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90s, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Task Force on the. Emerging issues, expectations, and tasks for the 90s: Report of the Task Force on the 90s. Washington, D.C. (One Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 330, Washington 20036-1110): American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 1988.
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Wagner, Laurie. Expectations: Thirty women talk about becoming a mother. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.
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Thompson, Colleen A. The effects of sex of audience member, task-oriented gender-role expectations, and gender on performance expectations and performance. Sudbury, Ont: Laurentian University, 2005.
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Task Force on Admission Standards. Educating for tomorrow: New expectations for college admissions : report of the Task Force on Admission Standards. [Boston, Mass.]: Massachusetts Higher Education Coordinating Council, 1995.
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National Task Force on Federal Legislation Imposing Reporting Requirements and Expectations on the Criminal Justice System (U.S.). Report of the National Task Force on Federal Legislation Imposing Reporting Requirements and Expectations on the Criminal Justice System. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000.
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National Task Force on Federal Legislation Imposing Reporting Requirements and Expectations on the Criminal Justice System (U.S.). Report of the National Task Force on Federal Legislation Imposing Reporting Requirements and Expectations on the Criminal Justice System. Washington, D.C. (810 7th St. N.W., Washington 20531): U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000.
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Carroll, Michael Francis. Gene ric tasks of supervision:an analysis of supervisee expectations, supervisor interviews and supervisory audio-taped sessions. Guildford: University of Surrey, 1994.
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Dan, Bloom, Butler David 1949-, Cross-State Study of Time-Limited Welfare., and Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, eds. The view from the field: As time limits approach, welfare recipients and staff talk about their attitudes and expectations. New York, NY: Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., 1997.
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Kobozeva, Nadezhda, and Vera Dunaeva. The quality of audit services: concept, methodology, tools. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1016909.
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In the monograph developed a scientifically grounded concept and methodological quality assurance of audit services. Used in the Russian practice the system of indicators of audit quality are not sufficiently effective due to the lack of a uniform conceptual apparatus in the field of audit quality, allowing you to combine the expectations of users, requirements of regulatory bodies and public auditing. The most urgent task of the present stage of development of audit activities is the development of holistic, taking account of national features of the concept of audit quality.
For students undergraduate and graduate, auditors, specialists of bodies of state financial control and supervision of University teachers.
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Nobre, Anna C. (Kia), and Gustavo Rohenkohl. Time for the Fourth Dimension in Attention. Edited by Anna C. (Kia) Nobre and Sabine Kastner. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675111.013.036.
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This chapter takes attention into the fourth dimension by considering research that explores how predictive information in the temporal structure of events can contribute to optimizing perception. The authors review behavioural and neural findings from three lines of investigation in which the temporal regularity and predictability of events are manipulated through rhythms, hazard functions, and cues. The findings highlight the fundamental role temporal expectations play in shaping several aspects of performance, from early perceptual analysis to motor preparation. They also reveal modulation of neural activity by temporal expectations all across the brain. General principles of how temporal expectations are generated and bias information processing are still emerging. The picture so far suggests that there may be multiple sources of temporal expectation, which can bias multiple stages of stimulus analysis depending on the stages of information processing that are critical for task performance. Neural oscillations are likely to provide an important medium through which the anticipated timing of events can regulate neuronal excitability.
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Smith, Ronnie W., and D. Richard Hipp. Spoken Natural Language Dialog Systems. Oxford University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195091878.001.0001.
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As spoken natural language dialog systems technology continues to make great strides, numerous issues regarding dialog processing still need to be resolved. This book presents an exciting new dialog processing architecture that allows for a number of behaviors required for effective human-machine interactions, including: problem-solving to help the user carry out a task, coherent subdialog movement during the problem-solving process, user model usage, expectation usage for contextual interpretation and error correction, and variable initiative behavior for interacting with users of differing expertise. The book also details how different dialog problems in processing can be handled simultaneously, and provides instructions and in-depth result from pertinent experiments. Researchers and professionals in natural language systems will find this important new book an invaluable addition to their libraries.
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Small, Mario Luis. Someone To Talk To. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190661427.001.0001.
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When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant—a person to vent to or talk things through with who will offer sympathy or understanding. How do they decide on whom to rely? In theory, the answer seems obvious: if the matter is personal, they will turn to a spouse, a family member, or someone otherwise close. In practice, what people actually do often belies these expectations. This book follows a group of graduate students as they cope with the stress of their first year in their programs, probing how they choose confidants over the course of their everyday experiences and unraveling the implications of the process. The book then tests its explanations against data on national populations. It shows that rather than consistently rely on their “strong ties,” people often take pains to avoid close friends and family, because these are too fraught with complex expectations. People often confide in “weak ties,” as their fear that their trust could be misplaced is overcome by their need for one who understands. In fact, people may find themselves confiding in acquaintances and even strangers unexpectedly, without much reflection on the consequences. Amid a growing wave of big data and large-scale network analysis, the book returns to the basic questions of who we connect with, how, and why, and upends decades of conventional wisdom on how we should think about and analyze social networks.
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Mariani, Giorgio. What We Talk about When We Talk about Anti-Americanism. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040832.003.0004.
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This essay examines the issue of “anti-Americanism,” paying special attention to the multiple meanings and uses of it in the Italian context. It argues that “anti-Americanism” is no easier to define than something like “love,” which is as crucial yet equally as slippery. It points to some of the many different issues often discussed, or alluded to, when people talk about “anti-Americanism.” These are often ideological and historical. It argues that contrary to expectations most analysts of “anti-Americanism” are fond of pointing out that those who hate “America” are quite often more or less secretly in love with “her.” Interestingly this essay points out that it was only with the advent of the Cold War that the term “anti-Americanism” came to be installed in European dictionaries as well as in the language of global politics, and the essay actually makes a plea for getting rid of the term altogether at this point in time.
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Butz, Martin V., and Esther F. Kutter. Attention. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739692.003.0011.
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Cognition does not work without attention. Attention enables us to focus on particular tasks and particular aspects in the environment. Psychological insights show that attention exhibits bottom-up and top-down components. Attention is attracted from the bottom-up towards unusual, exceptional, and unexpected sensory information. Top-down attention, on the other hand, filters information dependent on the current task-oriented expectations, which depend on the available generative models. This computational interpretation enables the explanation of conjunctive and disjunctive search. Different models of attention emphasize the importance of the unfolding interaction processes and a processing bottleneck can be detected. As a result, attention can be viewed as a dynamic control process that unfolds in redundant, neural fields, in which the selection of one interpretation and thus the processing bottleneck is strongest at the current focus of attention. The actual focus of attention itself is determined by the current behavioral and cognitive goals.
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Eichengreen, Barry, and Poonam Gupta. Tapering Talk: The Impact of Expectations of Reduced Federal Reserve Security Purchases on Emerging Markets. The World Bank, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-6754.
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Watson, Max, Caroline Lucas, Andrew Hoy, and Jo Wells. Communication: Breaking bad news. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199234356.003.0002.
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After an introduction to breaking bad news, chapter 2 covers barriers to effective communication, specific communication issues, handling difficult questions, collusion, dealing with anger, exploration of feelings such as anxiety, patients who do not want to talk, handling denial, unrealistic expectation, and working with ethnic diversity patients.
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Michael, Eisenberg, and Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.), eds. Rising expectations: A framework for ERIC's future in the National Library of Education : report of the ERIC operations framework task force. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, 1997.
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Novenson, Matthew V. Messiahs Present and Absent. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190255022.003.0004.
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This chapter critically assesses the widespread scholarly notion of a “messianic vacuum”—that is, a period or periods in the history of ancient Judaism marked by a conspicuous absence of messianic expectation. The chapter considers in detail three classic literary sources commonly invoked in this connection: the works of Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus, and the Mishnah. Against the messianic vacuum hypothesis, it is argued that talk about messiahs is simply one of a number of ancient Jewish discursive resources for solving one of a number of social problems. On this model, references to messiahs occur in some early Jewish texts and not in others, and there is nothing curious, remarkable, or deficient about the texts in which they do not. It is the expectation on the part of the interpreter that creates the problem.
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Jones, Charles O. 5. Connecting to and Leading the Government. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780195307016.003.0005.
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The Founders were aware of the need for leadership but wary of the ease of control. Presidents face challenges as they endeavor to meet expectations of leadership beyond given powers. ‘Connecting to and Leading the Government’ shows how the presidency manages the organizations and expenditure of government, a task that has grown in complexity and intensity over time. To whom or what must presidents connect? The federal government is intricately connected to governance in the fifty states and thousands of localities. Bureaucrats learn to serve presidents and their associates. The challenge for presidents is to take advantage of bureaucratic experience in formulating and promoting their programs.
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Jones, Charles O. 5. Connecting to and leading the government. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190458201.003.0005.
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Presidents face numerous challenges as they endeavor to meet expectations of leadership beyond given powers. “Connecting to and leading the government” shows how the presidency manages the many organizations and expenditures of government, a task that has grown in size, complexity, and intensity over time. To whom or what must presidents connect? The many cabinet departments and major agencies are described along with the roles of the inner circle—key advisers and assistants, the vice president, and the first spouse. The federal government is intricately connected to governance in the fifty states and thousands of localities. The challenge for presidents is to take advantage of bureaucratic experience in formulating and promoting their programs.
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Mangold, Michael, Peter Weibel, and Julie Woletz, eds. Vom Betrachten zum Gestalten. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845296968.
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As a consequence of the digital revolution, the tasks and challenges facing museums also have to be redefined. In order to cope with these issues constructively, explanations of the basic theoretical concepts in this respect are equally as necessary as the development of new strategies and models of communication by museums seen against the backdrop of critical reflections on their day-to-day workings. As media use has become commonplace in daily life, people’s expectations of museums have also changed. Visitors to museums are becoming increasingly used to being involved in them as active contributors rather than merely as passive observers, which means that appropriate and attractive ways of meeting these expectations have to be found in line with the educational role of museums. Based on theories of art, culture, education and civilisation, the second and substantially updated edition of this book therefore presents innovative communication strategies from the day-to-day workings of museums.
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Ingram, Shelley, Willow G. Mullins, Todd Richardson, and Anand Prahlad. Implied Nowhere. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496822956.001.0001.
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Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies talks about things folklorists don’t usually talk about. It ponders the tacit aspects of folklore and folklore studies, looking into the unarticulated expectations placed upon people whenever they talk about folklore and how those expectations necessarily affect the folklore they are talking about. The book’s chapters are wide-ranging in subject and style, yet they all orbit the idea that much of folklore, both as a phenomenon and as a field, hinges upon tacit or absent assumptions about who we are and what it is that we do. The authors articulate theories and methodologies for making sense of these absences, and, in the process, they offer critical new insights into discussions of race, authenticity, community, folklore and literature, popular culture, and scholarly authority. Taken as a whole, the book represents a new and challenging way of looking into the ways that groups come together to make meaning. In addition to the main chapters, the book also includes eight “interstitials,” shorter chapters that consider understudied and under-appreciated aspects of folklore. These discussions, which range from a consideration of knitting in public to the ways that invisibility shapes an internet meme to Bob Dylan, are presented as questions more than answers, encouraging readers to think about what folklore and folklore studies might look like if practitioners only chose to look at the subject from a slightly different angle.
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Gaffney-Rhys, Ruth. 12. Skills for Success in Coursework Assessments. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198715757.003.0012.
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The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter builds upon the guidance provided in chapter one regarding the completion of coursework or assignment questions. It sets out the expectations lecturers will have in relation to coursework submissions and provides advice on planning and how to research assignment tasks; how to evaluate and critically analyse the law; how to adhere to the word count; how to reference; how to proofread; and the practicalities of submission.
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Freitag, Lisa. Competence. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190491789.003.0006.
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Parents caring for children with special health care needs or long-term disabilities are called to a new level of competence as medical caregivers, often as soon as the child is discharged from the hospital. There is no accepted measure for success with this task, though failure can be met with repeated hospitalization or removal of the child from the home. This chapter evaluates, through parent narratives, how parents obtain and view their competence. Some parents perform in-depth research into their child’s medical problems and achieve a surprisingly high level of knowledge. This is often discounted by both the parents and health care providers. The moral work done in this area is significant. Parents must change their priorities and re-align their expectations for their child’s success. They must adapt to a slower developmental pace, and create for the child a safe haven where the child’s disability becomes the accepted norm.
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Roeder, Philip G. National Secession. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501725982.001.0001.
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National Secession asks which projects for new nation-states give rise to campaigns that cause discord—and sometimes mayhem—in the politics of existing states. This has been explained by identities, grievances, greed, and tactical-logistical opportunities. Yet, under the strategic constraints faced by most national-secession campaigns, the essential element in almost all campaigns is the ability of the campaign’s program to coordinate expectations within a platform population on a common goal so that independence becomes the only viable option. In their strategy of programmatic coordination, which has guided the most important national-secession campaigns, the critical task of campaign leaders is propagating an authentic and realistic nation-state project. This explains which campaigns are most likely to draw attention in the capitals of the great powers that control admission to the international community, bring their disputes with their central governments to an intractable deadlock, and engage in protracted intense struggles to convince the international community that independence is the only viable option.
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Martin, Jeffrey J. Supercrip Identity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638054.003.0015.
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A common stereotype in the disability literature is known as the supercrip, or someone who overcomes their disability in ways that are often seen by the public as inspiring. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the supercrip identity among athletes in disability sport settings. The supercrip stereotype has been criticized as portraying athletes with disabilities as overcoming or defeating their disability via heroic efforts. Often the accomplishments they are praised for are superior gold-medaling winning performances, but more mundane tasks such as going shopping are also praised. Excessive praise for engaging in everyday activities is thought to reflect low expectations about what a person with a disability can do. Many individuals view their impairment as part of their identity and not something to overcome or defeat. Supercrip-related praise for Paralympians can unrealistically raise expectations for all people with disabilities, including many who cannot do many of the things athletes with disabilities can do. The chapter discusses reasons for the supercrip identity, whether it is inspiring, and nuanced commentaries on the supercrip identity by academics, coaches, and athletes in disability sport.
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Tang, Jasmine Kar. “A Tennessean in an Unlikely Package”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037832.003.0010.
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This chapter looks at the comedy and figure of Southern and Asian American entertainer Henry Cho. Cho's representation of his racial subjectivity reveals how he carefully manages others' expectations of him. The use of humor by a racialized subject in performance can mitigate discomfort about racial difference among mainstream white audiences. Thus, the stand-up comedy of Henry Cho presents an especially rich site of study when one considers how accents and jokes operate as markers and articulations of belonging. Moreover, Cho's comedy attest to the challenges in pulling away from the “pernicious either/or habit common in the formation of imagined communities” especially in constructions of the South, as they push for ways “to talk about region without talking about essential identities or ‘heritage.’”
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Small, Mario Luis. Relevance and Empathy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190661427.003.0006.
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This chapter suggests that the graduate students approached weak ties because of a desire to confide in someone who would understand their predicament as they themselves saw it. In other words, they sought people from whom they could expect what psychologists have termed cognitive empathy. Talking to those confidants, even if weakly tied, was often worth the risk. The chapter considers the relation between risk and expectations before discussing how students often justified their motivation to talk to an acquaintance as a function of the topic at hand; this form of trust is what Russell Hardin has described as a “three-part relation,” and philosopher Annette Baier, as a “three-part predicate”: “A trusts B with valued thing C.” It shows that the students commonly found empathy in one of several different forms of similarity, suggesting a mechanism through which homophily operates.
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Bion, Julian, and Anna Dennis. ICU admission and discharge criteria. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0020.
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The decision to admit patients to intensive care or discharge them, is a daily task for intensivists, a life-changing event for patients and families, and a major strategic issue for health care systems worldwide. Decisions must often be made rapidly, in conditions of uncertainty, involving substituted judgements about relative risks and benefits, framed by sociocultural factors that are not well characterized. The outcomes are strongly influenced by available resources, staffing, and skills throughout the patient pathway. The decision to admit should be based on the severity of illness, chronic health and physiological reserve, and therapeutic susceptibility, informed by the patient’s wishes. Discharge decisions are equally complex and involve balancing the needs of individual patients against those of society. Scoring systems and guidelines can aid decision making. The process involves collaboration between intensivist, referring team, patient, and family. The provision of futile care is usually driven by family expectations and lack of agreement among the treating team. Discussions involve value judgements. Effective admission and discharge processes will minimize avoidable morbidity, mortality, and readmissions, and maximize family and patient satisfaction, and cost-efficacy. However, reaching the most effective level of practice involves balances and compromises. Experienced clinical judgement remains a key element in defining suitability of individual patients for ICU admission and discharge.
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Flammang, Janet A. Conversations and Narratives. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040290.003.0003.
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This chapter focuses on table conversations and narratives. Linguists have developed certain concepts that can help us get a detailed understanding of conversations. For example, they study interruptions to find out whether certain groups are more likely to interrupt than others. There are gender differences in “conversation work”: asking and responding to conversation openers and questions, using “minimal response utterances” to show interest, introducing and elaborating on topics, and filling silences to keep the conversation going. Researchers have also discovered class differences in parental expectations about conversing with children. This chapter begins with a discussion of how children, adolescents, and adults alike can learn the art of conversation at the table. It then considers the importance of narratives as a particular kind of table talk for developing our civic selves. It argues that table narratives are a foundational component of democratic conversations and outlines the three levels—facts, emotions, and identity—at which difficult conversations operate simultaneously.
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Dillon, Michele. Postsecular Catholicism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693008.001.0001.
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Amid increased secularization, there is new appreciation for the relevance of moderate religion, such as Catholicism, in redirecting the ethical commitments of contemporary society. The postsecular affirmation of the mutual significance of religious and secular resources provides the Church with a renewed opportunity for engagement with public societal issues and for institutional revitalization among Catholics. It requires, however, a dialogue between doctrinal ideas and the increasingly secularized experiences and expectations of Catholics, as well as others. This book examines how the Church negotiates this task. Anchored in the context of American Catholicism, it aims to help the reader understand why Catholicism continues to have relevance, notwithstanding its multiple tensions. Critical here is recognition of the fact that the Church is not a monolithic entity but, instead, is characterized by, and allows, a dynamic interpretive diversity among laity, bishops, and the Vatican. The book presents case analyses and survey data showing how the crosscutting pull of religious and secular currents plays out across a number of contentious societal and intra-Church issues. Among the topics examined are economic inequality, climate change, gay sexuality, divorce and remarriage, women’s ordination, and religious freedom. This inquiry demonstrates the strategies and processes by which tradition and change, authority and autonomy, and doctrinal ideas and secular realities are held together in Catholicism.
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Guiney, Thomas. Getting Out. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803683.001.0001.
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Getting Out explores the evolution of early release in England and Wales between 1960 and 1995. In the past three decades crime has become a highly contested political issue with implications for the humanity, fairness, and effectiveness of the criminal justice system. This book seeks to turn current crime debate on its head and examine the circumstances in which politicians and policy-makers have found it desirable to reduce the custodial element of a prison sentence and encourage the rehabilitation offenders in the community. Drawing upon a period of detailed archival research this book considers three critical moments of reform which have helped to shape the historical evolution of this secretive and little understood area of public policy. It argues that early release has always been bound up with prevailing societal justifications for punishment and the appropriate use of imprisonment within our liberal democratic system. It draws attention to the uneasy constitutional balance of power between the judiciary and the executive, and reflects upon the administrative task of governing large captive populations where the hopes and expectations of inmates do not always align with the interests of prison authorities or the community at large. This book challenges widespread assumptions about policy change and shows how the historical evolution of parole in England and Wales was shaped, to a significant degree, by the legacy of past political choices and the fluid balance of power within government.
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Jacobson, Matthew Frye. The Historian's Eye. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649665.001.0001.
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Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the "historian's eye" during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a moment with unquestionable historical significance. This book presents more than 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past, present, and future. The images reveal diverse expressions of civic engagement that are emblematic of the aspirations, expectations, promises, and failures of this period in American history. Myriad closed businesses and abandoned storefronts stand as public monuments to widespread distress; omnipresent, expectant Obama iconography articulates a wish for new national narratives; flamboyant street theater and wry signage bespeak a common impulse to talk back to power. Framed by an introductory essay, these images reflect the sober grace of a time that seems perilous, but in which “hope” has not ceased to hold meaning.
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Childress, James F. Public Bioethics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199798483.001.0001.
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Doing public bioethics involves analyzing and assessing actual and proposed public policies regarding biomedicine, healthcare, and public health. “Public bioethics” also refers to commissions, councils, task forces, and the like, that are governmentally established, sponsored, or funded for the purpose of deliberating collectively about bioethical issues, again with a primary goal of recommending public policies. Most chapters in this book grow out of, some reflect on, and all are profoundly shaped by the author’s experiences as a participant in several public bioethics bodies, especially at the national level in the United States. The processes of publicly deliberating in such bodies about bioethical issues and appropriate policies and of publicly justifying collective recommendations have profoundly shaped this book. After examining respect for autonomy—both thin and thick conceptions—and paternalistic policies and practices, as well as the tensions between particular case judgments and general principles and rules, this book next examines the appropriate role of religious convictions in public bioethics and in public policy and in conscientious claims to exemptions from expectations to provide certain health-related services. The third section of the book focuses on public policies and practices in organ transplantation, particularly difficulties in determining death, in obtaining first-person consent for deceased organ donation, and in fairly allocating donated organs. The final section maps the terrain of public health ethics, argues for a presumptivist approach to justifying public health interventions that infringe civil liberties, proposes a framework of triage for public health crises, and recasts John Stuart Mill’s misunderstood legacy for public health ethics.
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Yusof, Ab Aziz. The human side of human resource management. UUM Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789670474922.
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Human resource is the most valuable asset in an organization as it is managed, operated and run by them.The progress, survival and success of the organization is totally depends on the capabilities and the competitiveness of their HR especially in the era of critical and drastic change.As a result, HR manager has to face a more competitive, uncertain and complex HR expectations, needs and wants in a turbulent business environment.Therefore, his ability in managing HR is becoming more crucial to the success and the survival of the organisation. As HR manager is the key player in running the organisation, it is important for him to ensure a holistic and comprehensive approach, by putting in balance both the human side which is considered as soft HRM and the technical side which is considered as hard HRM, need to be simultaneously taken into consideration.Therefore, managing the human side of human resourceculture, symbols, diversity, humour, emotional intelligence, justice, forgiveness, and spiritualityis believed to be far more complicated than managing the technical side of it. The human side of human resource management treats employees as partners and a source of competitive advantage through their commitment, trust, job satisfaction, loyalty and collaboration.Furthermore, HR is viewed as a proactive rather than passive inputs in executing the task and responsibility.The managers ability in managing the human side of human resource strategically is equally important as managing the technical side as both play significant role in influencing the bottom line of the organisation through their symbiotic relationship.
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Merlo, Gia. Principles of Medical Professionalism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197506226.001.0001.
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Principles of Medical Professionalism will inform both future physicians and current practitioners that being a medical professional is not about being perfect, but rather about being human and recognizing our own limitations. The reader can therefore learn to manage their expectations about the profession while becoming more resilient to disruptions in the medical field such as artificial intelligence and the changing patient–doctor relationship. This book takes into consideration challenges to the uniform integration of a formal medical professionalism curriculum and addresses the critical need for support of practitioners’ professional development and identity formation throughout the various stages and transitions in their medical career. Overall, each chapter of this book aims to challenge the reader to engage in a process of self-reflection using the framework of the Gibb’s reflective cycle and provides health professionals of all levels with practical tools and techniques that will allow them to become more competent caregivers and leaders in their field. Indeed, the ultimate goal of the book is to encourage a medical educational framework supporting personal and professional transformation that may lead to more resilient and happier physicians. Thus, physicians may be better equipped to attend to the tasks of patient care that incorporate attention to healing, caring, and, compassion, while upholding their duty to serve the patient and society.
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Rea, Michael C. The Hiddenness of God. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826019.001.0001.
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This book is about the hiddenness of God, and the problems it raises for belief and trust in God. Talk of divine hiddenness evokes a variety of phenomena—the relative paucity and ambiguity of the available evidence for God’s existence, the elusiveness of God’s comforting presence when we are afraid and in pain, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more. Many of these phenomena are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that God is deeply lovingly concerned with the lives and emotional and spiritual well-being of human creatures; and the philosophical problem of divine hiddenness ranks alongside the problem of evil as one of the two most important and widely discussed reasons for disbelieving in God. The central argument of the book is that the hiddenness problem, construed as an argument against the existence of God, rests on unwarranted assumptions and expectations about God’s love and goodness. In challenging those assumptions, however, the book also raises the question of why we should accept traditional positive characterizations of God’s love (God as perfect heavenly parent, for example) rather than the negative ones suggested by the phenomena of divine hiddenness (God as absent or neglectful parent, for example). The final four chapters aim to address this problem through discussion of God’s widespread experiential availability, God’s loving authorization of lament and protest, and the surprising ease of seeking and participating in a relationship with God.
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Pomerantz, Anita. Asking and Telling in Conversation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190927431.001.0001.
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The work contains nine published conversation analytic articles by Anita Pomerantz on asking and telling practices. Each paper explicates complexities involved when people ask or tell something. Asking and telling practices are used to exchange information, share evaluative reactions, offer compliments, and make accusations. The ways in which participants perform the actions reflect how they orient to those actions and to the matter asked about or reported. The timing of asking or telling within a sequence of actions and/or interactional project bears on how the talk and action are formed and understood. Implicit and explicit knowledge claims and expectations are foundational to asking and telling activities. Assumptions are associated with participants’ directly and indirectly seeking or providing information. Reporting or asking about praiseworthy or blameworthy matters implicates an attribution of responsibility. Moral orientations influence asking and telling activities. The conversation analytic papers included in this work range from Pomerantz’s earliest research on preference organization to her more recent work on asking and telling. For each article, there is a lead-in that identifies the research interests that drove the analysis and a commentary that provides her current sense of the analysis. The introductory and concluding chapters discuss the complexities of asking and telling in the light of the articles’ findings, and they illuminate the links the papers have to one another. Pomerantz shares her views about the program of conversation analytic research, a view that is reflected both in the studies and in her commentaries.
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Hillewaert, Sarah. Morality at the Margins. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286515.001.0001.
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This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on the island of Lamu (Kenya) who live simultaneously “on the edge and in the center”: they are situated at the edge of the (inter)national economy and at the margins of Western notions of modernity; yet they are concurrently the focus of (inter)national campaigns against Islamic radicalization and are at the heart of Western (touristic) imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim in this context? And how are these denominators differently imagined and enacted in daily encounters? Documenting the everyday lives of Lamu youth, this ethnography explores how young people negotiate different cultural, religious, political and economic pressures and expectations through nuanced deployments of language, dress, and bodily comportment. It thereby illustrates how seemingly mundane practices—from how young people greet others, to how they walk, dress, and talk—can become tactics in the negotiation of moral personhood. A central concern of the book lies with the shifting meaning and ambiguity of such everyday signs and thus the dangers of semiotic misconstrual. By examining this uncertainty of interpretation in projects of self-fashioning, the book highlights how shifting and scalable discourses of tradition, modernity, secularization, nationalism, and religious piety inform changing notions of moral subjectivity. Documenting how Lamu youth navigate this contested field in a fast-changing place with a fascinating history, this book offers a distinctly linguistic anthropological approach to discussions of ethical self-fashioning and everyday Islam.
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Attain a Happy & Peaceful Life by Nikhil Anshuman: Live a life filled with happiness and inner peace. Nikhil Anshuman, 2019.
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