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The article presents responses of the author on his books published in the 1985 issue of the journal "Human Studies." He holds that both scholarly and biographically significant point behind his work A Bergsonian Bridge to Phenomenological Psychology is the following, in 1924, before starting this endeavor, sociologist Alfred Schutz had looked at sociologist Edmund Husserl's early phenomenological writings but found that they had nothing to contribute to what he had planned to do namely, to give Max Weber's sociology of understanding a pheno-psychological underpinning which, in his opinion, they needed in order not only to be made consistent but also in order to provide them with a justification deeper than that which could be provided by sociological reasoning. The author confesses that his book Phenomenology of Consciousness and Sociology of the Life-World is his favorite. He agrees with his critics who have pointed out the book does not cover, or at least does not emphasize evenly all topics which should be treated in an advanced and reasonably sophisticated introduction to the areas of its thematic concerns.

The article focuses on a research paper on relativistic cosmology by American mathematician and physicist Howard Percy Robertson. It informs that cosmological models are based on general relativity theory as the paper was written 16 years after the arrival of first general relativistic cosmological model and 11 years after the arrival of first expanding universe models. A brief biography of Howard Percy Robertson is also presented.

Abstract  This Golden Oldie is a reprinting of a paper by F. A. E. Pirani first published in 1956. It is accompanied by a reprinting of a paper by J. L. Synge first published in 1934. Together these papers pointed the way to the interpretation of geodesic deviation and its relation to the curvature tensor. These two Golden Oldies are accompanied by an Golden Oldie Editorial containing an editorial note written by A. Trautman, and by the biography of F. Pirani written by himself and commented by A. Trautman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an information for authors in relation to the submission of manuscripts to the "Journal of Supercomputing". Kluwer Academic Publishers now offers authors, editors and reviewers of "The Journal of Supercomputing" the use of our fully web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. To keep the review time as short as possible, we request authors to submit manuscripts online to the journal’s editorial office. The title page of the paper should include each author’s full address, including electronic mail addresses and a concise, informative abstract of 250 words or less. Footnotes may be used, although sparingly. Provide a separate list of all footnotes. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a black-and-white photograph along with a biography of 70 words or less. These items should be provided promptly upon notification of acceptance.

D. I. Mendeleev to our regret had not written memoirs, but biographical notes and fragments were spread in his versatile works and correspondence. This publication is mainly composed of some among these notes arranged along the chronology. Up till now no analogous attempts has been made to bring together the biography of D.I. Mendeleev by “pumping out” of his published works and the documents kept in archives the tales on some events of his life, and in this respect this paper is unique, although evidently not all material that fundamentally may be used is included. But even taking this circumstance in consideration, to look on the life and scientific work of the great scientist through his perception and estimation of various of his curriculum vitae would be, using the pet word of Dmitrii Ivanovich, “extremely helpful.” [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This purely recreational paper is about one of the most colorful characters of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano, and the discovery of two basic ingredients of quantum theory, probability and complex numbers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract  The seminal paper by Ya. B. Zeldovich (Soviet Physics Uspekhi 11, 381–393, 1968) is reprinted here, together with an editorial comment on its lasting scientific relevance, and a biography of the author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A biography of Russian mathematician Evgenii Ivanovich Moiseev is presented. He was born on March 7, 1948 in Odintsovo, Russia and studied at Moscow State University. He taught 7 doctors of sciences, 12 philosophy doctors and wrote more that 150 papers. Awards received by Moiseev include Lenin Komsomol Prize in the Field of Science and Engineering (1980), Lomonosov Prize of the first degree for scientific achievements (1994), and the title Honorary Professor of Moscow State University.

Irmgard Wessel is a unique woman whose quiet, hard-working way generates ideals that are inspirational. With little fanfare, Irm's work has had a major impact in the field of clinical social work and clinical social work education. As each of us is inspired and encouraged by the knowledge of such exceptional social work clinicians, the discipline, as a whole, is enhanced. This paper describes not only Irmgard Wessel's career, but also adds a biographical understanding of her development from childhood to clinician, educator, and activist. It is about the making of an extraordinary clinical social worker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the self is best understood as a narrative in progress, rather than a collection of roles or the outcome of a competent performance. Self-narratives draw integrity from institutions, without which they would be groundless, inconsistent, or fanciful. Institutions make self-stories convincing—for tellers and others—by providing formulas, supporting characters, and “autobiographical occasions” that trigger the telling. Relationships are especially significant institutional anchors for selfhood. The loss of that anchor through breaking up, or “uncoupling,” requires a particular kind of story that accounts for the loss and minimizes the stigma of failure. A ready-made formula for such stories is offered by the self-help group Codependents Anonymous. Those attracted to the discourse of codependency gain a formula and occasion for generating revised self-stories. Consequently, the group becomes a new institutional anchor for the self that replaces the one lost during uncoupling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the ways in which geo-political forces can shape doing, interpreting, and representing ethnographic field work. Using my field work in a law collective in Havana, Cuba between 1989 and 1994 as a starting point, I consider how macro-social relationship-in this case 30 years of political hostility between the U.S. and Cuban governments-can inscribe themselves on the micro-social relations between ethnographers and informants in the field, and ethnographers and their audiences at home. The combination of geo-political tensions and reflexive attempts to discern the impact of these tensions on my field work generated, what I term, disciplinary anxiety and discursive anxiety. I consider how anxieties became part of my reflexive routines in the field, shaped my interactions with Cubans, colored my attempts to interpret those interactions, and affected my framing of those interpretations for audiences at home. I suggest that reflexivity in fieldwork must be sensitive, not only to the standpoints imbedded in the field worker's biography, but also to the way in which macro-political processes enter into the biographies of field workers, their informants, and their audiences, and influence the interactions among them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes patterns of naming in the practices of research scientists who work with laboratory animals. The study is based on field work done in 23 biomedical and behavioral research laboratories over a period of nearly three years, as part of a broader investigation into the meaning of laboratory animals for contemporary scientists. Naming is viewed as a social practice that creates meaning of a particular kind, that of narrative coherence, which forms the essence of biography. Since laboratory animals are rarely given proper names, they provide a negative case that illuminates the significance of naming by showing what is entailed by its absence. I argue that the organization of scientific research creates conditions that foster the social construction of a distinct category of animal, the "laboratory animal," that contrasts with nameable animals (e.g., pets) across every salient dimension. By virtue of this social construct, which is created and supported by naming practices as well as by other aspects of laboratory talk, the cat or dog in the laboratory is perceived by researchers as ontologically different from the pet dog or cat at home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that foundation support of black social scientists between the world wars was a status quo oriented response to changes in the social, economic, and geopolitical status of blacks in a society presumed to be permanently biracial in law and thought Through documentation largely drawn from foundation archives and the biographies of philanthropists, foundation administrators, and social scientists, the race leader role that foundations expected black social scientists to fulfill in a rigid racial caste order is discussed Mention is also made of how the accommodative race leadership role foundations created for black social scientists restricted their range and control of research activities and influenced the careers of Charles S Johnson, E Franklin Frazier, and other black social scientists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the term Hesselbach’s triangle is used in everyday general surgical practice, little is written and known regarding the life of the early surgical pioneer for whom it is named. The present paper reviews the life of the German Franz Kaspar Hesselbach (1759–1816) and his contributions to the anatomical sciences and practice of surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the creation of an intellectual biography of the U.S. sociologist Talcott Parsons. The researcher discusses Parsons' doctoral dissertation dealing with capitalism that was analyzed by sociologist Max Weber, and how Parsons' work delivered sociology from social Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. The author supports Parsons' work on the basis that he was a thinker and academician who did not use inconsistent analysis. The author utilized Parsons' archives at Harvard University, such as Parsons' paper "The Problem of Controlled Institutional Change."

A biography of Viktor Aleksandrovich Pliss, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is presented on his 75th birthday. He was born in 1932 in Syktyvkar, Republic Komi, in a family of Leningrad intellectuals and studied at Leningrad State University. He worked at the Department of Differential Equations at Leningrad State University and published several scientific papers. The article mentions his accomplishments and career growth.

Presents biographical information on the authors who contributed their papers to the September 1997 issue of the "Foundations of Science" journal.

A biography of Josef Gerstmann, a neuropsychiatrist, is presented. He was born on July 17, 1887 in Lviv, Ukraine and studied medicine at the University of Vienna. He was trained under Julius Wagner von Jauregg in neurology and psychiatry and became a professor in those subjects. He authored more than 100 papers with important contributions in unilateral tactile agnosia and the malaria treatment of progressive paralysis. He discovered the Gertsmann syndrome.

A biography of German physicist Klaus Arnold is presented. Arnold garnered his academic education at the Department of Physics of the University of Leipzig. He obtained his doctor of philosophy degree in physics in 1969. Arnold co-founded the research program Bio- and Model Membranes at the department. In 1988, Arnold became an elected member of the Saxonian Academy of Science. He is the author/coauthor of more than 250 scientific papers and reviews and has given talks and invited seminars.