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  • 15 - The Reformation of British Malaya

  • Edited by Teck Ghee Lim, Charles Brophy
  • Book:
    The Straits Philosophical Society and Colonial Elites in Malaya
    Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    09 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2023, pp 212-230

  • Summary

    Editors’ Note

    A more critical tone towards colonial government was also evident in James Aitken’s essay of 1907. Aitken, a Queen’s Scholar from Singapore and a lawyer who practised alongside Song Ong Siang, came to criticize in the Society what he saw as the failings of British policy in Malaya. The central issue of the ensuing debate with Arthur Knight was the standards to which British colonial policy was to be held. For Knight, British achievements had to be understood in relation to the condition in which they had found the Malay Peninsula and the improvement of this condition. Aitken, on the other hand, was concerned with the British failure to attain for the colony a fuller level of economic and social development and for the unevenness of their achievements. This debate came to focus particularly on the position of the Malays, and British responsibility to include them within the development of the colonial economy and colonial society. On his part Aitken would argue in a manner that was a precursor of later debates around affirmative action that whilst the Malays were “not likely for a long time to reach the standard of the European, Chinaman, or Tamil, he should be encouraged by Government, and the other races should even be slightly handicapped in order to advance him”. Arthur Knight’s critical response similarly emphasized objections to affirmative action which anticipate arguments raised in future debates. For him the current status of the Malays was an outcome of their nature. He argued that they had the formal right to study medicine and join the legislative council but lacked the inclination. He was of the opinion that their improvement could not therefore be forced. Moral reform and improvement for Knight appeared to be confronted with the reality of racial difference.

    For the purposes of this paper British Malaya may be taken to be the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, leaving out of account Labuan, British North Borneo, and Sarawak.

  • Evaluation of the impact of teaching on delineation variation during a virtual stereotactic ablative radiotherapy contouring workshop

  • Finbar Slevin, Romélie Rieu, Matthew Beasley, Richard Speight, Katharine Aitken, James Good, Fiona McDonald, Thomas Rackley, Ganesh Radhakrishna, Anoop Haridass, Louise J. Murray, Alison C. Tree, Ann M. Henry
  • Journal:
    Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice / Volume 22 / 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 December 2021, e19
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  • Introduction:

    Variation in delineation of target volumes/organs at risk (OARs) is well recognised in radiotherapy and may be reduced by several methods including teaching. We evaluated the impact of teaching on contouring variation for thoracic/pelvic stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) during a virtual contouring workshop.

    Materials and methods:

    Target volume/OAR contours produced by workshop participants for three cases were evaluated against reference contours using DICE similarity coefficient (DSC) and line domain error (LDE) metrics. Pre- and post-workshop DSC results were compared using Wilcoxon signed ranks test to determine the impact of teaching during the workshop.

    Results:

    Of 50 workshop participants, paired pre- and post-workshop contours were available for 21 (42%), 20 (40%) and 22 (44%) participants for primary lung cancer, pelvic bone metastasis and pelvic node metastasis cases, respectively. Statistically significant improvements post-workshop in median DSC and LDE results were observed for 6 (50%) and 7 (58%) of 12 structures, respectively, although the magnitude of DSC/LDE improvement was modest in most cases. An increase in median DSC post-workshop ≥0·05 was only observed for GTVbone, IGTVlung and SacralPlex, and reduction in median LDE > 1 mm was only observed for GTVbone, CTVbone and SacralPlex. Post-workshop, median DSC values were >0·7 for 75% of structures. For 92% of the structures, post-workshop contours were considered to be acceptable or within acceptable variation following review by the workshop faculty.

    Conclusions:

    This study has demonstrated that virtual SABR contouring training is feasible and was associated with some improvements in contouring variation for multiple target volumes/OARs.

The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity
  • Edited by James Aitken, Hector M. Patmore
  • Ishay Rosen-Zvi
  • Published online:
    02 February 2021
    Print publication:
    21 January 2021
  • One of the central concepts in rabbinic Judaism is the notion of the Evil Inclination, which appears to be related to similar concepts in ancient Christianity and the wider late antique world. The precise origins and understanding of the idea, however, are unknown. This volume traces the development of this concept historically in Judaism and assesses its impact on emerging Christian thought concerning the origins of sin. The chapters, which cover a wide range of sources including the Bible, the Ancient Versions, Qumran, Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, the Targums, and rabbinic and patristic literature, advance our understanding of the intellectual exchange between Jews and Christians in classical Antiquity, as well as the intercultural exchange between these communities and the societies in which they were situated.

  • 3 - The “Inclination” (yeṣer) as Rendered in the Septuagint

  • Edited by James Aitken, University of Cambridge, Hector M. Patmore, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book:
    The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity
    Published online:
    02 February 2021
    Print publication:
    21 January 2021, pp 33-48

  • Summary

    One of the questions in the debate regarding the yeṣer is the point in time at which one can speak of a fully developed rabbinic notion of an Evil Inclination in opposition to a Good Inclination. The answer is in part dependent on identifying its forerunners. While there is a concept of a yeṣer in the Hebrew Bible, it is not an internal disposition or entity in the way it is in later rabbinic tradition. The noun yeṣer, as a derivative of the verb y-ṣ-r, denotes in the Hebrew Bible something that is created, and in some passages refers to what is created by the mind or heart, which might simply be interpreted as a thought.

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