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Sundbo, Jon. "From service quality to experience – and back again?" International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences 7, no. 1 (March 16, 2015): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijqss-01-2015-0009.
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Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the movement in the focus on customers within service management and marketing theories and service research that has taken place during the past three decades. The paper addresses the question: How did we, in service research, change from emphasizing quality to emphasizing experience? Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses developments in service and experience theories. Experience has come onto the theoretical agenda, both in its own right and as a concept within service marketing and management theory. Findings – Experience has increasingly been a concept that has replaced quality in service marketing theories. However, an independent experience economy paradigm has also emerged. Recently, the societal emphasis on productivity may lead back to functional quality re-emerges in theories; however, it will most likely be in a new version. Originality/value – This analysis is a profound theory-critical analysis of the actually very widely used concept experience in service theories. The analysis present an understanding of what experience means in these theories and how it relates to the quality concept. This is an original contribution to a deeper understanding of service marketing and service quality theories.
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Woosley, John M., Rachelle F. Cope, Robert F. Cope III, and David C. Wyld. "Motor Carrier Regulation and Last Mile Delivery: Have we Come Full-Circle with Carrier Practices?" International Journal of Managing Value and Supply Chains 13, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/ijmvsc.2022.13402.
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The focus of logistics has been to deliver products to customers as quickly and consistently as possible without a severe loss in profit. The growth of multichannel retailing in connection with the recent surge in on-line ordering, has forced the logistics industry to evaluate current transportation practices and make innovative adjustments. In our work, we reflect on the changes to motor carrier transportation over time through the lens of regulation. Concerns about rates, entry to markets, and the safety of carriers were common around the Great Depression. Policy makers took notice and imposed economic and social regulation. Motor carrier strategies changed to meet these new policies and the motor carrier industry settled into decades of stability. Midway through the 20th century many began to question the efficiency of the industry. Entry was difficult, rates were considered high, but safety issues were of little concern at the time. Deregulation became widely popular with policy makers, and the industry changed its strategies again to comply with deregulated policies. Today, technology has become a prominent tool for all. Together, e-Commerce, Omni-Channel Distribution, Last Mile Delivery and Gig Delivery are poised to change motor carrier practices again. So, where does the industry go from here? Some think that it is headed back to economic and social regulation policies of the past. We examine the impact of previous legislation on the transportation industry, specifically motor carriers, which led to deregulation of motor carriers in the 1990’s. Considering the growth of on-line sales, we attempt to look forward, using the past, to hypothesize how they may operate in the future.
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Jaiswal, Sandeep S. "Lesser of Men Than Our Fathers, No Men in A Few Decades, Human’s Become Extinct After." International Journal of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technology 4, no. 2 (February 28, 2024): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.54105/ijamst.b3047.04020224.
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This paper proves that the ever decreasing testosterone levels in men will eventually be compounded by the ever increasing causals which along with genetic changes from the past generations will eventually make the men incapable of procreating, creating new life and lead to the end of human life on earth, the complete extinction in the next decades. We are lesser of a men than our father due to such reasons and will never become father’s again for the next father’s to come. The only way to save mankind is by reversing the causals back to the normal again and ever surpassing them to create real heaven on earth.
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Asche, Helmut. "Down to Earth Again: The Third Stage of African Growth Perceptions." Africa Spectrum 50, no. 3 (December 2015): 123–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203971505000306.
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Research on African economies has arrived at the third stage of perceptions in recent times – after “Africa's growth tragedy” and “Emerging Africa,” we have now come back down to earth. An analysis of five stylised facts contributes to the sobering account: per capita income levels rising only moderately; “hyperglobalisation” or “peak trade” in the world economy likely coming to an end; African economies exhibiting limited structural change; employment and labour productivity trends going somewhat in the wrong direction and at the expense of manufacturing; and industrialisation peaking earlier in global development and at lower levels of employment, rendering an industry-led development path for Africa even more difficult than previously thought. By analysing these trends, we are better able to pinpoint the challenges that governments, parliaments, and the private sector will face in terms of defining policies to sustain the impressive record of the growth period in Africa which began in the mid-1990s and continues today. As the continent's growth was, despite inflated figures on African middle classes, not inclusive enough, sympathy for all sorts of cash transfer programmes, including unconditional transfers, is rising in formerly reticent quarters. Fresh excitement over social subsidies in Africa should, however, not come at the expense of smart productive subsidies, which have the potential to tackle the agro-industrial root causes of the limited structural change recorded.
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McGowan, Philip. "What We Imagine Knowledge to Be." JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 1, no. 1 (August 31, 2020): 53–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v1i1.72.
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This essay looks back to 1947, the year that the Salzburg seminar was inaugurated, as well as looking at contemporary issues in American studies to chart where we have come from to date and where the field is heading. Its main argument examines the poems "Ésthetique du Mal" by Wallace Stevens from his 1947 collection Transport to Summer and "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, first published in 1947, and explores common themes of knowledge, pain, loss, and history. As the Western world experiences again a moment of political and cultural uncertainty brought to the center stage of US and European discourse in 2016 by the election of Donald Trump and the UK vote to leave the European Union, Stevens and Bishop offer routes forward through such moments of heightened politicization. American studies, as a field of interconnected disciplines, continually confronts the difficult aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first-century life. As the rise of the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements have indicated, the open ruptures within American society will continue to pour forth debates requiring urgent critical attention and discussion. Incidents of racial hatred, of right-wing extremism, and of abusive misogynistic sexism, dormant to varying degrees prior to Trump's election, have come to the surface of a nation increasingly riven by what the reality of his Presidency means for America. Our job, as researchers and teachers, is to engage each and every aspect of this moment in history, however contested or controversial they may be.
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Vučković, Vojko. "CUSTOMER RETENTION ANALYSIS - AN EXAMPLE OF A FITNESS CENTER." Kinesiologia Slovenica 28, no. 2 (August 8, 2022): 162–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.52165/kinsi.28.2.162-170.
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In present research we attempted to find out what influences fitness centre users' decisions to prolong fitness membership. We called users whose tickets had expired (n=57). We were interested in what factors influence a user to purchase a membership again and whether we could influence this decision with a phone call. Using logistic regression, we found that user age and experience with the receptor did not influence the decision to retain and repurchase. We found that we can influence a user's intention to repurchase if we call them less than 30 days after the membership expires. After 30 days, there is a good chance that the user has already purchased a ticket at another sports centre and will not return it. Users who were called and confirmed over the phone that they would come back and purchase the ticket again did so. We recommend that sports centre managers create a customer loyalty program and call them when the membership expires.
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Novikova, Elena L., and Milana A. Kulakova. "There and Back Again: Hox Clusters Use Both DNA Strands." Journal of Developmental Biology 9, no. 3 (July 15, 2021): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jdb9030028.
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Bilaterian animals operate the clusters of Hox genes through a rich repertoire of diverse mechanisms. In this review, we will summarize and analyze the accumulated data concerning long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) that are transcribed from sense (coding) DNA strands of Hox clusters. It was shown that antisense regulatory RNAs control the work of Hox genes in cis and trans, participate in the establishment and maintenance of the epigenetic code of Hox loci, and can even serve as a source of regulatory peptides that switch cellular energetic metabolism. Moreover, these molecules can be considered as a force that consolidates the cluster into a single whole. We will discuss the examples of antisense transcription of Hox genes in well-studied systems (cell cultures, morphogenesis of vertebrates) and bear upon some interesting examples of antisense Hox RNAs in non-model Protostomia.
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Dickson, Caroline, and Kate Sanders. "We are creative – are you?" International Practice Development Journal 11, no. 1 (May 19, 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.19043/ipdj.111.001.
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When thinking about this editorial, we knew we wanted to say something about creativity. Working creatively is a valuable means of accessing embodied knowledge and new insights about ourselves, our practice and our workplace cultures that can be used to inform development and transformation. However, being new to writing editorials, we first decided to have a look back through the journal’s editorial archives and seek the wisdom of previous authors. In doing so, it was interesting to see that our first Academic Editor, Professor Jan Dewing, had written an editorial about being creative back in May 2012; we encourage you to have a look. Jan began: ‘Yet again I recently heard someone saying they weren’t a creative person... ’and this is something we both experience when working with others. Is this because the word creativity is perceived to refer to the arts – for example, crafting, painting, movement and music – rather than a broader understanding, as suggested by the dictionary definition below: ‘The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination ’(dictionary.com). Taking this more expansive perspective opens up the possibility for us all to perceive ourselves as inherently creative. It could be argued that this creativity has come to the fore as we have adapted to new ways of living and working during the Covid-19 pandemic. While this crisis has brought huge uncertainty and challenge right across the complex mix of health and social care services, what has been remarkable is the ability people have shown to change their ways of working, to seek solutions – and to do so at pace. We believe this reflects the creative nature of human beings/persons. Oliver (2009) argues that creativity is everywhere, as humans and the world are constantly engaged in a process of making. He contends that we should view creativity as ‘openness’, which is person-oriented (Massey and Munt, 2009). In this way, we create the possibility for participatory exploration of the social, cultural and embodied context, and for improvisation and transformation, by engaging in people’s ‘interests, curiosities and passions ’(Massey and Munt, 2009, p 305).
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Modleski, Tania. "Omissão histórica e repressão psíquica em Boogie Nights de Paul Thomas Anderson." Matrizes 10, no. 2 (August 31, 2016): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v10i2p25-44.
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Exquisitely filmed in Altmanesque style and drawing on scenes from the films of Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, Boogie Nights continues to this day to be proclaimed an ultra hip and daring look at the so-called Golden Age of pornography set of the 1970s. In this essay I attempt to document what this film leaves out of the historical record, and to show how historical suppression dovetails with psychic repression. Instead of history we are presented with melodrama. Instead of a historical document, Boogie Nights gives us, again, Oedipus. Like most elegies, the negative or undesirable aspects of the subject are minimized or omitted, although they come back to haunt the text.
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Cook, Michael, and Simon Colton. "From Mechanics to Meaning and Back Again: Exploring Techniques for the Contextualisation of Code." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 9, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 2–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v9i2.12584.
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Code generation is a promising new area for the automatic production of mechanics and systems in games. Generated code alone is not sufficient for inclusion in a rich, fully-designed game, however - it lacks context to bind the functionality of code to the metaphorical setting of the game. In this paper we explore potential solutions to this problem, both in terms of creative systems which co-operate with human content, and the possibility for contextual meaning in autonomous, human-free creative systems as well.
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McGillis, Roderick. "Fantasy as Epanalepsis: ‘An Anticipation of Retrospection’." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 18, no. 2 (December 1, 2008): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2008vol18no2art1161.
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This article begins by discussing the rhetorical turn of the first sentence in M. T. Anderson's Thirsty. That first sentence reads: 'In the spring, there are vampires in the wind' (1997 p. 11). Do not these words sound similar to the subtitle of Tolkien's The Hobbit: 'There and Back Again'? I mean, doesn't the shape of the sentence that begins Thirsty remind us of the meaning of Tolkien's subtitle? The sentence begins with a prepositional phrase and ends with a prepositional phrase; in other words, it begins, with a phrase blowing in the wind and ends with the return of that wind; it begins, goes there, and then comes back, so to speak. When winter passes, a spring wind is sure to follow. If we are of a psychoanalytic cast of mind, we might say that rhetorically, the sentence enacts a return - the return of the repressed - but it does so slyly; it disguises the return of the repressed because we always have to disguise repressed content when it insists on emerging from the unconscious. Those pesky vampires insist on returning time and again; this time they come in with the wind - a sort of undead Chinook. My argument, then, is that fantasy rhetorically enacts the journey of return. When we begin a fantasy, we anticipate a return; we read retrospectively. Fantasy can deliver a productive nostalgia, a looking backward in order to look forward, fantasy opens a space for invention, and what returns in fantasy is both the repressed itself and the mechanism of repression.
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Janette Salgado-Pastor, Selene, Erick Ramírez-Arias, Tomás de Jesús Martínez-Jaimes, José Luis Argüelles-Reynoso, Erick B. Trujillo-Virgen, Leonel Martínez-Ramírez, Joel Álvarez Peña, et al. "Ventricular Septal Rupture Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction: Interesting Case and Review." American Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery 4, no. 1 (February 21, 2019): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.15226/2573-864x/4/1/00154.
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Man of 72 years old, smoking, who presented acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation (STEMI) localized in anterior wall (Figure 1) and included into the code infarction protocol at emergency room of cardiology hospital in Mexico City-IMSS. The patient was successful re-perfused by percutaneous coronary intervention of left anterior descending artery, documenting several other non-critical coronary artery disease. During its evolution in the first twelve hours, it was identified an apical ventricular septal rupture documented by echocardiogram. (Figure 2) Medical management was implemented. After stabilization patient ask voluntary discharge of hospital, 10 days later he come back due to severe heart failure. He was stabilized again and submitted to surgical reparation (Figure 3 and Figure 4) later and his heart failure was successfully resolved (Figure 4) and he was discharged in an excellent condition. We present a case and review of the literature as well as the position of management of this group of patients in the Hospital’s cardiology of the National Medical Center SXXI, IMSS-México, since it is currently still controversy.
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Perdu, B., F. Coxon, and M. Helfrich. "Human recessive osteopetrosis." Osteologie 18, no. 04 (2009): 260–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1619909.
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SummaryOsteopetrosis is an inherited high bone mass condition resulting from reduced osteoclast activity. Over the past ten years, many of the genes mutated in the various forms of osteopetrosis have been identified. It has become clear that there are not only dominant and recessive forms, but also that within the recessive forms subsets exist, classified as osteoclast-rich and osteoclast-poor. Here, we review the different genetic mutations that are known to cause osteopetrosis and then focus specifically on recessive types of the disease. We will illustrate how not only genetic analysis is important, but also that functional osteoclast assays in the laboratory, combined with bone histology, can help to come to a precise diagnosis. We then discuss how this rare condition has led to new insights in the complex process of bone resorption by osteoclasts. Our story is one of bedside to bench and back again.
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Humphrey, Elaine. "Part Ia: Case Study: Strategic plan for an EM Facility." Microscopy Today 15, no. 1 (January 2007): 38–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1551929500051191.
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I took over the facility in 1996. We had aging equipment, no assistance, there were huge budget cuts that year and I was told, “There was no money. The only money you're gonna get are your wages. Everything else has to come from user fees.” I had to find funds for service contracts and we had to increase our user base.I figured I would have to find an assistant because there is no way one can run a TEM, an SEM and confocal and light microscope facilities alone. So I found a grant called “First Job in Science and Technology” which would give me a graduate student for one year, and we had a summer student who had just graduated and was looking for a job before she went on to graduate school. She learned really fast and by February she was excellent, but by May/June we were back into the same boat again.
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Biswas, Abhishek Kanti, and Sahidul Islam. "Multi-objective economic production quantity model for fully backlogged problem where demand depend on some conditions and permissible delay in payment." Independent Journal of Management & Production 10, no. 3 (June 1, 2019): 1106. http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i3.865.
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For any business, inventory system takes a monumental part. Keep this aspect in mind, we formulate multi-objective displayed EPQ model consider with non-instantaneous deteriorating things where production depends on demand and variable demand pattern depends on display self-space, selling price and frequency of advertisement of the item. The customers are more attracted to buy an item by observing self-space, selling price and advertisement. Imperfect materials are now and again come back to providers for a discount or credit. Here price discount is available for deteriorated and defective items. Holding cost varies with time where shortages are allowed and fully backlogged. Fuzzy environment touches the reality instead of the crisp environment. So, we assumed the cost components as Triangular Fuzzy Numbers and Nearest Interval Approximation Method is used to defuzzify the model. Finally, numerical examples as well as sketches are given to illustrate the model.
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Nachbar, Martin. "Training Remembering." Dance Research Journal 44, no. 2 (2012): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767712000071.
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I would like to start with an anecdote. When my daughter was five weeks old, she had a stiff neck, and almost couldn't turn her head at all to her left. So, my wife and I went to see an osteopath. The doctor's practice was a family business: father and son—both of them neurologists and chiropractors—work on scores of bodies day by day, manipulating and treating them. The father is also an osteopath; the son is still learning to become one. We saw the son. He treated our daughter who screamed and turned red and in turn got her back straightened, but not quite as straight as it should have been. So, the son got his father, who showed him another trick or two, explained them to his son and to us, and left again. Our daughter was now really aligned, and the son said: “Well, this is how it goes. I am still learning. While I push and pull and push and pull, my father just needs one grip and the work is done.” Our daughter sneezed. “Do we need to come back?” we asked. “No, one time is sufficient. Good-bye,” he replied and left for his next patient.
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Reyes McGovern, Elexia. "Storytelling and Mothering: A Portrait of a Homegrown, Mexican American Teacher." Qualitative Inquiry 25, no. 5 (December 14, 2018): 482–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800418817837.
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At the heart of this article are the stories of a woman who identifies herself as a “homegrown,” Mexican American teacher. It is through storytelling with this teacher, Ms. Luna Martinez, that we come to understand how race, class, gender, ethnicity, and motherhood cross borders from the home to the classroom and back again. Although this article focuses on the life story of one teacher, it should be noted that her story resides within a larger research context. Ms. Luna Martinez’s story works to counter deficit, majoritarian narratives that inflict harm on Communities of Color. Moreover, her story radiates moments of survival and resilience with the potential to uplift and inspire Communities of Color. As a “homegrown” teacher who embodies a “pedagogies of the home” approach in the classroom, Ms. Luna Martinez connects with students through a familial and communal kinship.
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Ventura, Luca, and Mirko Traversari. "Pojavljuju se stari znanci." Collegium antropologicum 47, no. 3 (2023): 245–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5671/ca.47.3.8.
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Shortly after the discovery of mummies in the village of Calascio, inner Abruzzo region an additional site in the same area has been brought to light in Filetto, a small hermit belonging to the municipality of L’Aquila. Since 2001, a collection of human remains dating back to 19th century was known to be present inside a crypt beneath the ruins of the Chiesa Vecchia (old church). The recent recovery of the ruined church allowed us to come across the remains once again. The human remains from Filetto represent the seventh known collection of mummified bodies in the inner Abruzzo region, enhancing the assets of bioanthropological interests in this area. By analogy with Calascio and other local sites, we proposed a thorough investigation of bodies and burial goods in order to trace a bioanthropological and paleopathological profile of these individuals.
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Miszewski, Kamil. "Social readaptation of released long-term prisoners and back to crime." Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze 590, no. 5 (May 31, 2020): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.1168.
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The Donald Clemmer’s concept of prisonization did not give long-term prisoners greater chance for social readaptation after leaving the prison. The socialization of prison behavior patterns during such a long period of sentence was to be so signifi cant that it became impossible to bring them back to social life. Meanwhile, research that has emerged since the 1970s is beginning to undermine this idea. More authors examining groups of long-term convicts come to the conclusion that they function in isolation quite well, and even better than prisoners with short sentences. Also statistics show that the scale of the phenomenon of return to crime after the end of a long-term penalty is several times smaller than in the case of short-term penalty. Long-term prisoners can cope well also at large. They owe this to their efforts in prison, living far from what Clemmer presented: they avoid subculture and gangs, take care of their interests, study and work. They have constant contact with the outside world and are more interested in it than what happens in prison. They function exactly differently than short-term convicts. They also commit far fewer regulatory offenses than short-term convicts do. Therefore, it seems that we need to look at Clemmer’s concept once again and perhaps revise its too strongly defi ned assumptions.
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Henriksen, R. N. "Bursting Particle Acceleration in Radio Jets." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 107 (1985): 413–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900075896.
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This work follows on the papers by Henriksen, Bridle and Chan (1982) (HB) and by Eilek and Henriksen (1983). These papers introduced a comprehensive model of (hydrodynamic) turbulence driven Alfven wave, resonant, particle acceleration. Very similar ideas were introduced independently by Fedorenko (1980), but the details were sketchy and the universality of the resulting spectral index was not realized. Eichler (1979) has come closest to these ideas previously (again independently) in a very original paper directed at ion acceleration in solar flares. He includes a back reaction on the turbulent eddies however which requires an adhoc treatment and is probably unnecessary (we replace this by the Lighthill noise analysis: HBC) and he omits synchrotron and adiabatic losses. Moreover, the quasi-linear theory is not used in calculating the distribution function. Nevertheless, it is reassuring that the same intuitive physics, even to the self-similar universality, should arise independently.
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Wahrman Msw, O., and L. Bastaic. "Reclaiming Our Missing Sexual Selves." Klinička psihologija 9, no. 1 (June 13, 2016): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.21465/2016-kp-op-0089.
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Objective: Our goal is to show how the Imago relationship paradigm, relates to couples presenting sexual problems. According to Imago theory, we come into the world whole and complete, with joyful aliveness and potential to grow. To thrive we need messages that support our full potential. Our energy needs to be able to flow freely through all areas of ourfunctioning: being, thinking, feeling, doing and sensing. In response to repressive messages of socialization, we become anxious about expressing parts of ourselves, which limits or overdevelops our capacity to function in some areas. These parts we’ve had to let go off, are freezed inside of us. Eventually, we will fall in love with someone who has our frozen parts alive and kicking, which makes them so very attractive. Design and Method: We’ll examine the messages we’ve received overtly and covertly, about sexuality, from our families and our culture, and begin to understand how they impact our sexual selves and sexual expression. Everything will be done dialogically according to the Imago structure Results: We will discuss and let the participants understand and experience why we are attracted to “such someone” and what happens when we take off our pink glasses. Conclusions: We shall look at the negative messages that lead to anxiety about our acceptability, and see how we get access to our lost sexual parts at the beginning of the relationship, how we lose them again during the course of the relationship, and what do we have to do in order to get them back again.
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Shi, Jinzhao, Ju’e Guo, Qiang Du, Libiao Bai, Yi Li, Wenjun Yan, and Kin Keung Lai. "Evolution of the Complex Partnerships between Banks and B2B e-Trading Platforms: A Theoretical Interpretation from the Chinese Market." Complexity 2020 (May 15, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/9350253.
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Based on the principal-agent theory, we give a theoretical interpretation on evolution of the complex partnerships between the online SCF (supply chain finance) providers in China. First, we describe the principal-agent relationships and analyze the optimal profit-sharing contracts between the banks and the B2B platforms. Then, from a dual perspective of leadership transfer and absolute benefit change, we explain the behavioral choices of the banks in the cooperation. Results show that, at the initial stage of growth of the platforms’ abilities to rate online borrowers, the leadership and the absolute benefit of the banks will suffer a “double decline,” which explains why the leading banks in China “divorced” the B2B platforms during 2011 to 2013. However, as the platforms’ rating abilities grow to “maturity,” the absolute benefit of the banks will finally exceed its original level, and then the rational banks would cooperate with the platforms again even at the expense of losing a portion of their leadership, which answers why the banks in China have come back to “remarry” the B2B platforms since 2014.
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Weitz, Eric D. "Weimar Germany and its Histories." Central European History 43, no. 4 (December 2010): 581–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938910000713.
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Years later, after the catastrophes of the Third Reich and World War II, Arnold Zweig remembered how he had returned home from another disaster, World War I. “With what hopes had we come back from the war!” he wrote. Zweig recalled not just the catastrophe of total war, but also the élan of revolution. Like a demon, he threw himself into politics, then into his writing. “I have big works, wild works, great well-formed, monumental works in my head!,” he wrote to his friend Helene Weyl in April 1919. “I want to write! Everything that I have done up until now is just a preamble.” And it was not to be “normal” writing. The times were of galloping stallions and wide-open furrows, and talent was everywhere. War and revolution had drawn people out of the confining security of bourgeois life. “The times have once again placed adventure in the center of daily life, making possible once more the great novel and the great story.”
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Easterly, William. "Can the West Save Africa?" Journal of Economic Literature 47, no. 2 (May 1, 2009): 373–447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.47.2.373.
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In the new millennium, the Western aid effort toward Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant “transformational” approach (West comprehensively saves Africa) to occasional swings to a “marginal” approach (West takes one small step at a time to help individual Africans). Evaluation of “one step at a time” initiatives is generally easier than that of transformational ones either through controlled experiments (although these have been oversold) or simple case studies where it is easier to attribute outcomes to actions. We see two themes emerge from the literature survey: (1) escalation—as each successive Western transformational effort has yielded disappointing results (as judged at least by stylized facts, since again the econometrics are shaky), the response has been to try an even more ambitious effort and (2) the cycle of ideas—rather than a progressive testing and discarding of failed ideas, we see a cycle in aid ideas in many areas in Africa, with ideas going out of fashion only to come back again later after some lapse long enough to forget the previous disappointing experience. Both escalation and cyclicality of ideas are symptomatic of the lack of learning that seems to be characteristic of the “transformational” approach. In contrast, the “marginal” approach has had some successes in improving the well-being of individual Africans, such as the dramatic fall in mortality.
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DJAKELI, Kakhaber, Salome TOGONIDZE, and Giorgi KHABURZANIA. "Customer Retention with Bundle Services Matrix for Banks in the Second Decade of 21 Century." Journal of Business 6, no. 2 (October 16, 2018): 25–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31578/.v6i2.126.
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The problem of consumer retention is well known in marketing literature. Actually, attraction of the new customers is sometimes three times more costly than their retention – but what is the key for that? Scientific marketing literature and a lot of marketing researches at the financial services market shows that old loyalty of customers towards financial institutions is in reducing stage – is being reduced. What makes customers to come back to the bank again and again? This main research question made us make a special customer survey in the banking sector of Georgia. We made literature review too and – based on literature review the Bank Customer Retention Matrix has been established which seems to be comprehensive for the banking business in future. The data for marketing research was obtained from a convenience sample of 5 bank customers in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. According to our hypothesis – if the decision to change the bank in the past period was a function of price, reputation, service quality, effective advertising competition, involuntary switching, distance, switching costs anddemographic characteristics, in future it can be seen - observed in other factors. Convenience sample analysis and some factor studies were used to analyze thedata and identify and rank the factors that impact the bank switching behavior of customers in Tbilisi, Georgia.Keywords: customer retention, marketing of financial services, social mediaJEL: M30
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Julien, Jacques. "Metamorphoses of Friendship: Jacques Derrida and Saint Augustine." Religions 15, no. 1 (January 10, 2024): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15010089.
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In his Circumfession, Jacques Derrida journeys at length with Saint Augustine. The angle adopted is somewhat autobiographical, its philosophy staying as close as possible to the body, to the intimate, to the family. In Politics of Friendship, the Bishop of Hippo is one interlocutor among others. Once again, the autobiographical vein is kept alive, this time by book IV of Augustine’s Confessions. The episode of private life, the dear friend’s death, opens now onto political dimensions. Saint Augustine plays a pivotal role in what Derrida calls the infinitization of friendship. Over time, links were put in place, and the contemporary society cannot ignore or get rid of them. Our work here goes back to the traces left in the writings of Saint Augustine by the most classic canons of friendship incorporated into Christian theology. In our conclusion, we will see that Derrida puts this tradition in tension with fraternity, family, and community—all elements that the philosopher considers the most problematic in our current situation, and even more so for a democracy to come.
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Gélinas, Aline. "Edouard Lock and Bliss: About Dance, Mime, Theatre." Canadian Theatre Review 65 (December 1990): 24–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.65.005.
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The last label Edouard Lock would like to have applied to his choreographic work is “dance theatre.” The artistic director of La La La Human Steps takes a firm stand against this new trend in the dance scene, stating again and again that it tends to impoverish the vocabulary of movements and impose limitations on the creativity of the choreographer. I would like to analyze some basic notions about these three related fields from my own point of view, which is that of a dance writer, theatre critic and corporeal artist trained in mime. Then, I want to ask: why are some people from the theatre tempted to see Edouard Lock’s dances as being part of dance theatre? First, we need to go back to the history of dance to understand why it has taken so long for it to be recognized as ma jor art form. In fact, this recognition only happened in the course of the 20th century, soon after Serge Diaghilev brought the Russian Ballet to Paris. But even then, dance in Europe was still part of an ambitious, total spectacle which included music from great composers, backdrops by talented young painters and narrative by people with literary inclinations. The public would not come to see dance per se, but to enjoy an evening of very high quality entertainment. This sense of dance was not at all remote from the dreams Richard Wagner had had just a few years before.
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Moiron, Marthe, Frédéric Rimet, Cyrille Girel, and Stéphan Jacquet. "Die hard in Lake Bourget! The case of Planktothrix rubescens reborn." Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology 57 (2021): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/limn/2021014.
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Blooms of Planktothrix rubescens have been recorded for 15 years in Lake Bourget (France), from 1995 to 2009. Then, the presence of this filamentous and toxic cyanobacterium became anecdotic between 2010 and 2015 and it was thought that its proliferation was over. However, blooms occurred again in 2016 and 2017 despite apparent low phosphorus concentrations in surface waters of the lake. We have attempted to explain the reasons for this come back in order to develop scenarios helpful to stakeholders who are concerned such proliferations may occur in the future. We show that phosphorus input, both from the main tributaries to the lake and possibly from the sediments, were likely the triggers of the new development of the cyanobacterium provided a minimum autumn/winter inoculum of P. rubescens was detected the year before. The subsequent bloom was observed deeper than previous years and associated with a conjunction of factors known to favour the development of this species (i.e., mild winter temperature, water column stability, available light at depth, surface water transparency, low predation, etc.). Although many factors and processes could account for the occurrence and bloom of the cyanobacterium, a plausible scenario is proposed. One thing remains unclear: where does this cyanobacterium “hide” when it is not observed during the routine monitoring surveys and from which place it could initiate its development (nearshore, the pelagic zone, or from the sediment?).
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Lyons, Rowanne, Larissa Hammer, Alexis André, Charles-André Fustin, Renaud Nicolaÿ, and Evelyne van Ruymbeke. "Equilibration dynamics of a dynamic covalent network diluted in a metallosupramolecular polymer matrix." Journal of Rheology 66, no. 6 (November 1, 2022): 1349–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/8.0000473.
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We investigate the viscoelastic properties of double dynamic networks (DDNs) based on side-functionalized P nBA chains. One of these networks is highly crosslinked by metal-ligand junctions characterized by a fast association/dissociation dynamics, while the other network is sparsely crosslinked with slow dynamic covalent networks (DCNs). We first show that modulating the dynamics of the metallosupramolecular networks, by playing with the temperature, the density of reversible junctions, or the stress applied, has direct consequences on the local equilibration of the DCN. The latter takes place by a constraint release Rouse process at the rhythm of the association/dissociation of the metal-ligand junctions. Then, based on creep-recovery experiments, we investigate the ability of the DDNs to recover their initial shape after a creep test and show again the important role played by the metallosupramolecular network. In particular, the sample recovery strongly depends on the network connectivity, which is enhanced if a denser metallosupramolecular network is used as it reduces the possible creep of the double dynamic network and increases its elastic memory. The sample recovery also depends on the association-dissociation dynamics of the metallosupramolecular bonds as it fixes how fast the stretched DCN can come back to its equilibrium conformation and can recover its initial shape after a large deformation has been applied. Adjusting the dynamics of the weak network is thus a key process to govern the viscoelastic response of the slow network.
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Casals, Neus Torbisco, and Idil Boran. "Interview with Iris Marion Young." Hypatia 23, no. 3 (September 2008): 173–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01211.x.
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Originally, the idea of interviewing Iris Marion Young in Barcelona came about after she accepted an invitation to give a public lecture at the Law School of Pompeu Fabra University in May 2002. I had first met Iris back in 1999, at a conference in Bristol, England, and I was impressed deeply by her personality and ideas. We kept in touch since then and exchanged papers and ideas. She was very keen to come to Spain (it seems that her mother had lived some years in Mallorca) and she finally travelled to Barcelona with her husband and daughter in spring 2002.The lecture, which she entitled “Women, War, and Peace,” was meant to be the closing session of a course on Gender and the Law, and was also part of a series of seminars annually organized by the legal philosophy department (the Albert Calsamiglia Seminar). Her work was quite well-known among several Catalan philosophers and political scientists and professor Angel Castiñeira—who, at the time, was the director of Idees (Ideas), a Catalan journal published by the Centre d'Estudis de Temes Contemporanis (Center for the Study of Contemporary Issues)—suggested that she could give a second lecture, which they would publish together with an interview I could prepare. She accepted both proposals, and I started to think of a questionnaire for the interview while I was at Queen's University in Canada earlier that year. Idil Boran, a philosopher and good friend who did her doctorate at Queen's, offered to help me with this endeavour, since she also admired Iris as both a scholar and a person. Together we prepared the questions and sent them to her once she was back in Chicago, as there was not time to conduct the interview in person while she was in Barcelona.In fall 2002, she sent some answers to our questions, but the document was unfortunately incomplete. She was busy at the time, so we didn't want to pressure her to finish the interview. Eventually, the editors of Idees decided to publish the manifest about the war in Iraq subscribed by a large number of American Intellectuals together with fragments of Iris's (antiwar) lectures and an article that she wrote together with Daniel Archibugi, “Envisioning a Global Rule of Law.”1 The interview was thus left unpublished. Both Idil and I thought it would be worthwhile to publish it somewhere else, but, for one reason or another, Iris didn't have the time to complete it and we kept postponing the project. At some point, she said that the questions she left unanswered were too complex or challenging to give a short or quick answer, and that she would need to reflect on them to provide detailed responses.Later, we learned she was ill and we didn't feel it was right to insist on those questions being answered. The issue came up again when she accepted to participate as a keynote speaker at the World Congress of Legal Philosophy held in Granada in June 2005. She then said she would come first to Barcelona (where she and Nancy Fraser had been invited to a workshop by the Catalan Women Institute) and suggested we could sit in a cafe and talk about the issues left out in those unanswered questions. Unfortunately, she had to cancel this trip because of her medical treatment, and I did not have the privilege of sharing time with her again. The following series of questions and responses are the product of this rather extended interview process.Neus Torbisco Casals
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Underhill, Karen C. "Next Year in Drohobych." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 25, no. 3 (July 11, 2011): 581–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325410388270.
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In Israeli director Yael Bartana’s 2007 film Mary Koszmary—meaning “Bad Dreams” or “Nightmares”—a young Polish politician delivers a resounding speech to an empty, crumbling, communist-era Stadion Dziesięciolecia in Warsaw. The speech, he says, is an appeal: “This is a call. . . . It is an appeal for life. We want three million Jews to return to Poland, to live with us again. We need you! Please come back!” This article considers the powerful and perhaps disturbing premise of these lines and explores their possible meanings in a contemporary Polish context. What can it mean for Poles and Polish culture to need Jews—and in particular, to need those Jews who can never return? The complex phenomenon of Jewish memory in Poland and Eastern Europe cannot be contained within specific, present-day borders—whether of geography or of academic discipline: similar dynamics to those Bartana has identified in Poland exist throughout the region. Thus, against the background of Bartana’s film, the article considers the growing phenomenon and importance of local Jewish festivals in Poland and present-day Ukraine, focusing in detail on two specific festivals: the annual festival “Encounters with Jewish Culture,” held in Chmielnik, Poland, and the biannual Bruno Schulz Festival in Drohobych, Ukraine. The analysis explores ways that the memory of Polish Jews—and more specifically the figure of the absent Polish Jew—can function as a central element in the construction of new, communal Polish and Ukrainian narratives since the fall of Communism.
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Crompton, Jim. "Guest Editorial: Here We Go Again: The Case for Adoption of Data and Process Standards in Oil and Gas." Journal of Petroleum Technology 75, no. 08 (August 1, 2023): 10–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0823-0010-jpt.
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I do not think a drilling rig derrick hand thinks twice about adding another 30 ft of pipe to the drillstring and not having the two ends of the pipe fit together snuggly. Even a robotic pipe-handling system depends on the physical pipe standard. Yes, there is a standard for that. There is a standard called API 5L that helps drilling companies buy the right kind of pipe to align with the drilling plan for the well. But what about the data manager who is trying to load a new logging curve into their petrophysics database. Will the curve names match their internal naming standard? Maybe, maybe not. What are the benefits of standardization? Here are some thoughts. - Improves clarity—because a standard process will eliminate the need for guesswork or individual interpretation. - Guarantees quality—because work is done in a predefined, optimized way. - Promotes productivity—because users will not need to comb documentation to get answers. We have been talking about data standards in the oil and gas industry at least as far back as 1988 when a group of petroleum industry players and data experts joined forces and in 1991 created the Public Petroleum Data Model Association, now called the PPDM Association. They recognized the need for petroleum data standards and have produced some good products, but our data manager still has problems. I was lucky enough (there is some sarcasm in that phrase) to work with a group of data standards organizations which about 10 years ago tried to get together and find the areas where they could collaborate on what you would think to be simple problems like a common way to name wells, to name well log curves, to have standard for units of measure … and the list goes on and on. But that was harder than you think. There were about a dozen standards groups interested in this collaboration including Energistics (formerly the Petrochemical Open Standards Consortium), PODS (Pipeline Open Data Standard Association), POSC Caesar Association (interoperability between systems and players in the process and energy industry), and MIMOSA (operations and maintenance). The oil and gas industry does not lack standards; in fact, it probably has too many of them which leads to the real problem that most operators, service companies, and tech companies just don’t implement the data standards that apply. If that happened in the pipe-manufacturing business, a company would go out of business. But in our business, it is called innovation. Strange, somehow, why it has happened that way. Corporations have worked hard at building a top-down alignment with strategic goals and objectives. The field superintendent and lease operator should be able to see their actions reflected in the corporate annual performance report to shareholders, but can they see their activities reflected in the corporate sustainability reports?
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HODGSON, GEOFFREY M. "What Humpty Dumpty might have said about property rights – and the need to put them back together again: a response to critics." Journal of Institutional Economics 11, no. 4 (July 20, 2015): 731–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744137415000260.
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AbstractThis is a response to the useful comments by Allen, Barzel and Cole on Hodgson (2015a) on property rights. One section deals with some misrepresentations by Allen and Barzel. For instance, contrary to one interpretation, Hodgson (2015a) did not accuse the ‘economics of property rights’ of ignoring legal institutions or of making them generally irrelevant. This response further clarifies the standard meaning of rights, showing that it is at variance with usages in the ‘economics of property rights’. The issue of moral motivation, and its relevance for legal compliance, are also elaborated. Some arguments in Hodgson (2015a) have been described by critics as mere semantics, but in response it is argued – contrary to philosophical nominalism – that changes in the meanings of words can be analytically significant, and we should treat traditional meanings more seriously, especially when dealing with other disciplines such as law. (The cryptic reference to Humpty Dumpty comes in here). Before concluding, there is also a brief discussion of different ways of interpreting transaction costs.
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Fontana, A., A. Vincenzi, P. Rabbiosi, F. Maffioli, S. Ipsaro, and A. Merlo. "A NEW PROJECT OF A SPECIFIC EXERCISE PROTOCOL FOR AMBULATORY CARDIOVASCULAR REHABILITATION SPECIFIC FOR HEART FAILURE: REPORT OF THE FIRST EXPERIENCE." European Heart Journal Supplements 26, Supplement_2 (April 2024): ii121—ii122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartjsupp/suae036.304.
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Abstract The indication to cardiovascular rehabilitation (CV rehab) was recently upgraded to I A in the European guidelines (GL) for the treatment of heart failure (HF), along with the four pharmacologic pillars. According to this change, we have implemented our CV rehab protocol to include specific exercises for patients (pts) with HF. We present our management of HF pts in CV rehab. According to GL, all pts with HF should receive CV rehab in order to improve their quality of life and reduce readmissions for HF. We can admit up to 18 day–hospital (DH) pts, and starting from October 2023, we implemented a specific excercise protocol for HF pts. They are screened by the physiotherapist on admission day, and all the following activities are tailored based on this initial physical assessment. It includes the 6–minute–walking test (6MWT), the short physical performance battery (SPPB) for the evaluation of lower limbs strenght, and the explanation of the Borg scale. The SPPB evaluates equilibrium, speed and ability to stand up and sit down with a 0–12 score: a score < 6 indicates extreme frailty which contra–indicates training; a score between 7–9 indicates a frail pt, and a score 10–12 indicates a pre–frail pt. Based on this classification, different types of training are proposed: continuous training (CT), exercise training (ExT), interval training (IT) –further distinguished in low intensity (LIT) and high intensity (HIT)–; inspiratory muscle training (IMT) and resistance strength training (RST). At every DH access, pts exercise for 90 minutes alternating RST, IMT and aerobic training on cyclette (HIT). In each case, every 3–4 minutes of effective exercise an absolute pause of up to 90 seconds is observed. Moreover, the "talk test" ensures that at every moment during excercise the pt can talk without dyspnoea. A nurse teaches basic sanitary notions (correct therapy intake, healthy lifestyle, symptoms recognition); a nutrition expert counsels pts about dietary intake; a psycologist supports pts with group and indivisual sessions, whereas the cardiologist optimizes therapy according to laboratory findings, which are modified by the physical training. In this way, the multidisciplinary team–approach to the HF pt allows for a better care of each individual. So far, our pts have appreciated this initiative and are willing to come back again and again. We plan to collect clinical data of all pts treated with this approach and test its efficacy over a two–year period.
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Roos, Michael, and Don O'Meara. "Is your love in vain? – dialectical dilemmas in Bob Dylan's recent love songs." Popular Music 7, no. 1 (January 1988): 35–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000002518.
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In a recent interview, Bob Dylan said that he has learned never to ‘give one hundred per cent’ – a person, particularly a public artist, should always hold something in reserve. Somewhat taken aback, the interviewer pressed for a follow-up to this puzzling statement. Wasn't Dylan giving 100 per cent on those great albums of the 1960s. Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on blonde? All right, Dylan finally admitted, maybe he was. The reporter dropped the question and went on to other subjects, leaving the readers, like Mr Jones, wondering just what is going on here. Most people who have followed Dylan's work throughout his career would agree that, in his work of the 1980s, he seems to be holding something back. There are flashes of brilliance, of the old verbal acuity, the ability to come up with the startlingly perfect phrase to fit his needs in a song. There have been truly great songs, like ‘Jokerman’, ‘Dark Eyes’ and ‘Brownsville Girl’. But there have also been embarrassingly awful songs, like ‘Never Gonna Be the Same Again’, lacklustre singing and woefully inconsistent production values on his records. We know what he is capable of – he knows what he is capable of – yet he doesn't give us his best. Why? In our view the answer, like most aspects of Bob Dylan, is not simple but may well involve a complex combination of factors all pertaining to the attempt to balance the dialectical forces pulling upon him from both the public and private areas of his life.
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BREITBART, WILLIAM. "Psycho-oncology and palliative care: Opportunity for integration." Palliative and Supportive Care 2, no. 2 (June 2004): 113–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951504040167.
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Palliative and Supportive Care is an international journal that was begun specifically with the intent of promoting the development and integration of psychiatric, psychosocial, and existential aspects of clinical care into the modern practice of palliative medicine. We hoped to achieve this goal by providing a resource to clinicians and an outlet for clinical researchers interested in the unique interface of palliative care and psychosocial/existential issues in those with life-threatening medical conditions. It is therefore very encouraging to see a growing interest in this particular interface of palliative medicine and psychosocial/existential care. I reported to our readers, in the last issue of Palliative and Supportive Care (PS&C), of the great interest in psychosocial and existential issues in the palliative care community as represented by the June 2004 Research Congress of the European Palliative Care Association held in Stresa, Italy. I have just returned from the 7th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, sponsored by the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS), held on August 24–27, 2004, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Again, what I bring back to the readers of PS&C is a message of encouragement and a sense that the time has come for our interests and work to take on a more central role in the fields of both palliative care and psycho-oncology (the psychosocial aspects of care of cancer patients). The World Congress of Psycho-oncology featured psychiatric, psychosocial, and existential aspects of palliative care in cancer patients as a prominent part of the program.
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Okinčic, Sebastjan. "Brexit: lessons learned, status quo and way ahead." Vilnius University Open Series, no. 6 (December 28, 2020): 146–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/os.law.2020.13.
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On 23 June 2016 almost 17.5 million citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. The UK government invoked the relevant Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union on 29 March 2017. As authors of the said provision have admitted, it was never to be used (Fabbrini, 2017). And yet here we all are/were (depending on when you are reading it), anno domini 2020, witnessing an unprecedented event of a sovereign state “taking back control” i.e. leaving in great pain the most powerful economic and political union of sovereign states ever established, taking advantage of the procedure that had initially not only been de iure impossible, but also seemed inconceivable in and of itself.According to Theresa May, “Brexit means Brexit”. Little help did that tautological definition bring anyone. And yet, after Brexit came, the transition period started. Written in the middle of the said transition period, the purpose of this paper is to briefly treat on Brexit in general and the near-term future related thereto. In addition, also considering the timing of this paper, i.e. May / June 2020, a particular regard will be paid to the more distant future ahead of us – certain matters pertaining to international commercial dispute resolution after Brexit.Considering the overall uncertainty surrounding Brexit that we find ourselves in, the relevance of the topic discussed in the paper is unquestionable. In addition, relevance-wise, one could consider whether the process we are all witnessing could result in encouraging or, rather, discouraging any similar future initiatives. In this context, a broader perspective will be utilised to come to certain indicative conclusions as to whether Brexit can result in good know-how practices learned for future similar initiatives, or rather serve as an example for “never again”.
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Bogaevskaya, O., and V. Zhuravleva. "The White Working Class as Trump’s Electorate Base." World Economy and International Relations 65, no. 11 (2021): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2021-65-11-5-14.
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In 2020, the white working class made almost half of all the votes for Donald Trump – about 37 million out of 73.5 million votes that he got. 67% of white Americans with less than four years degree cast their votes for Trump. 100 days after he lost the reelection, 29% of Republicans believed that Trump will come back to the White House before the month of August 2021. Who are they, these Trumps supporters and believers? How did Trump change their role in political life, and what will be their future after him? During the last 45 years, the white working class of America has transformed from the world’s most affluent and secure working class, the linchpin of the New Deal coalition, the protagonist of the American dream into one of the most vulnerable, disintegrated and declining in its number and power element of the American electorate. Trump used their anger and despair in his way to power, bringing them back to politics. Today both the Democratic and Republican Parties are fighting again for the white working class. Historically, this group was the base of the Democratic Party. But for the last two decades, the Party has become much more liberal in its values and focused more on different groups of minorities. These trends made whites without college degree to shift to the Republican Party, regardless its “party of white riches” image. The current shift occurred in the years of Obama presidency – for highly conservative, less educated, mostly South whites this President came as a challenge to their traditional views of America. By the end of the Obama era, the Republican Party almost filled the gap with the Democratic Party in white working class support. Trump became the high pick of this shift. Meanwhile, the Democrats got the trend and came back fighting for its past electorate who suddenly became the focus of a political game and interparty transformations, which makes it highly possible to change the face of the American party system as we know today. Acknowledgements. The article was prepared within the project “Post-Crisis World Order: Challenges and Technologies, Competition and Cooperation” supported by the grant from Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation program for research projects in priority areas of scientific and technological development (Agreement № 075-15-2020-783).
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CADENA-CASTAÑEDA, OSCAR J., ALEXANDER GARCÍA GARCÍA, MARIA DEL PILAR CASTELLANOS, JUAN PABLO PRIAS SARMIENTO, and GUSTAVO COSTA TAVARES. "Studies on chevron crickets: Contribution to the knowledge of Lutosinae/ini taxa (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae)." Zootaxa 5178, no. 4 (August 26, 2022): 347–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5178.4.3.
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In this contribution to the study of chevron crickets, we focus on several taxa of the subfamily/tribe Lutosinae/ini. Historical background was made on the classification of this group. Lutosa is redescribed, defining the generic and specific limits, thus providing a key for identifying the species based on males and another based on females. In addition, two new species are described: Lutosa morsellii n. sp. and Lutosa quaresmai n. sp.; L. marginalis, L. cubaensis and L. goeldiana were redescribed, and L. surda n. syn., was synonymized under L. paranaensis. Other species previously allocated in Lutosa are relocated as follows: Lutosa obliqua and L. azteca are again synonymized under Licodia pallipes; Lutosa inermis is moved back to Dolichochaeta (D. inermis comb. rev.). The genus Neolutosa is studied, grouping three species N. emarginata (with new specimens that rule out its presence in Central America), N. aculeata (with additional specimens, erroneously identified in the past as L. brasiliensis) and N. horribilis n. comb. (this species is transferred from Lutosa). A key to species is also provided. Records for Apotetamenus clipeatus are reported for the Brazilian Amazon and the states of Mato Grosso and São Paulo (Brazil). Finally, the classification of the family Anostostomatidae and the subfamily / tribe Lutosinae/nini is discussed.
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Chen, Zhilong, Hancheng Cao, Huangdong Wang, Fengli Xu, Vassilis Kostakos, and Yong Li. "Will You Come Back / Check-in Again?" Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 4, no. 3 (September 4, 2020): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3411812.
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Churazov, E., I. Khabibullin, N. Lyskova, R. Sunyaev, and A. M. Bykov. "Tempestuous life beyond R500: X-ray view on the Coma cluster with SRG/eROSITA." Astronomy & Astrophysics 651 (July 2021): A41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202040197.
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This is the first paper in a series of studies of the Coma cluster using the SRG/eROSITA X-ray data obtained in the course of the calibration and performance verification observations. The data cover a ~3° × 3° area around the cluster with a typical exposure time of more than 20 ks. The stability of the instrumental background and operation of the SRG observatory in the scanning mode provided us with an excellent data set for studies of the diffuse emission up to a distance of ~1.5R200 from the Coma center. In this study, we discuss the rich morphology revealed by the X-ray observations (also in combination with the SZ data) and argue that the most salient features can be naturally explained by a recent (ongoing) merger with the NGC 4839 group. In particular, we identify a faint X-ray bridge connecting the group with the cluster, which is convincing proof that NGC 4839 has already crossed the main cluster. The gas in the Coma core went through two shocks, first through the shock driven by NGC 4839 during its first passage through the cluster some gigayear ago and, more recently, through the “mini-accretion shock” associated with the gas settling back to quasi-hydrostatic equilibrium in the core. After passing through the primary shock, the gas should spend much of the time in a rarefaction region, where radiative losses of electrons are small, until the gas is compressed again by the mini-accretion shock. Unlike “runway” merger shocks, the mini-accretion shock does not feature a rarefaction region downstream and, therefore, the radio emission can survive longer. Such a two-stage process might explain the formation of the radio halo in the Coma cluster.
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Danvy, Olivier. "Getting There and Back Again." Fundamenta Informaticae 185, no. 2 (May 2, 2022): 115–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/fi-222106.
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“There and Back Again” (TABA) is a programming pattern where the recursive calls traverse one data structure and the subsequent returns traverse another. This article presents new TABA examples, refines existing ones, and formalizes both their control flow and their data flow using the Coq Proof Assistant. Each formalization mechanizes a pen-and-paper proof, thus making it easier to “get” TABA. In addition, this article identifies and illustrates a tail-recursive variant of TABA, There and Forth Again (TAFA) that does not come back but goes forth instead with more tail calls.
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Kaiser, Bastian. "Current influences in the development of future-oriented forestry programs." Scientific Bulletin of UNFU 29, no. 10 (December 26, 2019): 22–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.36930/40291003.
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The survival of Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences (HFR) was repeatedly questioned politically in the mid-1990 s. This had nothing to do with the fact that well-trained forestry academics were no longer needed, but had been triggered by fiscal policy savings. The applied Universities with forestry programs (five) and forestry faculties (four) in Germany are rather small and had no strong lobby like the forestry itself. Unlike some competitors, in this precarious situation, the universities did not opt for a change in their clear forestry profile, but for a broader, future-oriented understanding of modern forestry. For this purpose, they are orientated on the experience from their own past and the discipline, analyse the developments in the industries and sectors that are close to forestry and specifically sought strategic partnerships in order to be able to expand their own field of competence. Thus, the conviction for their own development process originated, that the forestry science has come in its history from the practice, passing a period influenced by knowledge of the general sciences. After that, the universities joined a phase of the development of forestry disciplines, and now they must turn back to the practice again. In this sense, a circle seems to close here and the universities have an additional, important task to deal with: more than before, in addition to teaching and research, the transfer of research results must also be put into practice. At the same time, the process of teaching has to be designed in such a way that it also provides continuous offers for job oriented training. Therefore, the universities must be the melting pot for all relevant influences from other sciences, which are and will be important for the forestry practice. This does not create a new profile, but a broader one. As a result, we are no longer training largely equal graduates, but forestry graduates with very individual strengths, attains, and profiles who fit like different keys into the various locks of practical challenges. This path helped the HFR to safeguard its future, to meet high demand among young students and to be recognized as the "smallest university of excellence" in Germany.
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Spann, Kirsten M., Peter L. Collins, and Michael N. Teng. "Genetic Recombination during Coinfection of Two Mutants of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus." Journal of Virology 77, no. 20 (October 15, 2003): 11201–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.77.20.11201-11211.2003.
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ABSTRACT Recombination between coinfecting viruses had not been documented previously for a nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus (mononegavirus). We investigated the potential of intermolecular recombination by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) by coinfecting HEp-2 cells with two recombinant RSV (rRSV) mutants lacking either the G gene (ΔG/HEK) or the NS1 and NS2 genes (ΔNS1/2). These viruses replicate inefficiently and form pinpoint plaques in HEp-2 cells. Therefore, potential recombined viruses with a growth and/or plaque formation advantage should easily be identified and differentiated from the two parental viruses. Further identification of potential recombinants was aided by the inclusion of point mutation markers in the F and L genes of ΔG/HEK and the design of reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) primers capable of detecting these markers. Independent coinfections and control single infections by these two rRSV mutants were performed. In one of six coinfections, an RSV variant was identified that produced plaques slightly larger than those of wild-type RSV in HEp-2 cells. RT-PCR and sequencing provided evidence that this variant was a recombined RSV (rec-RSV). The rec-RSV appeared to have been generated by a polymerase jump from the ΔG/HEK genome to that of ΔNS1/2 and back again in the vicinity of the SH-G-F genes. This apparently involved nonhomologous and homologous recombination events, respectively. The recombined genome was identical to that of the ΔG/HEK mutant except that all but the first 12 nucleotides of the SH gene were deleted and replaced by an insert consisting of the last 91 nucleotides of the G gene and its downstream intergenic region. This insert could have come only from the coinfecting ΔNS1/2 virus. This resulted in the formation of a short chimeric SH:G gene. Northern and Western blot analysis confirmed that the rec-RSV did not express the normal SH and G mRNAs and proteins but did express the aberrant SH:G mRNA. This provides an experimental demonstration of intermolecular recombination yielding a viable, helper-independent mononegavirus. However, the isolation of only a single rec-RSV under these optimized conditions supports the idea that RSV recombination is rare indeed.
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Vatalis, Christos, Lorraine McGuinness, and Elizabeth Ogston. "Service Evaluation: Patient Engagement With Online Group Psychotherapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in West of Scotland." BJPsych Open 8, S1 (June 2022): S146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.419.
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AimsOnline group therapy has gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic as an alternative to face-to-face group therapy. This service evaluation is aimed at assessing how this paradigm shift is received by the patients and how the quality of the provided services is assured and potentially improved.Methods1. We have retrospectively compared the attendance records from all psychotherapy groups in North Lanarkshire psychotherapy department between two distinct time periods: from November 2018 to January 2019 when only face-to-face groups were available (5 groups, 29 patients) and from November 2021 to January 2022 when only online groups were available (4 groups, 21 patients).2. In order to prospectively assess patient's views regarding online group therapy, Client Satisfaction Questionnaires (CSQ-4, quantitative and qualitative) were distributed to January 2022 groups only.Results1. The attendance rate was 5% lower in the face-to-face groups (76% vs 81%) while the non-attendance rate was lower by 1% in the online groups (9% vs 8%). The cancellation rate was also smaller by 5% in the online groups (14% to 9%).2. In regard to the service satisfaction rates in the online groups, 57% of patients who responded, answered that “most of their needs have been met by the online services’’, 71% answered “services helped with their problems somewhat’’, 71% answered “they think they would come back to the program again and 66% answered” they are mostly satisfied with the services received.“The predominant positive aspects of the services according to free text comments were” “communication, understanding, sense of community’’ and the negative aspects that need improvement: “return to face-to-face (71% of answers), need personal interaction’’.** We have extended the deadline for the acceptance of the responses to 20th of February 2022 due to mailing systems being slowed down by the pandemic. (7 out of 21 questionnaires have been returned)ConclusionOverall the attendance rates between the online and face-to-face group therapy exhibit minor differences. Concerning the patient satisfaction rates they reveal that the majority of patients who receive group therapy online are above-average satisfied with the services, feel that the online therapy provides a sense community but would prefer to return to face-to-face therapy.Further data and studies will be needed to reach more robust conclusions.
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Rabinovich, Michael, Ziv Kizner, and Glenn Flierl. "Barotropic annular flows, vortices and waves on a beta cone." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 875 (July 18, 2019): 225–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.494.
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We consider two-dimensional quasi-geostrophic annular flows around a circular island with a radial offshore bottom slope. Since the conical bottom topography causes a certain beta effect, by analogy with the conventional beta plane we term our model a beta cone. Our focus is on the flows with zero total circulation, which are composed of two concentric rings of uniform potential vorticity (PV) attached to the island. The linear stability of such flows on a beta cone was investigated in a previous publication of ours. In the present paper, we study numerically the nonlinear evolution of weakly viscous flows, whose parameters are fitted so as to guarantee the highest instability of the azimuthal mode $m=1,\ldots ,6$. We study the production of vortices and Rossby waves due to the instability, consider the effect of waves on the emerging vortices and the interaction between the vortices. As in the flat-bottom case, at $m\geqslant 2$, the instability at weak bottom slopes normally leads to the emission of $m$ dipoles. However, a fundamental difference between the flat-bottom and beta-cone cases is observed in the trajectories of the dipoles as the latter recede from the island. When the flow is initially counterclockwise, the conical beta effect may force the dipoles to make a complete turn, come back to the island and rearrange in new couples that again leave the island and return. This quasi-periodic process gradually fades due to filamentation, wave radiation and viscous dissipation. Another possible outcome is symmetrical settling of $m$ dipoles in a circular orbit around the island, in which they move counterclockwise. This behaviour is reminiscent of the adaptation of strongly tilted beta-plane modons (dipoles) to the eastward movement. If the initial flow is clockwise, the emerged dipoles usually disintegrate, but sometimes, the orbital arrangement is possible. At a moderate slope, the evolution of an unstable flow, which is initially clockwise, may end up in the formation of a counterclockwise flow. At steeper slopes, a clockwise flow may transform into a quasi-stationary vortex multipole. When the slope is sufficiently steep, the topographic Rossby waves developing outside of the PV rings can smooth away the instability crests and troughs at the outer edge of the main flow, thus preventing the vortex production but allowing the formation of a new quasi-stationary pattern, a doubly connected coherent PV structure possessing $m$-fold symmetry. Such an $m$-fold pattern can be steady only if it rotates counterclockwise, otherwise it radiates Rossby waves and transforms eventually into a circularly symmetric flow.
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Johansen, Hanne Marie. "Negotiating Marriage: Before, During, After." Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 44 (October 14, 2005): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/fof.v44i3.132986.
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What does it means to negotiate marriage? According to the Longman Synonym Dictio-nary the meaning of the word negotiate is complex: “Bargain, make a deal, go back and forth, give and take, compromise, meet halfway, agree on, settle differences, settle, come to terms, contract, conclude, complete, finish.” The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Synonyms and Anto-nyms mentions that negotiating is connected to arrange: “Negotiate, arrange mean to bring about through an exchange of views and wishes and agreement reached by bargaining and compromise … . Negotiate suggests that the dealings are carried on by diplomatic, business, or legal agencies …”, and “Arrange implies dealings intended for the restoration or establishment of order of those carried out between private persons or their representatives… Arrange a marriage as they did long ago”.Couples today negotiate their relationships and their marriage contract over and over again. They ask: what are my obligations – what are yours? In what way shall we take care of our children? How much time shall we spend outside the home, and as wage earners? What is best, to share property and income, or to retain separate economy and property? There are many de-manding tasks to fulfill in a modern marriage. A critical point is this: Is there really time for sex? Problems and tensions easily arise. Perhaps husband or wife finds comfort in alcohol, or through involvement in extramarital affairs. Some husbands even ventilate their frustration by the use of violence against the spouse and the children. When communication and negotiating fail in the private sphere, there is a good chance that things may go so wrong that negotiating has to con-tinue in the public sphere. Marriage counseling could be a solution or the case ends up in court. As mentioned in the dictionary negotiating may imply that the dealings are carried out by legal agencies. The negotiating couple has to decide on child custody and on how to share belongings and property.The concept “negotiating” is central in the study of modern marriage. Is this also true when we are concerned with the institution of marriage in the early modern period? In the extensive literature on gender and the family in early modern Europe, the study of marriage trouble, marital breakdowns and marriage negotiations have received increasing attention and, as a consequence, the topic of how marriage was negotiated in a legal and public setting has also been explored. The context is then both legal history and history of family and of gender.
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Lebus, Caroline. "Medicine vs Motherhood." Acute Medicine Journal 17, no. 3 (July 1, 2018): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.52964/amja.0726.
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I’m sitting at my desk, trying to concentrate. On anything. It’s impossible. No, I should rephrase that, it’s “challenging” is the term I’ve been taught to use. I can’t focus. I have no motivation. And it’s been like this for nine months. I’ve been treated for depression twice in the past and promised I’d never let myself get depressed again. “Let myself” – that phrase shows how ignorant I still was. Whilst on maternity leave, I became snappy, lethargic, irritable, moody and low. I was certain that it was all due to being a mother with a newborn. All new mums are exhausted, right? I couldn’t be bothered to see people, to cook, to do anything really. But surely it was all down to extreme tiredness? I couldn’t be depressed. I come from a secure background, have a loving and supportive husband and family, close friends, a good job (I’m a doctor, did I mention that?), a beautiful house and no financial worries. I had no reason to be depressed. I was diagnosed, however, with depression and anxiety. How could I let it happen again? That’s the point – I didn’t “let it happen”. It’s not my fault. Depression and anxiety are medical illnesses. Like diabetes. Or heart failure. It could happen to anyone. Depression and anxiety permeate your life. Small things become unmanageable. You cry for no reason. You hate yourself. You feel terrible and unrepentant guilt. About everything. It’s a frightening and lonely world. Nobody understands that even when you look happy on the surface, you’re flat inside, terrified that you’re crazy and may not get better. My return to work became the main focus of my anxiety. I would lie in bed at night panicking. I couldn’t concentrate, focus or make decisions. How could I run an acute medical take? Surely I wouldn’t be safe as a doctor anymore? You cannot understand tiredness until you’ve experienced the tiredness associated with having small children. Or the tiredness associated with having small children and depression. Sometimes I feel like I’ll never have any energy ever again. That I will forever be trying to catch up, to get through the day, to make it to bed. I feel like my life is constantly on the brink of chaos and that I can only rest when I collapse into bed. Except that I can’t rest in bed. Bedtime is the worst. I lie there thinking. Thinking about everything. One night I was still awake at midnight, so got out of bed and scribbled down everything that was in my head. I was thinking 47 things at once. That’s how well women can multitask. And that’s why I can’t relax and get to sleep. They say that anxiety makes it hard to fall asleep and depression makes you wake up early. Well I have anxiety, depression, a four year old and a baby, so that makes for little sleep. Depression seeps into your bones. It gnaws away at your soul, until you don’t know who you are anymore. At times you feel overwhelmed with emotion, wretched, beyond help. At other times you feel nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. I don’t know which is more frightening. I wrote this eighteen months ago. I am now back at work as an acute medical consultant, having had Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, psychiatry input and antidepressants. Depression and suicide are more common in the medical profession than in the general public, yet we rarely discuss it. Many of the personality traits that help us to become highly functioning professionals also increase our risk of depression, such as perfectionism and being overly self-critical. Depression has also been shown to be associated with symptoms of burnout, which is commonplace within the medical workforce. Other risk factors for depression within the medical profession include poor relationships with senior doctors, work overload, job responsibility, making mistakes, lack of sleep and a conflicting work-life balance. How to deal with mental health within the medical profession will not be straightforward and will need addressing from medical school onwards. We must recognise the risk factors and provide adequate support, mentoring, debriefing and rest periods. But first, we need to reduce the stigmatisation and start talking about it.
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Acuin, Jose M., and Pio D. Pajarillo. "Fidel P. Burgos (1959-2009)." Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 24, no. 1 (June 15, 2009): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.32412/pjohns.v24i1.721.
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Throughout his relatively brief career, Fides received no education other than from the University of the Philippines. His therefore was a long and unadulterated mentoring by a school which shaped him from primary level to medicine (UPCM 1984) to specialty residency (ENT-Head and Neck Surgery at UP-PGH, 1989) and to masteral degree (Masters of Hospital Administration at UP Open University, 2006).
After successfully passing the diplomate examinations in 1990, Fides was invited by Dr. Dominador Almeda to join the Far Eastern University Department of ENT-HNS as the residency training officer. There he taught residents and students, passing on to them his exceptional skills as a head and neck surgeon. His integrity and devotion to duty earned him the trust and respect of Dr. Almeda and the other department consultants.
Fides could have easily trained and practiced abroad with the help of his uncles who were also prominent surgeons. But he chose to stay home. More than that, he chose to settle down and establish his practice in Lucena, Quezon when he was invited by another ENT surgeon, Dr. Pio Pajarillo, at the Nañagas EENT Clinic. His practice rapidly grew, attracting a large following of patients who appreciated his brand of expert and compassionate care. Fides never looked back. Something about the simplicity and candor of rural folk appealed to him who always spoke plainly and sincerely. There, in Lucena, Fides poured out all his wondrous skills in treating his patients, seeing them through their illnesses and welcoming them, now made whole again, back to his clinics. There, in Lucena, he fell in love with Alet, whom he married in 1995 and with whom he had two children, Juan Gabriel and Kyla Isabel.
But Fides proved too big and too gifted to remain a provincial ENT doctor, although he would always be the first to tell you that there was nothing more rewarding to him than seeing his patients in his clinic. Local physicians took notice of this straight talking, honest and dependable physician who somehow appeared to understand that hospitals are about people who must be guided and nurtured to become the best they can possibly be. He became a shoulder to those who felt weighed down by their daily grind, an ear to those who needed to simply open up. He had the knack for seeing through people and divining their intentions. He also understood the complexity of hospital systems. He was persuaded by the local physicians to accept the position of medical director for Lucena United Doctors Hospital, but not without first capping a master’s degree in hospital administration from the UP Open University in 2006, graduating cum laude.
Fides led the Lucena United Doctors Hospital up to the time he died, whipping the organization into shape and instilling discipline among doctors, nurses and the rest of the staff. He carried a big stick. He expected nothing less than the best from his people, and gave nothing but the best of himself as an example. He sought out ways for doing the right things better and systematically pruned the inefficiencies that got in the way. He could not be swayed. People who sought to influence his decisions ran smack into a brick wall. He mentored his management staff, seeing them through difficult tasks and building their confidence. He steered the hospital through tangled webs of regulations and corporate issues. All this did not go unnoticed. In December 1, 2008, the PSO-HNS awarded him a plaque of recognition for being an Outstanding Administrator in his hospital.
Fides was different though, once he was with trusted friends, slipping back to his quiet and laid back manner. The quickness of his laughter to the corniest jokes, the way he opened himself up to speak amid contentious talk belied his easy confidence. He knew he did not have to prove anything anymore.
The day Fides died was like any other. He played badminton but did not come back. Those of us who love and miss him will find it hard indeed to understand why he left. Did God call him as his sum measure fulfilled and even surpassed all His expectations? Was a quick and uneventful bowing out part of the deal for playing well whatever hand God dealt him? We will never know. But for those of us who will find it hard to forget him will probably do well to memorialize him by seizing every swift hour of our lives and throwing ourselves wholly to whatever enterprise we find ourselves in. The way Fides did.
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Szaflarski, Jerzy P. "Thalamus and Seizures—Here We Come Again…" Epilepsy Currents 21, no. 3 (March 5, 2021): 154–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1535759721998407.
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