... in death ritesresulting from the two world wars. In the context of the slaughter of the First WorldWar, the idea of staging showy, expensive funerals orof displaying hysterical andForewordxiiion ... to know more aboutunusual or idiosyncratic ‘small worlds’. Certainly, the ‘small world’ of the deathworkprofessional would seem to fit the description. Funeral directors and crematoriumattendants ... funeralsbecame an occasion for the display of wealth. Bradbury traces some vicissitudes inthe history of the deathwork professionals in much the same way as Goffman did forthe tinkering professionals. She...
... viewed as a form of punishment, ‘a fateworse than death . Only those who had died the most shameful of deaths wereIntroduction4medical or sacred death. I explore the ways in which we anchor the ... and notes that care of the dead was not organized in terms of kinship or male work, but was characterized‘by the pattern of informal care organised by the women in response to their sharedexperience ... Bradbury’s study the discourse about death can be interpreted in terms of her observations concerning the work of the deathworkprofessionals. Her corpus of data concerns a corpse. This is why Chapter...
... Professor Gomouchian lived on the top floor of a high block of flats. Salahadin got out of the lift on the top floor and rang the bell of the flat door. The door was opened by the Professor's ... Early next morning, Salahadin was at the doors of the Egyptian Embassy in London. It was not long before he had sent off a telex7 to the Ministry of the Interior8 in Cairo and another telex ... Mystery of Queen Axtarte by Dr John Farrow. 5 Professor Gomouchian Next morning, Salahadin phoned Professor Gomouchian and arranged to see him. He took a taxi to Zamalek, where Professor Gomouchian...
... physical comfort, or access to bathroom facilities; that precludes adequate supervision of the individual; or which deprives the individual of one or more of his or her senses. Colorado Colo. ... possession of a weapon or other dangerous object; for the purposes of self-defense or defense of others; for the protection of property; to remove a disruptive pupil from class or school premises, or ... immediate or imminent injury to the person at risk or to others. The restraint may not be used for discipline or convenience and is not as a substitute for a less restrictive alternative. The use of...
... endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by George Dieter, University of Maryland. Appointed ... management of the incubator might be more orless successful, depending on the type of technology. Along with the development of methods to promote successful technology incubators, a major hurdle ... under DoD support. These notably include the Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s (AFOSR’s) Materials Engineering for Affordable New Systems (MEANS) initiative and the Office of Naval Research’s...
... the effects of overex-pressing Raptor or a mutant Raptor (Raptor mutant4) that interferes with mTORC1 substrate recognition[28]. In cells growing in full serum, expression of Rap-tor mutant ... degradation of DAPK viathe lysosomal degradation pathway, we coexpressedDAPK and TSC2 in the presence or absence of thelysosome inhibitor chloroquine. TSC2 expression inthe absence of chloroquine ... is not aresult of increased mTORC1 activity. Several studieshave recently demonstrated that rapamycin does not inhibit all functions of mTORC1 [26], therefore theeffects of Rheb and the mTORC1...
... Wethen interpret this monetary value as a flo w of Value of Life Years Lost (VOLY),and estimate the corresponding Value of a Prevented Fatality (VPF) for differ-ent ages and differen t household members. ... we estimate a mean VOLY of C150,000 and a mean VP F of C2. 15 million. In addition, we find an inverse U-shaped relationship betwe enage and VPF.Keywor ds: Va lue of statistical life, Air ... support from the French En vironment Ministry (Primequal grant n◦36/98) and tech-nical support from the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur Regional Council are gratefully acknowledged.We thank Marjorie...