Personal Friend Research Articles

Do nurses receive any support following incidents of workplace violence? A qualitative study.

We aim to investigate nurses' perceptions of support after incidences of Workplace Violence. Nurses experience workplace violence daily. Adequate support following incidents of violence can reduce adverse impacts. Current support systems for coping with workplace violence are lacking. Focus group interviews were conducted with 23 nurses working in a regional Queensland Hospital. Qualitative data was transcribed and thematically analyzed to determine themes. The consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research checklist was followed. The primary source of support after a violent incident was from other nurses. Support was needed immediately to empower nurses to be able to continue their caring role. Often the support was not provided nor were nurses aware of the support services available. Although personal family and friends were a valuable support, most nurses were reluctant to disclose their experiences to protect them. This paper discusses nurses' experience of support following violence incidents at work as part of findings from a more extensive study that explored the perceptions of nurses regarding violence, strategies and support in a regional Queensland Hospital. Hospital support following a violent incident was perceived as inadequate and nurses felt unsupported immediately following an incident. After an incidence of workplace violence, appropriate effective support may mitigate the enduring impacts of experiencing violence. There is the need for hospital management to provide effective support services and improve staff awareness of available support services.

Развитие психолингвистических идей И.А. Стернина в Китае

Professor Iosif Abramovich Sternin is an extraordinary Russian philologist and educator. His innovative scientific thought is widely known in Russia and abroad. The article presents how I.A. Sternin’s psycholinguistic theory evolves in China. Furthermore, the personal friendship between Prof. Sternin and the author is also described.

The effect of vaccination on social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of vaccination on social isolation and loneliness. Data from 6,049 individuals were collected from the Understanding America Study (UAS). I use the fixed effect model with the panel data to control time-constant unobserved characteristics which affect vaccination status as well as social isolation. Vaccination was related to about 2 percentage points increase in the proportion of those who met family or friends in person. Days in the past week interacting with family or friends increased. Vaccination was also associated with about 1 percentage point decrease in the proportion of those who felt lonely for more than one day in the past week. The degree of loneliness measured by how often respondents felt lonely in the past week decreased by 2 percentage points for the vaccinated respondents. I found that vaccination decreased subjective social isolation (loneliness) and objective social isolation (interaction with people in person). I also consider the dynamic effect of vaccination status on social isolation. Results suggest that the effect of vaccination became bigger with increasing duration of vaccination.

Ties that Bind: The Effects of Transgender Contact on Transphobia

ABSTRACT Allport’s Theory of Interpersonal Contact suggests that coming into contact with a member of an outgroup should increase support for that outgroup. Previous studies find mixed results when applying Allport’s theory to reported contact with transgender people. We posit that this is due to imprecise and aggregated measures of contact and a lack of attention to the differences between contact that is ephemeral or ongoing and voluntary or obligatory. We explore our theories with data from a large, high-quality survey conducted in early 2020. We find that while various forms of contact (including voluntary and obligatory) predict warmer ratings on feeling thermometers, only close personal friendships—contact that is voluntary and ongoing—predicts attitudes toward transgender-inclusive policies.

Obituary of Professor Ing. Václav Kůdela, DrSc. (1936-2022)

On February 23, 2022, the great Czech plant pathologist, and my personal friend and esteemed colleague, prof. Václav Kůdela passed away. For over 15 years (1990–2006), he served as the Editor-in-Chief for our journal, Plant Protection Science. His whole adult life was connected with agriculture, plant pathology, plant protection and the science of phytotherapy. However, he was also man who accepted, maintained, applied and lived his life following specific, serious traditional rules. The trajectory of his life and its fundamental message arose primarily from his family origins and experiences in youth.

A comparative study of novice and habitual entrepreneur’s choice for founding team member

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate and compare what criteria novice and habitual entrepreneurs use while adding members to the founding team.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses conjoint analysis (CA) to provide the order of preference for the “choice attributes.” The logic of CA is that even if two or more attributes influence the choice, it is unlikely that those attributes will have equal importance for founders with different entrepreneurial experiences.FindingsThis paper found a significant difference in the ranking of the attributes by novice and habitual entrepreneurs. In novice entrepreneurs, the effect of direct ties in the form of kinship ties has the highest preference, followed by prior social contact and prior work relations. However, personal friendships and resource dependency received lesser importance than interpersonal attraction because of the similarity in vision, beliefs and values. Habitual entrepreneurs, however, valued resource dependency and prior work relations more than kinship ties. Also, unlike novice entrepreneurs, habitual entrepreneurs sought cofounders from their indirect ties.Practical implicationsThere has been an explosion of interest and funding for programs that help entrepreneurs establish a cofounding team. The authors inform these programs related to the decision concerning assisting novice and habitual entrepreneurs.Originality/valueWhile prior studies examined a single attribute at a time, the strength of this study lies in simultaneously tapping all attributes, along with multiple indicators for each attribute. Additionally, this study distinguishes the selection criteria of cofounders based on the entrepreneurial expertise of the lead founder.

Geometrization vs. unification: the Reichenbach–Einstein quarrel about the Fernparallelismus field theory

This study reconstructs the 1928–1929 correspondence between Reichenbach and Einstein about the latter’s latest distant parallelism-unified field theory, which attracted considerable public attention at the end of the 1920s. Reichenbach, who had recently become a Professor in Berlin, had the opportunity to discuss the theory with Einstein and therefore sent him a manuscript with some comments for feedback. The document has been preserved among Einstein’s papers. However, the subsequent correspondence took an unpleasant turn after Reichenbach published a popular article on distant parallelism in a newspaper. Einstein directly wrote to the Editorial Board complaining about Reichenbach’s unfair use of off-the-record information. While Reichenbach’s reply demonstrates a sense of personal betrayal at Einstein’s behavior, his published writings of that period point to a sense of intellectual betrayal of their shared philosophical ideals. In his attempts to unify both electricity and gravitation, Einstein had abandoned the physical heuristic that guided him to the relativity theory, to embrace a more speculative, mathematical heuristic that he and Reichenbach had both previously condemned. A decade-long personal and intellectual friendship grew fainter and then never recovered. This study, relying on archival material, aims to revisit the Reichenbach–Einstein relationship in the late 1920s in light of Reichenbach’s neglected contributions to the epistemology of the unified field theory program. Thereby, it hopes to provide a richer account of Reichenbach’s philosophy of space and time.

English

Commercial banks in developing economies play an important role in promoting the growth of SMEs through the loan provided since they create conducive environment for their growth and success. The study focuses on investigating the challenges SMEs face in acquiring loans from commercial banks. The study used 120 respondents who were purposively and randomly selected. Both primary and secondary data were used. Data were analyzed descriptively and presented in tables, percentages, pie charts and tabulation to show differences in frequencies. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 was used in coding, entering and analyzing the data. The study found that high interest rates, lack of collateral, short repayment period, lack of loan information, lack of integrity of bank officers and lack of innovations were the major challenges/difficulties which SMEs face in accessing credit facilities from commercial banks in Morogoro municipality. The study findings generally revealed that SMEs are facing challenges in accessing credit facilities in Morogoro Municipality; hence the researchers, based on the study findings, conclude that SMEs in Tanzania are small because they prefer to get their start-up capital from personal savings, relatives and friends. Based on the study findings, researchers recommended that for banks to attract customers (SMEs) to borrow, they should reduce the interest rates charges. Also, commercial banks should adjust repayment period which would be flexible enough within the business operational cycle of different SMEs in the study area.   Key words: Small and medium enterprises, credit facilities, commercial bank.

The literary museum and the Korolenko family

The article discusses the professional ties and personal friendship between V. Korolenko and V. Bonch-Bruevich, examining their correspondence dating back to 1892. Upon Korolenko’s death, Bonch-Bruevich, later to become director of the State Literary Museum, continues his correspondence with Korolenko’s daughter Sofia, discussing primarily, but not solely, the writer’s archive. Even though the family decided to entrust Korolenko’s archive to the Lenin Library, which boasted more appropriate preservation facilities than the Literary Museum, Bonch-Bruevich and Sofia Korolenko would exchange letters for many more years, enjoying each other’s trust and friendship. Bonch-Bruevich would support Korolenko’s family. After Bonch-Bruevich passed away, followed by Sofia two years later, the correspondence between the Literary Museum and the Korolenko Museum in Poltava continued until 1960; the letters were written by Evgeny Balabanovich, director of Chekhov Museum affiliated with the State Literary Museum, and his counterpart in Poltava, Lyubov Geishor, who ran the Korolenko Museum. The earliest letter quoted in the article dates from 1892, while the latest discovered epistle comes from 1960.

Claiming our Truth

As Black queer graduate students who started our masters and doctoral programs in higher education at the same predominately white midwestern institution, our queer kinship formed the bounds of our existence. Queer for us describes our non-heteronormative identities1 and how we make meaning of our lives. We utilize an autoethnographic dialogue2 (AD) to share and analyze our respective accounts of navigating the academy as Black queer graduate students. This AD reveals how we build and define community through our experiences in traditionally heterogendered institutions (THIs),3 which are hegemonic institutional structures that other queer and trans students. As THIs historically illuminate institutional experiences of queer and trans students, we must shed light on how we as Black queer graduate students respond to the oppressive forces of the institutional spaces we navigate and how we reconceptualize our theoretical voice.As co-researchers, we relied on personal memory accounts as the foundation of our data.4 In self-analyzing, self-reflecting, and interviewing each other, we used AD5 to capture our lived experiences as Black queer graduate students.6 Prior to forming our discussion questions, we individually reflected and journaled on our educational backgrounds. Our synthesized dialogue derives from weekly meetings and is categorized into themes that recognize how we forged queer kinship. We use Queer of Color Critique7 to dismantle how we experience THIs. In the shared vulnerability process required to engage in AD,8 our narratives are a form of resistance against oppressive institutional systems to cultivate healing environments and spaces for us as Black queer graduate students.Through sharing our embodied knowledge, we have grown to understand how our relationship with each other, and other Black queer folks has been a key factor in our persistence in graduate education. Therefore, we implore graduate programs to bolster Black queer student representation. However, relying on institutions to eradicate systems of oppression in which they exist, is naive. Thus, the “tools to which we commit ourselves as educators furthering emancipatory critical questioning…must be envisioned as one piece in a broader ecosystem of strategies for resistance.”14 The strategy we highlight in this paper is the strength of our friendship. The trust and vulnerability that it took to engage in this research process is a meaningful implication of this project. It symbolizes the way that connectivity can have a powerful impact on how we navigate through THIs. Ultimately, in order to actualize liberation, there must be an “affect of collectivity”15 in which Black queer personal and scholarly friendships represent a prism of love, solidarity, intellectual discourse, and prosperity.

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

Stephen Foster and the Slavery Question

Stephen Foster and the Slavery Question

Beyond Cuckoo’s Nest, or Composing one’s book

The author reflects on her personal acquaintance and pen friendship with Zoe C. Escobar (1948–2021), an American ‘one-book writer.’ Escobar’s own biography and the writing process behind Beyond Cuckoo’s Nest: The Art and Life of William ‘Sonny’ Sampson, Jr., her book on the Muscogee Creek Indian cowboy, actor and artist, are presented in the form of lively conversations between herself and the author of the article, accompanied by depictions of the private life of Native Americans in the period spanning the second half of the 20th and the early 21st cc. The article particularly focuses on the origin of the nonprofit American Indian Registry for the Performing Arts in Hollywood, founded by Escobar, who also served as its first executive director, as well as Escobar’s personal and work relationship with the actor, artist and Native Americans’ spiritual leader Will Sampson, whose most memorable role was that of Chief Bromden in M. Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The author of the article chooses the format of a case study to explore several technical aspects of the creative process and construct Z. Escobar’s and W. Sampson’s psychological portraits.

Remembering Nawal El Saadawi

Remembering Nawal El Saadawi

Critical Fictions: Fanny Fern, Critical Satire, and the Gender Inequities of Antebellum Criticism

Critical Fictions: Fanny Fern, Critical Satire, and the Gender Inequities of Antebellum Criticism Adam Gordon (bio) On February 25, 1832, the New-York Mirror published as its feature story an anonymous original piece entitled “The Young Author, or the Effects of Criticism,” which recounts the tale of a young poet whose confrontation with critics ultimately proves fatal. Born rich, Edwin lost his parents at a young age and settled into a solitary, impoverished existence in which poetry became his one solace. Though Edwin’s poems possessed beauty and originality, he was a young and inexperienced author, and so the volume naturally had faults as well, which “the critics attacked as vigorously as if their salvation depended upon prostrating the luckless author.”1 With his hopes dashed and his sense of vocation destroyed, Edwin’s health rapidly deteriorates, already weakened by the physical and emotional strain of authorship. As Edwin hovers on the brink of death, the story’s unnamed narrator learns of his condition, peruses the volume in question, and is immediately struck by the poems’ beauty. Astonished that critics had attacked the collection so viciously, the narrator seeks out the offending reviewers only to learn that “of the two least powerful one was a bigot and the other a voluptuary” and that “the third was a young editor of promise, but still young, very young.”2 When he visits the author of the first review, the meanest of the three, he finds a “sickly, unhappy looking creature,” hunched and dyspeptic.3 “I knew him for a bigot and a wretch,” the narrator observes, “and an involuntary feeling of disgust and hatred crept into my heart as I reflected that a hypochondriac and a bigot stood thus behind an engine of such power as a public press must generally be, controlling its operations and directing its force against the enemies of ignorance, superstition, and [End Page 21] malice.”4 It takes little prodding on the part of the narrator to get the misanthropic critic to admit that he was once slighted by Edwin’s father and so detests both Edwin and his family. As he spitefully remarks, “They who once scorned me, now fear me, and shall feel me.”5 The next reviewer he visits, a young editor, confesses he spurned the volume out of mere carelessness, admitting that short on time he “looked hastily through it, but founded my opinion of it from that of contemporary print.”6 When the narrator has him survey the poems again, the editor, embarrassed by his mistake, immediately issues an apologetic retraction as well as a second positive review in the next issue. And though the narrator rushes to Edwin’s bedside to deliver the commendatory review, he’s too late. Edwin is dead. Beginning in the late 1820s, as a consolidating print-capitalist marketplace began to eclipse the older networks of local artisan printers, works like “The Young Author” began appearing in greater number, setting the standard for a developing genre of fictionalized exposés of the American critical enterprise. In the story of Edwin, the author blends fictional melodrama with firsthand observations regarding the experience of authorship, catering to a public fascination with the inherent drama of the literary industry. For the narrator, the pathos of Edwin’s case is that an author’s livelihood is placed in the hands of critics whose judgment is marred by petty animosities, on the one hand, and irresponsible carelessness, on the other. As the narrator reflects, The public would be shocked if they could behold in palpable form the vast proportion of criticisms appearing in the journals of this country, which are influenced by private feelings. He who from personal friendship praises a book or a composition undeservedly is, in fact, committing a falsehood, and cheating his readers; but what shall we say of him who sits in the obscure safety of his chamber, and gratifies a malignant enmity against an author, by vilifying his works? This course is pursued in the United States to an extent most disgraceful, if not alarming.7 Though such stories were designed to be amusing and are no doubt exaggerated, they provided popular platforms for debates over...

Dwoskin and Me: Halting the Flow of Time

ABSTRACT: In this article, I discuss the three experimental autobiographical films that Stephen Dwoskin made between 1994 and 2003: Trying to Kiss the Moon (1994), Some Friends (Apart) (2002), and Francis in Memorium (2003). I first met Dwoskin at the Royal College of Art (RCA) film school in London, England, where I was a student in the 1970s and he was a part-time tutor. We were both Jewish with very different personal histories and experiences, but after I left the RCA, he became a close personal friend. As a disabled American expatriate, he spent most of his adult life looking at the world through a camera lens, filming his friends and lovers, and building an archive of footage that form part of these films supplemented by the extensive home movie footage filmed by his father Henry Dwoskin, a carpenter. My analysis of his films is therefore colored by my own personal recollections of him.

Recitindu-l pe Stahl

In this paper, I highlight mostly ignored aspects of the work of H. H. Stahl: his stance on the issue of “national specificity,” on village culture, and on the modernization of Romanian villages through “culturalization”. Reviewing some of his popularization and scientific texts from the 1930, but also his late contributions from the 1980, show a remarkable continuity and consistency of Stahl’s vision on these subjects. And it is not the kind of vision someone would expect from a socialist or Marxist social scientist. For Stahl, the village culture was the true (and unique) Romanian culture, a peasant culture that he was very fond of. In some respects, and, in fact, not so surprisingly, Stahl, what regards “national specificity” and village culture, is much closer to (the reactionary, traditionalist, autochthonous) Mircea Vulcănescu, his monographist fellow and personal friend, than any other leftist thinker in interwar Romania.

Monetary policy in a world of radical uncertainty

Monetary policy in a world of radical uncertainty

Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis

Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis

Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War

Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War