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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF SCHWANN'S

by Cell Theory, C. M. Goss
"... It is difficult for us, who have been nurtured by streams of biological thought which had their source in the cell doctrine, to realize that Schwann gave out his epoch-making pronouncement less than one hundred years ago. At that time it was a theory only and was based on none too certain evidence, ..."
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as a great figure, it is not surprising to find that he himself acknowledges a debt to his predecessors in the very sketchy bibliography of his book. It is enlightening, however, to find that his debt extended to a large number of individuals in many fields and that scarcely any of his facts were new

Curriculum Change and Development in Malawi: A Historical Overview

by Grames Chirwa, Devika Naidoo (phd, Grames Chirwa , 2014
"... To improve the quality of primary education in Malawi, the national government embarked on curriculum reform in 2001 and adopted an Outcomes Based curriculum in 2007. The new curriculum differs radically from its predecessors. This paper employs a historical approach to explore pre-colonial, colonia ..."
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To improve the quality of primary education in Malawi, the national government embarked on curriculum reform in 2001 and adopted an Outcomes Based curriculum in 2007. The new curriculum differs radically from its predecessors. This paper employs a historical approach to explore pre

Never Was

by Rainer Diriwächter
"... Abstract One of the aims of Culture & Psychology has always been to synthesize past ideas in order to enhance the tools we use to look at the phenomena we want to understand. In order to do so, we also need to understand the approaches our intellectual forefathers applied. The present article br ..."
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brings to light a ‘forgotten’ approach to studying people bound by common language, myth and customs. Völkerpsychologie is the historical predecessor to cultural psychology; however, readers not familiar with the history of psychology may not know what this ‘forgotten’ discipline attempted to achieve

Expensive, Harmful Policies that Don’t Work or How Juvenile Sexual Offending is Addressed in the U.S.

by Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Michael F. Caldwell
"... In this policy paper we briefly review the historical predecessors of modern sex crime legislation. We then review modern policies, focusing on those that have been applied to youth who have sexually offended and for which there is at least some empirical evaluation. These include sex offender civil ..."
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In this policy paper we briefly review the historical predecessors of modern sex crime legislation. We then review modern policies, focusing on those that have been applied to youth who have sexually offended and for which there is at least some empirical evaluation. These include sex offender

Historical Review: The legacies of Sir William Whitla

by R G Shanks
"... How many of us think of Sir William Whitla when attending events in the Sir William Whitla Hall? How much do we know about him or his benefactions to Queen's, to the Ulster Medical Society and other organisations in Belfast? Whitla was one of the outstanding graduates of the Queen's Univer ..."
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's University of Ireland; he had both national and international reputations and was an intellectual giant amongst our predecessors, being a pharmacist, physician, politician, Shakespearian scholar, medical author and benefactor. Unlike other distinguished graduates, his contribution to Northern Ireland has

Appendices APPENDIX A. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE A.1 Historical Perspective—Meteorological and ATD Modeling

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"... When creating a roadmap for the future, it helps to understand the path that brought us to our present position. The earliest comprehensive effort by a Federal agency to predict the transport and diffusion of airborne particles for public safety purposes began in the 1940s. As the nuclear age emerge ..."
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, such as ozone, particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and lead. A.1.1 Emergency Response Modeling In 1948, the U.S. Weather Bureau—the predecessor of today’s National Weather Service (NWS) in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), established

Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device

by Kate Crawford , Jessa Lingel , Tero Karppi , Kate Crawford - European Journal of Cultural Studies , 2015
"... Abstract The recent proliferation of wearable self-tracking devices intended to regulate and measure the body has brought contingent questions of controlling, accessing and interpreting personal data. Given a socio-technical context in which individuals are no longer the most authoritative source o ..."
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predecessor, the weight scale. By taking two distinct cases of self-tracking -wearables and the weight scale -we can situate current discourses of big data within a historical framing of self-measurement and human subjectivity. While the advertising promises of both the weight scale and the wearable device

Financial Integration, Investment, and Economic Growth: Evidence From Two Eras of Financial Globalization

by Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Moritz Schularick, Thomas M. Steger , 2008
"... forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics Does international financial integration boost economic growth? The empirical literature has not yet established a robust link between openness to the international capital market and economic growth. In this paper we turn to the economic history of ..."
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does so today. Unlike its historical predecessor, the current wave of financial globalization has not incited large investment augmenting flows of capital from rich to poor economies.

VIC06146 Partnership in teacher education: historical perspectives on recent rhetoric

by Malcolm Vick
"... 'Partnerships ' has become a key term in teacher education discourse. Partnerships between universities and schools, have come to function as a strategic and rhetorical lynchpin in proposals for reform, signifying potential for success in contrast to the failures of the past. This paper se ..."
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and proposals for teacher education and, second, through an analysis of historical evidence regarding of relations between teacher training institutions, in England and Australia, over the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that the history of partnerships in teacher education throws light on more

Supporting the proposition

by Dennis Herschbach - Journal of Technology Studies , 1996
"... leaders have neglected important qualities of industrial arts education Like their historical predecessors, contemporary leaders have drawn criticism for ideas related to changing the curriculum. But constructive criticism often sharpens the quality of ideas, focuses the attention, and often results ..."
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leaders have neglected important qualities of industrial arts education Like their historical predecessors, contemporary leaders have drawn criticism for ideas related to changing the curriculum. But constructive criticism often sharpens the quality of ideas, focuses the attention, and often
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