Difficult Moments Research Articles

Situating affect in Brazilian female domestic labour

ABSTRACTThe present article locates affect in the ambivalent power relations of paid female domestic labour, by tracing the ways in which affects articulate social and employment status. As several feminist scholars in Brazil have shown, feelings in the domestic working sphere are oriented toward the family and friendship. In my reading, these studies foreground that expressing such affection facilitates the inclusion of a ‘strange’ woman in the household, enables domestic workers to ask for support in difficult moments, but at the same time creates an emotional surrounding, in which both hierarchy and inequality are felt more intensely. In accentuating these ambivalent power relations, I also situate affect historically, following Gunew’s call for ‘decolonizing affect theory’. In order to do so, I discuss feelings of affection within the domestic working sphere in studies from Europe and bring them into dialogue with sociological and anthropological studies from Brazil. Finally, this article directs these efforts to a queer reading of the domestic working sphere and indicates disidentification and transversality as concepts to go beyond institutionalized feeling, distinction and hierarchy.

A Journey of Self-Reflection in Students’ Perception of Practice and Roles in the Profession

The basis of the study is the findings of scientific research dealing with experiential reflections of university students studying in the special education Bachelor degree study program in Lithuania. The special educator is a teacher of children with special educational needs, an educational assistance specialist who is able to recognize, assess, and meet children’s special educational needs arising due to disabilities, disorders, or learning difficulties, and to professionally provide special pedagogical assistance in the conditions of inclusive and special education. In order to analyze the experience of prospective special educators who study at the university for four years, first year students were chosen. At the start of their studies at the university, in the first month of their studies, students do their practice in the institutions of the educational system: Pre-school, general, and/or special education institutions. The aim of the practice is to get familiar with the subtleties of the future professional activity. It is maintained that students’ initial experience outlived at the start of studies is important and significant for further studies at the university. The article deals with the results of written reflections of students who have returned from practice. The phenomenological hermeneutics method enabled to disclose students’ experiences in their practical activities during their observational practice, providing deeper understanding of the study area, as a precondition for reflective learning in further university studies, and by interacting with participants of the (self) education process, the article presents future special educators’ practical experiences and perceptions of their roles in the profession. The results disclosed that self-reflection provides students with deeper perception of themselves as people with special educators’ needs and problems, personal strengths and competence limitations that enable them to identify sources and means for solving existing and future professional activity problems. It further reveals that cooperation with family members, university teachers, social pedagogues, teachers, children with special educational needs, sharing experiences with student colleagues could lead to greater self-confidence in oneself as a future specialist. Curiosity and personal initiative enabled students to identify positive and difficult moments of the professional activity and future professional role while learning from experience.

SOME ASPECTS OF PROOF BY MEANS OF THE EXPERT STATEMENT

This article considers the problems arising at assessment of expert statements. The actual data important for the correct solution of criminal case is determined by testimonies of the suspect, victim, witness, witness having right for protection, the expert, the specialist; statement of the expert or specialist; material evidences; protocols of procedural actions and also statement of the expert or specialist. Assessment of proofs is considered in all scientific sources as the proof process element consisting in cogitative logical activities for determination of relevancy, admissibility and sufficiency of proofs for adoption of this or that proceeding decision. Further, authors emphasize that at assessment of the expert statement all important elements of activity of the expert have to be exposed to the analysis. The analysis of scientific validity of the expert statement – the most difficult moment in assessment of the expert statement. This analysis presents the known difficulty for court because the expert statement – result of the research conducted by the expert person on the basis of special knowledge. Knowledge of practical employees of law enforcement and judicial authorities in methodical bases of production of judicial expertize – one of conditions of objective assessment concerning compliance of the expert statement, the expert to circumstances of the considered case. Further, the article reveals basic provisions of the analysis of the expert statement in detail. Key words: proof, evidentiary facts, investigative actions, expertize, expert, statement, conclusions, proof, assessment.

Percepções de gestantes acerca do cuidado pré-natal na atenção primária à saúde

To understand the perceptions of pregnant women about the care received during prenatal care, in the field of primary health care. Qualitative study, based on Grounded Theory. Data collection was performed from August to December 2016, through a semi-structured interview with 12 pregnant women who received prenatal care in the city of Florianópolis/SC/Brazil. Data collection and analysis were performed concomitantly. Data analysis was performed using open and axial coding. Three categories were elaborated: Care before and during gestation, Participation in groups of pregnant women, and Quality care during pregnancy. The perceptions of the pregnant women about the care received during the prenatal care is related to the care given, humanized reception, consideration of the pregnant woman's subjectivity and support in the difficult moments that make this period satisfactory.

Child with Retinoblatoma: Diagnosis Announcement, Difficulties and Parent’s Experiences

Introduction: Retinoblastoma is a cancerous tumor of the retina. It is a rare pathology that affects each year, in France, one child out of 15,000 to 20,000 births. In Morocco, and in a prospective study conducted over 2 years and 3 months in the pediatric ophthalmology department in Casablanca, the annual incidence of retinoblastoma was estimated at 18 cases per year. The diagnosis of cancer, like any other serious illness, provokes an intense feeling of guilt in the child and in his parents. The retinoblastoma diagnosis announcement remains a difficult and delicate moment for caregivers and parents. The purpose of our work is to describe the experience of the parents of a child with retinoblastoma and to assess the degree of satisfaction of these children both for the treatment of their child and for clarity. information transmitted. Material and method: We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study of the parents of children with retinoblastoma who received care in the ophthalmology department of Mohammed VI CHU Marrakech Morocco, and this over a period of one year from March 2016 to March 2017. The data is collected from parents with a questionnaire aimed to assess the parents' feelings and experiences around the following areas: the announcement structure, the climate of trust, proposal of formalizing personalized support. Results: The average age of children at the time of diagnosis is 11 months, with a male predominance, sex ratio is 1.4. All families had one sick child. Retinoblastoma was bilateral in two cases. The surgical treatment was radical in all cases. 75% felt that the doctor was able to find the right words to announce the disease, and 42% felt he found the right words. At the time of diagnosis, 11 out of 12 families felt that they had received sufficient listening from the healthcare professionals and 75% felt that listening was quite sufficient. All parents report that the doctor who made the announcement spoke to them with care and respect and 92% spoke on the extreme positive score. 66% of families report receiving a personalized care plan. Conclusion: The results of this study will improve the overall care provided to children and integrate the difficulties expressed and felt by parents to the care project.

Country idea in the poetry of the poet «Zarzaman»

This article is devoted to the creative thoughts of the poets of the so-called era «Zar Zaman» («Sorrowful Times»), in which they openly expressed their civic position, boldly chanting the reality of the XIX century. The historical and literary heritage of the Kazakh people is the core of our national history and culture, its important part. Purposeful poets – thinkers at every social system in difficult historical moments in the life of their country always stood on the side of the people, raising its pressing problems, were heralds, the spokesman of the interests of ordinary people. The literary heritage of such thinker poets as Dulat Babatayuly, Shortanbai Kanayuly, Murat Munkeuly has long been considered and evaluated as forbidden to read and publish a work that had its own political reasons. Understanding the word as a weapon of service to the people, the poets in their thoughts described the sufferings of the common people from colonial oppression, the reduction of the ancestral lands and the disrespectful attitude to the issues of national traditions and religion of the people; exposed the venality of local managers in the face of the parish. Thus, the poets, in their thoughts about the fate of the nation at a difficult hour, were able to express the social thought of their time.

Gyökerek és szárnyak – Hazaszeretetre nevelés a nagyvilágban

Patriotism? Despite being natural and self-evident, it has now become a concept that has been undeservedly ignored or, at worst, stigmatised. The reader certainly asks to which historical age the next writing guides him.Today, we live in a world where the values created by nations for centuries or thousands of years, and the creative spirit that created and preserved these values for posterity, are in danger. A very complex process that is summarily called globalisation has triggered trends in the fields of society, families and individuals, that adversely affect personality, social relationships and natural selfdefence.The world has accelerated. Fashion, technology is constantly changing, and so much information is available to anyone that its reception will test the person’s ability to absorb. In this rapidly changing milieu, a sense of patriotism can mean stability, a value system that anyone can rely on in the difficult moments of everyday life.Do we need to teach patriotism? If so, with what methods? How do other nations do this? The opportunities and methods of the peoples of the world are different, but one of the basic common elements of their motivation is their belief in the value of patriotism and the fact that it offers the answer to several important challenges of the 21st century.

Similar Word-Formation Ways of Nouns in Russian and Persian Languages

This article is devoted to the study of similar word-formation ways of nouns in Russian and Persian languages. In both languages, there are different ways of word-building, by which of them some new words are formed, but not all of them can be used in the formation of nouns. There are some extra-linguistic and intra-linguistic objectives to distinguish nouns from other types of words. The distinctive features of noun as a type of words are related to the features of the naming process leading to nouns, and to the role of nouns in the sentence. One of the difficult moments in the study of the Russian language by Iranian students is the correct understanding of word formation in the Russian language and their equivalent versions or examples in Persian. In this article, different and similar ways of noun formation in Russian and Persian languages are analyzed, and also an attempt has also been made to reveal new lexical and grammatical meanings, to analyze the word-forming function of new nouns.

Honorary Athenian Decree for Tenedos

The honorary decree for Tenedos attests the importance of the small island in the context of the Second Athenian League, immediately after the failed siege to Byzantium by Philip II. The military operation of the Macedonian king could have endangered the Athenian control of Bosporus, but also the autonomy of the allied Tenedos, so that the island may have been interested to pay contributions in order to receive Athens’ protection and, at the same time, Athens itself may have appreciated the help of Tenedos in a difficult moment for the League. Even if the decree has gaps and it is difficult to determine the amount of the Athenian compensation, nevertheless it has an important historical value, since it is the last official document about the relations between Athens and the allies of the Second Athenian League

Honorary Athenian Decree for Tenedos

The honorary decree for Tenedos attests the importance of the small island in the context of the Second Athenian League, immediately after the failed siege to Byzantium by Philip II. The military operation of the Macedonian king could have endangered the Athenian control of Bosporus, but also the autonomy of the allied Tenedos, so that the island may have been interested to pay contributions in order to receive Athens’ protection and, at the same time, Athens itself may have appreciated the help of Tenedos in a difficult moment for the League. Even if the decree has gaps and it is difficult to determine the amount of the Athenian compensation, nevertheless it has an important historical value, since it is the last official document about the relations between Athens and the allies of the Second Athenian League

Experiências de mobilidade acadêmica internacional: flertes do antes e o mergulho do durante

Abordamos neste ensaio experiências de mobilidade acadêmica internacional de quatro jovens estudantes de uma universidade comunitária do sul do Brasil. Os objetivos aqui pretendidos resultam de problematizações que assumem a forma das seguintes questões: Que motivações os levaram a estudar no exterior e como significaram essas experiências? Trata-se de um recorte de uma pesquisa maior, de natureza qualitativa, realizada através de entrevistas, considerando-se os flertes do antes da viagem e o mergulho do durante. Para as análises, servimo-nos do referencial teórico-metodológico da Grounded-Theory. As experiências mostraram-se marcadas por questões sensíveis que envolvem desejo, sonhos, determinação, medos e solidão. Evidenciamos a relevância das relações interpessoais na superação de momentos difíceis experienciados durante o intercâmbio.

Becoming a dentist: faculty perceptions of student experiences with threshold concepts in a Canadian dental program

In each discipline, there are moments where students "get stuck" in their education and/or training and are often unable to move forward. These moments may be caused by threshold concepts as they represent a portal that students must cross in order to become successful in their chosen profession. This study investigated the threshold concepts from the instructors' perspective that students must navigate as they transform from learners to dentists within a dental program. Two focus groups with faculty members within the School of Dentistry, University of Alberta were completed in the fall of 2017. Focus groups explored the faculty's perception of the students' transition from learner to dentist, difficult moments in the program, and the students' ability to navigate the program successfully. A qualitative phenomenographic analysis of the faculty focus group transcripts identified four potential threshold concepts within the dental program: 1) dealing with the whole patient, 2) accountability, 3) that you may not know everything, and 4) problem solving and adapting during practice. This study demonstrates that there are concepts within a dental program that faculty believe students must navigate in order to transition from learner to dentist. These concepts may inform curriculum design as well as other disciplines in the health sciences.

Mirrors, portraits, and member checking: Managing difficult moments of knowledge exchange in the social sciences.

Consultation is an important feature of research, and increasingly, researchers are required to work in partnership with stakeholders to improve the impact of their work. Our aim was to demonstrate what can be learned from the scholarship on, and practice of, member checking to facilitate productive knowledge exchange. Using dialogical analysis, we explored 3 member check interactions from 3 different qualitative psychology projects, focusing our analysis on difficult moments between researchers and participants conceptualized here as “sore spots”. We identified 2 major genres in these sequences: participant ambivalence and participant challenge. We then considered passages that allowed us to explore a more theoretical understanding of these 2 genres in terms of the metaphor of portraits and mirrors. Overall, we outline how implicit epistemologies and theories of subjectivity (uncomplicated, blank, and complex) may be linked to the way in which stakeholders approach research. We also provide a map regarding the theories within which member checks can be undertaken, associated research practices in terms of a range of researcher responses to stakeholder ambivalence and challenge, and implications of these moments for knowledge exchange for qualitative research but also for quantitative health and social sciences. We conclude that sore spots in the knowledge exchange process can be productive opportunities for transformational validity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)

Il saldo di bilancio corretto per il ciclo economico: un'analisi empirica del caso italiano

The cyclically adjusted budget balance: An empirical analysis of the Italian case This article presents an estimate of the cyclically-adjusted primary balance in Italy during the new Millennium (1999-2016) in order to assess the fiscal policy stance pursued during the period considered. If it is possible to initially qualify the fiscal policy as counter-cyclical, when the correction is made for the cycle, the budget balance becomes completely acyclical. Therefore, once the budget balance has been adjusted for the automatic influences deriving from the fluctuations of the economic cycle, the discretion of the Government has been explained in the weakening of the original anti-cyclical nature of the fiscal policy. Repeating the analysis in two different sub-periods with the 2008 crisis as a watershed, it emerged that this discretionary reductionist intervention has focused more on the period following the outbreak of the crisis, which highlights how discretionary fiscal policy has failed its expansive contribution in the most difficult moments of the crisis.

Tożsamość kulturowa w wykładni i stosowaniu prawa administracyjnego

The objective of the paper is a rough sketch of the process of development of cultural identity inside of the Polish administrative law. Interpretation of the public law in the country which finished process of transformation after the collapse of communist regime has a lot of difficult moments. Uncertain scopes of constitutional meanings and gaps in the set of legal principles are neutralized by the tendency among lawyers to identify with European legal culture and its values. The author of the text is deeply convinced that there is a need for legal version of the cultural identity based on European values. The paper comprises the concept of such identity in so called narrative version and descriptions of the development of the identity in the Polish judicial application of administrative law.

Trends in Organ Transplantation. DCD in West Pomeranian in Poland

Introduction Over the last fifty years, organ transplantation has become a routine medical procedure, bringing immense benefits to hundreds of thousands of patients. In the last 20 years the use of human organs for transplantation constantly increased. It is currently the most cost-effective way of treatment of end-stage renal disease and the only available treatment for end-stage failure of organs such as the liver, lung and heart. The lack of a sufficient number of transplanted organs is a fundamental limitation and problem facing transplantologists worldwide. Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and training needs of the medical staff of Intensive Care Units and Cardiology Intensive Care Units in terms of harvesting organs from donors after death due to irreversible cardiac arrest (DCD). Material and Methods The study involved 368 people from hospitals in West Pomeranian, Pomeranian and Lubusz voivodeships. The study was conducted from January 2013 to August 2015 among the medical staff in ICU and Cardiology Intensive Care Units. The questionnaire used for the survey consisted of 23 questions: 20 closed and 3 open questions. Results The study showed that 98.4% of respondents accept the transplant as a way of treatment. In analyzed attitudes, 79% of respondents declared acceptance for neurological criteria as appropriate to diagnose death in case of potential organ donor. Major percentage of respondents claimed lack of agreement on equal treatment of cardiovascular and neurological criteria in diagnosing death of potential donor. Despite the declaration of knowledge of the terms DCD and NHBD, the vast majority of respondents (93%) did not know the Maastricht classification, and 80% did not know the procedures related to the procurement of organs from DCD donors. Conclusions The main factors in the activities related to the collection and donation of organs are good will, knowledge and qualifications of ICU workers. The attitude of the medical personnel to the idea of transplantation is extremely important. There is a psychologically difficult moment, when it comes to realize that the efforts of keeping the patient alive became futile, and his death became a fact. Referring to the results of studies in other countries of the European Union, there is a general inquietude and immense difference in personal attitudes toward organ donation from patients after brain death versus DCD. Emphasis must be placed primarily on the transparency of procedures in order to avoid any possible confusion. It is necessary to conduct regular training to medical staff so it can feel properly qualified. It will substantially increase the comfort and affect the certainty in making decisions. Keywords organ transplantation, organ donation, medical staff training, psychological aspects of organ transplantation, ethics

Adrian-Bogdan Ceobanu, A Romanian Consul at the Margins of the Russian Empire: Gheorghe Forescu in Ismail (December 1916 – March 1918)

The echoes of the events from the spring of 1917 were also felt in Bessarabia, a province annexed by Russia in 1812. Their evolution can be analyzed from multiple points of view, including from the perspective of an official representative of the Romanian state. On the basis of the reports sent by the Romanian consul in Ismail, I examine the political, social and military situation from Southern Bessarabia during a period with profound implications for the Russian Empire, in general, and this province, in particular. Gheorghe Forescu was appointed to Ismail, first as a temporary substitute, in November 1916, and then as consul, one month later. He remained in southern Bessarabia until March 1918, when the consular post was abolished as a result of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. More often than not, Forescu had to confront and overcome certain difficult moments, having to take rapid and tough decisions. Most significantly, he formulated policy initiatives that were generally taken into account by the Romanian decision-makers.

The political goodwill is a good foundation to build a beneficial bilateral relationship for Spain and Russia: greeting to the participants of the VIII International Scientific Conference of Hispanists “Trajectory and perspectives of the Hispanic world: research and teaching”, held at the MGIMO University

The necessity of an exchange of views between representatives of academic and scientific centers from many countries on a wide range of issues relating to Iberoamerican region can not be overemphasized. At this difficult historical moment, it is important to understand clearly all the risks and opportunities of international dialogue that can prevent a rollback from cooperation to the times of the cold war. Spain, acting within the EU, strives for to reduce tensions, wishing to build a Spanish-Russian relationship on a mutually beneficial basis, since both sides suffer from the growth of distrust and the restriction of exchanges. Clear prospects for cooperation between Russia and Spain exist in the struggle against common threats: terrorism and international crime, which are grieving for both countries. The problems that exist between countries should be resolved through dialogue, implementation of agreements, reached with the participation of all interested parties.

Doris Taylor: All Heart.

There’s an undeniable warmth to Doris Taylor, Director of Regenerative Medicine Research and of the Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology at the Texas Heart Institute and Texas A&M University in Houston. Professionally, she may be most famous for engineering the first bioartificial mammalian heart.1 But, on a personal level, her own heart is compassionate, generous, and not remotely artificial. Taylor went through great turmoil in early childhood, but rather than mentally closing herself off to pain and difficulty, she’s endeavored throughout life to ease the pain and suffering of others. In a recent interview with Circulation Research , she explained that she does this in two ways. At a community-level, she’s an ardent advocate for social justice, spending her spare time promoting local political organizations and spearheading worthy causes, while at the global-level, her scientific research adds to the body of medical knowledge that enables innovations, improves treatments, and saves lives. Doris Taylor Her research has certainly, and consistently, broken new ground. Her pioneering stem cell research, regenerative medicine strategies, and investigations of sex-specific physiological differences have driven new lines of enquiry in cardiovascular disease research and have also challenged established attitudes toward how such diseases might be treated.2–6 I was born in San Francisco and I had a twin brother. We were born very prematurely and, in those days, premature twins didn’t live, so neither of us were supposed to survive. My mother told us that the doctor came in and told her, if she was religious and believed in doing something for the end of life, she should do it for us. So, she called the hospital chaplain and he came, but then, according to my mother, the minute he left the room, my brother and I rallied. It was as if we’d …

To Mourn, To Re-imagine Without Oneself: Death, Dying, and Social Media/tion

This paper incorporates and reflects on Steinberg’s particular vantage as a dying person whose blog engages the transforming ecologies of mourning and the place(s) of dying in the emergent spaces of social media. The paper homes in on the distinction between the repudiation of death and the repudiation of mourning in the collective project of “re-imagining without oneself,” that is, of re-imagining another life, another death, beyond the liberal coordinates of a “you” and a “me.” As an “intermediating” place, we argue that the blog serves as a virtual portal that both problematizes and (re)mediates the personal and the political. In so doing, the paper touches on key feminist political questions concerning bodily self-sovereignty; the broader racialized, classed, and gendered cultural imaginary; and the place of mourning in the analogy of the personal body in crisis with the myriad crises of the body politic at this significant and difficult cultural moment. Particularly, with the outcomes of Brexit and the Trump victory in the American election, this is a time of loss as the complex consensus of liberal democracy has broken down and neoliberal body-affective practices morph into isolationist nationalisms and the resurgence of movements against social justice and equality.