Il-ghana f'halq il-Malti

Part 2 of this article was issued in Lehen il-Malti (1931) - no. 2 (April). https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20483In this article Guze Aquilina discusses and analyzes folk music in relation to the Maltese language. Aquilina also examines the role of folk music in a social context.peer-reviewe

Traduzzjoni minn Camoens bil-Malti

L-iskop ta’ din il-kitba hu li titfakkar biċċa xogħol mhix magħrufa biżżejjed ta’ Dwardu Cachia, it-traduzzjoni tal-poeżija ta’ Camoens għall-Malti “Għanja ta’ Luigi De Camoens”N/

Id-djalogi ta' De Soldanis

L-awtur iġib id-djalogi ta’ Ġan Franġisk Agius De Soldanis li nkitbu mal-mitejn sena ilu fis-seklu tmintax. Id-djalogi huma miktubin b’Malti idjomatiku li jixħet dawl fuq kif kienu jitkellmu n-nies fis-seklu tmintax u fuq drawwiethom.N/

Folklore

Malta and Gozo possess a rich legacy of folklore. They stand half-way on the land ridge that once joined Sicily to Africa, and their geographical position has influenced their history and traditions. Besides reflecting the usages and ways of thought of the present, Maltese folklore preserves the soul of the past, embodying the mode of life and the beliefs and practices of preceding centuries. This national heritage of lore and tradition is the product of simple, psychological reactions to the historical environments and to the various culture contacts which our people have experienced in the past. At different times and by various routes, many people have come to these islands and dominated them for varying periods. Each ruling group - Punic, Roman, Arab, Norman, Swabian, Angevin, Aragonese, Castilian, the Knights of St John of Jerusalem and, lastly, the English - brought its own lore, language and way of life in its wake. Most of these left their imprint on local tradition and, in their turn, underwent changes in the process of adaptation to the conditions of the country and subsequent adjustment to the traditional pattern of Maltese life and thought. The result has been an extremely variegated form of folk-culture constituting a distinctive element of Malta's national identity.peer-reviewe

Samuel B. Guze Oral History

An interview of the Washington University Medical Center Desegregation History Project, conducted by Edwin W. McCleskey and associates, 1990. Approximate Length: 49 minutes. Samuel Guze discusses his experience with segregation and desegregation of Barnes Hospital, Renard Hospital, as well as its psychiatric service and unit. He guesses the psychiatric service desegregated the Barnes Hospital psychiatric unit in October 1953. He describes the desegregation of Washington University School of Medicine. He says the Executive Faculty gave the admissions committee discretion in flexible criteria for admission for those with disadvantaged educational background. Roy Vagelos of biochemistry was a key player on the executive faculty along with John Herweg, who headed the admissions committee starting in the early 1960s. Guze recalled that the first African American medical student admitted had difficulty and the second had no difficulty, but the Executive Faculty wanted more African Americans admitted and numbers did not start to go up significantly until about 1968. Guze says this was due to the hiring of Robert Lee, Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs. Guze discusses the parallel but related desegregation of the St. Louis City Hospital and health care systems. He notes that the segregated city healthcare system included two large general hospitals, Homer G. Phillips Hospital for Blacks and the older St. Louis City Hospital No. 1 for whites. He explains that there was one psychiatric unit at the Malcolm Bliss Center for whites and a separate psychiatric unit for Blacks run by Black psychiatrists at Homer G. Phillips. Guze recalls the teaching arrangement with Homer G. Phillips was less complete and depended on personal relationships in each service. Guze notes that desegregation of both facilities led the city to evaluate whether the city needed two large general hospital complexes. A group of Black physicians approached Guze in the 1970s about an affiliation, but Guze insisted on conditions that Homer G. Phillips was not prepared to meet then, including the right to appoint medical staff

Graph Theory Approach to Transportation Systems Design and Optimization

The main aim of the paper is to present graph theory parameters and algorithms as tool to analyze and to optimise transportation systems. To realize these goals the 0-1 knapsack problem solution by SPEA algorithm, methods and procedures for finding the minimal spanning tree in graphs and digraphs, domination parameters problems accurate to analyse the transportation systems are introduced and described. Possibility of application of graph theory algorithms and parameters to analyze exemplary transportation system are shown