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2. The State Is the Enemy : Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice
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James Kelman and James Kelman
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- Essays, Racial justice, Social justice, Justice raciale, Justice sociale
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Incendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State Is the Enemy lay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants, asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, and all who are deemed of “a lower order.” Drawing parallels between atrocities committed against the Kurds by the Turkish State, and the racist police brutality, and government sanctioned murders in the UK, James Kelman shatters the myth of Western exceptionalism,revealing the universality of terror campaigns levied against the most vulnerable, and calling on a global citizenship to stand in solidarity with victims of oppression. Kelman's case against the Turkish and British governments is not just a litany of murders, or an impassioned plea—it is a cool-headed take down of the State and an essential primer for revolutionaries.
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- 2023
3. Estudios culturales y literarios del mundo hispánico : en honor a José Checa Beltrán
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Martínez Luna, Esther (ed.) and Martínez Luna, Esther (ed.)
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- Essays, Criticism, interpretation, etc, Spanish literature--History and criticism, Litte´rature espagnole--Histoire et critique, Intellectual life, Spanish literature
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El presente libro está constituido gracias a la contribución de varios profesores e investigadores que integran la comunidad trasatlántica de los estudios hispánicos. Con sus artículos, los colaboradores de “Estudios culturales y literarios del mundo hispánico: en honor a José Checa Beltrán” unieron esfuerzos para celebrar la trayectoria intelectual del investigador Checa Beltrán. El volumen está conformado por una amplia variedad de estudios que reflejan diversas tradiciones intelectuales, diferentes espacios geográficos y un amplio repertorio metodológico y temático, cuyo arco temporal se extiende desde el siglo XVI hasta el XXI. En ese sentido, la diversidad y la amplitud de las páginas de “Estudios culturales y literarios del mundo hispánico”, suscitadas gracias al festejo del itinerario investigador de José Checa Beltrán, contienen, en un extremo, disertaciones acerca de la poesía del siglo XVII y, en el otro, la práctica de la autobiografía en un blog de internet. Entre los dos puntos del horizonte cronológico, también podemos destacar la presencia de comedias, la poesía originada por la tradición oral, el laborioso taller verbal del modernismo encabezado por Rubén Darío, las variantes que la materialidad de los impresos determinan en los textos, las prácticas discursivas que se codifican en diferentes géneros literarios y en diferentes soportes editoriales, como libros, periódicos y los centauros digitales que se abren paso poco a poco en los estudios especializados. En virtud de ello, estamos ante un amplio abanico temático en los estudios hispánicos, donde cada uno de los especialistas siguió la ruta que su objeto de estudio le exigía con rigor y seriedad científicos. Sin duda, estas contribuciones se suman con mucho gusto para reconocer la trayectoria académica de José Checa Beltrán.
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- 2021
4. Ich-Splitter : (Cross-)Mediale Selbstentwuerfe in den Slawischen Kulturen
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Ingeborg Jandl, Gernot Howanitz, Ingeborg Jandl, and Gernot Howanitz
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- Essays, Autobiography, Identity (Psychology), Expression (Philosophy), Arts--History--20th century.--Slavic countri
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- 2019
5. Matches : A Light Book
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S.D. Chrostowska and S.D. Chrostowska
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- Essays, Thought and thinking, Aphorisms and apothegms
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Through the prism of criticism, the modalities of thinking form a spectrum: on one end, systematic exposition, on the other, the fragment. It is the latter, fragmentary approach that distinguishes Matches—an investigation that does not focus on a single theme developed in all its aspects but, rather, on a constellation of themes in art, literature, philosophy, science, social and political thought, as well as the human in relation to history and nature. The author pursues here in performative fashion her research into the history of critique from the Enlightenment onward. Her choice of the fragment—in the tradition of writing represented by Gracián, Chamfort, Lichtenberg, and, closer to us, Nietzsche, Adorno, and Benjamin—does not, however, stem from an attempt to comprehend the contemporary world, which can only be done after the fact. Instead, served by an expressive and incisive style, Matches foregrounds the necessary elements for a critique of our time, capturing them in their contradictory and complementary relations. It situates itself under the sign of the future, reviving the spirit of utopia, reminding us that the last word need not belong to the present.
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- 2019
6. Snapshots From My Uneventful Life
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David I. Aboulafia and David I. Aboulafia
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- Essays, Humor, Families--Humor, Families
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'…she drove her right fist three inches deep into my solar plexus, putting her entire 102 pounds behind the blow. I retreated a full foot but remained on my feet. I gasped, treasuring the oxygen remaining in my lungs, and knew that little more was likely to enter there for some time. I wondered how long a person could live without breathing. More so, I wondered how long I could convince my sixteen-year-old daughter that I was unfazed by her puny blow.'In this hysterical, irreverent and sometimes thought-provoking collection of essays, the author takes us on a journey through everyday, real-life events that start out as uneventful, but that wind up being anything but.'Snapshots'is a book that everyone will identify with, and that will have you holding your stomach with laughter!
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- 2018
7. The Garden in Every Sense and Season
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Tovah Martin and Tovah Martin
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- Horticultural literature, Gardening, Essays
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“Reminds us that the best way to get to know a garden is through our senses.” —Gardenista So much of gardening is focused on the long list of chores—the weeding, planting, and pruning. But what about the joy a garden can provide? In The Garden in Every Sense and Season, Tovah Martin explores the sensory delights in her own garden in 100 evocative essays. Martin shares sage garden advice, offers intimate reflections on her own garden, and urges us to inhale, savor, and become more attuned to our gardens. Packed with lush color photographs, The Garden in Every Sense and Season will help you grow a bounty of gratitude in your own home garden.
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- 2018
8. Candace Hill‐Montgomery, Against Containment
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Tobin, Amy and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Essays ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Essay - Abstract
This essay focuses on the work of New York‐based artist and poet Candace Hill‐Montgomery. In 1979, Hill‐Montgomery described her work as changing ‘the containment we all live within’, pointing both to the social and political investments of her practice, and to her formal transition from making art in her studio to making installations in public, often from found materials and detritus. Her desire for recognition and understanding across difference at a moment of rising neo‐conservatism was an investment in social and subjective repair. I trace this impulse across ‘environmental sculptures’, collages and artist's books made between 1979 and 1983, articulating a general impetus to be against containment that, I argue, is also instructive as an art‐historical method.
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- 2023
9. Une nouvelle anthropologie du geste Tome I
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Marquet Urbain and Marquet Urbain
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- Religious Philosophy, Anthropology, Gesture, Essays, 20th Century, Theological anthropology--Christianity
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Urbain Marquet est un philosophe du geste. Sa philosophie s'enracine dans une longue expérience pédagogique et c'est au contact des enfants et de leurs besoins que l'observation et la réflexion ont conduit le philosophe de l'anthropologie du geste à la métaphysique. Il s'inscrit ainsi dans la lignée des maîtres les plus anciens, comme Platon, pour qui pédagogie et métaphysique s'impliquaient mutuellement, et dans celle plus récente des maîtres comme Maurice Blondel ou Maurice Nédoncelle avec qui il entretint une longue correspondance. Cet ouvrage est « une nouvelle anthropologie du geste » en ce sens qu'il recueille un travail et une méditation philosophiques qui s'inscrivent également dans la lignée des recherches de Marcel Jousse sur l'oralité et le geste. Les analyses qu'on y trouvera aideront à prendre conscience de la profondeur des gestes humains qui expriment corporellement au grand jour et pour autrui ce qui naît et gît au plus intime de l'âme et de ses nuits inconscientes. L'œuvre d'Urbain Marquet est d'un volume considérable et s'étala sur plus de quarante ans ; nous publions ici ce qu'il désirait transmettre d'essentiel sur le « geste ». Le lecteur plus curieux, enthousiaste peut-être à la découverte d'un « philosophe inconnu », après avoir goûté à cet élixir de l'esprit, pourra trouver l'ensemble de son œuvre conservée aux Archives départementales de l'Aveyron, à Rodez.
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- 2013
10. œuvres mineures Maryse Condé : théâtre, textes pour la jeunesse et essais
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Onyeoziri-Miller, Gloria and Miller, Robert
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youth ,Social Sciences and Humanities ,Minor works ,essais ,theatre ,essays ,postcolonialism ,postcolonialisme ,Sciences Humaines et Sociales ,théâtre ,jeunesse ,General Medicine ,oeuvres mineures - Abstract
La production de ce numéro a été motivée par le peu d'attention accordé aux oeuvres "mineures" de Maryse Condé. Les contributeurs se sont penchés notamment sur les ouvrages de Condé destinés à la jeunesse ainsi qu'à ses pièces de théâtre. Ils ont fait ressortir non seulement la richesse et diversité que ces ouvrages apportent à l'ensemble du discours condéen, mais aussi les problèmes et préoccupations qui sous-tendent la façon particulière dont Condé a conçu son rôle d'écrivaine francophone dans un contexte postcolonial.
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- 2022
11. Upper Secondary School Students’ Design of Arguments in Essays
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Eva Svärdemo Åberg
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Psychiatry and Mental health ,argumentation ,essays ,multimodality ,upper secondary school ,writing ,Education - Abstract
This article explores how arguments are made in student essays through the use of writing and visual resources. The data set comprises 54 essays with a passing grade from students in their final year of upper secondary school in Sweden. The data is analysed using a multimodal approach to knowledge representation on arguments in essays, involving analysis of textual composition and content in both written text and visual resources. The study gives an insight into how students design essays in relation to academic requirements, how their arguments realise epistemological commitments, and what affordances are given through the use of writing and visual resources. The results reveal that academic argumentation varies considerably between the essays. There is an overrepresentation of written and declarative knowledge in the essays, where the arguments are grounded in various web-based sources, and visualisations are used for making conceptualisation and classification more salient in writing. Both written and visual resources offer affordances in the making of arguments on the bases of the modes for communication. This article concludes that there are many high demands of knowledge defined for the task of preparing for higher education, which are not easily represented in the students’ arguments in essays.
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- 2022
12. Linguistic Indicators of the Growth Mindset
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Kamath, Akshatha and Demszky, Dora
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Essays ,Language and education ,liwc ,growth mindset ,Mindset (Dweck, Carol S.) ,Computational linguistics - Abstract
We use data from the synergistic mindsets intervention to find how language in student essays might correlate with self-reported stress levels n= 2000. We use word count based approaches, topic modeling, and word embedding based methods to find the linguistic patterns that correlate with stress levels. Our results show that in comparison to students who cope poorly with stress, those that cope well make greater use of negative over positive emotions, past and present tense over future tense, higher cognitive processing words, and more action over bodily sensation words in their writing. Our text classification models predict stress appraisals with an accuracy of 68 ± 0.4%. However, the length of the text students write is a major confounder in all our results. We discuss the text length as a confounder along with our other qualitative findings in relation to previous linguistic studies of mindfulness and stress.
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- 2023
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13. The Center for Surgical Health: A Compassion-Driven Urban Surgical Mission
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Emily Scire, Matthew A. Goldshore, Carrie Z. Morales, Jon B. Morris, and Alan Herbst
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Essays ,Health Policy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Compassion ,Social justice ,Catholic social teaching ,Philosophy ,Nursing ,Emergency surgery ,General partnership ,Academic community ,Center (algebra and category theory) ,Sociology ,media_common - Abstract
We are the Center for Surgical Health (CSH), an academic community partnership that supports, educates, and advocates for vulnerable Philadelphians with surgical diseases, founded in 2016 by Dr. Jon B. Morris, a leader in surgical education and a general surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Alan Herbst, a current third-year Penn general surgery resident. At the time, Dr. Morris, raised in a Reform Jewish household, had been participating in an RCIA Program to convert to Catholicism. The mission of providing surgery to uninsured patients, primarily undocumented individuals, by helping them obtain insurance and see Penn providers was seen by Dr. Morris as a form of Catholic charity, which he has continued to remain dedicated to as his faith in Jesus Christ has deepened. Dr. Herbst, now Associate Director of Clinics for the CSH, recalls working with Dr. Morris as a sub-intern during his conversion, beginning with passion and a neon poster board inviting people to “See the Surgeon.” Since that time, the CSH has grown from an organization with 10 volunteers, called “personal patient navigators,” who provide insurance support and advocacy at every step of the perioperative continuum, to one with over 50, who have now seen 156 patients and assisted in providing 49 needed procedures. Much of this growth has been brought about through the dedication and vision of Dr. Matthew Goldshore, the Deputy Director of the CSH and a fifth-year Penn general surgery resident, as well as Dr. Carrie Z. Morales, Associate Deputy Director of the CSH and a recent Perelman School of Medicine graduate. Through their leadership, and the talent and commitment of other members of the CSH board, overseen by Director Dr. Morris, the CSH now has policy and research divisions, a surgical equity curriculum, and continues to develop new ways of providing better care.
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- 2021
14. The perils of flawed science in wildlife trade literature
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Daniel J. D. Natusch, Richard Shine, and Patrick W. Aust
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reptil ,证据 ,0106 biological sciences ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,illegal LEMIS ,Internationality ,Essay ,sustainable harvesting ,Wildlife ,Animals, Wild ,Scientific literature ,Pseudoreplication ,可持续收获 ,sesgo filosófico ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,动物权利 ,animal rights ,Animals ,Humans ,Scientific consensus ,LEMIS ilegal ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,哲学偏见 ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Essays ,Government ,Ecology ,Public economics ,evidence ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Commerce ,爬行动物 ,Biodiversity ,Livelihood ,evidencia ,reptile ,《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》 (CITES) ,Wildlife trade ,philosophical bias ,CITES ,derechos animales ,Sustainability ,colecta sustentable ,Business ,《美国执法管理信息系统 (LEMIS)》中的非法贸易 - Abstract
Despite broad scientific consensus that sustainable use of wildlife can enhance conservation efforts, ethical concerns have led some community groups to oppose use of wild animals. Voicing those concerns is legitimate, but underlying philosophical bias should not influence science‐based analysis and interpretation. We argue that philosophical biases are common in the scientific literature on trade in wildlife. The critically important case of bias surrounding the use of reptile leathers for luxury fashion illustrates the problem. Based on analysis of official seizures of fashion products made from wildlife, a recent study inferred that criminal activity (as inferred by noncompliance with regulations) was common and increasing and, hence, that authorities needed to adopt more stringent restrictions on the trade. In fact, the conclusions of that study are artifacts of pseudoreplication (e.g., multiple counts of single violations) and biased sampling (e.g., focus on companies with high rates of error) and run directly opposite to actual patterns in the data. As a proportion of overall trade, rates of noncompliance are exceptionally low (, Article Impact Statement: Philosophical bias can undermine conservation. We call for increased scrutiny of science concerning the emotive topic of wildlife trade.
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- 2021
15. Ministers of Life: A Call to Mission for Healthcare Workers
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James McTavish
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Essays ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Charter ,Public relations ,Holy See ,Task (project management) ,Philosophy ,Political science ,Health care ,Spirituality ,business ,Conscience ,media_common - Abstract
In its new charter, the Vatican calls on healthcare workers to be ministers of life. This is a challenging task and a most noble mission. The mission field itself is the vast, complex and mysterious field of suffering (Pope John Paul II). For Catholic healthcare professionals, it is not so much to have a mission, but to be a mission on this earth, as Pope Francis often reminds us. The daily mission needs to be nourished by a commensurate spirituality. Each deed can be offered to the Lord as part of our response. Healthcare professionals may feel called to specific mission fields too, such as working to reduce the culture of gun violence or to promote the culture of life. The ongoing formation of conscience is a vital prerequisite, so we can continually respond to the novel ethical challenges that progress in technology and medicine inevitably bring. May we each respond enthusiastically to the call to mission: “Here I am Lord, send me!” (Isaiah 6:8).
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- 2021
16. Notes of a protein crystallographer: the legacy of J.-B. J. Fourier – crystallography, time and beyond
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Celerino Abad-Zapatero
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Essays ,Crystallography ,General relativity ,Field (Bourdieu) ,concept of time ,Ilya ,A protein ,Biological evolution ,History, 18th Century ,J.-B. J. Fourier ,01 natural sciences ,nonequilibrium thermodynamics ,Epistemology ,symbols.namesake ,heat transmission ,Fourier transform ,Structural Biology ,0103 physical sciences ,symbols ,Mathematics::Metric Geometry ,Experimental work ,Einstein ,010306 general physics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Bergson–Einstein debate - Abstract
The legacy of J.-B. J. Fourier, a pioneer Egyptologist and premier mathematician and physicist of his time, in crystallography and many other scientific fields is reviewed in the context of nearly two centuries having passed since his landmark publication on The Analytical Theory of Heat (1822). The legacy of Fourier’s work in crystallography and many other scientific fields is reviewed with an emphasis on current developments in the study of nonequilibrium thermodynamics., The importance of the Fourier transform as a fundamental tool for crystallography is well known in the field. However, the complete legacy of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) as a pioneer Egyptologist and premier mathematician and physicist of his time, and the implications of his work in other scientific fields, is less well known. Significantly, his theoretical and experimental work on phenomena related to the transmission of heat founded the mathematical study of irreversible phenomena and introduced the flow of time in physico-chemical processes and geology, with its implications for biological evolution. Fourier’s insights are discussed in contrast to the prevalent notion of reversible dynamic time in the early 20th century, which was dominated by Albert Einstein’s (1875–1953) theory of general relativity versus the philosophical notion of durée proposed by the French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941). The current status of the mathematical description of irreversible processes by Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (1917–2003) is briefly discussed as part of the enduring legacy of the pioneering work of J.-B. J. Fourier, first established nearly two centuries ago, in numerous scientific endeavors.
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- 2021
17. An Area‐Specific, International Community‐Led Approach to Understanding and Addressing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Issues within Supramolecular Chemistry
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Caltagirone, Claudia, Draper, Emily R., Hardie, Michaele J., Haynes, Cally J. E., Hiscock, Jennifer R., Jolliffe, Katrina A., Kieffer, Marion, McConnell, Anna J., and Leigh, Jennifer S.
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Essay ,EDI ,media_common.quotation_subject ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,supramolecular chemistry ,Catalysis ,marginalisation ,gender ,Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion ,Sociology ,Chemistry (relationship) ,DEI ,Set (psychology) ,media_common ,Essays ,International network ,010405 organic chemistry ,International community ,General Medicine ,General Chemistry ,0104 chemical sciences ,QD431 ,H1 ,Survey data collection ,Engineering ethics ,Inclusion (education) ,Diversity (politics) ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI/EDI) are pressing issues in chemistry and the natural sciences. In this Essay we share how an area‐specific approach is “calling in” the community so that it can act to address EDI issues, and support those who are marginalised. Women In Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) is an international network that aims to support equality, diversity, and inclusion within supramolecular chemistry. WISC has taken a field‐specific approach using qualitative research methods with scientists to identify the support that is needed and the problems the supramolecular community needs to address. Herein, we present survey data from the community which highlight the barriers that are faced by those who take career breaks for any reason, a common example is maternity leave, and the importance of mentoring to aid progression post‐PhD. In conclusion, we set out an interdisciplinary and creative approach to addressing EDI issues within supramolecular chemistry., Marginalisation can be experienced for many intersectional reasons including race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and gender. This Essay sets out a field‐specific approach to supporting equality, diversity, and inclusion in supramolecular chemistry as pioneered by an international network of Women In Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC). WISC aims to “call in” the community and to use qualitative approaches to set out a framework for addressing EDI.
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- 2021
18. Concept of Memory and National Image of the World in Literary Texts of Alexander Kahn
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Svetlana V. Ananyeva
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essays ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Art history ,Art ,concept home ,Image (mathematics) ,memory ,lcsh:Philology. Linguistics ,lcsh:P1-1091 ,history as a myth ,dialogic poetics ,collective trauma ,ethnic identity ,artistic time ,media_common - Abstract
A fairly common trend in the global literary process is when writers - representatives of their nation and their culture - live outside their historical homeland. The search for answers to the most important questions of our time and the challenges of globalization in relation to the ethnocultural world concern each of them. A. Kahns work reveals how opposition of ones own versus the other conveys the national image and national attitude. The principle of equality and recognition of the other as an equal to oneself is the basis of dialogue. Novels and essays by A. Kahn are largely autobiographical and aim at understanding the path of the compatriots, their mission on earth. The path of national literature in the mind of A. Kahn is from the literature of despair through the literature of longing and overcoming to the endless great literature of a great heart.
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- 2020
19. Apoyo en la supervisión y control de las labores realizadas por la empresa ECOBRAS S.A
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Palacios Hoyos, Angie Tatiana, Lara Perez, Monica Yineth, and Universidad Santo Tomas
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Essays ,Ingeniería civil ,Pasantía ,Agregados pétreos ,Pavimentos ,Stone aggregates ,Asphalt ,Asfalto - Informe de pasant+ia ,Ensayos ,internship ,Aprendizaje en organizaciones ,Prácticas universitarias ,Asfalto - Abstract
Realizar prácticas profesionales es una experiencia enriquecedora que permite poner en práctica los conocimientos adquiridos a lo largo de la carrera, permitiendo convivir con profesionales y trabajadores que cuentan con gran experiencia en el área en la cual se desempeñan. A lo largo de este documento se hace una retroalimentación de las actividades desarrolladas como pasante en la empresa ECOBRAS S.A la cual cuenta con más de 30 años de experiencia en el desarrollo de proyectos y producción de mezcla asfáltica. Se abordará una breve descripción de la estructura organizacional de la empresa, los productos y servicios ofrecidos, y las actividades desarrolladas al desempeñar el cargo de Auxiliar de Ingeniería Civil buscando incentivar a futuros profesionales a realizar prácticas empresariales que permitan fortalecer nuestras habilidades como ingenieros. Carrying out professional internships is an enriching experience that allows you to put into practice the knowledge acquired throughout your degree, allowing you to live with professionals and workers who have extensive experience in the area in which they work. Throughout this document, feedback is provided on the activities carried out as an intern at the company ECOBRAS S.A, which has more than 30 years of experience in project development and asphalt mix production. A brief description of the organizational structure of the company, the products and services offered, and the activities developed while holding the position of Civil Engineering Assistant will be addressed, seeking to encourage future professionals to carry out business practices that allow us to strengthen our skills as engineers. Pregrado
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- 2022
20. Pasantía apoyo universitario
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Penagos Velasquez, Paula Stefanny and Lozano Perez, Emiro Andres
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Essays ,Resistencia de materiales ,Resistencia ,Laboratorio ,Resistance ,Concreto ,Ensayos ,Aprendizaje en organizaciones ,Prácticas universitarias ,Ingeniería civil - Informes ,Concrete ,Laboratory - Abstract
Se explican las actividades realizadas dentro de la pasantía “apoyo universitario” que está dirigida al acompañamiento de las actividades en los laboratorios de concretos y resistencia de materiales, actividades a fines con la coordinación de laboratorio. La pasantía se centra en el laboratorio de concretos, el cual es usado por las facultades de ingeniería civil, arquitectura e ingeniería ambiental y el cual alberga los equipos necesarios para pruebas de compresión, abrasión del agregado grueso, tiempo de fraguado del cemento hidráulico, consistencia normal del cemento hidráulico, tracción y flexión en vigas de prueba, además de los materiales necesarios para la elaboración de cilindros de ensayo. The activities carried out within the "university support" internship are explained, which is aimed at accompanying the activities in the concrete and resistance of materials laboratories, activities with the coordination of the laboratory. The internship focuses on the concrete laboratory, which is used by the faculties of civil engineering, architecture and environmental engineering and which houses the necessary equipment for compression tests, abrasion of coarse aggregate, setting time of hydraulic cement, consistency normal hydraulic cement, traction and bending in test beams, in addition to the necessary materials for the preparation of test cylinders. http://www.ustavillavicencio.edu.co/home/index.php/unidades/extension-y-proyeccion/investigacion Pregrado
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- 2022
21. Rethinking the study of human–wildlife coexistence
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Saloni Bhatia, Anirudhkumar Vasava, and Simon Pooley
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0106 biological sciences ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,conflicto humano‐fauna ,Essay ,Wildlife ,India ,Animals, Wild ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Rational behavior ,Political science ,Animals ,Humans ,Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Essays ,Motivation ,human–wildlife conflict ,metodología ,Ecology ,Cost–benefit analysis ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,coexistence ,methodology ,coexistencia ,Environmental ethics ,Framing (social sciences) ,Africa ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Although coexistence with wildlife is a key goal of conservation, little is known about it or how to study it. By coexistence we mean a sustainable though dynamic state in which humans and wildlife coadapt to sharing landscapes, where human interactions with wildlife are effectively governed to ensure wildlife populations persist in socially legitimate ways that ensure tolerable risk levels. Problems that arise from current conflict-oriented framing of human-wildlife interactions include reinforcing a human-nature dichotomy as fundamentally oppositional, suggesting coexistence requires the absence of conflict, and skewing research and management toward direct negative impacts over indirect impacts and positive aspects of living with wildlife. Human behavior toward wildlife is framed as rational calculus of costs and benefits, sidelining emotional and cultural dimensions of these interactions. Coexistence is less studied due to unfamiliarity with relevant methodologies, including qualitative methods, self-reflexivity and ethical rigor, and constraints on funding and time. These challenges are illustrated with examples from fieldwork in India and Africa. We recommend a basic approach to case studies aimed at expanding the scope of inquiries into human-wildlife relations beyond studies of rational behavior and quantification of costs and benefits of wildlife to humans.Replanteamiento del Estudio de la Coexistencia Humano-Fauna Resumen A pesar de que la coexistencia con la fauna es una meta de suma importancia para la conservación, todavía se conoce muy poco sobre ella y cómo estudiarla. Cuando hablamos de coexistencia nos referimos a un estado sustentable, pero a la vez dinámico en el cual los humanos y la fauna están coadaptados a compartir paisajes en los que las interacciones entre humanos y animales están regidas de manera efectiva para asegurar que las poblaciones de fauna persistan de maneras socialmente legítimas que aseguren niveles tolerables de riesgo. Los problemas que surgen de las actuales estructuraciones orientadas hacia la resolución de conflictos en las interacciones humano-fauna incluyen el reforzamiento de una dicotomía humano-naturaleza como fundamentalmente opositora, lo que sugiere que la coexistencia requiere de una ausencia del conflicto y la desviación de la investigación y el manejo hacia los impactos negativos directos por encima de los impactos indirectos y los aspectos positivos de la convivencia con la fauna. El comportamiento humano hacia la fauna está conceptualizado como un cálculo racional de costos y beneficios, haciendo a un lado las dimensiones emocionales y culturales de estas interacciones. La coexistencia está poco estudiada debido a la poca familiarización con las metodologías relevantes, incluyendo los métodos cualitativos, el rigor ético y autorreflexivo y las restricciones al financiamiento y al tiempo. Estos retos se encuentran ilustrados mediante ejemplos tomados del trabajo de campo en la India y en África. Recomendamos un enfoque básico para los estudios de caso centrado en la expansión del espectro de las indagaciones en las relaciones humano-fauna más allá de los estudios del comportamiento racional y la cuantificación de los costos y beneficios de la fauna para los humanos.
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- 2020
22. Bat portraits in times of pandemic
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Michele Cros
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photo ,Medicine (General) ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,History ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,essays ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,bats ,GN1-890 ,drawings ,R5-920 ,Portrait ,ebola ,Anthropology ,Pandemic ,Blacklisting ,Ethnology - Abstract
In this Photo Essay, photographs are combined with drawings collected in Burkina Faso in the years following the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak. Portraits of bats are shown. The blacklisting of these animals following the recommendations of health authorities collides with local realities, where it is not possible to talk about bats in a ‘general’ sense. The same is true today in the period of COVID-19, when chiropterans are once again in the etiological hot seat: bats are behind the pandemic, according to Ridley's shock phrase (2020). In Burkina Faso's Lobi country, between the red and black fruit-eaters (which have always been eaten) and the small insectivores (which have never been eaten as such, but are very useful to animist healers), there is a chasm of representation that is unveiled by these images.
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23. Positioning human heritage at the center of conservation practice
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Tutilo Mudumba, Herbert Kasozi, Mordecai O. Ogada, Robert A. Montgomery, and Kendi Borona
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0106 biological sciences ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,conservation biology ,Essay ,fortress conservation ,Global South ,Wildlife ,Animals, Wild ,Context (language use) ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,biodiversidad ,biología de la conservación ,Political science ,Animals ,Humans ,Revenue ,保护地 ,基于社区 ,Ecosystem ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Essays ,Motivation ,Ecology ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Professional development ,生物多样性 ,Environmental ethics ,Biodiversity ,basado en la comunidad ,conservación en fortaleza ,Militarism ,Ecotourism ,community‐based ,堡垒保护 ,áreas protegidas ,Economic model ,protected areas ,保护生物学 - Abstract
Conservation projects subscribing to a community-based paradigm have predominated in the 21st century. We examined the context in which the phrase was coined and traced its growth over time. Community-based conservation first appeared in the literature in the early 1990s; but grew little until after the 5th World Parks Congress in 2003. Thereafter, publications describing community-based conservation approaches increased exponentially. The conference theme was Benefits Beyond Boundaries, and its goal was to provide an economic model based on revenue accrued from conservation fundraising and ecotourism to support ecosystems, wildlife, and people, particularly in the Global South. Such models tended not to incorporate, as a core principle, the heritage of local human communities. Human heritage varies substantially over time and space making generalization of conservation principles across scales challenging. Pitfalls that have grown out of the community-based conservation approaches in the Global South include fortress conservation, conservation militarism, consumptive and nonconsumptive ecotourism, and whiz-bang solutions. We propose 10 tenets in a human heritage-centered conservation framework (e.g., engage in conservation practices using local languages, thoughtfully propose and apply solutions consistent with human heritage, provide clear professional development pathways for individuals from local communities, and promote alternative revenue-generating programs centered in local communities, among others). Progressive philosophies can derive from authentic and ethical integration of local communities in conservation practice.Los proyectos de conservación que siguen un paradigma basado en la comunidad han predominado en el siglo XXI. Examinamos el contexto en el cual se acuñó la frase y rastreamos su crecimiento con el tiempo. La frase conservación basada en la comunidad apareció por primera vez en la literatura a principios de la década de 1990; casi no creció hasta después del quinto Congreso Mundial de Parques en 2003. Después de esto, las publicaciones que describen estrategias de conservación basadas en la comunidad incrementaron exponencialmente. El tema de dicha conferencia fue Beneficios Más Allá de las Fronteras y su objetivo era proporcionar un modelo económico basado en las ganancias acumuladas por la recaudación de fondos para la conservación y el ecoturismo para apoyar a los ecosistemas, la fauna y a las personas, particularmente en el hemisferio sur. Dichos modelos tuvieron la tendencia de no incorporar, como principio nuclear, el patrimonio de las comunidades humanas locales. El patrimonio humano varía sustancialmente con el tiempo y en el espacio, lo que complica la generalización de los principios de conservación en todas las escalas. Algunos obstáculos que han surgido de las estrategias de conservación basadas en la comunidad en el hemisferio sur son la conservación en fortalezas, el militarismo por la conservación, ecoturismo consumible y no consumible y las soluciones estrepitosas. Proponemos diez principios para un marco de trabajo de conservación centrado en el patrimonio humano (p. ej.: participar en prácticas de conservación con el uso de lenguajes locales, proponer y aplicar cuidadosamente soluciones consistentes con el patrimonio humano, proporcionar vías de desarrollo profesional claras para los individuos de las comunidades locales y promover programas alternativos de generación de ingresos centrados en las comunidades locales, entre otros). Las filosofías progresivas pueden derivar de una integración auténtica y ética de las comunidades locales dentro de la práctica de la conservación.基于社区的保护项目在 21 世纪占主导地位。我们研究了这个短语产生的背景, 并追踪了它的发展过程。 “基于社区的保护” 首次出现在 20 世纪 90 年代初的文献中;直到 2003 年第五届世界公园大会后才有了长足的发展, 描述基于社区的保护方法的出版物以指数级增加。当时会议的主题是“ 超越边境的利益”, 其目标是提供一种基于来自保护筹资和生态旅游收入的经济模式, 以支持生态系统、野生动物和人类的发展, 特别是在全球南方地区。这类模型往往没有将当地人类社区的遗产作为一项核心原则纳入进来。人类遗产在时间和空间上有很大的差异, 这使得在不同尺度上推广保护法则具有挑战性。在全球南方地区, 基于社区的保护方法中出现的误区包括堡垒保护、保护军国主义、消耗性和非消耗性生态旅游, 以及轰动性的解决方案。我们为以人类遗产为中心的保护框架提出了十项原则建议, 如在保护实践中使用当地语言, 深入思考并应用符合人类遗产利益的解决方案, 为当地社区居民提供清晰的职业发展道路, 以及促进当地社区的替代收入项目等等。在保护实践中, 我们还将综合当地社区的真实情况和伦理问题不断改进我们的指导思想。【翻译: 胡怡思; 审校: 聂永刚】.
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24. Internet Pornography: Some Medical and Spiritual Perspectives
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James McTavish
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Essays ,050103 clinical psychology ,Scale (ratio) ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,05 social sciences ,Internet privacy ,Human sexuality ,Internet pornography ,Philosophy ,050903 gender studies ,Pornography ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,The Internet ,Sociology ,0509 other social sciences ,business - Abstract
The Internet has made pornography available on a massive scale. Data released by “Pornhub” the world’s most popular Internet porn site, reveal that in 2019 alone, there were over 42 billion visits to its website, which in itself is an incredible waste of time and energy, which could be more fruitfully employed. Pornography viewing is poisonous for the conscience and commodifies the human body, reducing it to an object of abusive pleasure. Its negative effects can be broadly seen in three overlapping categories: personal, psychological, and social. The antidote is a renewed call to chastity, that self-mastery that can help direct one’s passions in a more fruitful way. Without prayer, we cannot live chastely as “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41). There is an urgency for the new evangelization to help recapture the dignity of the body and counter the lie of pornography, and to ensure that in the digital world, the face of Christ needs to be seen and his voice heard. Summary: The first part of this essay outlines some personal, psychological, and social dangers of pornography. Viewing of pornography is harmful, as it objectifies the human body and distorts one’s vision of sexuality. The second part of the essay gives some practical advice concerning how to ideally halt or reverse the epidemic of porn viewing, emphasizing the dignity of each person as subject, and reminding us of how a chaste gaze helps one rediscover the real beauty and value of the human body.
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25. Assessing international relations in undergraduate education
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Kamil Zwolski
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Essays ,Simulations ,International relations ,Structure (mathematical logic) ,Undergraduate education ,Comparative politics ,Assessment ,Scholarship ,Teaching and Learning ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Mathematics education ,Transferable skills analysis ,Political philosophy ,Element (criminal law) - Abstract
This paper advocates a holistic approach to assessing international relations in undergraduate education, which revolves around: (a) essays and (b) active learning-related tasks, such as simulation reflective statements/reports and performance. The paper argues that, on the one hand, academic essays are far from irrelevant and it is difficult to overestimate their practical significance. On the other hand, active learning-related tasks are best utilised as a supplementary assessment, expanding the students’ range of transferable skills. The assessment structure advocated in this paper results from a holistic approach to assessment design, which includes teacher’s own experience, familiarity with pedagogical scholarship and input from students. This last element is the least common even though it makes sense to understand how students see their own assessment. To that end, the paper shares the results of a pilot project run at one of the UK universities, which engaged students as partners in rethinking their assessment.
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26. Health in Need of Healing: Church History as a Road Map for Future Evangelization in Medicine
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James O. Breen
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Essays ,Philosophy ,Expression (architecture) ,Healthcare financing ,Health Policy ,Political science ,Foundation (evidence) ,Road map ,Public administration ,Catholic social teaching ,Church history ,Western medicine - Abstract
Western medicine developed as an expression of Christian charity and played a large role in the growth of the early church. Despite its original foundation in Christian moral principles, modern medicine has deviated from its origins. The principles of human dignity, solidarity, and subsidiarity have been subjugated to a materialist and transactional construct that forms the basis of the contemporary medical delivery and financing systems. The dehumanization of both healthcare practitioners and patients by the partnership of governmental and corporate entities, and the use of health care as a political instrument, has debased the original mission of the medical profession and represents an affront to the principles of Catholic social teaching (CST). This essay explores the ways in which the US medical delivery and financing systems violate the principles of CST by means seldom recognized due to the inurement of the public and medical professionals. By examining the prevailing healthcare model through the lens of CST, the author illustrates the ways in which CST principles are systematically violated. This analysis serves as the foundation of a Catholic response to the question of how faithful Christians might live out their calls to holiness through the exercise of their professional vocations. A vision of an invigorated model of medicine as vocation, along with illustrative examples, is presented. By exemplifying the principles of human dignity, solidarity and subsidiarity in health care, Christians can seize a golden opportunity for evangelization by rearticulating the historical spiritual mission of Western medicine.
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27. Professional and Personal Reflexion of a Teacher-Musician: An Operational Component
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Tatyana A. Kolysheva and Tatyana I. Blaginina
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music and pedagogical education ,reflective biography ,professional and personal reflection ,essays ,methods of teaching reflection ,05 social sciences ,050401 social sciences methods ,050301 education ,practice at school ,Education ,research activities ,0504 sociology ,storytelling ,Component (UML) ,Pedagogy ,professional training ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,M1-5000 ,music teacher ,biographical method ,Psychology ,0503 education ,Music - Abstract
The article deals with the specificity of professional reflection of the future music teacher in the light of the development of the ideas by E. B. Abdullin. The accumulation of one’s own experience of entering the world of music, the art of teaching, its comprehension and analysis allow a thoughtful student to look at the process of musical education through the eyes of students, their parents, that is, to take the reflective position of a teacher-researcher. The search for ways and means of solving professionally significant tasks requires a music teacher to think reflectively, understand the actions of his students and colleagues, and penetrate their feelings and thoughts. The importance of reflection in solving problem situations, pedagogical tasks, in mastering critical thinking by a future music teacher is substantiated. The conceptual foundations for professional reflection development of a future teacher-musician have been worked out, the structure of reflective analysis and the conditions for the effectiveness of its development by students have been revealed. The techniques and methods of preparing future bachelors and masters of music education for professional reflection in the process of studying at a university, during school practice, in various types of independent, research work of students are considered. The authors have adapted special reflexive techniques (artistic-pedagogical tasks, search games, storytelling, reflective life story, musical reflection, reflective analysis, interviews, pedagogical essays, creative portfolio). The article analyzes the experience of Dutch specialists, the author’s methods of foreign researchers (ALACT – model, “Wall”, “Arrows”, “Visiting card”, a system of reflective questions, etc.). Adapted for use by students in music lessons in the course of pedagogical practice, they become effective means for introspection, self-assessment of the activities of future bachelors / masters of music education. Based on the material of autobiographies and interviews of great musicians-performers, actual problems of music education, ways of spiritually reflexive entry into the world of art and artistic creation are analyzed.
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28. Communicating the true challenges of saving species: response to Wiedenfeld et al
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James E. M. Watson, Jeremy S. Simmonds, Michelle Ward, Chuan J. Yong, April E. Reside, Hugh P. Possingham, Andrew Rogers, and Josie Carwardine
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Essays ,small populations ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,Ecology ,Essay ,extinction ,Endangered Species ,Extinction, Biological ,financial resources ,Animals ,zero extinction ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,conservation triage - Abstract
Some conservation prioritization methods are based on the assumption that conservation needs overwhelm current resources and not all species can be conserved; therefore, a conservation triage scheme (i.e., when the system is overwhelmed, species should be divided into three groups based on likelihood of survival, and efforts should be focused on those species in the group with the best survival prospects and reduced or denied to those in the group with no survival prospects and to those in the group not needing special efforts for their conservation) is necessary to guide resource allocation. We argue that this decision‐making strategy is not appropriate because resources are not as limited as often assumed, and it is not evident that there are species that cannot be conserved. Small population size alone, for example, does not doom a species to extinction; plants, reptiles, birds, and mammals offer examples. Although resources dedicated to conserving all threatened species are insufficient at present, the world's economic resources are vast, and greater resources could be dedicated toward species conservation. The political framework for species conservation has improved, with initiatives such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and other international agreements, funding mechanisms such as The Global Environment Facility, and the rise of many nongovernmental organizations with nimble, rapid‐response small grants programs. For a prioritization system to allow no extinctions, zero extinctions must be an explicit goal of the system. Extinction is not inevitable, and should not be acceptable. A goal of no human‐induced extinctions is imperative given the irreversibility of species loss., Article impact statement: Conservation triage is not necessary for species conservation. Adequate resources exist; even species with small populations can recover.
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29. Guidelines to Write School Essays
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Henry, Alban
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Essay composing is a basic skill expected to beat secondary school and school. Students might get subverted when they are given an essay as an assignment. Notwithstanding, loosen up, you can follow this manual for compose a top-tier essay and get passing marks for paper writing service. Assuming that you are figuring "how might I compose my essay" then, at that point, you should follow this associate. One of the most important aspects of composing an essay is understanding the essay question. Painstakingly read the statement and underline the keywords. Review don't rush and compose on the topic in haste. Structure an essay question straightforwardly following reading the statement. From now on, you should sort out what sort of essay needs to be composed. The 8 types of essays are account, expository, descriptive, persuasive, argumentative, insightful, comparison and contrast, and cause and impact. Distinguish which sort of essay is required because each essay has a substitute layout. The subsequent stage is to start your research about the essay. Get a general and expansive perspective on the topic first. Discover information about the establishment or history of the topic. After that get specific and search for affirmation that will help you recorded as a hard copy the thesis for essay writer online. Try to search and skim through scholarly sources as they will increase the possibility of your essay. Exactly when you have done what's necessary research and understand the topic, make an outline of the arguments that you will use. The overall structure of all essays is the same. The first passage is the presentation which always contains a thesis statement. After the presentation, you really need to compose body paragraphs to give your arguments about the thesis statement. The first sentence of each body passage is the topic sentence and it contains the controlling pondered the section. Eventually, you need to compose a conclusion for your essay. Assuming you get stuck you can get a convincing essay author to help you. The presentation is the first section of your essay for ���write my essay��� tasks. It is comprised of two parts the exceptional situation and the thesis. The last sentence of your presentation must be the thesis statement and everything before it should progress toward your thesis statement. The setting is the information that the reader needs to know to sort out the thesis. You can start the presentation with a snare that might startle the reader and grab his consideration. Another strategy is to start the presentation with an issue and give the solution in the thesis statement. The thesis statement is the most important part of your essay. It tells the reader about the focal contemplated the essay. The wide scope of various things in the essay relates back to the thesis statement. It is comprised of two components: a claim and its reasoning. A claim is a conclusion that we draw from pieces of proof and other information. The reasoning of the thesis statement contains reasons for making the claim. The thesis statement usually explains what question you will be answering in your essay. The body paragraphs are the sub-points of the general argument of your essay. They are distinct yet support the thesis statement. Everybody section should have one main thought in particular. All body paragraphs contain four parts that can be audited by using the word TEAR. The first part is the topic sentence, the second is the proof, the third is the analysis of the check and the fourth is associated back to the thesis. Use transition words between numerous pieces of check in your section. A fantastic body section will contain this enormous number of components by essay writer. The first sentence of each body section is the topic sentence and it supports the thesis. The topic sentences are really the smaller claims of the thesis. In the event that all the topic sentences are assembled then it would make an outline of the essay. A topic sentence also controls the organizing pondered the passage. It resembles the summary of the passage. In an essay, you really need to make claims based on confirmation. As you are a secondary school student and not a specialist you will get proof from various sources. You should imply all the proof that you get fittingly to avoid plagiarism in your paper. For an exceptional essay, try to use proof from scholarly sources from continuous years. Follow the appropriate reference design according to the instructions given by your instructor. You can always take help from a trustworthy essay composing service in such manner. The last section of the essay is the conclusion. It usually starts with the restatement of your thesis in paraphrased words. Starting there forward, summarize each of the arguments in your essay and use transition words between each argument. In the closing section, you can give recommendations based on the arguments by essay writer free. Really make an effort not to remember any unique ideas for your conclusion. The last sentence of the conclusion should be a mix of the question, confirmation, and conclusion of your essay.
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30. fff musings 2021 (the abecedary)
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Overend, Alissa, Dees, Justine, Kirshner, Hannah, Fournier, Lauren, Van Dyk, Janita, Talja, Aliisa, Wissel, Emily F., Sariola, Salla, Tracy, Megan, Myles, Colleen, Turner, Marie, Howes-Mischel, Rebecca, Bunschoten, Claire, Fishel, Stefanie, Wolfson, Eliza, Kaczmarzyk, Kathe, Sandor Ellix Katz, WhiteFeather Hunter, Heldke, Lisa, Brantley, Hannah, Donati, Kelly, Kaajal Modi, Sigrithur, Anna, Pokrywka, Aga, Nash, Sean, Johns, Jessica, Skinner, Julia, Maroney, Stephanie, Evans, Joshua, Hey, Maya, Rest, Matthäus, Hoven, Emily, and Supski, Savannah
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feminism ,essays ,food ,musings ,A to Z ,DIY publishing ,abecedary ,keywords ,fermentation - Abstract
fff is an organization dedicated to bringing the three themes of food, feminism, and fermentation together / we aim to invite discussants, and engage in conversations across culinary, health, and educational sectors. In 2021, we built an abecedary, or ABC book, of keywords common to the three domains.
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31. A meditatio mortis montaigniana: de como filosofar é aprender a viver
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Natanailtom Morador
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Philosophy ,Philosophie, Theologie ,Spiritualität ,Meditation ,Tod ,death ,ddc:100 ,meditatio mortis ,spiritual exercises ,essays ,Michel de Montaigne ,Philosophy, Ethics, Religion ,Philosophie ,spirituality ,Earth-Surface Processes - Abstract
Since Plato, death has been a recurring theme in the history of philosophy and the Hellenistic schools of thought. The "death" subject became a daily reflection particularly in Epicureanism and in Stoicism, from which not only the term meditatio mortis comes from, but an entire literature, including the writings made in the medieval times that had the final moment of life as their central point. Thus, in the 16th century, the period when Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) lived his life, meditation on death was a rhetorical topos. Nevertheless, his Essays approach the theme of death not only from a literary standpoint, but as a daily meditation, as a spiritual exercise. In this perspective, this article suggests that Montaigne, far beyond a rhetorical approach, attempts to recover the most original meaning that the Hellenistic schools of thought gave to meditatio mortis, taking this concept as a preparation for life itself, as a constant way of observing the present, faced with an imminent scenario of various deaths, such as the Black Death epidemic and the civil war in Montaigne troubled times.
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32. La educación en Los ensayos de Montaigne, una experiencia dialéctica
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López Hernández, Jairo Ramón
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Essays ,judgment formation ,education ,pedagogy and philosophy ,humanismo ,Currículo ,filosofía ,Ensayos ,humanism ,Montaigne ,formación del juicio ,pedagogía ,Curriculum ,educación - Abstract
The whole of Montaigne's work can be read as a great educational proposal: to know oneself better in order to build oneself better and face life better. In this article we will examine a reading from a vital dialectic of education in, The Essays. A dialectic that starts from Montaigne's individual experience, moves through the entire human condition, and returns to the reader willing to be analyzed. From this dialogical perspective, training in judgment is studied as a nodal point in the educational process, in which the teacher plays a fundamental role. In conclusion, a tentative proposal of Montaigne’s curriculum is asserted in which philosophy has a fundamental role, by offering elements to converse with life. El conjunto de la obra del humanista Miguel de Montaigne puede leerse como una propuesta educativa: conocerse mejor para construirse mejor y afrontar la vida mejor. En este artículo realizaremos una lectura desde una dialéctica vital de la educación en Los ensayos. Una dialéctica en la que se parte de la experiencia individual de Montaigne se mueve a toda la condición humana y se regresa al lector y a la lectora dispuesto (a) a ensayarse. Desde esa perspectiva dialógica se analiza la formación en el juicio, como punto nodal en el proceso educativo, en el cual el maestro (a) tiene un papel fundamental. En una última parte, se hace una propuesta tentativa de un currículo montaniano en el que la filosofía tiene un rol fundamental, al ofrecer elementos para conversar con la vida en su totalidad.
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33. Gratitude in Matamoros
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Chad Kritzberger
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Essays ,Philosophy ,Health Policy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Gratitude ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,media_common - Published
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34. Pasantía empresarial auxiliar de laboratorios de la línea de recursos hídricos
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Diaz Ferreira, Johan Andres, Alvarez Torres, Monica Lucet, and Universidad Santo Tomas
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Water resources ,essays ,Laboratorio ,engineering ,Ingeniería ,Internship ,Ensayos ,Recursos hídricos ,Tesis y disertaciones académicas ,Laboratory ,Ingeniería civil ,Pasantía ,Laboratorios - Pasantia ,Recursos hídricos - Laboratorio - Abstract
En el presente informe se presentan las actividades realizadas durante mi pasantía en el cargo de auxiliar de laboratorios de la línea de aguas, la cual es mi opción de grado para obtener el título de ingeniero civil; esta experiencia laboral ha sido muy fructífera para fortalecer mis conocimientos e incluso para aprender cosas nuevas de mi área de estudio y de otras áreas, que cuales hacen uso de los laboratorios de la universidad santo Tomás sede Villavicencio. EL presente documento se estructura de la siguiente forma: descripción de la empresa, presentación de mi experiencia como pasante en coordinación de laboratorios en donde se resalta las actividades realizadas como auxiliar, cómo fue la experiencia, los aportes, las recomendaciones y finalmente beneficio propio adquirido durante este periodo http://www.ustavillavicencio.edu.co/home/index.php/unidades/extension-y-proyeccion/investigacion Pregrado
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35. Automated Discourse Analysis Techniques and Implications for Writing Assessment
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Liontou, Trisevgeni
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text complexity ,essays ,written production ,English language competence ,writing tasks ,rating criteria ,assessing writing ,Linguistics and Language ,Language and Linguistics - Abstract
Analysing writing development as a function of foreign language competence is important in secondary school children because the developmental patterns are strongest at a young age when successful interventions are needed. Although a number of researchers have explored the degree to which specific textual characteristics in EFL students’ essays are associated with high and low ratings by teachers, the extent to which such characteristics are associated with rater-mediated assessment under standard exam conditions remains relatively unexplored. Motivated by the above void in pertinent literature, the overall aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between specific discourse features present in the writing scripts of EFL learners sitting for the British Council’s APTIS for TEENS exam and the assigned scores during operational scoring by specially trained raters. A total of 800 international EFL students aged 13 to 15 years old took part in the study, and 800 scored written essays on the same task prompt of the pertinent test produced under standard exam conditions were analysed. The results showed statistically significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) between the linguistic features identified in the essays produced by young EFL learners at different levels of language competence. The main text features that were repeatedly found to make a significant contribution to distinguishing scores assigned to texts both within and across levels were word frequency, word abstractness, lexical diversity, lexical and semantic overlap, all of which could be used to obtain a numerical cut-off point between proficiency levels. These findings support the notion that progress in L2 writing is primarily associated with producing more elaborate texts with more sophisticated words, more complex sentence structure and fewer cohesive features as a function of increased language competence. The findings of the study could provide practical guidance to EFL teachers, material developers and test designers as to the kind of linguistic strategies young EFL learners develop as a function of their level of language competence and suggestions to consider when designing EFL classroom curricula, writing skills textbooks and exam papers on written production.
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36. The Vaccination Cold War
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Judit Sándor, Jonathan D. Moreno, Ulf Schmidt, and European Commission
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Health (social science) ,History ,Essay ,International Cooperation ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,Civil liberties ,Geopolitics ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,vaccine ,Pandemic ,Economic history ,medicine ,Humans ,Smallpox ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Pandemics ,civil liberties ,media_common ,Essays ,Covid‐19 ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,Cold War ,Health Policy ,Vaccination ,vaccine propaganda ,COVID-19 ,International health ,06 humanities and the arts ,History, 20th Century ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,Irony ,Philosophy ,Issues, ethics and legal aspects ,Cold war ,health data surveillance ,060301 applied ethics ,business ,vaccine nationalism - Abstract
Surveying the early responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic among nation states, one finds a veritable babel of responses, some predictable and some not. Would these results have been different half a century or more ago, when smallpox was eradicated and hopes were high that international cooperation would yield similar results for other infectious diseases? Is this a story about the stability provided by the bipolar postwar world, juxtaposed with the complex geopolitical repositioning that finally followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, or is that too rich an irony? A multipolar world may indeed be less prepared to cope with an international health crisis than a bipolar one. In any case, the patterns of global response are not only reminiscent of the Cold War era itself but also suggestive of a new vaccination cold war.
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37. Black Lives in a Pandemic: Implications of Systemic Injustice for End-of-Life Care
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Alan Elbaum
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Departments ,Health (social science) ,Palliative care ,Brief reflections on lessons and questions posed by Covid‐19 for health, medicine, and bioethics ,Social Determinants of Health ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Criminology ,Trust ,Racism ,Article ,Injustice ,Health(social science) ,Officer ,Betacoronavirus ,Social Justice ,Political science ,Pandemic ,Health care ,rationing ,Humans ,Healthcare Disparities ,Black Lives Matter ,Pandemics ,health disparities ,media_common ,Essays ,Terminal Care ,Health Care Rationing ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,structural racism ,Palliative Care ,COVID-19 ,United States ,Health equity ,Black or African American ,Philosophy ,Issues, ethics and legal aspects ,Coronavirus Infections ,business ,End-of-life care - Abstract
In recent months, Covid‐19 has devastated African American communities across the nation, and a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd. The agents of death may be novel, but the phenomena of long‐standing epidemics of premature black death and of police violence are not. This essay argues that racial health and health care disparities, rooted as they are in systemic injustice, ought to carry far more weight in clinical ethics than they generally do. In particular, this essay examines palliative and end‐of‐life care for African Americans, highlighting the ways in which American medicine, like American society, has breached trust. In the experience of many African American patients struggling against terminal illness, health care providers have denied them a say in their own medical decision‐making. In the midst of the Covid‐19 pandemic, African Americans have once again been denied a say with regard to the rationing of scarce medical resources such as ventilators, in that dominant and ostensibly race‐neutral algorithms sacrifice black lives. Is there such thing as a “good” or “dignified” death when African Americans are dying not merely of Covid‐19 but of structural racism?
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38. Duties toward Patients with Psychiatric Illness
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Naomi A. Schmelzer, Nomi C Levy-Carrick, David Silbersweig, Rachel Conrad, Matthew L. Baum, Sejal B. Shah, and Jhilam Biswas
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Health (social science) ,Social stigma ,Social Stigma ,Severity of Illness Index ,Health Services Accessibility ,Occupational safety and health ,Residence Characteristics ,Health care ,Psychiatric hospital ,Medicine ,involuntary hospitalization ,Bioethical Issues ,Social isolation ,disparities ,education.field_of_study ,Mental Disorders ,Health Policy ,mental illness ,Telemedicine ,psychiatry ,Hospitalization ,Mental Health ,trauma ,Social Isolation ,medicine.symptom ,Coronavirus Infections ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Brief reflections on lessons and questions posed by Covid‐19 for health, medicine, and bioethics ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Population ,Psychological Trauma ,Article ,Health(social science) ,Betacoronavirus ,Humans ,education ,Psychiatry ,Pandemics ,Essays ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,COVID-19 ,Mental illness ,medicine.disease ,Mental health ,United States ,Philosophy ,Issues, ethics and legal aspects ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Communicable Disease Control ,business - Abstract
Patients with psychiatric illness feel the brunt of the intersection of many of our society's and our health care system's disparities, and the vulnerability of this population during the Covid‐19 pandemic cannot be overstated. Patients with psychiatric illness often suffer from the stigma of mental illness and receive poor medical care. Many patients with severe and persistent mental illness face additional barriers, including poverty, marginal housing, and food insecurity. Patients who require psychiatric hospitalization now face the risk of transmission of Covid‐19 due to the inherent difficulties of social distancing within a psychiatric hospital. Patients whose freedom and self‐determination have been temporarily overruled as they receive involuntary psychiatric treatment deserve a setting that maintains their health and safety. While tele‐mental health has been rapidly expanded to provide new ways to access psychiatric treatment, some patients may have limitations in technological literacy or access to devices. The social isolation, economic fallout, and potential traumatization related to the current pandemic will disproportionately affect this vulnerable population, and society's duties to them must be considered.
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39. Does a Public Health Crisis Justify More Research with Incarcerated People?
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Keramet Reiter
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Biomedical Research ,Essay ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Emigrants and Immigrants ,Prison ,Coercion ,Criminology ,Risk Assessment ,Vulnerable Populations ,Scarcity ,Individualism ,experimentation ,Risk Factors ,vaccine trials ,Political science ,medicine ,Humans ,Immigration detention ,Skepticism ,media_common ,Essays ,Covid‐19 ,Infection Control ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Health Policy ,Public health ,Patient Selection ,Prisoners ,Vaccination ,COVID-19 ,Correctional Facilities ,United States ,Philosophy ,Issues, ethics and legal aspects ,Harm ,prison - Abstract
Covid‐19 has infected thousands and killed hundreds in prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities across the United States. Responding to this crisis, leading medical researchers have called for expanding opportunities for people in prison to participate in vaccine trials. These calls, like current regulations, focus on individualized risk assessments around consent, coercion, and harm, while ignoring the unnaturalness of deprivation conditions in U.S. prisons. We need new frameworks of analysis that refocus on structural, rather than individual, risk assessments. Integrating structural perspectives—including skepticism of claims of scarcity, avoidance of representational distortions, and attention to institutional agency—into our existing, overly individualistic frameworks might permit the design of more ethical research projects involving people who are incarcerated. Still, the unnatural deprivations of incarceration might be so great that research subjects might need to be removed from prison entirely in order to ethically participate in research.
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40. Can Clinical Empathy Survive? Distress, Burnout, and Malignant Duty in the Age of Covid-19
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Adrian Anzaldua and Jodi Halpern
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Moral Obligations ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Essay ,health care facilities, manpower, and services ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Health Personnel ,education ,Empathy ,Burnout ,Dehumanization ,Occupational Stress ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,Meaning (existential) ,Psychiatry ,Duty ,Burnout, Professional ,duty ,media_common ,Essays ,Covid‐19 ,burnout ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,COVID-19 ,health care ,United States ,Philosophy ,Issues, ethics and legal aspects ,Distress ,Curiosity ,business ,Psychology ,psychological phenomena and processes ,virtue - Abstract
The Covid‐19 crisis has accelerated a trend toward burnout in health care workers, making starkly clear that burnout is especially likely when providing health care is not only stressful and sad but emotionally alienating; in such situations, there is no mental space for clinicians to experience authentic clinical empathy. Engaged curiosity toward each patient is a source of meaning and connection for health care providers, and it protects against sympathetic distress and burnout. In a prolonged crisis like Covid‐19, clinicians provide care out of a sense of duty, especially the duty of nonabandonment. We argue that when duty alone is relied on too heavily, with fear and frustration continually suppressed, the risk of burnout is dramatically increased. Even before Covid‐19, clinicians often worked under dehumanizing and unjust conditions, and rates of burnout were 50 percent for physicians and 33 percent for nurses. The Covid‐19 intensification of burnout can serve as a wake‐up call that the structure of health care needs to be improved if we are to prevent the loss of a whole generation of empathic clinicians.
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41. Implications of John Kavanaugh's Philosophy of the Human Person as Embodied Reflexive Consciousness for Conscientious Decision-making in Brain Death
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Joseph Eble
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Essays ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,Psychoanalysis ,Endowment ,Health Policy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Applied ethics ,03 medical and health sciences ,Philosophy ,Contemporary philosophy ,0302 clinical medicine ,030202 anesthesiology ,Embodied cognition ,Reflexivity ,Phenomenon ,Consciousness ,Psychology ,Conscience ,media_common - Abstract
This article reviews the work of Fr. John F. Kavanaugh, SJ (1941–2012), on the human person as embodied reflexive consciousness (RC). It then analyzes the implications of his work for the subject of brain death. Case studies are reviewed which suggest that RC persists unchanged in the setting of substantial brain trauma. RC is posited as an immaterial endowment, rather than a material phenomenon, which is fully present so long as a person is alive and becomes absent when a person is truly dead. As the endowment which makes possible ethical action and is common to all human persons, RC becomes the foundation of human equality. Empirically ascertaining the presence or absence of RC may not be possible—its demonstration may be precluded by physical immaturity or damage. Therefore, until the human person (and not only the brain) has wholly and irreversibly died, RC should be assumed to be present. The current criteria for brain death are incapable of ensuring that the entire brain has permanently and irreversibly ceased to function. Therefore, RC may still be present in those whose organs are harvested after meeting the criteria for brain death. As such, a human person would still be present, albeit a wounded human person. Based on this, a healthcare provider could (and likely should) in good conscience oppose the use of brain death criteria for purposes of harvesting vital organs. On a societal level, utilizing brain death criteria to declare a person dead has the potential in any given case to violate the dead donor rule, and as such conflicts with the widely held moral consensus that organs should only be harvested from those who are dead. Healthcare providers should advocate for medicolegal frameworks consistent with their informed consciences.
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42. Counteracting Throwaway Culture in Daily Clinical Practice
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Joseph R. Fuchs and Jeffrey W. Fuchs
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Essays ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Health Policy ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,030501 epidemiology ,Catholic social teaching ,Patient care ,Clinical Practice ,03 medical and health sciences ,Philosophy ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Sociology ,0305 other medical science - Abstract
Since his election in March 2013, Pope Francis has brought significant attention to the concept of “throwaway culture.” This moral paradigm—which has been defined by Francis in various speeches and the encyclical Laudato si’—characterizes a present-day culture in which food, disposable objects, and even human beings themselves are “discarded as ‘unnecessary.’” As Catholic physicians, it is our duty to ensure that we are working to counteract throwaway culture in our daily clinical practice by embracing and exhibiting a culture of encounter. When throwaway culture is discussed within the context of medical practice, it is easy to think of major life and systemic issues including abortion, assistive reproductive technology, physician assisted suicide, and so on. However, rejection of throwaway culture has much broader implications for Catholic physicians. We are called to resist this perverse culture whenever we experience a situation that requires special attention to the respect of human dignity. In this article, we present two common situations encountered in clinical practice in which it is essential to counteract throwaway culture and embrace a culture of encounter: in working with patients who are isolation settings and those who require translation services. Various studies are cited which demonstrate a lack of respect for human dignity that can be seen when working with these patient populations, and recommendations are provided which illustrate how to embrace a culture of encounter in each scenario. The authors conclude that through adoption of a culture of encounter, Catholic physicians as a community can be role models for coworkers, trainees, and students, promoting a culture in which we validate human dignity and ensure the quality and just care of even our most vulnerable patients. Summary: Pope Francis had defined a “throwaway culture” in which “Human life, the person, are no longer seen as a primary value to be respected and safeguarded.” In this article we present two common situations encountered in clinical practice in which it is essential to counteract throwaway culture and embrace a culture of encounter: in working with patients who are isolation settings and those who require translation services. We conclude that, as Catholic physicians, it is our duty to ensure that we are working to counteract throwaway culture in our daily clinical practice by embracing and exhibiting a culture of encounter.
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43. Searching for Meaning with Victor Frankl and Walker Percy
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Timothy W Rothhaar and Ethan M Schimmoeller
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Nihilism ,Essays ,Psychoanalysis ,Christian existentialism ,Health Policy ,Philosophy ,06 humanities and the arts ,060202 literary studies ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,0602 languages and literature ,Narrative ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Meaning (existential) - Abstract
Patients present to physicians searching for more than scientific names to call their maladies. They rather enter examination rooms with value-laden narratives of illness, suffering, hopes, and worries. One potentially helpful paradigm, inspired in part by existentialism, is to see patients on a search for meaning. This perspective is particularly important in the seemingly meaningless ruins of modernity. Here, we will summarize Victor Frankl’s account of logotherapy found in his much-circulated book Man’s Search for Meaning and assess the limitations imposed by his religious agnosticism. At best he can offer patients a finite, impersonal meaning this side of the grave. Following Kierkegaard’s depiction of the religious sphere of existence, American novelist Walker Percy will be shown to supplement logotherapy with a theological mooring. The spiritual crisis of the modern world is treatable only by Christian faith supplying ultimate meaning. Taken together, Frankl and Percy show how Catholic physicians can be guides in their patients’ personal searches for meaning. This paradigm may prove chiefly beneficial in goals of care conversations, encountering “aesthetic” patients living only for pleasure, and engaging patients amidst tragedy-ridden circumstances. Although only Christian faith will ultimately satisfy the search for meaning, we first of all need encouragement to take responsibility for seeking meaning, and confidence that even the most hopeless situation can become meaningful. Summary: Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning can enlighten clinical encounters for physicians to see patients on a search for meaning, particularly amidst suffering and tragedy in a post-modern world lacking transcendence. As shown in Walker Percy’s literature, however, ultimate meaning can only be found in Christian faith where the Word became flesh and continues to dwell among us.
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- 2021
44. The Censorship of Essays Written by Maria Aurèlia Capmany (1968-1978)
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Essays ,History ,Sociology ,Francoist regime ,Censorship ,Maria Aurèlia Capmany ,Feminism - Published
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45. El ensayo periodístico y sus concepciones : algunas implicaciones pedagógicas
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Essays ,Journalistic essays ,Ensayo periodístico ,Escritura académica ,Teaching and learning of journalism ,Assaig periodístic ,Ensenyament i aprenentatge del periodisme ,Writing academic ,Assaig ,Enseñanza y aprendizaje del periodismo ,Escriptura acadèmica ,Ensayo - Published
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46. Формирование профессиональной лексики будущих художников традиционного прикладного искусства
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traditional applied art ,традиционное прикладное искусство ,гармония ,specifics of teaching ,essays ,harmony ,русский язык ,Russian language ,image ,профессиональная лексика ,color ,специфика преподавания ,цвет ,образ ,творческие работы ,creative works ,сочинения ,professional vocabulary - Abstract
В статье рассматриваются пути и возможности реализации интегративного подхода к процессу преподавания русского языка и культуры речи; способы ликвидации пробелов в повседневном общении, в культуре речи и в коллективной коммуникации. В современной России актуальны нормативность и правильность употребления профессиональных слов. Анализируются специфические условия и методы, позволяющие формировать профессиональную лексику будущего художника традиционных художественных промыслов. Настоящая статья не претендует на полное решение проблемы формирования художественной лексики у студентов, а обозначает намеченные и успешно применяемые на практике пути и способы реализации поставленной образовательной задачи., The article discusses ways and possibilities of implementing an integrative approach to the process of teaching the Russian language and speech culture; ways to eliminate gaps in everyday communication, in the culture of speech and in collective communication. In modern Russia, the normativity and correctness of the use of professional words are more relevant than ever. The specific conditions and methods allowing to form the professional vocabulary of the future artist in educational organizations of traditional applied art are analyzed. This article does not pretend to be a complete solution to the problem of the formation of artistic vocabulary among students, but designates the ways and methods of implementing the educational task that are planned and successfully applied in practice.
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47. Opinion Writing of Native Spanish and Native English Speakers in College Developmental Education Courses
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Portillo, Natalie
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FOS: Psychology ,English language ,Essays ,Community college students ,Persuasion (Psychology) ,Persuasion (Rhetoric) ,Psychology ,Spanish language - Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine argumentative writing produced by students of differing language backgrounds and skill level to inform future instructional approaches and program design. An archival corpus of opinion essays written by native Spanish speaking students and native English speaking students enrolled in community college developmental education courses was utilized. The essays consisted of one to two paragraphs expressing an opinion on a controversial topic. In the study, the essays were assessed for the overall persuasiveness of the text, the use of academic words, the incorporation of connectives as a measure of lexical cohesion, the use of argumentative structural elements, and the inclusion of functional elements within the text produced. The relationship between native language and six structural and lexical features were examined utilizing a one-way Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA). After controlling for paragraph length and reading ability, results indicated that native Spanish speaking students produced more standpoint structural elements than English speaking students. None of the other dependent variables were significant. A Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) was employed to explore the variability in the persuasiveness of the opinion writing. Utilizing this mode of analysis, it was revealed that overall persuasiveness in the students’ opinion writing was mainly a function of higher word counts, a higher percentage of academic words, more standpoint structural elements, and being a native English speaking student. Finally, pedagogical implications are discussed.
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48. Die Mobilität der Zukunft muss effizient sein
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Uwe Dieter Grebe
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Essays ,Engineering ,business.industry ,business ,Humanities - Published
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49. Mia Couto ensaísta
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Moreira, Kássio do Nascimento, 1990, Melo, Alfredo Cesar Barbosa de, 1979, Brugioni, Elena, 1979, Gallo, Fernanda Bianca Gonçalves, Gomes, Raquel Gryszczenko Alves, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Teoria e História Literária, and UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS
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Couto, Mia - 1955 ,Essays ,Couto, Mia, 1955 ,Literatura moçambicana ,Ensaios ,Intelectuais ,Intellectuals ,Mozambican literature - Abstract
Orientadores: Alfredo Cesar Barbosa de Melo, Elena Brugioni Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Resumo: Esta dissertação é dedicada ao estudo da produção ensaística de Mia Couto, nas obras Cronicando (1989), O país do queixa-andar (2003), Pensatempos (2005) e E se Obama fosse africano? (2009), assim como o estudo da atuação do autor moçambicano enquanto intelectual público. O texto parte da delimitação do escopo teórico da pesquisa, articulando as noções de intelectual, viagem, exílio e ensaio, para em seguida analisar a trajetória do autor, a sua constituição enquanto intelectual e figura pública. Discute a relevância do gênero ensaístico para o autor e para sua atividade intelectual; a natureza dos ensaios coutianos; e a intenção do autor com relação à recepção da obra pelo público Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the essays of Mia Couto, with a focus on the works Cronicando (1989), O país do queixa-andar (2003), Pensatempos (2005) and E se Obama fosse africano? (2009), as well as the Mozambican author's participation as a public intellectual. The text begins by delimiting the theoretical scope of the study and articulating the concepts of intellectual, travel, exile, and essay, and then proceeds to trace the author's trajectory as an intellectual and public figure. The text evaluates the relevance of the essay genre to Mia Couto and his creative activity, explores the nature of Couto's essays, and discusses the author's intentions for the public reception of his work Mestrado Teoria e Crítica Literária Mestre em Teoria e História Literária
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50. Guilt, shame, anger and the Chicana experience: Cherríe Moraga's
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Mario Grill
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Essays ,cognitive literary studies ,Psychoanalysis ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Contemporary history ,Essay ,narrative theory ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Shame ,shame ,Anger ,emotions ,Politics ,Scholarship ,Memoir ,Narratology ,memoir ,Psychology ,Chicanx studies ,Resistance (creativity) ,media_common - Abstract
Much scholarly attention has been paid to Latinx fiction. Less scholarship has focused on Latinx nonfiction, especially in the contemporary period. This essay focuses on the affective and political function of the Chicana memoir, particularly Cherríe Moraga’s Native Country of the Heart (2019). I explore how the emotions evoked by such a memoir aid in resisting dominant narratives of oppression. Counteracting such narratives of constraint and discrimination, Moraga creates a new conceptualization of empowering cultural imaginaries. I propose that the emotionalizing strategy of Native Country will provide new insight into how Chicana memoirs can function as and are voices of resistance against the marginalization of Mexican American women. Indeed, mentally and emotionally sharing such narratives might decelerate the constant fueling of a system of intersectional racism as Native Country exemplifies how even the memory of the unlettered can act as powerful means of resistance against the colonialization of the mind.
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