Exemplary Exercises Research Articles

Everybody Copes: An Interprofessional Workshop on Stress, Coping, and Helping Primary Care Patients Manage Medical Stressors.

The value of psychological principles has become apparent in medical settings, especially with the rise of patient-centered care. We aimed to provide a curriculum informing medical providers about the theoretical basis and clinical utility of the social-cognitive model of stress and coping. This workshop was delivered to an interprofessional team of faculty and trainees. Our initial pedagogical approach was to relate the concepts of cognitive appraisals and coping strategies to participants' own stress responses. We then used didactic presentation and small-group activities to explore ways to promote adaptive coping with patients to improve health outcomes. Learners participated in a mindfulness exercise, conceptualized coping strategies given a hypothetical case scenario, and, in small groups, role-played a patient encounter to construct an effective coping repertoire for the patient. Participants completed a prework self-assessment and workshop evaluation form. The 2.5-hour workshop had 48 participants from five professions (medicine, education, physician assistant, pharmacology, psychology). We received 35 evaluations (73% response rate). Learners reported increased real-world skills (M = 8.0 out of 10) and feeling better prepared for working in interprofessional settings (M = 7.6 out of 10). Qualitative feedback suggested that participants recognized the importance of individual differences in coping with stress and felt they could categorize strategies into emotion- or problem-focused coping. This workshop provided participants with basic knowledge about the social-cognitive model of stress and coping and allowed them to practice newly learned skills in a role-play as an interprofessional medical care team.

El Assembly Hall at Brunswick Park de James Stirling como síntesis de la búsqueda de un lenguaje

In a context marked by the beginning of post-modernism, Manfredo Tafuri wrote in 1974 the article “ L'Architecture dans le Boudoir: The Language of Criticism and the Criticism of Language ”. Faced with the exhaustion of the linguistic repertoire of Modern Architecture, he identifies the work of James Stirling as an exemplary exercise for the recovery of architectural language. In this article we hypothesize that the work Assembly and dining hall for Brunswick Park Primary School, London 1958-1961 by James Stirling and James Gowan, it is a kind of Proto architecture that synthesizes the previous work of Stirling and fixes all the elements that he will repeat in their well-known buildings of the 60s. Consulting his early writings and Stirling's “Black notebook”, we propose to base ourselves on the theory of The Four Elements of Architecture by Gottfried Semper to defend that the new grammatical structure proposed by Stirling begining from a review of these elements, “signs empty of content” in the words of Tafuri, to reconstruct from them the linguistic structures of the language of modernity.

Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible. Edited by Dalia Judovitz

Rediscovered in the early 20th century, mystery still surrounds the French Counter-Reformation painter Georges de La Tour (1593–1652) or why his later works tended to be reattributed to other painters. Mystery also lies within his known paintings, beautifully and painstakingly discussed by Dalia Judovitz in this book. Though briefer and more focused on the one artist, her work in some sense provides a counter-balance to Joseph Leo Koerner’s great work on the art of the Protestant Reformation, The Reformation of the Image (2004). This is an exemplary exercise in interdisciplinarity, though in the final analysis a work of theological reflection that indicates that we now must all dare to trespass upon a number of disciplines to begin to articulate the mystery of religion within culture. Judovitz’s book offers itself as work of art history, but it is far more than that. For the enigmatic, haunting paintings of La Tour demand profound theological categories as they call upon our visual attention to move beyond that which can be seen, from the visible to the invisible in La Tour’s interplay in illumination of light and darkness and the mystery of light that shows us that which cannot be seen. In these paintings, too, we continually cross borders between the sacred and the profane, finding the sacred within the profane, and Judovitz guides us with a steady hand, only now and then tending slightly towards the over-simplification of the biblical texts that lie at the heart of these paintings of incarnation, guilt and repentance and deception. But that is to carp.

Introduction: “Science as a Vocation” as a Spiritual Exercise

This brief essay is an invitation to today’s sociologists to go back to Weber’s Science as a Vocation with Keith Tribe and Ian Hunter as guides. We highlight two main aspects of their readings. First, Science as a Vocation appears as an exemplary exercise on the sociology of academic life. Weber’s lecture is not only a diagnosis of the conditions of the early Twentieth century scientist. It formulates also a set of key questions that could guide the sociological diagnostic of the conditions of social research in contemporary universities. Second, Science as a Vocation is Weber’s spiritual exercise. It could be read as providing a stance that sociologists should follow in order to live up to the demands of their academic office.

ДЕТСКИЙ БИЛИНГВИЗМ: ПРОБЛЕМЫ ПРИ УСВОЕНИИ РУССКОГО И БОЛГАРСКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ

The article deals with the problem of children’s bilingualism whose first language is Bulgarian, and the second is Russian. In polylingual Transnistrian region bilingual children meet some difficulties in their language assimilation (in this case, we mean Russian and Bulgarian languages). These difficulties are: the effect of Parkansky dialect on Bulgarian literary language; errors in spelling, in pronunciation of certain words and expressions. On the other hand, as the language of communication in family continues to be Bulgarian, Russian language skills are limited to everyday speech.Our goal is to understand the mechanism of children’s bilingualism developing. We would like to find out, what are the ways and the social causes of bilingualism. This research is based on speech records (bilingual children aged from 3 to 10 ages). As a result, we offer exemplary exercises for working with bilingual children. Finally, we’ve discussed the pros and cons of children’s bilingualism in polylingual Transnistrian society.

Mettray revisited in Jean Genet’s Le Langage de la muraille

This article returns to the model reformatory of carceral entrepreneur Frédéric-Auguste Demetz at Mettray by rereading its archive and existing historical scholarship in view of a little-known major work by its most famous inmate, gay novelist and playwright, thief and leftist agitator Jean Genet (1910–86): Le Langage de la muraille. Genet was responding, with his own characteristically light-fingered form of autodidactic historical scholarship, to Michel Foucault’s appropriation of Mettray in Surveiller et punir (1975). In my return to the archives of this model institution, I argue that Mettray was an exemplary exercise in liberal statecraft’s mixture of coaxing and coercion; and that Demetz was an unrivalled master of ‘the language of the wall’. This was a distinctly modern practice of administrative governance by partitioning, an art of containment continuous with harder forms of policing in tending towards the suppression of democratic politics.

Exemplary Exercises for Entrepreneurship Education

As interest in entrepreneurship continues to rise, educators should attempt to engage students through the use of interactive exercises that demonstrate key concepts and provide opportunities to practice what they learn. This article aims to describe four ideas for projects and assignments relevant to entrepreneurship education. Each of these tasks can be used to introduce concepts, initiate discussion, and provide students with the opportunity to gain experience with certain entrepreneurial activities. These exercises may also be useful when teaching courses on related topics in management. Instructors should think critically about how to tie course concepts to each of the exercises, tailoring each to fit the needs of their specific class.

Mathematical preparation of first-year students of applied informatics for studies at the university of economics

Mathematics is one of the main subjects conducted in the first year of economic studies. At the Faculty of Applied Informatics at the University of Economics in Krakow, mathematics accompanies students not only in the first year, but also throughout the entire course of studies, being an essential factor of either their further success or problems in studying. Therefore, both the proper preparation in this field acquired in secondary school, as well as the awareness of the importance of this subject, are essential factors influencing the efficiency of the undertaken studies. In this article, I will present the results of the survey research conducted among the first-year students at the Faculty of Applied Informatics at the UEK on the awareness of the necessity for mathematical knowledge in the process of efficient studying. I will also discuss the results of determining their actual mathematical skills acquired in secondary school on the basis of the research conducted in the academic years 2011/2012, 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 with the use of exemplary exercises from the matura final exam at the basic and extended level. On this basis, the conclusions serving as the starting point for further research on mathematical classes in the first year of studies have been drawn. The obtained information can prove useful for academic teachers in the proper conducting of classes on mathematical subjects. The article also contains general reflections and conclusions on the mathematical education of students of economic studies.

Memory, Metaphors, and Meaning: Reading Literary Texts (review)

Reviewed by: Memory, Metaphors, and Meaning: Reading Literary Texts Suzanne Nash Babuts, Nicolae. Memory, Metaphors, and Meaning: Reading Literary Texts. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2009. Pp. 219. ISBN 978-1-4128-1022-7 Nicolae Babuts’s latest work on the relationship of memory to creative expression and interpretation is an invaluable addition to the current research on cognitive approaches to literature being carried out by such influential scholars as Elaine Scarry, Michael Holquist, and Jonathan Gottschall. In pioneering earlier studies like The Dynamics of the Metaphoric Field: A Cognitive View of Literature, 1992, and Baudelaire: At the Limits and Beyond, 1997, Babuts has analyzed the way literary texts reveal the crucial role played by an individual writer’s mnemonic processes as they intervene to transform the world of lived experience into freshly conceived metaphoric patterns. He would agree with Holquist that “there is a difference between the kind of reading that people do when they read Marcel Proust or Henry James and a newspaper, that there is a value added cognitively when we read complex literary texts.” (New York Times, April 1, 2010) The recurring word, “free,” is central to the importance Babuts attributes to literature in its power to create a fully emancipated reader. For him literary studies are “an instrument of discovery” in an age when clichéd language is too often used as a tool for the control of power rather than for understanding; they are exemplary exercises of creative freedom from the “shibboleths of the day” (xvii). Babuts makes a strong case for the study of literature by showing how complex literary texts bear out the discoveries of cognitive psychologists in ways that expand the horizon of meaning. His focus on the mnemonic process of retrieval that differs from one writer to another sets him sharply apart from post-structuralist critics who deny the role of authorial agency in the creation of literary texts. His close readings of the way Homer or Milton, Shakespeare or Allen Tate, Hugo or Eliot, for example, treat similar metaphoric fields (such as “yielding in conflict,” “the movement of falling,” or “the light of the eyes”) bring out striking differences in worldviews, thus restoring an important historic dimension and the case for genuine originality to the works he studies. Memory, Metaphors, and Meaning abounds in finely textured interpretations that demonstrate the power of literature to create meaning: in the way Ted Hughes and Pablo Antonio Cuadra treat the freedom from imprisonment inherent in the wild animal in “The Jaguar” and “The Myth of the Jaguar,” for example, or how modern poets like Wallace Stevens, Mitchell LesCarbeau, or Katha Pollitt rework Homer’s Penelope pattern. In Chapters 5, “Beginnings and Endings,” and 7, “The Tonality of Metaphoric Fields,” where he analyzes the originality of Virgil’s Aeneid or Allen Tate’s “Aeneas at Washington” and “The Mediterranean” in relationship to Homer’s Odyssey, one experiences the thrill of discovery from readings that can emerge from the wellspring of a highly literate memory. [End Page 172] The ethical and humanist dimensions of Babuts’s position are everywhere apparent, but I felt most keenly what is at stake for him when he joins the exiled hero, Aeneas, as he stands before the temple murals depicting the fall of Troy: “Nowhere is Virgil’s capacity to reach out beyond himself to envision human suffering in terms of his own sensibility more evident . . . each scene is endowed with so much sensory and visionary energy that readers may be aware of Aeneas’s own experience of seeing and reliving the painted events of the Trojan war in the plenitude of the present . . . Sunt lacrimae rerum ‘there are tears for passing things’ . . . all things that belong to this world and betray the transitory character of all human endeavor” (169–71). “What writer,” he asks “has highlighted more poignantly and more clearly the ruin and the tragic losses of war?” In saying this, Babuts challenges both “politically motivated theories” and, perhaps most importantly, the idea that “knowledge . . . is obtained through a reasoning process alone. . .through a never-ending proliferation of abstraction-bred abstractions,” as he puts it in his concluding remarks. “Poetry,” he writes, “eschews the kinds of generalizations that...

Politics of Insecurity

Politics of Insecurity Srirupa Roy (bio) Sankaran Krishna (1999) Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press). Published in 1999, Postcolonial Insecurities is of enormous significance in the present context when “nation-building,” the immediate subject matter of the book, has assumed new life as the favored sound byte of American imperium. Sankaran Krishna returns the phrase to the historical circumstances of its initial emergence after the second world war, in the context of efforts to establish decolonized nation-states in Asia and Africa. With this temporal and spatial relocation, he provides a powerful and prescient account of the perils of conjoining identity and territory under the sign of the unitary nation-state. Our critical attention is directed not only to the specific agent of nation-building nor to the problems associated with an externally imposed designer template of nation-statehood. As Krishna convincingly demonstrates, home-grown projects of nation-building have significant anti-democratic implications as well. At the same time however, the book explodes this distinction between external and domestic political projects through its historically nuanced account of how nation-building in the South Asian context has been constituted by agents and processes that unfold in both arenas. The ethical vision advanced by this book thus transcends the limiting binary of indigeneity versus foreignness, or local versus global, that confines much of political criticism and activism at the present moment. Effortlessly weaving together discussions of nationhood and identity from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, the book is an exemplary exercise in grounded inter-disciplinary scholarship and reasoned eclecticism. Krishna brings insights from literary studies, postcolonial theory, international relations theory, comparative politics, cultural anthropology, social history, and democratic theory to bear on a clearly demarcated and specified problem. The book traverses methodological as also epistemological boundaries and shifts linguistic registers from the scholarly to the passionate without ever compromising on lucidity. Its source material is equally diverse. The violence of ethnic nationalist movements, the dry prose of international peace treaties, the distinctive genre of political biography, the rich language of Salman Rushdie’s novels, and the televised images of political assassinations in South Asia are all, and equally, shown to constitute the very stuff of politics. Rich in empirical detail and fine-grained ethnographic observations about the South Asian post-colony, it engages at the same time with broad-ranging debates about the nature of modernity, power, and political agency in the world of nation-states. The importance of this book cannot be overstated. Krishna’s choice of opening quotes from speeches by India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and Sri Lanka’s premier Chandrika Kumaratunga urges readers to investigate the peculiar transitive locution of the phrase “nation-building.” At the moment of Indian independence on the midnight of August 14–15, 1947, Nehru famously observed that while the declaration of national sovereignty represented the fulfillment of a historic “tryst with destiny,” significant tasks still lay ahead. Moreover, Nehru tempered his celebration of the birth of the Indian nation with a somber reminder of the many disappointments and failures encountered along the way, most notably the coincidence of national sovereignty and territorial loss that had been brought about by the imperial partition of the subcontinent along religious lines. Echoing Nehru’s ambivalent and temporally inconclusive understanding of nation-building — the nation as ‘becoming’ rather than ‘being’ — is Kumaratunga’s emphatic declaration fifty years after Sri Lanka’s independence: “we have failed in the essential task of nation-building.” What are the implications of such narratives of the nation as failure, unkept promise, or unfulfilled dream? What relations of power and forms of subjectivity stem from such pronouncements of politics as unfinished business? To address such questions is to recognize that along with triumphalism and civilizational certitudes, discourses of anxiety and insecurity can equally inform projects of nation and state-making, and can constitute political formations that have significant anti-democratic effects. In Krishna’s account, the prevalence of such discourses can be explained by the specificity of the post-colonial situation, where nation-building is inevitably an attempt to “replicat[e] historical originals that are ersatz to begin...

Jocelyne Moreau‑Zanelli, GALLIPOLIS : Histoire d‘un mirage américain au XVIIIe siècle.

This book is exemplary exercise in comparative history. It is the first and only study of its kind to assess in both French and American contexts the late eighteenth‑century events surrounding the botched colonization of the Scioto Company that sold land in what is now Southeastern Ohio to several hundred French emigrants. Drawing on archives in both countries, including newly uncovered sale records inscribed by French notaries in the early 1790s, Jocelyne Moreau‑Zanelli gives an assessment o...

The Language of all the Earth Confounded, or, Directional Pluralism

In the following I offer several comments on a recent discussion by Sander Griffioen and Richard Mouw on modern pluralism. Pluralisms and Horizons (Mouw & Griffioen, 1993) is a deceptively small book of wide compass, which for three reasons makes interesting reading. First, the authors have much to say on one of the current hot-items in Western civilization: pluralism. Second, they take their point of departure in Christian philosophy, and more specifically in the Reformed tradition. And third, they unite a principled stance based on Christian faith with an openminded readiness to seriously take issue with many different points of view. Their book is in my opinion worth reading merely as an exemplary exercise in intellectual tolerance. The following offers, then, for what it is worth, a short and limited critique of some aspects of Pluralisms and Horizons. Since I am especially interested in the history of Christian thought, and since Philosophia Reformata is historically and philosophically rooted in the Reformed tradition, my criticism will particularly centre on Calvinist (or, if you will, Calvinian) thought. I have two specific objections to the views put forward by Mouw and Griffioen. Both are connected with the idea of “directional pluralism” upon which the authors elaborate; both centre on my contention that the authors fail to appreciate the nature of modern (Dutch) culture.

Sex and the empire that is no more: gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion

Matory's ethnography commands serious respect. His centralthesis concerning the gendering of power relations in the Oyo Empire, and its continuing expression in the cult of Sango, is brilliant and original. The symbolic analysis of contemporary initiation to the Sango cult ...shows real virtuosity ...[Also] of great value is his account of the state of religious heterogeneity in Oyo North. book should make a significant mark outside the field of Yoruba studies, in the anthropology of gender at large. * J.D.Y. Peel, FBA, University of London An exemplary exercise in historical anthropology ...with interpretive and forensic skill [the author] narrates how the traditions of Sango and Ogun are carried into and participate inthe post-independence political and economical developments, and how they relate to contemporary Islamic and Christian religious streams. * Stanley J. Tambiah, Harvard University A bold and innovative study of the interplay between gender,power and religion. Its relevance to feminist theory is unquestionable ...Gender categories and all that is associated with them are changed by the negotiation of politically interested actors, both male and female ...It situates itself within a 'mythic' paradigm which, the author argues, is close to indigenous conceptualizations of the past and present; but at the same time it is unmistakably located in the real, hybrid and confusing world of contemporary Nigeria, and not in some idealized world of 'tradition'. * Karin Barber, University of Birmingham [Matory's] richly argued text, strong with insight, strong with documents, is a classic in Yoruba studies. * Robert F. Thompson, Yale University This second edition of the seminal [book] seems more salient in retrospect as the international interest in orisha worship and the meaning of transatlantic aesthetics that claim a Yoruba ancestry increases...Along with his theoretical guidance, Matory provides rich procedural, ritual detail that contextualizes the multifaceted aspect of orisha worship for specific sets of completed ritual communities. * International Journal of African Historical Studies J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, he has conducted extensive field research in Brazil, Nigeria, and the United States. Dr. Matory is also the author of Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble (Princeton University Press). He is currently researching a book on the history and experience of Nigerians, Trinidadians, Ethiopians, black Indians, Louisiana Creoles and other ethnic groups that make up black North American society. It focuses on the creative coexistence of these groups at the United States' leading historically Black university-Howard University

Interactive simulation and crisis management training

This paper explicitly addresses the issue of training for crisis management. In particular, it advances the use of simulation techniques - with two important new elements: interactiveness (decisions taken by participants during the course of the simulation become part of the reality of the exercise for all other participants) and stress (the use of different techniques to put participants under a significant amount of pressure, in order to maximize real-life resemblance). The paper describes the steps to be taken in designing and performing two exemplary exercises: one public-sector crisis (Brixton disorders 1981) and one private-sector crisis (Fodens Company coping with market decline). The paper is commented upon by Kauko Sipponen, Director of the Council of Economic Advisors in Finland.

Dynamic Functionalism: Strategy and Tactics

List of figures and tables Preface Part I. Allegations, Definitions, and Illustrations: 1. A kindly critique of Kingsley Davis 2. The incest taboo: social selection as a form of feedback 3. Exemplary exercises in survivorship 4. The nature, determinants, and consequences of time-series processes Part II. Adaptive Structures and Social Processes: 5. Patterns of Adaptation 6. Processes, simulations, and investigations Part III. L'envoi: 7. Toward an integrated social science paradigm Appendix Notes References Index.