Human qualities

Georgii Vyacheslavovich Kurdyumov (1902-1996) (Fig. 14.6), the son of a priest, was the most famous metallurgist of his generation in the Soviet Union, a man who was not only a great research scientist but also a man of rare human qualities. He and the many people who collaborated closely with him spent decades on a single... 

It is difficult not to be sentimental when I(MKM) recall my graduate studentship under Yngve Ohm. I feel privileged to have had him as my supervisor and it is with utmost pleasure that I take this opportunity to record my deep gratitude to him for his fine example combining high scientific achievement with superlative human qualities. 

This book is dedicated in memory of my father, Dante Meucci, a surgeon of rare professional and human qualities who infused my three brothers and me with the passion for science, medicine, and caring for others and to my mother, Rosaria Rago Meucci for showing me the joy of discoveries and always supporting my choices. 

During the preparation of the second edition Professor Jin Dvorak died after a serious illness on 27 February 1992. We shall always remember his scientific effort and his human qualities. 

Emil Hardegger always had a very good relationship with his many research students. They, in turn, admired not only his scientific knowledge, but also his overall warmth and human qualities. Emil Hardegger will long be remembered in the scientific community as one of the great carbohydrate and natural-products chemists. 

Traditional theories on chemical combination were based on projecting observable phenomenon at the macroscopic level to the microscopic level. Hence, the mechanical explanations using size and shape persisted well into the 1600s. Alchemical explanations projected human qualities on matter to account for specific reactions and combinations. Substances that combined had a natural attraction or love for one another. Conversely, other substances hated each other and did not combine. 

Within the space of three decades major but unrelated advances in the understanding of catalysis and tobacco fermentation have come from one single laboratory. Frankenburg was a man of encyclopedic knowledge, a pioneer in the literal sense and a pathfinder he was an excellent lecturer. Withal he was modest and endowed with human qualities beyond comparison. 

Need to achieve. A human quality in which people are motivated to excel, so they pick situations in which they will be challenged but where success is likely. 

Factors to account for various uncertainties are applied to the NOAEL, LOAEL, or BMD to derive a UEL. The total size of the uncertainty factor (UF) varies, accounting for assumed or known interspecies differences, variability within humans, quality and quantity of the data, consistency, slope of the dose-response curve, background incidence of the effects, and pharmacokinetic data. The relevance of the species, type of effect, dose, route, timing, and duration of exposure are additional factors that might influence its size. A discussion of UFs is provided in several papers (e.g., Lewis et al. 1990 Renwick 1991,1998 Dourson et al. 1996 Renwick and Lazarus 1998). 

Consider Baker s use of personification as he talks about inanimate objects. Give some examples of descriptions that give human qualities to these items. What effect does this have on tone and style ... 

These conditions are especially met by services related to knowledge. This is why the human factor is so important in the quality of pharmaceutical services with high added value. It is essential to reach an agreement on criteria, continuous education, and documentation. The degree of outcomes we observe in our patients depends in great measure on this quality. Human quality potenciate the technical quality. 

Quality includes technical quality, which affects the scheme s ability to improve health, and human quality, which relates to patients satisfaction with the services rendered. In both cases, monitoring involves three steps setting and reviewing verifiable standards, measuring quality, and reviewing results. 

Measurement of the human quality of care poses less of a problem. Patients can bear testimony to the quality of care they receive. They can provide objective information (such as waiting times) and subjective indicators of satisfaction. Patients can be interviewed as they leave a facility (sometimes it may even be sufficient to interview non-voucher-bearing patients), but the presence of an interviewer outside the clinic may annoy the provider or change his or her treatment of patients. Tracing patients at the point at which their vouchers were originally distributed may be a better strategy and one that allows people who had not used their vouchers to be interviewed. Respondents who have used the voucher are normally willing to share their experience and take the time to participate in the evaluation. 

For the same reason, the future chemical salesman cannot become an automaton. He must possess the same human qualities he now has with a minimum of frailties. Empathy, doggedness, forthrightness, discretion, integrity, discipline—all will be as important in the spirited Seventies as they are today. 

The principal drawback of gene prediction programs is their inaccuracy. Not only do these programs overlook gene sequences whose structures do not conform to the rules applied in the training data, but they can also produce incorrect exon predictions. As a result, in our experience, intensive human quality control is required to review all predictions and eliminate these errors. 

Affective characteristics refer to human qualities that are primarily emotional in nature, such as attitudes, interest, motivation, values, self-concepts, and morals. To be considered accessible, affective characteristics must be (1) emotion-laden qualities, (2) consistent across a variety of situations, (3) directed toward some object or target, and (4) experienced with a certain degree of intensity (Anderson Anderson, 1982). 

As the compounds described in this chapter will be applied to humans, quality control is essential. One has to define first a few terms therefore ... 

Professor Deb earned a PhD with Professor Charles Coulson at the University of Oxford and then started his professional career at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1971. Being a scientist-humanist of the highest order, he has always demanded a high sense of integrity and a deep involvement from his research group and other students. He has never sacrificed his own human qualities and never allowed other matters to overtake the human aspects of life. 

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