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Hollis-Walker, Laurie. "Change Processes in Emotion-Focused Therapy and the Work That Reconnects." Ecopsychology 4, no. 1 (2012): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/eco.2011.0047.
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DUFFY, JAMES. "Rediscovering the meaning in medicine: Lessons from the dying on the ethics of experience." Palliative and Supportive Care 2, no. 2 (2004): 207–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951504040283.
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Modern medicine is currently confronting a crisis of meaning that is manifesting in a dispirited and demoralized profession. Palliative medicine and the care of patients with incurable diseases provide clinicians with an opportunity to rediscover the meaning in their work. In particular, with its emphasis on compassion, palliative medicine reconnects us to the Socratic ideal and an “ethics of experience.” Our rediscovery of this perennial philosophy is necessary if we are to develop the wisdom necessary to containing our enormous scientific capabilities.
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Kelly, Conor M. "The Nature and Operation of Structural Sin: Additional Insights from Theology and Moral Psychology." Theological Studies 80, no. 2 (2019): 293–327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040563919836201.
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Recent work has improved the understanding of social structures in theological discourse, but ambiguity persists with respect to structures of sin. Here, a revised definition of structural sin reconnects this concept with its theological roots, adding clarity to the nature of structural sin and strengthening the moral weight of the term. Parallels with fMRI research in the field of moral psychology then refine the existing account of the operation of structural sin. Together, these insights aid in the identification of structures of sin and improve efforts to combat their influence.
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Van Wieren, Gretel. "Ecological Restoration as Public Spiritual Practice." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 12, no. 2-3 (2008): 237–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853508x360000.
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AbstractThe practice of ecological restoration is the attempt to repair ecosystems that have been damaged or degraded, most often by past human activities. Restoration includes everything from removing dams to planting native trees, grasses and wildflowers to bio-reactivating soil to controlling invasive plants to recontouring land. Beyond this, ecological restoration is the attempt to restore humans' relationship with nature. In the actual activities of restoring land, humans are in important ways restored to land. This paper argues that one of the ways in which restoration practice reconnects humans to nature is in a spiritual-moral sense. In addition to performing ecological work, restoration performs sacred work and serves as a form of public witness; and it can engender spiritual-moral experiences within participants. For these reasons, we can view restoration not only as a promising contemporary environmental practice, but also as a burgeoning public spiritual practice.
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Chen, Lin, Jianfeng Hong, Mingjie Guan, Wei Wu, and Wenxiang Chen. "A Power Converter Decoupled from the Resonant Network for Wireless Inductive Coupling Power Transfer." Energies 12, no. 7 (2019): 1192. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12071192.
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In a traditional inductive coupling power transfer (ICPT) system, the converter and the resonant network are strongly coupled. Since the coupling coefficient and the parameters of the resonant network usually vary, the resonant network easily detunes, and the system efficiency, power source capacity, power control, and soft switching conditions of the ICPT system are considerably affected. This paper presents an ICPT system based on a power converter decoupled from the resonant network. In the proposed system, the primary inductor is disconnected from the resonant network during the energy injection stage. After storing a certain amount of energy, the primary inductor is reconnects with the resonant network. Through this method, the converter can be decoupled from the resonant network, and the resonant network can be tuned under various coupling coefficients. Theoretical analysis was explored first. Simulations and experimental work are carried out to verify the theoretical analysis. The results show that the proposed ICPT system has the virtues of low power source capacity, independent power control, and soft switching operation under different coupling coefficients.
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Arun, C. P. "A Bedside Schizophrenia thought Disorder Scale." European Psychiatry 24, S1 (2009): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(09)71349-5.
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Present classification systems for thought disorder lack consistency and require one to remember long-winded definitions limiting their use to research settings. as an extension of recent work in this area (World Congress, 2008), we classify the characteristic thought disorder patterns seen in schizophrenia according to the location of the lesion in notional "threads" of mental computational processes that string speech together. These threads must take both semantics and syntax into consideration in performing their function. When we speak - just as when we write - there is a natural hierarchy topic thread (the topic of the ‘essay’) and multiples of paragraph threads, sentence threads, clause threads, word threads and phoneme threads. Intuitively, we grade the severity of thought disorder depending upon whether a particular thread gets stuck (S), reconnects abnormally (R) or is absent altogether:I.paragraph thread R: Disjointed sentences S: Circumstantiality;II.topic threadR: Tangentiality S: Preoccupatory thinking;III.sentence threads R: Knight's move thinking S: Clause perseveration;IV.clause threads R: Word salad S: Word perseveration, fusion;V.word threads R: Incoherent sounds/ neologisms/ paraphasias S: Phoneme/syllable perseveration;VI.phoneme threads - Failure of production: Mutism.Of course, one must record all the lesions that are present at any given time. This scale incorporates a intuitive progression from mild to severe thought disorder in Schizophrenia. Using the STDS would allow the straightforward ‘bedside’ quantification of the severity of thought disorder and enforce discipline into the thought assessment section of the Mental State Examination.
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Pitts, Frederick Harry, Eleanor Jean, and Yas Clarke. "Sonifying the quantified self: Rhythmanalysis and performance research in and against the reduction of life-time to labour-time." Capital & Class 44, no. 2 (2019): 219–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816819873370.
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Today there is a proliferation of wearable and app-based technologies for self-quantification and self-tracking. This article explores the potential of an Open Marxist reading of Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis to understand data as an appearance assumed by the quantitative abstraction of everyday life, which negates a qualitative disjuncture between different natural and social rhythms – specifically those between embodied circadian and biological rhythms and the rhythms of work and organisations. It takes as a case study a piece of performance research investigating the methodological and practical potential of quantified-self technologies to tell us about the world of work and how it sits within life as a whole. The prototype performance research method developed in the case study reconnects the body to its forms of abstraction in a digital age by means of the collection, interpretation and sonification of data using wearable tech, mobile apps, synthesised music and modes of visual communication. Quantitative data were selectively ‘sonified’ with synthesisers and drum machines to produce a 40-minute electronic symphony performed to a public audience. The article theorises the project as a ‘negative dialectical’ intervention reconnecting quantitative data with the qualitative experience it abstracts from, exploring the potential for these technologies to be used as tools to recover the embodied social subject from its abstraction in data. Specifically, we explore how the rhythmanalytical method works in and against the reduction of life-time to labour-time by situating labour within the embodied time of life as a whole. We close by considering the capacity of wearable technologies to be repurposed by workers in constructing new forms of measurement around which to organise and bargain.
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Bozkurt, Ödül, and Rachel Lara Cohen. "Repair work as good work: Craft and love in classic car restoration training." Human Relations 72, no. 6 (2018): 1105–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726718786552.
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Repair work is essential if we are to develop environmentally-sustainable societies, but repair activity has largely disappeared in advanced economies. Where it survives, work in repair is typically ‘dirty’ and undesirable. This article asks how repair work can be experienced as ‘good work’, drawing on the accounts of 20 trainees on a classic car restoration course. We observe that two features made repair ‘good work’ in trainees’ eyes: craft and love. Craft skills enabled trainees to imagine improved employment futures, but also engendered emotional satisfactions. What the trainees emphasized even more was love, in four distinct ways. First, there was ‘object-love’ for the classic car. Second, love was evoked as repair reconnected them with ‘authentic’ younger selves. Third, love was claimed to be a prerequisite to do the work. Fourth, love mediated market relationships, connecting repairers and clients in a ‘community of enthusiasm’. Our discussion contributes to studies of workplace emotions, which typically focus on feminized work, by showing how love also matters in experiences of masculine work. Identifying the attractions of repair, we also consider the liminal context of training and highlight the key conditions for the survival and growth of repair as paid ‘good work’.
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Garcia, Maria Lúcia T., Aline F. Pandolfi, Fabiola X. Leal, et al. "The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil." Qualitative Social Work 20, no. 1-2 (2021): 356–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325020981753.
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This essay reflects on the implementation of federal government emergency aid in Brazil in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting elements from the work of Social Workers in the context of growing demand for the supply of material provisions. Economic and social conditions in Brazil have particularities that impact the operationalisation of this benefit, which is aimed at the poor, that add complexity and impose limits. When considering the structural limits set, this context imposes challenges on the work of Social Workers. The need to reconnect and enhance the struggle for social rights is emphasised through the different strategies of the working class.
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Harvey, Geraint, Peter Turnbull, and Daniel Wintersberger. "Speaking of Contradiction." Work, Employment and Society 33, no. 4 (2018): 719–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017018759204.
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Whereas McGovern calls for a moratorium on the ever increasing (ab)use of the word ‘contradiction’, principally because scholars of work and employment fail to connect different levels of analysis and/or demonstrate how and why contradiction(s) lead to widespread instability and upheaval, it can be demonstrated how both can be achieved through the ‘system, society, dominance’ framework. In what follows, the empirical focus is on the safety-critical work of airport ground service providers (GSPs), where key elements of the employment relationship embody contradictions that can be traced to the (sub-)system (mode of production) of a Single European Aviation Market (SEAM) that is now dominated by low fares airlines (LFAs). Instead of a moratorium, scholars of work and employment need to reconnect with society and theoretically ground their analysis in a (capitalist) system beset with contradictions between the forces and relations of production.
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Ball, L. T. "Non-relativistic thermal effects on parallel-propagating ion cyclotron waves." Journal of Plasma Physics 38, no. 1 (1987): 117–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022377800012447.
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We investigate strictly non-relativistic thermal effects on the dispersion of lefthanded (LH) ion cyclotron waves (ICW's) with real frequency and complex wave vector, propagating parallel to a uniform ambient magnetic field. Changes to the topology of the cold-plasma dispersion relations in the vicinity of the ion gyrofrequencies are studied in plasmas consisting predominantly of protons with a small admixture of a heavy ion. The two branches of the LH mode reconnect near the heavy-ion gyrofrequency as the heavy-ion temperature is increased or its relative density is reduced. The reconnection results in one mode in which waves can propagate at all frequencies below the proton gyrofrequency and another which allows propagation only in a narrow frequency range extending upwards from the cut-off frequency to a regime where strong damping occurs. The topology of the reconnected dispersion curves is quite different from that seen in the real wave vector – complex frequency case. This work is relevant to theories of ion heating and acceleration in multi-ion plasmas as are found in the solar wind, in solar and stellar flares, and in the Earth's magnetosphere. In particular, strongly species-dependent heating and acceleration can arise from wave–particle interactions between the various ionic species, and ICW's at frequencies near the respective ion gyrofrequencies. These interactions depend critically on the wave dispersion.
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Rao, Smitha, Carlos Andrade, Javier Reyes-Martínez, and Ignacio Eissmann-Araya. "Use of English in Ph.D. programs in Social Work in the United States. An illustrative case study of idiomatic hegemony." Ehquidad Revista Internacional de Políticas de Bienestar y Trabajo Social, no. 16 (July 5, 2021): 165–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.15257/ehquidad.2021.0018.
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This study reviews the experiences of non-native English-speaking students in Doctoral Social Work Education in the United States. The research, through a qualitative case study, interrogates regarding the centrality of English in education processes, and generates recommendations for improving them. Findings show that English can play a hegemonic role in Social Work Education and that some educators can exert discrimination based on language proficiency. Among recommendations are the need to promote reflexivity to contribute that educators reconnect with discipline principles as well as review the way their power is exerted in the classroom.
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Puran, Alexie. "My six-word story: Power to reconnect and connect." Patient Experience Journal 7, no. 2 (2020): 144–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.35680/2372-0247.1499.
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Spivey, Michael J., and Monica Gonzalez-Marquez. "Rescuing generative linguistics: Too little, too late?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, no. 6 (2003): 690–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x03460159.
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Jackendoff's Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution attempts to reconnect generative linguistics to the rest of cognitive science. However, by minimally acknowledging decades of work in cognitive linguistics, treating dynamical systems approaches somewhat dismissively, and clinging to certain fundamental dogma while revising others, he clearly risks satisfying no one by almost pleasing everyone.
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Silistraru, Ioana. "Narrative Medicine – the methodology of doctor-patient communication analysis." Social Change Review 15, no. 1-2 (2017): 105–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/scr-2017-0005.
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AbstractThe present paper aims at presenting a non-exhaustive list of methodology instruments for narrative analysis in medical communication. Patient narratives became of more and more importance while evidence-based medicine has created a gap between patients, their illness and their doctors. While being investigated through high-technology instruments used in medicine, the patient vanishes behind the computer screen where his body is analysed based on the biomedical factors. Narrative medicine is defined by one of its founders as the interaction between a health practitioner who doesn’t simply look at diseases, but treats the person who’s suffering from an illness by listening closely to his story (Charon 2001). Therefore, as mentioned by Rita Charon in her works, the doctor-patient interactions are measured considering the effectiveness of medical care. The patient is empowered with medical knowledge related to his illness, transposed into an accessible language. On the other side of the communication spectrum, the doctor reconnects with his patient, manifesting interest on how the patient’s life is affected by illness, not only on how it can be effectively treated. ‘Now, in recent years medical narrative is changing—from the stories about patients and their illnesses, patient narratives and the unfolding and interwoven story between healthcare professionals and patients are both gaining momentum, leading to the creation or defining of narrative-based medicine (NBM).’ (Kalitzkus and Matthiessen 2009). Narrative based medicine is presented to counteract the pitfalls of evidence-based medicine (EBM). NBM can foster a better care while taking into account the patient’s story on the way illness is affecting the quality of his everyday life. The final objective of effective medical care is to alleviate, if not to dismiss completely the illness and the suffering of the patients.
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Ambrosino, D., E. Amata, M. F. Marcucci, I. Coco, W. Bristow, and P. Dyson. "Different responses of northern and southern high latitude ionospheric convection to IMF rotations: a case study based on SuperDARN observations." Annales Geophysicae 27, no. 6 (2009): 2423–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/angeo-27-2423-2009.
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Abstract. We use SuperDARN data to study high-latitude ionospheric convection over a three hour period (starting at 22:00 UT on 2 January 2003), during which the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) flipped between two states, one with By>>|Bz| and one with Bz>0, both with negative Bx. We find, as expected from previous works, that day side ionospheric convection is controlled by the IMF in both hemispheres. For strongly northward IMF, we observed signatures of two reverse cells, both in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) and in the Southern Hemisphere (SH), due to lobe reconnection. On one occasion, we also observed in the NH two viscous cells at the sides of the reverse cell pair. For duskward IMF, we observed in the NH a large dusk clockwise cell, accompanied by a smaller dawn cell, and the signature of a corresponding pattern in the SH. On two occasions, a three cell pattern, composed of a large clockwise cell and two viscous cells, was observed in the NH. As regards the timings of the NH and SH convection reconfigurations, we find that the convection reconfiguration from a positive Bz dominated to a positive By dominated pattern occurred almost simultaneously (i.e. within a few minutes) in the two hemispheres. On the contrary, the reconfiguration from a By dominated to a northward IMF pattern started in the NH 8–13 min earlier than in the SH. We suggest that part of such a delay can be due to the following mechanism: as IMF Bx<0, the northward-tailward magnetosheath magnetic field reconnects with the magnetospheric field first tailward of the northern cusp and later on tailward of the southern cusp, due to the IMF draping around the magnetopause.
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Earl, Cassie. "The researcher as cognitive activist and the mutually useful conversation." Power and Education 9, no. 2 (2017): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757743817714281.
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This autoethnagraphic article argues that in the study of political education, especially learning through social movement activities, the knowledge produced by the research will be of greater social use if researchers position themselves as ‘cognitive activists’. This is because, the article argues, the researcher needs to work in solidarity with social movements for socially just change in order to reconnect academic knowledge work to the wider struggles for social change. The article thinks through the implications and ideas around this framing of research work and positionality. It then goes on to examine in detail one of the techniques for taking this position – that of the mutually useful conversation frame of the research interview – exploring why this thinking came about and how this framing of the interview is politically necessary for the cognitive activism proposed.
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Pettersen, Lene. "The Role of Offline Places for Communication and Social Interaction in Online and Virtual Spaces in the Multinational Workplace." Nordicom Review 37, s1 (2020): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2016-0028.
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AbstractThere is a common assumption that information communication technology (ICT) enables employees to work together and to be virtually co-present, regardless of time and place. However, previous studies of social networking sites (e.g. Facebook and social enterprise media in work settings) show a consistent tendency among users to reconnect and communicate online almost exclusively with people they already know. The paper at hand examines in depth what role shared places have in knowledge work and in creating a virtual or online co-presence among knowledge professionals. The findings of the present study show that the tendency of communicating with known others in online spaces is also at play in the offline workplace, as professionals approach those whom they already know when in need of work-related help. One of the conclusions is that the geographical workplace plays a key role in creating a common ground for communication and social integration among employees, since a core dimension in knowledge work is social interaction. The paper uses insights from a qualitative and longitudinal case study (2010–2013) of a multinational consultancy company.
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Węgrzyniak, Anna. "Tuwim: Years After." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 36, no. 6 (2017): 7–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.36.02.
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The subject of the article is to present an outline of the reception of Julian Tuwim’s works in the last decade. “The Prince of Poets” of the interwar period, well known in the post-war era, is less and less known today. Post-war generations of poets made no particular references to Tuwim and his poetry, and even though many critical works are being published about him, Tuwim’s works do not engage critics who would be able to reconnect his writing with the contemporary world. Tuwim is disappearing from school literary curricula, contemporary readers remember only his children’s poems and one can doubt whether this situation can be changed by an extensive, multifaceted work by Piotr Matywiecki Twarz Tuwima (Tuwim’s face), the comprehensive and readable biography of the poet. It is an important book which tackles a number of vital questions concerning for instance the tragic alienation of the Polish Jew who lived between two cultures and wanted to be excluded from neither.
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Edwards, Sarah, Anna Mandeville, Katrine Petersen, Julia Cambitzi, Amanda C. de C. Williams, and Katherine Herron. "‘ReConnect’: a model for working with persistent pain patients on improving sexual relationships." British Journal of Pain 14, no. 2 (2019): 82–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2049463719854972.
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Introduction: Many individuals with persistent pain experience difficulties with sexual function which are exacerbated by avoidance and anxiety. Due to embarrassment or shame, sexual activity may not be identified as a goal for pain management programmes (PMPs). In addition, clinicians can feel that they lack skills and confidence in addressing these issues. Methods: We sought to develop a biopsychosocial model for helping patients return to sexual activity and manage relationships in the context of pain management, known as ‘ReConnect’. The model amalgamates well-established methods from pain management and sex therapy to guide multidisciplinary team members. ReConnect comprises three components: (1) ‘cognitive and myth-busting’, (2) ‘sensations and feelings’ and (3) ‘action-experimentation’. We collected self-report data from 281 women and 92 men from our specialist PMP for chronic abdomino-pelvic. pain, including questions measuring interference with and avoidance of sex due to pain, and the Multi-dimensional Sexuality Questionnaire (MSQ) to measure anxiety about sexual activity. Results: The results show statistically significant improvements for anxiety, avoidance of sex and sexual interference. Using the ReConnect model to structure clinical work, pain management clinicians reported increased confidence in addressing sexual activity goals. Conclusion: By using the ReConnect model is a framework for clinicians to use to support sexual activity goals. It has demonstrated improvements in clinical outcomes such as anxiety around sex and interference of pain in sexual activity. We encourage its application in pain management services in both one-to-one and group sessions, as a method for encouraging pain patients to address this important area of life which can be adversely affected by pain.
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Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy. "Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland." Business History Review 90, no. 1 (2016): 119–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680516000015.
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The best work in the new “history of capitalism” field borrows from the tool kits of social and cultural historians and rests on the assumption that states, societies, and markets cannot be treated separately from one another. That central observation feeds the contemporary impulse to reconnect subfields, such as business, labor, and politics, which had drifted apart since the 1970s. Already this methodology has returned scholarship on the nineteenth-century United States to the topics of slavery's relationship to capitalism and the realization of selfhood either through manumission, the labor market, or finance.
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de Dato, P., and Y. Hernández Navarro. "EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION IN RECOVERY TO RECONNECT A COMMUNITY TO ITS HERITAGE." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIV-M-1-2020 (July 24, 2020): 581–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliv-m-1-2020-581-2020.
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Abstract. Intervention in private vernacular heritages often causes of the loss of its cultural values in the same way as its abandonment brings it to a condition of irreversible ruin. This reflection is valid for public heritage, but in this sphere the detachment caused by ignorance, forgetfulness and contempt, contrasting with the very idea of heritage, seems to be more serious. This work starts from the reflection on the degradation of certain historical-cultural resources due fundamentally to the lack of maintenance and abandonment, leading to a strategy based on social participation as a key to success in the recovery of heritage in general. The proposal is born from the analysis of the successful intervention experiences of different assets which from the beginning have incorporated the direct and active participation of the respective communities, not only in the enhancement of the assets once they have been intervened, but also in the physical process of the intervention through craftsmanship based on the traditional trades of construction. In both cases presented in this study direct participation has allowed the traditional construction techniques and their associated cultural values to become known, to train the population in techniques to guarantee the maintenance of heritage resources in the future, to recover traditions, ethnographic culture and local history, and finally to rebuild the broken links of attachment to the cultural heritage.
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Muzio, Daniel, and Ian Kirkpatrick. "Introduction: Professions and organizations - a conceptual framework." Current Sociology 59, no. 4 (2011): 389–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392111402584.
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This collection seeks to reconnect two separate streams of work on professional organizations and professional occupations. In particular the articles collected here identify two key themes: (1) the challenges and opportunities that professional organizations pose for established and emerging professionalization projects and (2) the extent to which professional organizations create, institutionalize and manipulate new forms of professionalism and models of professionalization. To this effect, this collection brings together a number of articles from a broad range of disciplines (sociology, management, healthcare, accountancy, law and geography), theoretical backgrounds and national contexts which explore the complex connections between professional occupations and organizations.
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Kubec, Jan. "Plan as Social Structure and Section as Emotional Enclosure – a Complementary Pair of Ordering Principles in Contemporary Architecture." BUILDER 287, no. 6 (2021): 73–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.8661.
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The title of the article is a paraphrase of the title of an essay by Wilfried Wang: SiteSpecificity, Skilled Labor, and Culture: Architectural Principles in the Age of Climate Change [1]. While Wang raises the fundamental problem of the need to change the architect's attitude in the design process in a climate crisis, paying particular attention to the need to "reconnect the building with the context" [2], the author discusses the very workshop of the architect's work, and more precisely - the basic drawing tools. He puts forward theses about what the title issues should be for architects today.
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Munge, Brendon, Alison L. Black, Deborah Heck, et al. "Thinking (Now) Out of Place? Scripting and Performing Collective Dissent Inside the Corporatized University." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 21, no. 5 (2021): 413–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15327086211029365.
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As a response to the corporatization of the university, nine scholars worked together to create spaces that fostered the possibility of collective dissensus. Using scholarly performative methods, we have sought to push back against the increasing corporate incursions into our institutions of higher learning—the over-valuing of money, measures, and metrics which encroach upon our capacity to think. This one-act ethnodrama below is one of our responses to the new corporatism of higher education. In the generation of this scholarly work, we have created the space and time to reconnect as colleagues and as scholars.
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Romão, Vasco C., Rosaria Talarico, Carlo Alberto Scirè, et al. "Sjögren’s syndrome: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines." RMD Open 4, Suppl 1 (2018): e000789. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000789.
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Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a complex autoimmune rheumatic disease that specifically targets salivary and lachrymal glands. As such, patients typically had ocular and oral dryness and salivary gland swelling. Moreover, skin, nasal and vaginal dryness are frequently present. In addition to dryness, musculoskeletal pain and fatigue are the hallmarks of this disease and constitute the classic symptom triad presented by the vast majority of patients. Up to 30% to 50 % of patients with SS may present systemic disease; moreover, there is an increased risk for the development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that occurs in a minority of patients. The present work was developed in the framework of the European Reference Network (ERN) dedicated to Rare and Complex Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ReCONNET). In line with its goals of aiming to improve early diagnosis, treatment and care of rare connective and musculoskeletal diseases, ERN-ReCONNET set to review the current state of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in the rare and complex connective tissue diseases of interest of the network. Therefore, the present work was aimed at providing a state of the art of CPGs for SS.
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Lee, Sora, and Valerie Braithwaite. "Missing in Action: Bridging Capital and Cross-Boundary Discourse." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 691, no. 1 (2020): 258–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716220965439.
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The regulatory welfare state illuminates path dependencies and tendencies to mutual growth in markets, welfare, and regulation. This article uses two specific welfare-to-work programs, one in Korea and one in Australia, to illustrate the institutional interconnections that are in play within the regulatory welfare state. Governance of these programs is hampered by lack of discursive capacity to identify where problems exist and how they can be fixed. When faced with new programs, implementers look to higher authorities to make sense of and to solve the problems on the ground, but authorities are blinded by old institutional categories that pit market mentalities against welfare mentalities with regulation as an ideological tool, rather than an integral part of solutions. Transparency and cross-boundary listening are necessary to create the bridging capital to make these programs work and reconnect democratically elected governments with their citizens.
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Dimitriu, Ileana. "Father, Daughter and ‘Estranged Belonging’: Anne Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson." English in Africa 47, no. 1 (2020): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v47i1.3.
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In this article, I analyse aspects of a father/daughter story that is emblematic of dislocation and a yearning to belong. It is a story of a deep-seated, recurrent condition of ‘estranged belonging’. Most critical responses to Anne Landsman’s prize-winning novel have focused on the narrator’s (the daughter’s) memory and nostalgia within the trope of an ‘elegy for a dying parent’. I embed such a trope, however, in the quite insistent – but hitherto largely ignored – societal dimension of the story. Accordingly, the expatriate daughter reconnects with her dying father not only by recollecting her affective memories of him and the ‘lessons’ learned. She also reconnects by entering imaginatively into the life of her father as the son of a poor, immigrant Lithuanian family. The reader enters, intimately, into the ‘estranged belonging’ of a country doctor, in the class marginalisation, hardship, fracture and resilience of small-town South Africa.
 Key words: Anne Landsman, The Rowing Lesson, double dislocation, estranged belonging, father-daughter
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Wood, Alex J., Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, and Isis Hjorth. "Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy." Sociology 53, no. 5 (2019): 931–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038519828906.
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This article investigates the (dis)embeddedness of digital labour within the remote gig economy. We use interview and survey data to highlight how platform workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are normatively disembedded from social protections through a process of commodification. Normative disembeddedness leaves workers exposed to the vagaries of the external labour market due to an absence of labour regulations and rights. It also endangers social reproduction by limiting access to healthcare and requiring workers to engage in significant unpaid ‘work-for-labour’. However, we show that these workers are also simultaneously embedded within interpersonal networks of trust, which enable the work to be completed despite the low-trust nature of the gig economy. In bringing together the concepts of normative and network embeddedness, we reconnect the two sides of Polanyi’s thinking and demonstrate the value of an integrated understanding of Polanyi’s approach to embeddedness for understanding contemporary economic transformations.
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Zinger, Oded. "Meanderings in the Arabic Literary Genizot." Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 8, no. 2-3 (2020): 188–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212943x-20201012.
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Abstract The Cairo genizot (plural of Geniza) provide not only new Arabic literary texts but also new contexts. This study explores different kinds of context by presenting several examples of Arabic literary material found mostly in the Ben Ezra Geniza (BEG). The examples include three tales that also appear in the Arabian Nights literature, a Judeo-Arabic fragment of a Šīʿī kitāb al-ğafr, a Muslim historical work dealing with Muḥammad’s letters to foreign rulers, a playful romantic polemical exchange between a Jewish man and a Christian woman and more. Thinking about different kinds of context is one of the ways to reconnect the study of the documentary and the literary genizot.
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Boer, Roland. "The Perpetual Allure of the Bible for Marxism." Historical Materialism 15, no. 4 (2007): 53–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920607x245832.
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AbstractIn light of the general lack of awareness of the long history of Western-Marxist fascination with the Bible, this article offers a synopsis of part of that history. After showing how the Bible was an important element in the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, it the offers a critique of the current engagements with it by Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Terry Eagleton and Giorgio Agamben. The third section deals with the most significant element of the religious Left in recent years, namely liberation theology. It closes with some comments concerning the growth of Marxist biblical studies and some suggestions for the way Marxism might reconnect with a non-reified biblical tradition.
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Bermejo, Luis Alberto, Débora Andrea Evangelista Façanha, Nieves Beneda Guerra, and Juan José Viera. "Protected designation of origin as driver of change in goat production systems: Beyond added value." Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias UNCuyo 53, no. 1 (2021): 196–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.39.019.
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 Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) is one of the EU tools for rural development. Most of the literature on this subject is focused on premium prices and consumers’ willingness to pay for local products, since PDO and other labels aim to provide premium incomes for farmers. Our assumption is that PDO drives unexpected changes of farming styles not only related to processing or market strategies but also related to local resources using and to stablishing of different approach to agriculture and food production. We analyzed the PDO Queso Palmero (La Palma cheese) as a case of a dual label system (brand–certification common label) because it gives us the opportunity to compare farmers involved in a PDO scheme with farmers who works outside such systems. We conclude that private brands are more important than common label certification in price formation, but both are complementary, since PDO reinforces farmers’ efforts to improve quality. Beyond premium price, PDO also drives a radical change in farm structures, since it reconnects products to local resources (grazing vs intensification) and redesigns relationships with markets (shortening and diversifying chains and widening product offer). This change is characterized by implementation of new farming strategies in the context of PDO structure that coexist with classical farming strategies closer to intensification, not only in terms of productivity but also in terms of decoupling from local resources and productive and market specialization. Therefore, PDO is a powerful tool for rural development in a wide sense (resilience, empowerment, local capacity and network formation among others) far beyond its narrow remit of promoting economic growth (local or regional). Therefore, the coupling with local resources and the strength of local network and relationships as source of resilience, knowledge and capabilities improvement, have to be included in performance assessment of GIs in order to broaden the appraisal of role in regional development.
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 PDO as institution is a powerful tool of farm transformation not only a protection structure of collective heritage or asset.
 Private brand effect on price is larger than common label effect (PDO label).
 PDO as institution leads radical changes of goat production systems from more production – oriented toward more market – oriented styles.
 Market chains and product diversification, focusing on quality, concern about consumers and coupling with local resources are distinctive features of farms involved in PDO.
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Iliffe, Steve. "Commissioning services for people with dementia: how to get it right." Psychiatrist 37, no. 4 (2013): 121–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.112.040329.
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SummaryThe current emphasis on improving the quality of dementia services is welcome, but it treats dementia as if it were separable from complex comorbidities, disability and frailty. As a consequence, dementia can overshadow other problems, from heart failure to multisystem failure at the end of life, which may be poorly managed. Three ways in which old age psychiatrists can reconnect dementia with the diseases and disorders of later life are described in this editorial. The first is to improve skills in general practice so that general practitioners (GPs) can take on the bulk of the clinical work of both diagnosis and management of dementia and its comorbidities, while specialists retain complex decision-making and management tasks. The second is for old age psychiatrists to function as consultants to social enterprises run by GPs for the purpose of managing almost all patients with dementia in general practice. The third is for community geriatricians and old age psychiatrists to work together in integrated organisations that take full clinical responsibility for older people with dementia.
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Alkubaidi, Miriam, and Nesreen Alzhrani. "“We Are Back”: Reverse Culture Shock Among Saudi Scholars After Doctoral Study Abroad." SAGE Open 10, no. 4 (2020): 215824402097055. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020970555.
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The experiences of individuals returning to the most conservative countries from abroad are not being recorded. The present study explores how Saudi scholars working in the higher education sector readjust and reconnect to their workplace after completing their doctoral scholarships abroad. The study has adopted a narrative approach and used the transformational learning theory to account for reverse culture shock. Six assistant professors (three males and three females) from three Saudi universities were recruited and they underwent 30- to 50-min-long semi-structured in-depth interviews. The data were analyzed through thematic analysis and the developed themes included emotional adaptation to home culture, adaptation to their work in their home culture, adaptation of families to home culture, and reentry coping mechanisms. The results depicted how the participants readjusted to their context after extended study abroad. They returned with new identities shaped by their life and education abroad and by their exposure at university to people from different cultural backgrounds. They had also become used to a more comfortable lifestyle in their host countries. The study concludes that there is a need to prepare and organize programs that could assist Saudi new returnees to readjust and reconnect to their context again. Moreover, it would be useful in helping universities prioritize their staff’s well-being and design rehabilitative courses for new returnees helping them integrate into their workplace.
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Grossman, Pam, and Morva McDonald. "Back to the Future: Directions for Research in Teaching and Teacher Education." American Educational Research Journal 45, no. 1 (2008): 184–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0002831207312906.
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In this article, the authors examine two distinct but closely related fields, research on teaching and research on teacher education. Despite its roots in research on teaching, research in teacher education has developed in isolation both from mainstream research on teaching and from research on higher education and professional education. A stronger connection to research on teaching could inform the content of teacher education, while a stronger relationship to research on organizations and policy implementation could focus attention on the organizational contexts in which the work takes shape. The authors argue that for research in teacher education to move forward, it must reconnect with these fields to address the complexity of both teaching as a practice and the preparation of teachers.
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Gaitanidis, Anastasios. "Building bridges between psychoanalysis and music." British Journal of Music Therapy 33, no. 2 (2019): 80–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359457519879795.
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In this article, I begin by presenting how a Greek song erupted within the flow of my everyday existence and allowed me to reconnect with past trauma, grief and psychic pain. Operating in a register which is different from that of symbolic language, and yet always already within it, music enables productive encounters with trauma and loss in everyday life. I then continue exploring the connections between music and language by employing Kristeva’s notions of ‘chora’ and the ‘semiotic’, which place the ‘musicality’ of language, its rhythm and tonality, and pitch and timbre at the centre of the analyst’s attention. I finish by referring to the work of Ogden who argues that both poetry/music and certain analytic sessions seem to generate powerful resonances and cacophonies of sound and meaning.
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Ding, S., M. Remerova, R. D. van der Mei, and B. Zwart. "Fluid approximation of a call center model with redials and reconnects." Performance Evaluation 92 (October 2015): 24–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.peva.2015.07.003.
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Bolkhovityanov, D., and P. Cheblakov. "On Automatic Reconnects in the Control Systems of Large Experimental Facilities." Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters 17, no. 4 (2020): 567–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s1547477120040111.
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Evans, Joan. "Stravinsky's Music in Hitler's Germany." Journal of the American Musicological Society 56, no. 3 (2003): 525–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.2003.56.3.525.
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Abstract This investigation of the reception in Nazi Germany of the work (and person) of Igor Stravinsky offers new insights into the issue of modern music in Hitler's Germany. As the most prominent modernist composer of the period, Stravinsky was the chief beneficiary of Germany's desire, after the xenophobic early Nazi years, to rejoin the European cultural community. Thanks to the determination of his supporters, and aided by the greater accessibility of his 1930s works, Stravinsky's music achieved a significant position in the musical life of the New Germany, which it maintained until the outbreak of war. Modern-minded critics articulated the ideological basis for his “rehabilitation”: although rooted in a foreign musical tradition, Stravinsky was an “Aryan” composer with acceptable political views, whose tonally based music revealed suitably “national” qualities. Many foreign composers, including the antifascist Béla Bartók, shared Stravinsky's desire for German performances. Whether they allowed this to temper their modernist tendencies is difficult to determine. What is certain is that their tonally based music allowed many (racially and politically acceptable) foreign composers to find an audience in Nazi Germany. It also made feasible Germany's desire to reconnect with the larger musical world.
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Gattinara, Pietro Castelli, Caterina Froio, and Matteo Albanese. "The appeal of neo-fascism in times of crisis. The experience of CasaPound Italia." Fascism 2, no. 2 (2013): 234–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00202007.
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The present works sets up to analyze the relationship between radical right activism and the unfolding of the financial crisis in Europe, investigating the extent to which the current economic circumstances have influenced right-wing movements’ political supply and repertoires of action. Using the case study of the Italian neo-fascist group CasaPound, and based on a mix of historiography and ethnographic methods, the present work systematically analyzes the ways in which the group tackles the economic crisis. We find that the crisis offers a whole new set of opportunities for the radical right to reconnect with its fascist legacy, and to develop and innovate crisis-related policy proposals and practices. The crisis shapes the groups’ self-understanding and its practices of identity building, both in terms of collective rediscovery of the fascist regime’s legislation, and in terms of promotion of the fascist model as a ‘third way’ alternative to market capitalism. Even more importantly, the financial crisis plays the role of the enemy against which the fascist identity is built, and enables neo-fascist movements to selectively reproduce their identity and ideology within its practices of protest, propaganda, and consensus building.
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Acharya, Deep Shekhar, and Sudhansu Kumar Mishra. "Optimal Consensus Recovery of Multi-agent System Subjected to Agent Failure." International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 29, no. 06 (2020): 2050017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218213020500177.
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Multi-Agent Systems are susceptible to external disturbances, sensor failures or collapse of communication channel/media. Such failures disconnect the agent network and thereby hamper the consensus of the system. Quick recovery of consensus is vital to continue the normal operation of an agent-based system. However, only limited works in the past have investigated the problem of recovering the consensus of an agent-based system in the event of a failure. This work proposes a novel algorithmic approach to recover the lost consensus, when an agent-based system is subject to the failure of an agent. The main focus of the algorithm is to reconnect the multi-agent network in a way so as to increase the connectivity of the network, post recovery. The proposed algorithm may be applied to both linear and non-linear continuous-time consensus protocols. To verify the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, it has been applied and tested on two multi-agent networks. The results, thus obtained, have been compared with other state-of-the-art recovery algorithms. Finally, it has been established that the proposed algorithm achieves better connectivity and therefore, faster consensus when compared to the other state-of-the-art.
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Pribadi, Krishna S., Eliza Puri, Eliya Hanafi, and Tri Hadinata. "Improving Role of Construction Industry for More Effective Post-Disaster Emergency Response To Road Infrastructure in Indonesia." MATEC Web of Conferences 147 (2018): 06006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201814706006.
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Geo- and hydro-meteorological disasters typically caused disruptive impact to road networks due to damaged road infrastructure, which in turn disconnect access to and isolate the disaster affected areas. Road clearing work and emergency road recovery operation are considered a priority to reconnect the access during post-disaster emergency response. However, the operation is not always smooth and in many cases delayed due to various problems. An investigation is conducted to understand the current practice of post-disaster emergency road recovery operation in Indonesia and to study possible participation of construction industry in order to improve its effectiveness. In-depth interviews with Local Disaster Management Agencies (BPBDs) and local road agencies in West Java Province were conducted to understand current practices in emergency road recovery operation and to view perspectives on local contractor participation. The surveys showed supports from the local governments for contractor involvement as long as it is still under guidance of related agencies (Ministry of Public Works and Housing) despite some possible obstacles from the current regulation that may hamper contractors’ participation, which indicate that there is a potential role of construction industry for more effective post-disaster emergency response, provided that contractor associations are involved and existing procurement regulation is improved.
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Metcalfe, Mike. "Knowledge sharing, complex environments and small-worlds." Human Systems Management 24, no. 3 (2005): 185–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/hsm-2005-24301.
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This paper is about knowledge sharing vision appropriate for a complex environment. In these environments, traditional views of knowledge sharing as informing a hierarchical, centralised leadership may be misleading. A complex environment is defined as one that emerges unpredictable changes that require organisations to reconnect, to reorganise. Organisations need to be able to rapidly reconnect relationships so as to reflect new priorities, and to do so without causing change “bottlenecks”. The empirical biologists have observed that some social species have evolved structures that enable them to do this automatically what ever the environmental change. These organisational forms have survived for millions of years without central planning; rather they use local knowledge is reconnect as required overall providing an appropriate strategic response. These organisational forms seem to result from the small-worlds phenomenon and it is self organising. Specifically, this paper will argue that this small-worlds, self organisation, phenomena is a useful vision for designing a knowledge sharing vision appropriate for a complex environment. The supportive evidence is provided in the form of identifying the empirical attributes of self organisation and small worlds to provide an explanation of how and why it works. The system thinking, biology (insect) and the social-network literature are used.
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Campling, Penny. "Intelligent Kindness: professional healthcare and the future of the UK NHS." European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 2, no. 2 (2014): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v2i2.721.
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The concept of ‘intelligent kindness’ is important at all levels of healthcare from the personal, through teams and work organisations to the political. A virtuous circle is envisaged, based on what motivates and assures compassionate practice, affecting patient experience and linking to staff morale, effectiveness, efficiency and outcome. The UK NHS is a system that invites Society to value and attend to its deepest common interests; a vital expression of kinship that can improve if Society, patients and, especially, staff can reconnect to the powerful motivation and attentiveness inherent in such connectedness.The healthcare task, however, puts us in touch with deep-seated, largely unconscious existential anxieties that can undermine the work and the organization. Not only are hospitals organized in a defensive structure against such anxieties - as described by Isobel Menzies Lyth, over 50 years ago - but these same anxieties drive the constant re-structurings that are so disruptive to the service and distracting from patient care. The forces at work in Society that threaten to undermine and fragment an ethical healthcare system are also described in relation to Susan Long’s thesis on the ‘perverse organisation’ - particularly the tendency to ‘turn a blind eye’ to the dangers of unmitigated market forces and industrialization.It is argued within this article that a focus on intelligent kindness in healthcare is more urgent than ever and that such a focus could act as an integrating force, minimizing the potential for harmful fragmentation. Models of good practice are described and an active refocussing on kindness within healthcare professions is encouraged.
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Halpern, Marc. "Pranayama, Yoga, and Ayurveda." International Journal of Yoga Therapy 10, no. 1 (2000): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17761/ijyt.10.1.320045m69318x603.
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With the growing awareness of Ayurveda in the West, a more complete picture of the yogic path is beginning to emerge. This path reconnects the knowledge of two of India's greatest ancient sciences. Together, they comprise a whole whose two sides, like those of a coin, are really inseparable. Ayurveda brings to Yoga an understanding of how to remain physically and emotionally healthy while on the path to enlightenment. Yoga brings to Ayurveda a deeper purpose for remaining healthy, that purpose being to attain enlightenment.
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Jones, Meirav, and Yossi Shain. "Modern sovereignty and the non-Christian, or Westphalia’s Jewish State." Review of International Studies 43, no. 5 (2017): 918–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210517000195.
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AbstractThis article participates in efforts by IR theorists to clarify aspects of modern sovereignty – an idea currently in rupture and being rethought – by returning to its founding ‘Westphalian moment’. While recent work has reconnected modern sovereignty to religion, considering Westphalia as a religious settlement and Christian concerns persisting in the groundwork of IR, our work looks beyond Christian concerns and asks how Westphalian sovereignty addressed non-Christians. We trace a yet-untapped discussion of the Jews – presented as a paradigmatic religious ‘other’ – among architects of Westphalian sovereignty from Bodin through Grotius, Hobbes, Harrington, and Spinoza. We demonstrate that foundational theorists of modern sovereignty considered religious diversity a political problem. Some cited essential sameness, minimising difference between Jews and Christians. Others considered the possibility of Jewish sovereignty long before this idea is usually considered to have entered modern consciousness. While the discussion of Jewish sovereignty among architects of modern sovereignty may seem to justify a Jewish state in a world of Westphalian states, it also emphasises Westphalia’s territorialising of religious difference. This aspect of the Westphalian framework is surely inadequate today, when territorialising religious difference is neither normative nor likely possible.
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Franchi, Enrico, Agostino Poggi, and Michele Tomaiuolo. "Information Attacks on Online Social Networks." Journal of Information Technology Research 7, no. 3 (2014): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2014070104.
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Online social networks have changed the way people interact, allowing them to stay in touch with their acquaintances, reconnect with old friends, and establish new relationships with other people based on hobbies, interests, and friendship circles. Unfortunately, the regrettable concurrence of the users' carefree attitude in sharing information, the often sub-par security measures from the part of the system operators and, eventually, the high value of the published information make online social networks an interesting target for crackers and scammers alike. The information contained can be used to trigger attacks to even more sensible targets and the ultimate goal of sociability shared by the users allows sophisticated forms of social engineering inside the system. This work reviews some typical social attacks that are conducted on social networking systems, carrying real-world examples of such violations and analysing in particular the weakness of password mechanisms. It then presents some solutions that could improve the overall security of the systems.
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Franchi, Enrico, Agostino Poggi, and Michele Tomaiuolo. "Information and Password Attacks on Social Networks." Journal of Information Technology Research 8, no. 1 (2015): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2015010103.
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Online social networks have changed the way people interact, allowing them to stay in touch with their acquaintances, reconnect with old friends, and establish new relationships with other people based on hobbies, interests, and friendship circles. Unfortunately, the regrettable concurrence of the users' carefree attitude in sharing information, the often sub-par security measures from the part of the system operators and, eventually, the high value of the published information make online social networks an interesting target for crackers and scammers alike. The information contained can be used to trigger attacks to even more sensible targets and the ultimate goal of sociability shared by the users allows sophisticated forms of social engineering inside the system. This work reviews some typical social attacks that are conducted on social networking systems, carrying real-world examples of such violations and analysing in particular the weakness of password mechanisms. It then presents some solutions that could improve the overall security of the systems.
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Redini, Veronica. "Commodity Fetishism Again. Labour, Subjectivity and Commodities in “Supply Chains Capitalism”." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (2018): 353–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0032.
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Abstract The aim of this essay is to reconnect Marx’s analysis of commodity fetishism and the use that he makes of this anthropological category with a general critique of global capitalist relationships. Based on Marx's anthropological insights into the concept of fetishism, it explores the political relationship between labour, subjectivity and commodities in supply chains capitalism. For this purpose, it empirically examines the materials of ethnographic research on the production of Italian companies that produce in an Eastern European country (Romania) and then sell mainly to countries in Western Europe. In this way, the spatial separation between the places where the investments are made (production) and those where profits are generated (market) becomes very clearcut, just like the alienating division between people and the products of their work. In the light of the Marxian analysis of the commodity form, this detachment will be analysed in a fragment of the productive, organisational and social mosaic of contemporary capitalism.
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Keong, Ong Soon. "Rebuilding Corridor, Preserving Prestige: Lim Boon Keng and Overseas Chinese–China Relations." China and Asia 2, no. 1 (2020): 134–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589465x-00201005.
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Why would a foreign-born overseas Chinese endeavor to reconnect with or return to China? While scholars have generally attributed such acts to the emigrant’s primordial affinity to the ancestral homeland, or his nationalistic concerns for China, historian Philip Kuhn’s recent conception of “corridors” allows us to instead focus on the personal and socio-economic reasons behind the emigrant’s engagement with China. This article examines a well-known effort by a third-generation overseas Chinese from Singapore, Lim Boon Keng (1869–1957), who re-established a corridor to China and eventually returned to work in Xiamen. Lim was secure with his racial hybridity and with the fact that he was an overseas Chinese; and it was in response to the changing socio-economic conditions in Singapore that he acknowledged Chinese culture and China, and hoped to use them to ensure the welfare and continual prosperity of his Straits Chinese community in their place of residence.