The Young Paseal

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 180-185
Author(s):  
Harold Maile Bacon
Keyword(s):  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Blaise Pascal ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Practical Consequence ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Creative Mathematician ◽  
Experimental Physicist ◽  
Mathematical Genius

Versatility is not inevitably the companion of genius. It is not altogether common to find a man who is at the same time a clever experimental physicist, a creative mathematician, an inventor with an eye to money-making, a gifted writer whose artistry places him among the foremost French stylists, and a religious philosopher of singular originality and ardor. Blaise Pascal was such a man. He could write an important treatise on the vacuum as well as produce those incomparable examples of controversial literature, the famous Provincial Letters. lie invented the first adding machine of practical consequence and tried (in vain) to realize a profit from its sale. In the fragment. of his projected a pology for the Christian Religion, left unfinished by his death at the early age of thirty-nine, are to be found many evidences of his mathematical genius as well as of a remarkable piety and zeal. A clear and complete picture of his early life and education would not only be of rare in terest, but it could not fail to contain many suggestions of value to the modem teacher. It is indeed a pity that such incomplete information is available. The story is soon told, but it is well worth the telling, and perhaps it holds some inspiration or lesson for our own times.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1907 ◽  
Vol 78 (526) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Early Age ◽  
The University ◽  
German Universities ◽  
Master Builders

There are few branches of science so indelibly associated with the second half of the last century as that highly-specialised study of the compounds of carbon, which is commonly called organic chemistry. The marvellously rapid development of this branch of chemistry will ever remain one of the greatest monuments to the enthusiasm and industry of scientific workers. Amongst the master-builders of this imposing edifice, one of the most conspicuous was Johannes Wislicenus, who, over a period of more than forty years, devoted his great natural gifts and extraordinary energy to this work of construction. Although in 1853, at the early age of 18, we already find Wislicenus acting as assistant to Heintz, then Professor of Chemistry in the University of Halle, his further progress to academic distinction did not proceed on the stereotyped lines usually followed by those who succeed in gaining access to the select professional caste of the German universities. Wislicenus’ early life is, in fact, of special interest, taking us back as it does to a time when liberty and freedom of speech were ideals for which serious sacrifices had to be made even in the countries of Western Europe.

scholarly journals Traumatic Injury to the Developing Brain: Emerging Relationship to Early Life Stress

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaila N. Parker ◽  
Michael H. Donovan ◽  
Kylee Smith ◽  
Linda J. Noble-Haeusslein
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Traumatic Injury ◽  
Early Life Stress ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Functional Impairments ◽  
The Brain

Despite the high incidence of brain injuries in children, we have yet to fully understand the unique vulnerability of a young brain to an injury and key determinants of long-term recovery. Here we consider how early life stress may influence recovery after an early age brain injury. Studies of early life stress alone reveal persistent structural and functional impairments at adulthood. We consider the interacting pathologies imposed by early life stress and subsequent brain injuries during early brain development as well as at adulthood. This review outlines how early life stress primes the immune cells of the brain and periphery to elicit a heightened response to injury. While the focus of this review is on early age traumatic brain injuries, there is also a consideration of preclinical models of neonatal hypoxia and stroke, as each further speaks to the vulnerability of the brain and reinforces those characteristics that are common across each of these injuries. Lastly, we identify a common mechanistic trend; namely, early life stress worsens outcomes independent of its temporal proximity to a brain injury.

scholarly journals Elmer Verner McCollum, 1879-1967

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 159-171 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Vivid Description

In his autobiography entitled From Kansas farm boy to scientist , Elmer McCollum gives a vivid description of his early life on a farm near Fort Scott in the State of Kansas. His forebears, of Scottish origin, had emigrated to the United States in 1763 and all had been farmers. His own parents were people of little education, who by dint of hard work and frugal living had become prosperous by local standards and had built a ‘frame house’ in which Elmer was born in 1879, the fourth child and the elder of two sons. Owing to his father’s ill-health, he was put to all types of farm work from an early age. It was a mixed farm with cows, pigs and poultry, as well as crops. By the age of eleven he was experienced in the planting and harrowing of crops as well as in the care of farm animals, which remained an asset in his later life when many of his researches were concerned with their nutrition.

The Role of the Father in the Early First Year of Early Childhood’s Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 00015
Author(s):  
Rohmalina Rohmalina ◽  
Yoyon Suryono ◽  
Puji Yanti Fauziah
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Family Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Descriptive Method

The purpose of this study is to find out the role of the father in the early life of the child and restore the nature of a father who plays a major role in the early life of the child, especially at an early age, namely the age of 0-6 years. In this research, the descriptive method is used with a qualitative approach, with a sociological perspective. A sociological approach to family education relationships can also provide a practical understanding of the role of fathers in early childhood. By using survey data to be analyzed. The results of the study show that survey data from 40 respondents showed that through play activities between fathers and children will develop various kinds of child development after an early age, including social development and emotional development. The presence of the father in the child's early life is not only felt by the child as a happy experience but the mother and father themselves also feel happy when they are involved in the child's early life.

scholarly journals Reproductive strategy, sexual development and attraction to facial characteristics

2006 ◽  
Vol 361 (1476) ◽  
pp. 2143-2154 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Elisabeth Cornwell ◽  
Miriam J Law Smith ◽  
Lynda G Boothroyd ◽  
Fhionna R Moore ◽  
Hasker P Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Sexual Maturation ◽  
Sexual Development ◽  
Reproductive Strategy ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
First Sex ◽  
Opposite Sex

Sexual reproduction strategies vary both between and within species in the level of investment in offspring. Life-history theories suggest that the rate of sexual maturation is critically linked to reproductive strategy, with high investment being associated with few offspring and delayed maturation. For humans, age of puberty and age of first sex are two developmental milestones that have been associated with reproductive strategies. Stress during early development can retard or accelerate sexual maturation and reproduction. Early age of menarche is associated with absence of younger siblings, absence of a father figure during early life and increased weight. Father absence during early life is also associated with early marriage, pregnancy and divorce. Choice of partner characteristics is critical to successful implementation of sexual strategies. It has been suggested that sexually dimorphic traits (including those evident in the face) signal high-quality immune function and reproductive status. Masculinity in males has also been associated with low investment in mate and offspring. Thus, women's reproductive strategy should be matched to the probability of male investment, hence to male masculinity. Our review leads us to predict associations between the rate of sexual maturation and adult preferences for facial characteristics (enhanced sexual dimorphism and attractiveness). We find for men, engaging in sex at an early age is related to an increased preference for feminized female faces. Similarly, for women, the earlier the age of first sex the greater the preference for masculinity in opposite-sex faces. When we controlled sexual dimorphism in male faces, the speed of sexual development in women was not associated with differences in preference for male facial attractiveness. These developmental influences on partner choice were not mediated by self-rated attractiveness or parental relationships. We conclude that individuals assort in preferences based on the rapidity of their sexual development. Fast developing individuals prefer opposite-sex partners with an increased level of sexually dimorphic facial characteristics.

Seneca, Self-Destruction, and the Creative Act

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
M. D. Faber
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Maternal Separation ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Control Surface ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Creative Writers ◽  
Suicidal Death ◽  
Parental Figures ◽  
Paternal Control ◽  
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The life, the works, and the suicidal death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca help us to understand not only the nature of suicidal behavior but the significance of creative actions within the life of the self-destructive individual. Separated from his mother at an early age, raised by a stern, patriarchal father in Rome's authoritarian culture, Seneca extols in his philosophical prose works a life of reason, of control, of obedience to the laws of nature and tradition. In his plays Seneca focuses upon familial passions, particularly patricidal, matricidal, filicidal, and incestuous deeds, with an intensity that can only be described as remarkable. The reasonable universe of the essays gives way to the ungoverned universe of the tragedies. An exploration of this contrast, or “split,” sheds light upon Seneca's system of defense, and by extrapolation, upon the defensive systems of all creative writers, who strive for equilibrium between unconscious wish and conscious aim. The tensions of Seneca's early life, especially those surrounding maternal separation and paternal control, surface in his suicide and are resolved thereby in a manner that strikingly confirms his powerful ambivalence toward the parental figures.

scholarly journals Martyn Christian Raymond Symons. 12 November 1925 – 28 January 2002

2004 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 299-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Atkins
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineer ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Water Colour ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Concert Pianist

Martyn Christian Raymond Symons was born on 12 November 1925 in Ipswich, Suffolk. The talents he was later to develop were a reflection of his genetic and cultural environment. Thus, his grandfather was William Christian Symons, who achieved contemporary minor fame as a painter in water colour and oils even though his work is now largely forgotten. His grandmother, Cecilia Davenport, was a concert pianist before her marriage. Symons was to display both artistic attributes, for he was a skilful self–taught pianist and an accomplished water colourist. The environment was richer than that, though, for the three sons of the grandparent's marriage were Mark, a painter, Phillip, who became a Benedictine monk and served as organist at Downside, and Stephen, Martyn's father. Painting, as already remarked, was one of Symons's great relaxations, and in early life (but not in middle age and after) the Catholic version of the Christian religion gave him guidance and solace. Indeed, there was a stage when he was poised to become a priest, but the passion passed and after the suffering and death of his first wife, who had become a Catholic in order to marry him, he rejected religion.The technical contribution to Symonss environment came from his father, Stephen White Symons, a consultant mechanical engineer, ably supported in the female manner of the day by his wife Marjorie. Here, though, the environment temporarily withdrew its support, for the young Symons entered the John Fisher School in Purley (1933–40), and hated every minute of it. Ill taught (he claimed) and bullied (he interpreted), the teachers—with the freedom of the age–almost literally hammered knowledge of a sort into him, not realizing the sensitivity of the child in their care and presumably contributing at least a little to his unusual psychology.

VII. An Autobiographical Memoir of the early Life of Nana Farnevís

1830 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-108
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Public Office ◽  
Three Generations

This piece of biography may truly be considered one of the most remarkable productions of oriental literature.Nana Farnevís became at a very early period the bosom friend of his sovereign Madhu Rao, entitled the Great. This young prince succeeded his father in the year 1761, shortly after the fatal battle of Paniput, which seemed to threaten the downfall of the Mahratta power in Hindustan. He was then only in his seventeenth year, and Nana but nineteen. The latter had been hitherto brought up to the study of the Védas and Sástras, but had as yet engaged little in the duties of a public office, which his father had filled till Nana was fifteen, and which was now occupied by his uncle Babu Rao. The office to which I have alluded was hereditary, and had been held for three generations by Nana's family. It was that of Farnevís or Fard-nevis (literally, record-writer), but its duty was more especially to keep the accounts of the Peshwa's public receipts and disbursements. A situation, which brought those who filled it so constantly in contact with the Peshwa, was favourable to the development of those qualities which the youthful prince Madhu Rao discovered in his juvenile secretary. An attachment grew up between them, terminating only in the Peshwa's death, an event which occurred in 1774, at the early age of twenty-eight.

scholarly journals Cat and Dog Ownership in Early Life and Infant Development: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of Japan Environment and Children’s Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Machiko Minatoya ◽  
Atsuko Araki ◽  
Chihiro Miyashita ◽  
Sachiko Itoh ◽  
Sumitaka Kobayashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Infant Development ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Fine Motor ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Pet Ownership ◽  
Dog Ownership ◽  
Prospective Birth Cohort

Contact with companion animals has been suggested to have important roles in enhancing child development. However, studies focused on child development and pet ownership at a very early age are limited. The purpose of the current study was to investigate child development in relation to pet ownership at an early age in a nationwide prospective birth cohort study: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study. Associations between cat and dog ownership at six months and infant development at 12 months of age were examined in this study. Infant development was assessed using the Ages & Stages QuestionnairesTM (ASQ-3) at 12 months. Among participants of (Japan Environment and Children’s Study) JECS, those with available data of cat and dog ownership at six months and data for the ASQ-3 at 12 months were included (n = 78,868). Having dogs showed higher percentages of pass in all five domains measured by ASQ-3 (communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem-solving, and personal-social) compared to those who did not have dogs. Significantly decreased odds ratios (ORs) of developmental delays were observed in association with having dogs in all fix domains (communication: OR = 0.73, gross motor: OR = 0.86, fine motor: OR = 0.84, problem-solving: OR = 0.90, personal-social: OR = 0.83). This study suggested that early life dog ownership may reduce the risks of child developmental delays.

scholarly journals Tracking of General and Abdominal Obesity in Children Between 4 and 9 Years of Age: The Longitudinal Childhood Obesity Study (ELOIN)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honorato Ortiz-Marrón ◽  
Maira Alejandra Ortiz-Pinto ◽  
José Galo Martínez-Mosquera ◽  
Marien Lorente Miñarro ◽  
Francisca Menchero Pinos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Inverse Correlation ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Preventive Interventions ◽  
Family Affluence ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Relative Risks ◽  
Generalized Estimation Equation ◽  
Prevalence Ratios

Abstract Background A relationship between obesity early life has been reported. The aim of this study was to evaluate the variations in general (GO) and abdominal (AO) obesity between 4 and 9 years of age. Methods Children who participated in all three follow-ups at 4, 6 and 9 years participating in ELOIN study (N = 1902). Measurements of BMI and waist circumference were taken by physical examination. Prevalence ratios (PRs) were estimated by sex and family affluence by generalized estimation equation models, and the relative risks (RRs) of obesity by Poisson regression. Results The prevalence of GO was 5.1%, 9.1%, and 15.6% at 4, 6, and 9 years, yielding a PR between 9 − 4 years of 3.05 (95%CI: 2.58–3.60). The prevalence of AO was 6.8%, 8.4%, 14.5%, and the PR (9 vs 4y) was 2.14 (95%CI: 1.85–2.48). GO and AO presented an inverse correlation with family affluence. Among participants who were in GO or AO at 4 years, 77.3% and 63.6% remained in obesity after 5 years. The RRs of GO and AO at 9 years were 4.6 and 4.1 if they were obese at 4 years (p < 0.001), which increased to 9.4 and 9.5 in children obese at 6 years (p < 0.001), and those with obesity at both 4–6 years had RRs of 10.3 and 9.9 (p < 0.001). Conclusions GO and AO begin at early age, persist with age and linked with low socioeconomic status. Obesity at 9 years is associated with early obesity, either stably or intermittently, so preventive interventions should be established very early.

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