BMA annual meeting: Proposed junior contract is a good deal, Malawana says

Despite the apparent relevance of studies of the effects of “perceptual isolation” of the kind reported by Bexton et al. (1954) to some of the problems of abnormal psychology and psychiatry, there seems to be a dearth of plausible hypotheses Unking the consequences of this form of deprivation with clinical, disorders. A good deal of experimental evidence from deprivation experiments has been brought together by Solomon et al. (1961) in the report of a symposium held at Harvard Medical School in 1958. In 1959, however, yet another symposium was held at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Cincinnati which it was still found possible to entitle “Sensory deprivation: facts in search of a theory” (see Freedman, 1961; Riesen, 1961; Held, 1961; Teuber, 1961; Hebb, 1961).

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The Foundations of Psychiatric Nurse Training

Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists ◽

10.1192/pb.8.5.82 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 82-83

Author(s):

William Parry-Jones

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

Turning Point ◽

Good Deal ◽

Gradual Transition ◽

Psychiatric Nurse ◽

Nurse Training ◽

Special Training ◽

Medical Superintendent ◽

Small Committee ◽

Training Courses

The gradual transition from unqualified attendant to the trained psychiatric nurse of the present day was described in detail by Walk. A key turning point in this story occurred at the Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association in Edinburgh on 16 November 1883, when Dr A. Campbell Clark, Medical Superintendent of the Glasgow District Asylum, read a paper entitled ‘The special training of asylum attendants'. This paper was published in the Journal of Mental Science in January 1884. Whilst attention had been given by many other asylum doctors to the training of attendants, Clark's experience of organizing attendant training courses and his firm recommendations opened the way to practical steps which set training on a new footing. Clark acknowledged the work of Dr T. S. Clouston, Physician Superintendent of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, who read a paper to the annual meeting of the Association in 1876 entitled ‘On the question of getting, training, and retaining the services of good asylum attendants'. This paper aroused a good deal of interest amongst members of the Association, and a small committee was formed to report ‘on the advisability of the formation of an association or registry of attendants in connection with this Association and the best manner of carrying it into effect’. However, there is no record of any report by this committee.

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The Mathematical Association

The Mathematical Gazette ◽

10.1017/s0025557200068248 ◽

1939 ◽

Vol 23 (253) ◽

pp. 3-5

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

Mathematical Association ◽

King's College

The Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association was held at King’s College, London, on 2nd and 3rd January, 1939. On Monday, 2nd January, the proceedings opened at 2.15 p.m. with the transaction of business, the President, Mr. W Hope-Jones, was in the chair. The Report of the Council for 1938 was adopted. The Hon. Treasurer presented a statement of accounts for the year ending 31st October, 1938.

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The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽

10.1017/s0030812900130597 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 1373-1374

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Stanford University ◽

The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

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Triple Fixation For Electron Microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100100196 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 90-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. A. Hayat

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Electron Beam ◽

Plasma Membrane ◽

Myelin Sheath ◽

Good Deal ◽

Granular Structure ◽

Oxidizing Agent ◽

Fixation Technique ◽

Large Clusters

Potassium permanganate has been successfully employed to study membranous structures such as endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, plastids, plasma membrane and myelin sheath. Since KMnO4 is a strong oxidizing agent, deposition of manganese or its oxides account for some of the observed contrast in the lipoprotein membranes, but a good deal of it is due to the removal of background proteins either by dehydration agents or by volatalization under the electron beam. Tissues fixed with KMnO4 exhibit somewhat granular structure because of the deposition of large clusters of stain molecules. The gross arrangement of membranes can also be modified. Since the aim of a good fixation technique is to preserve satisfactorily the cell as a whole and not the best preservation of only a small part of it, a combination of a mixture of glutaraldehyde and acrolein to obtain general preservation and KMnO4 to enhance contrast was employed to fix plant embryos, green algae and fungi.

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