were previously published over the period 1967-71 in a variety of scholarly and popular journals. The central theme of the essays is &dquo;the tendency of democratic republics to depart fromto 'progress' away from, one might saytheir original, animating principles, and as a consequence to precipitate grave crises in the moral and political order.&dquo; Irving Kristol's central thesis is that we have departed from the animating principles of self-government and self-control for our institutions and way of life. We have replaced a philosophic and statesmanlike democratic republican idea with either a utopian and dogmatic democratic faith or a feeling that getting bugged about &dquo;important matters&dquo; constitutes a hang-up. Kristol argues that the contemporary American republic is in danger because America's institutions and way of life have been derailed and debased. The solution to our grave crises is to engage in an &dquo;enterprise of conservative reform&dquo; by taking the original idea of &dquo;republican morality&dquo; seriously and applying it with moderation and care to our contemporary situation.Kristol, unlike most of our social commentators and critics, takes political philosophy seriously. As a result, he covers the familiar crises in American life with unfamiliar clarity, depth, range, and perception. The deep urban discontent; the widespread drug use; the generation gap; the changing popular culture; the unrest on the campuses; the revolution of rising expectations; the technological imperative; the complete decline of religion; the acceptance of pornography and obscenity; the restructuring of the university; the drainage of legitimacy out of the
It is always a pleasure to revisit the London scene, even if the occasion is a symposium where one is asked ‘to put the case for the FID's new policy for a Standard Reference Code’, as if one were Counsel for the Defence in the case of UDC versus SRC. The symposium title seems to reflect disquiet, if not panic, in certain UDC circles as to the FID's intentions, but it is quite misleading if it suggests that the FID, after long years of promoting the UDC, is about to abandon—or even relegate—the system in favour of some new‐fangled and insufficiently motivated substitute. It is true that the SRC project has received most of its impetus so far from the FID Central Classification Committee (CCC), which is virtually equated with UDC, and that the small SRC Group was set up by the CCC on the recommendation of the FID's independent UDC Advisory Panel, but this is because the other relevant FID committee—FID/CR (Classification Research)—is essentially a broad study committee, only very few of whose members could be expected to work on the project, however interested they may be. In the FID Classification Department itself, which is mainly responsible for UDC revision but very much concerned with all indexing languages and their use in libraries and other information transfer or exchange systems, we have long been sensitive to the criticisms directed against the UDC and most other general classifications, which have partly led to the proliferation of special classifications and thesauri, and we have followed closely the trends towards combined use of thesauri with UDC or other classifications, as well as the still vaguely expressed needs of such projects as UNISIST for some simpler sort of standard referral scheme as a ‘macro‐switching’ device. These considerations have convinced us that both an improved UDC and a simpler, more balanced SRC are needed by the information community, and that each can play its own distinctive role: the UDC for detailed subject retrieval in traditional libraries or documentation centres; the SRC as a simpler means for linking or switching between relatively broad subject‐fields in major information exchange systems, such as that envisaged by Unesco and ICSU in their UNISIST project.
stiffness and pulse wave velocity / Aorta and carotid arteries 137 (0.94 to 1.01) p = 0.096; Obesity OR = 0.47 (0.29 to 1.77) p = 0.003 and Diabetes OR = 2.41 (1.15 -5.05) p = 0.020. Conclusions: According to the results obtained, genetic polymorphisms variables were not in the multivariate analysis equation to determine the increase of the PWV, which can be explained either by being included in the selected variables such as hypertension, or on the other hand, they may not have enough strength to remain in the equation. So, according to this study, PWV has much more to do with behaviors and traditional risk factors than the genetic heritage.P883 Endothelial dysfunction, pulse wave velocity and augmentation index are correlated in subjects with systemic arterial hypertension?
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