Personal losses

Each year, Americans report over three million fires leading to 29,000 injuries and 4,500 deaths (1). The direct property losses exceed 8 biUion (1) and the total annual cost to our society has been estimated at over 100 biUion (2). Personal losses occur mosdy in residences where furniture, wall coverings, and clothes are frequently the fuel. Large financial losses occur in commercial stmctures such as office buildings and warehouses. Fires also occur in airplanes, buses, and trains. 

Dona remained slumped in misery. He had expected Hyacinth, but never Enrico. As members of the inner circle of government, the two men must have known each other and worked together for decades. Apart from any personal loss, the scandal of a great minister confessing to the murder of his own distinguished father was going to shake the city harder than the earthquake of 1511. 

Brugha, T.S. (1984). Personal losses and deficiencies in social networks. Social Psychiatry, 19, 69-74. 

This same pattern shapes David Lean s Dr. Zhivago. The plot is the Russian Revolution of 1917 and how its success was the ruination of the individual and of the family unit. The melodramatic layer of the film centers around Yuri Zhivago s relationships the Revolution always undermines the only thing he truly values, love—embodied in an intimate relationship first with his wife, then with Lara. In the end the personal losses and sacrifices are so great that Yuri is literally heartsick. Does he die of a heart attack or of a broken heart Choose whichever interpretation you wish. The key issue here is that melodrama is the fundamental layer in biographical, sports, war, gangster, and epic films. 

This paper was to have been prepared by Walter C. Hamilton. It is a matter of great sadness to us all that he has been taken from us. Aside from our personal loss, his absence has been a substantial scientific loss to this conference. I cannot feel that I am in any real sense a replacement for him. My paper by no means covers all that Walter Hamilton would have included, in view of his unique position at the forefront of many areas of structural crystallography as well as my own relative detachment from direct technical involvement in crystal-structure determination over the past few years. 

To those who have suffered personal loss, injuries, and even death in laboratory incidents that were preventable. May we use the knowledge from these incidents to teach the next generation of scientists about laboratory... 

In addition, different factors may be involved in ex-smokers who relapse after several months or years of abstinence. Relapse may result from encountering social pressure to smoke, an unaccustomed stressor such as a personal loss, or an unexpected situation that leads to a return to smoking. A key concept in preventing relapses is the distinction between a lapse, which is a brief use of cigarets, and a relapse, which is a full return to smoking in the pattern previously followed by the smoker. One of the main goals of relapse prevention is to keep a lapse from turning into a relapse. 

Costs to the injured person Loss of earnings, loss of total earning capacity, legal costs in pursuing injury claim, possible legal costs in defending a prosecution for unsafe behaviour at work. 

Personal loss comprises injury or injuries, their physical manifestations, and the elusive but real pain and psychological involvement of the victim and associated people. Injuries vary—from unattended minor cuts, abrasions, and dust in the eyes—to fractures, avulsions, enucleations, and fataUties. Each injury represents a unique loss. Only the magnitude changes. Often an incident s magnitude depends on a fraction of an inch or second. Personal identity disappears in the abstraction of statistics. Manipulation of statistics and press releases has no effect on the miner whose back hurts. 

Many forced migrants also experience intense personal loss—both of family members and of their mental, physical, and emotional health—as a result of the homeland experience that forced them to flee and their harrowing journeys. The experience of violence, trauma, loss of family members, and community all take a toll on people s ability to restart their lives (Cemea 1997). Yet there is almost no research on how this psychosocial loss affects people s livelihoods. Existing psychosocial research focuses on what can be done to help people recover from trauma (Nickerson et al. 2011 Hardgrove 2009), but much less has explored how psychosocial issues affect the ability of forced migrants to restart or pursue livelihoods—or how livelihoods could help people recover. This is clearly a gap in the literature. 

Proscription involved the forfeiture of one s material goods and of one s civil personality loss of the right of inheritance or legacies, of the right to initiate a judicial case. Cf. EDRL 658, s.v. Proscribere bona Nicholas, Introduction 243—6. 

The field of polyelectrolytes can hardly be dissociated from the name of Professor Aharon Katchalsky whose tragic death unfortunately prevented his attending the Institute. He was a member of the Scientific Committee and he would have delivered one of his high-level and most brilliant lectures the secret of which was known only to him. His death is felt by all those connected with our discipline as an almost personal loss. By general and spontaneous accord this book is dedicated to his memory. 

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