set of diverse expressions of a single underlying entity. It will be argued that there is a basic homogeneity of pathogenesis, that there are not multiple predisposing genes but a single gene that is associated with significant diversity. Therefore the problem is a unitary one. The challenge is to identify the nature and function of the gene. It will be argued that the gene is that by which homo sapiens has separated from other primate species, and that the diversity arises from selective pressures which continue to act on this specifically human gene

A Bank for All Seasons: The Bank of Canada and the Regulatory Challenge

The Bank of Canada must come to play a recognized, central leadership role in shaping policy if Canada is to better manage risks to financial sector stability. This can be accomplished by giving the Bank a clearly acknowledged oversight and investigative mandate regarding financial stability – which would not require statutory change – linked with the responsibility to report independently on the same.financial services, Bank of Canada, financial sector stability

Chemophobia and the Relation to Names

Chemophobia is a recently identified cultural phenomena where people are afraid of chemicals in their lives, whether chemicals are in their food, their medicines, vaccinations, and other products. An increasing amount of people have a concern about the risk associated with chemicals in their everyday life. Chemistry professionals find this a bit strange as Chemistry states that all matter is made up of chemicals. Chemistry has many systems of naming and understanding chemicals which can exclude people from understanding the risk or lack thereof attributed to materials that are common in daily life. This effect could be accentuated by educational background of both the individual and his family. If people were to know more about what is and is not safe, perhaps scientific literacy as a whole could improve. The American Chemical Society and other sources have done studies on chemophobia and the related misperceptions of risk associated with certain substances. The research question I investigated is Would students misconstrue risk with the names of substances because of the complexity of the name of the substance (i.e., Latin)? I chose to distribute two surveys to Honors students at Tyler Junior College of various majors. One had them view images of nine everyday items and give their opinion on whether the object was hazardous or not, and the other survey had the same questions with only the names of the corresponding chemicals. The collected data was analyzed to find if there is a dissonance between the risk perceived through the chemical name versus with the common name or pictures, as well as if there is any difference in this effect related to one\u27s major, or the education of an individual\u27s family

Ray Pahl's Sociological Career: Fifty Years of Impact

The history of a discipline records the careers of its practitioners as well as providing an account their ideas. Studying these careers reveals much about the particular people and their work, and also provides insights into general questions such as how disciplines evolve, and how impact can be achieved amongst and beyond academic peers. This article focuses on the career of R. E. (Ray) Pahl. It argues that his position in British sociology over the last half century can be attributed in particular to two things. First, Pahl was committed to asking sociological questions whilst being open to other influences; we call him an interdisciplinary sociologist. Secondly, his approach engaged simultaneously with theoretical, methodological and substantive elements of the discipline rather than treating them as areas of separate expertise. These key facets of his work help in understanding why his work has reached such a wide range of audiences, and in explaining his distinctive record as a sociologist within and beyond the academy, which long pre-dates current concerns with 'impact'.Pahl, Impact, Interdisciplinary, Public Sociology