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This fifth annual edition of MycoNews starts with an editorial on the critical importance of International Mycological Congresses (IMCs) to the health of mycology. Items on Counting down to IMC12, the State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023, and progress towards Improving nomenclatural stability in medically important fungi follow. Reports are provided of several mycological meetings in 2023: the Asian Mycological Congress, XIX Congress of European Mycologists, a meeting of European Mycological Groups and Societies, the XI Latin American Mycological Congress, Westerdijk Spring Symposium on Fungal Evolution, the Brazilian Society of Mycology, the Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of China, and the Fifth Iranian Mycological Congress. Information is provided on how to make nominations for the various IMA Awards due to be presented at IMC12 in August, the new Future is Fungi Award launched in 2023, and the Adel-Azeem and Stamets Award for work on Psilocybe in Africa. The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute Awards for 2023 were made to Andrey Yurkov and Cathie Aime and the citations to those awards are provided. We include tributes to the passing of two eminent mycologists, Lorelei Norvell and Takashi Matsushima, and also send birthday greetings to Bryce Kendrick who turned 90, and Maria Ławrynowicz, Yu Li, and Anthony Whalley who all became octogenarians. Reviews of seven mycological books published in 2022–2023 are included in the Book News section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This fourth annual edition of MycoNews starts with an editorial asking if mycology is approaching a tipping point, and note of the journal's 2021 Impact Factor almost doubling from 2020. Updated information and new speakers for IMC12 in 2024 is presented. Reports are provided for the Rise of the Fungi symposium in Amsterdam and of MycoRiseUP! in Warsaw in 2022. Information on activities of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF) in the last two years are presented, including the formation of new Working Groups. Procedures for the nomination of IMA awards and for nomenclature proposals to be presented at IMC12 are provided. The Westerdijk Institute awards to Feng-Yan Bai and Marc Stadler are recorded, and Michael Wingfield and Geoffrey Kibby are congratulated on special awards they have received. Tributes are paid to the passing of two distinguished mycologists during the year, John Parmelee and John Pitt. Reviews of six mycological books published in 2021–22 are also provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: This brief commentary reflects on navigating two dangers of historical research into psychiatry: hagiographic representations of psychiatrists; and accusations of their self-interest and oppression of vulnerable people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a short biography and brief review of contributions of professor Mirjana Vukićević-Karabin to the development of astrophysics education at the University of Belgrade and to the research in physics of the Earth ionosphere and the Sun. The bibliography of her papers is given as well. We hope that the review of the two aspects of her work will elucidate her important role in the development of astrophysics in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pursuant to a Congressional act in 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services established the Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating Committee to address the burden of breast cancer in the United States. Subsequently, the Committee recommended researchers study the timing of exposure to breast cancer risk factors. Given the high breast cancer mortality rate on Staten Island, this paper presents a case-control study investigating breast cancer risk associated with puberty while living on Staten Island. The dataset combined New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene female death certificate information between 1985 and 2006, with life history information from newspaper obituaries. Data analyzed included: age, length of residence on Staten Island, birth on Staten Island, and residence on Staten Island during puberty. Cases were individuals who died of breast cancer and controls were individuals who died of non-malignant causes. Analysis included multivariate logistic regression on the full dataset and multiple replicates of randomized one case to two controls simulations. Results indicated that living on Staten Island during puberty (ages 9–19) was associated with an elevated risk of dying from breast cancer (odds ratio 1.35, p < 0.001, 95% CI = 1.18, 1.55). This paper suggests the importance of studying puberty as a window of susceptibility for breast cancer risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artigo apresenta os resultados da análise de 2.284 obituários publicados na Folha de S. Paulo, entre os anos de 2007 a 2012, com o objetivo de reconhecer as características de estilo, tema e composição do gênero, considerando o enquadramento deste enunciado nas categorias jornalísticas defendidas por Costa (2010) e Marques de Mello (2010), sob as perspectivas discursiv as de Bakhtin (2011) e de Maingueneau (2013). Para tanto, demonstra os resultados obtidos em dois procedimentos metodológicos que visam a elencar, quantitativa e qualitativamente, a estabilização dos elementos da composição, da temática e do estilo deste gênero discursivo e a sua relação com o jornalismo literário. Na investigação, aponta-se que o obituário brasileiro apresenta elementos que permitem comprovar a hipótese de que este enunciado enquadra-se como um gênero jornalístico informativo e utilitário, utilizando-se do diversional como recurso estilístico para amenizar o peso da morte, buscando uma forma de celebração da vida. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jeffrey (Jeff) Robbins, a dedicated SSIT member, author, and IEEE SSIT International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) presenter, died on April 18, 2022, after a two-year illness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to accomplish an analysis about recreation activities that are in the obituaries of the Ukrainian immigrant journal Pracia. For this finality, there were collected 251 obituaries, published between the years of 2001 and 2014, on basis of the methodological principles of Documental Research and Content Analysis (CA). This period of timeframe is justified by the availability of the material, which is filed in Graphic Prudentópolis, where this previously mentioned journal is made. It is important to note that this research consider the recreation concept related to “free time", proposed by Elias and Dunning (1992). Based from data analysis, it is possible to affirm that recreation practices carried out in that specific community are influenced by religious principles, not only guide the free time activities such as other cultural practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces the appointment of S. Kwane Stewart as the chief veterinary officer at the Humane Hollywood division in American Humane Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award to researcher Elaine Ostrander and an obituary for veterinarian Robert D. Bluntzer.

As Main (1999) noted in her obituary for Mary Ainsworth, 'she was interacting weekly by letter and manuscript with her mentor and friend, John Bowlby, and their academic correspondence formed an important part of her, and implicitly our, life.' These letters of Ainsworth to John Bowlby during the 1980s, available in the Wellcome Trust Library in London, contain valuable reflections on the work of her pupils to extend her system of classifying infant behaviour in the Strange Situation Procedure. Mary Main proposed a D classification and interpreted such behaviour as a breakdown in an ABC strategy caused by a conflict between a disposition to approach and flee from the caregiver. Patricia Crittenden extended the subtypes of A and C, using a developmental model of information processing, and observed that they could be used together in A/C combinations. These letters offer insight into Ainsworth's intellectual rationale for encouraging both Main and Crittenden in their conflicting endeavours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study demonstrates how reporter-written obituaries of Black civil rights movement leaders reinforce a limited, facile view of the African American freedom struggle that haunts even today’s race relations. The obituaries remember a movement that Julian Bond characterized as “a morality play” of “Black saints” against “southern White sinners.” What these articles remember—and in some cases forget—is critical because collective memory research shows that obituaries reflect what the present thinks of the past. Five nostalgic, racialized frames emerge from these obituaries: (a) the importance of violence inflicted on Blacks, (b) the importance of the dutiful suffering endured by Blacks, (c) news media’s documentation of White southern oppression, (d) the salience and valence of the early-1960s Martin Luther King Jr., and (e) the idealism of integration over Black nationalist goals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Abstract: The recent publication of three books on Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) offers an opportunity to reflect on how we have understood and misunderstood her legacy to the history of mathematics, as the author of an important vernacular textbook, Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventú italiana (Milan, 1748), and one of the best-known women natural philosophers and mathematicians of her generation. This article discusses the work of Antonella Cupillari, Franco Minonzio, and Massimo Mazzotti in relation to earlier studies of Agnesi and reflects on the current state of this subject in light of the author’s own research on Agnesi. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

P. K. Thomas (1926–2008) occupied a prominent place in British and world neurology during the second half of the 20th century. Here, his lasting achievements as clinical neurologist, clinician scientist and experimentalist, editor of monographs and journals and leader of professional developments in the UK and elsewhere are assessed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1934, during twenty-eight years of wandering west China, the American botanist Joseph Francis Charles Rock made a brief trip to England. He clipped the obituary of an old friend from the Times and pasted it in his diary. On the facing page, he pasted a photograph two decades old, and wrote this caption:J. F. Rock (standing) with his older friend Fred Muir, Entomologist at the Haw[aii] Sugar Planter's Exp[eriment] Sta[tion], Honolulu. Photographed in our home in Liloa Rise (Breaside), Honolulu in the spring of 1913, while our phonograph played Spiritu Gentile, Caruso singing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Abstract: The US American pathologist and microbiologist Howard Taylor Ricketts died 100 years ago. He is renowned for discovering the causative organism and the transmission route of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and of tabardillo – an epidemic louse-borne typhus occurring especially in Mexico. He also found that both diseases were caused by related infectious agents (Rickettsia rickettsii and Rickettsia prowazekii). The scientific community therefore named both a taxonomic family (Rickettsiaceae) and an order (Rickettsiales) after the scientist. Ricketts’ work on immunity and serums became the basis for further advances in vaccine development. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This paper honors E. Scott Maynes, who died on June 24, 2007 and had been a professor emeritus in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. The paper describes Scott's scholarly legacy in research, highlighting four areas: survey research methods, research using data from Surveys of Consumer Finances, Scott's studies of local consumer markets, and two significant books Scott Maynes authored. The author of this memorial paper concludes that Scott's scholarly legacy is neither a new theory nor a new statistical technique but the importance of vision, passion, perseverance, commitment, and creativity for the applied social science researcher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction to a series of essays on the Danau Sentarium National Park and the region of West Kalimantan is presented which is the journal's tribute to Reed Wadley, who reportedly fulfilled anthropological fieldwork in the area until his death in 2008.

The article presents news briefs related to historical research. Information on a symposium on former U.S. President Herbert Hoover to be held in Newberg, Oregon on October 3, 2009 is presented. An obituary for historian Jules Tygiel is presented. College teachers Jacob Hamblin and Michael Osborne have joined the faculty of Oregon State University.

The article discusses news and events related to the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). At an annual meeting for the TSHA held in Austin, Texas, history professor Walter L. Buenger was appointed president of the TSHA and Merline Pitre was elected as second vice president. Obituaries for historians Dorman Hayward Winfrey and Lou Rodenberger are presented. The TSHA has secured donations for the establishment of a chair in Texas history at the University of North Texas. Information on a joint meeting of the East Texas Historical Association and the West Texas Historical Association to be held in Fort Worth, Texas on February 26-28, 2010 is presented.

The article offers updates from the Southwestern collection in Texas. The "Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper" will be showing at the Armon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas on June 6-August 23, 2009. The Western History Association has issued a call for proposals for its 50th Annual Conference to be held on October 13-16, 2010 in Incline village, Nevada. Obituaries for notable author Clara May Stearns and historian Bill Stein are also included.

The article presents updates concerning the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). An obituary for R. Don Higginbotham, Dowd Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is presented. In addition, a list of contributors and members of SHEAR were also mentioned including Douglas M. Arnold, Frederick J. Blue and Vivian Bruce Conger. Moreover, the full text of society president John Brooke's presidential address "Cultures of Nationalism, Movements of Reform, and the Composite-Federal Polity: From Revolutionary Settlement to Antebellum Crisis," will be published as the lead article in the journal's Spring 2009 issue.

This section offers news briefs and notices for the Arkansas Historical Association (AHA) as of December 1, 2008. Information is offered on the annual business meeting of the AHA to be held in Magnolia on April 24, 2009. Obituaries are offered for Cyrus A. Sutherland, former trustee and longtime member and Life Member Betty Becker Walt of Little Rock. Announcements for AHA awards for 2009 are presented, including Susannah DeBlack Award, the Gingles Award and awards for Arkansas county and local historical journals.

The article discusses updates in veterinary medicine. The Foundation for Biomedical Research has carried out the list of the winners for the 2006-2007 Michael E. DeBakey journalism awards which include Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, Sara Burnett, and Robert Bazell. The Coalition for Medical Progress has launched its two new publications. Meanwhile, an obituary for John Heckford Seamer is presented.

The article discusses the death of journalist Ridkard Kapuscinski in Ecuador. The author presents several interviews with students of the former journalist, including the Peruvian writer Julio Villanueva Chang who was a former pupil of Kapuscinski. Born into a poor Polish family in the 1930s, Kapuscinski had a passion for reporting on the common, marginalised peoples. In his eyes, journalism was not just a profession but rather a social mission. He states that working under the socialist regime in Poland was difficult due to the various measures imposed by the government to censure journalists.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one on obituaries for several notable people and another on the ninth biennial conference of the Borneo Research Council.

Objective. To determine cause and manner of death for consecutive infant deaths in the Aberdeen Area of the Indian Health Service (AAIHS) from 1998 to 2002 and to identify risk markers for infant mortality. Methods. Infant deaths in the AAIHS were identified from four data sources: death certificates from the four states in the AAIHS, deaths reported by local IHS Service Units, from obituaries in local and regional newspapers, and deaths reported by area hospitals. Each infant death is then sent to the local IHS service unit for review, where data from the infant and mother's chart is extracted and recorded. Local community factors, birth and death certificates, and autopsy reports are collected. The case is then reviewed at the Perinatal Infant Mortality Review (PIMR) meeting and a cause and manner of death is assigned. Summary data for the cohort was examined and then compared by mortality category and three age-at-death groups. Results. Sudden infant death syndrome accounted for 33% of all infant deaths in the AAIHS. Prematurity was the second most prevalent cause-specific mortality category, accounting for 22% of all infant deaths. The authors found that infant mortality was surprisingly recurrent, with 32% of mothers of this infant having had a previous infant death. Conclusions. The PIMR committee requires substantial resources to support a review committee with appropriate expertise and their travel. Participation of local IHS staff and tribal members provides an important cultural and community perspective for the review process. Quality improvement changes are currently being implemented. These include increasing data on substance use, mental health needs, and reviews of fetal deaths. The process of mortality review has been very helpful in public education in the AAIHS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Professor Sutlive on memorial section and another by Stephanus Djuweng in a paper titled "Dayak Kings among Malay Sultan."

Focuses on Ammianus Marcellinus' obituary notice no the death of the emperor Constantius II. Constantius' self-control; Abstention from fruit of the emperor.

This article comments on an obituary for French philosopher Jacques Derrida published in the periodical "New York Times." Reaction to the placement of the obituary on the first page of the periodical; Implications of the obituary for the image and works of Derrida; Impact of the obituary on the public.

Presents news briefs concerning "Notes" journal and the Music Library Association Inc. as of December 2004. Changes in the columns and features of the journal; Appointment of an assistant editor for the journal; Obituaries.

The article presents information about publication of the periodical "Language." All in all, the past twelve months proved to be interesting and exciting in their own right, even without the sense of newness. As is the norm for "Language," four issues appeared, the last two issues of September and December, appearing on time, after some unfortunate but unavoidable events delayed the publication of the March and June issues. These four issues contained 869 pages, with 540 devoted to 16 articles, 17 to 1 review article, 40 to 4 discussion notes, 42 to 4 obituaries, 51 to 18 book reviews, 123 to 163 book notices and 56 to other sorts of material. This compares favorably with the previous year overall, especially with regard to articles in both number and length-the average length of an article this past year was 33.75 pages, almost exactly the same as last year's length, 34 pages, but far greater than was the case in the 1960s and into the 1970s.

Pay tribute to Charles E. Beard, director of Libraries at the State University of West Georgia, who died on June 2, 2004.

Ullin T. Place died on 2 January 2000. His contributions to philosophy and to behavior analysis have earned him an enduring place in our new century. This memorial uses text from his correspondence to illustrate the scope of his life's work and the dignity, perseverance, and courage with which he faced its end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the similarity between the entry in Ammianus Marcellinus' 'Chronicle' and the anonymous 'Epitome de Caesaribus.' Obituary notice on the Emperor Theodosius I; Suggestion that Marcellinus' entry was copied from his main chronicle source; Reasons and methods by which such an interpolation has come to be made.

Reexamines the discussion of Francesca Santoro L'Hoir on Isaeus Pliny's obituary letter for Martial Buch. Inequality of the relationship between Pliny and Martial; Usage of the word ingenium associated in literary activity and its connotation to Martial; Comparison between Pliny and Cicero; Description of Martial as homo ingeniosus acutus acer.

The article offers information concerning the American Public Health Association (APHA) in the U.S. including career developments, awards and an obituary. Ruth Roemer, an adjunct professor of Health Law at the School of Public Health in the University of California, has been appointed as president on October 2, 1986. Bailus Walker, the commissioner of public health of Massachusettes, became president-elect on October 1, 1986. C. Arden Miller, the chairman of the Department of Maternal and Child Health in the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, has been awarded the 1986 Sedgwick Memorial Medal by the APHA. The paper also presents an obituary for Nathalie J. Schmidt, a member who died on July 8, 1986 due to cancer.

The article reports on the death of several notable people including Jean Branding, Department of Public Health director in Des Plaines, Illinois and Kenneth Rodgers Breland, former manager of Abbott Laboratories' Dental Department. They are followed by Sidney Finkelstein, Commissioner of Public Health at Chautauqua County Health Department in New York and Helen Lokshin, director of the Department of Social Work Services at Mount Sinai Hospital Services and City Hospital Center in New York.

Looks at the lives of three contributors to the histories of various sciences who have passed away somewhat recently. Eric John Aiton, 1920-21 February 1991, astronomy; Jacques Roger, October 24, 1920- March 26, 1990, human sciences; Victor Thoren, May 13 1935- March 9, 1991, astronomy.

Presents a statement by the editor of the periodical "The American Sociologist," concerning the future of sociology. History of the periodical; Significance of obituaries to editors; Information on previous editors of the periodical.