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Improving Communication and Collaboration Skills in Graduate Nurses: An Evidence-based Approach

New graduate nurses (NGN) often have an idealistic view of nursing compared to the reality of providing complex patient care. NGNs may lack communication and collaborations skills needed to effectively interact with challenging patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams, leading to stress and burnout. This evidence-based quality improvement project provided NGNs an opportunity to practice communication and collaboration techniques within a nurse residency program (NRP). Two scenarios with role-playing and debriefing were developed to practice communication techniques to enhance NGNs’ confidence. Results indicate the NRP improved these skills in NGNs. NRPs may assist NGNs transition to practice and successful integration into the registered nurse (RN) role.

CẢNH QUAN VÀ CON NGƯỜI MIỀN NÚI TRONG TRUYỆN ĐƯỜNG RỪNG CỦA LAN KHAI TỪ GÓC NHÌN PHÊ BÌNH SINH THÁI

Lan Khai's forest fiction is especially loved by contemporary readers, not only because of the “exotic flavor” but also because of the writer's new and unique perspective on the landscape and people of the mountainous region. The ideal view of the unity relationship between man and nature in medieval literature or the illusion of harmony and unity between man and nature in romantic literature were all eroded in his work. This study shows that mountainous people and nature in Lan Khai's forest fiction no longer carry the polarization between “center” and “margin”, “civilized” and “barbarian” as in medieval literature and travelogues in Nam Phong Journal.

The Widening Gap Under the Internal Revenue Code: The Need for Renewed Progressivity

“I have never viewed taxation as a means of rewarding one class of taxpayers or punishing another. If such a point of view ever controls our public policy, the traditions of freedom, justice and equality of opportunity, which are the distinguishing characteristics of our American civilization, will have disappeared and in their place we shall have class legislation with all its attendant evils.” Andrew Mellon (1924)The words written by Andrew Mellon more than 75 years ago represent an idealistic view of the tax system. Despite the ideas expressed by Mr. Mellon, it is difficult to devise a tax scheme that conforms to his standards. Our present scheme of taxation is intended to promote vertical equity, which means that the higher income taxpayer should pay a higher level of taxes based on an abilityto-pay concept. In theory, this objective is met by the progressive tax structure imposed under the Code. Arguably, a progressive tax system is inconsistent with the principles expressed by Mellon because of the purported penalty levied against high-income taxpayers in the form of inflated tax rates and the reward bestowed on low-income taxpayers in the form of lower tax rates. In reality, a progressive tax system does not reward or punish one class of taxpayers over another, but it is necessary to ensure that taxpayers do not pay more tax dollars to finance the government than they can afford. A progressive tax scheme is also necessary to enable every taxpayer to retain sufficient income to live above the poverty threshold. To the extent that a taxpayer lives below the poverty threshold, that taxpayer should not be required to pay income taxes. The current tax scheme is only partially successful in preventing taxpayers’ after-tax income from falling below the poverty threshold.

A lattice-theoretic view of some special ideals of subrings of commutative rings

A lattice-theoretic view of some special ideals of subrings of commutative rings

Kant's Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis by Henry E. Allison

Reviewed by: Kant's Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis by Henry E. Allison Timothy Aylsworth Henry E. Allison. Kant's Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 531. Hardback, $140.00. It is difficult to overstate the importance of freedom in Kant's critical philosophy, and there are few scholars whose expertise on this subject could rival Henry E. Allison's. In this magisterial commentary, Allison meticulously chronicles the development of Kant's theory of freedom from his earliest precritical works all the way through the Metaphysics of Morals. Great care is taken to explain how and why Kant's views changed over time, and Allison provides compelling, sympathetic interpretations at every turn. The first four chapters deal with Kant's precritical writings and his lectures on metaphysics and ethics from the 1760s. The general narrative here is likely to be a familiar one for the target audience, but Allison's reconstruction of this development is rich in illuminating details. For instance, most readers will already know that Kant initially held a position akin to Wolff's compatibilism, but Allison carefully explains how Kant modified the account in response to criticisms from Crusius. In these chapters, Allison also discusses Kant's famous encounter with Rousseau and his brief (but influential) attraction to Hutchesonian sentimentalism. In addition to drawing on Kant's published works and lectures, Allison combs through Reflexionen from the "silent decade" to explain what motivated Kant's critical view of freedom. It is here that Kant begins to articulate many of the central tenets of transcendental freedom that emerge in the first Critique. The departure from Wolff becomes very clear as Kant abandons the compatibilist concept of "relative spontaneity" in favor of "absolute spontaneity"—a first beginning that begets a new causal series from itself (von selbst), independent of any external determining grounds. Of course, Kant cannot account for such an idea without the critical distinction between things in themselves and appearances. Thus, Allison turns to the first Critique in chapter 6, where he explains Kant's resolution of the apparent conflict between freedom and determinism in the Third Antinomy. So it is here, for the first time, that readers encounter Allison's interpretation of transcendental idealism according to which things in themselves are to be understood as "things considered in abstraction from the temporal relations in which they stand as objects of possible experience" (254). Even readers who hold a different view of transcendental idealism will still find a great deal of common ground in Allison's compelling reconstruction of Kant's resolution of the antinomy. Toward the end of the chapter, Allison wrestles with the alleged inconsistency between Kant's discussions of practical freedom in the Canon and the Dialectic. In the Canon, practical freedom looks like an empirically knowable, compatibilist concept, but in the Dialectic it seems more like an incompatibilist notion that requires transcendental freedom as a necessary condition. Allison rejects the uncharitable "patchwork" reading, which suggests that the inconsistency is the result of Kant sloppily patching his notes together when writing these sections of the first Critique. I am inclined to agree with Allison that we should [End Page 350] avoid the patchwork reading if we can, but I was not entirely convinced by his resolution. It remained unclear to me how, on Allison's view, Kant can suggest that transcendental freedom cannot be proven by any experience while also claiming that practical freedom (which requires transcendental freedom) is cognized through experience. Chapters 7 and 8 deal with freedom as it arises in the Groundwork and the second Critique. There is far too much in these 110 pages to summarize comprehensively here, so I will highlight what I take to be the most important point. Allison once again endorses the "great reversal" interpretation, according to which Kant recognized the deduction of Groundwork III as a total failure and reversed the order of the argument in the second Critique with his infamous "fact of reason." Many commentators have adopted this interpretation, but I tend to agree with dissenters like Allen Wood and Sergio Tenenbaum, who argue that the two texts are actually consistent. It...

De Jonquières transformations in arbitrary dimension. An ideal theoretic view

A generalization of the plane de Jonquières transformation to arbitrary dimension is studied, with an eye for the ideal theoretic side. In particular, one considers structural properties of the corresponding base ideal and of its defining relations. Useful throughout is the idea of downgraded sequences of forms, a tool considered in many sources for the rounding-up of ideals of defining relations. The emphasis here is on the case where the supporting Cremona transformation of the de Jonquières transformation is the identity map. In this case we give some results on the homological behavior of the graph of the transformation.

The Issue Isn’t Which Model of Consumer Interference Is Right, but Which One Is Least Wrong

Empirical observations and an analogy with the history of ballistics illuminate the ongoing debate about the default choice for types of functional responses, based on consumer interference. The two ideal views of consumer interference are: (1) There is no direct mutual interference among consumers (“prey-dependence”), and (2) Consumers show strong mutual interference, the functional response depending on the number of prey per consumer (“ratio-dependence”). Each of these minimal-information concepts are what we refer to as “root” models, of limited accuracy in themselves, but they are the base upon which we erect complex models for specific, real-world cases. We argue that the ratio dependent view coincides more naturally with the way we model the dynamics of any population, and taken alone it is the model more consistent with empirical observations. Both root models often will give the “wrong answer” when applied directly to real world cases. Nevertheless, one root model may be “less wrong” than the other. This is not unlike developments 400 years ago in physics, when two root models competed in ballistics. Galileo’s demonstration that the default trajectory of a projectile is a parabola eventually replaced what had been the dominant root model since Aristotle. Both ballistic root models are inaccurate in the presence of air friction, but the parabolic model is, overall, less wrong. We argue that the ratio-dependent model, like the parabolic trajectory, is the “less wrong” and it is therefore a natural view from which to start thinking about consumer-resource interaction and developing more elaborate models.

Optimizing Anchor Placement for Cone-Shaped Rotator Cuff Tears

There are various technique preferences when performing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. Currently, most surgeons address all intra-articular pathology as well as assess the extent of a rotator cuff tear with the arthroscope in the joint prior to moving to the subacromial space, where they will initiate footprint preparation, anchor placement, and rotator cuff repair. Although this technique often yields good or at least acceptable visualization of the footprint, it does not always provide an optimal view of the medial footprint even when using a “50–yard line view” from a lateral portal. This can particularly be an issue with “cone-shaped” supraspinatus tears in which a smaller full-thickness bursal-sided tear often expands to a much larger articular-sided component. When surgeons are visualizing with the scope in the subacromial space, it is much more difficult to obtain a full appreciation of the extent of the articular-sided tear as well as optimal visualization of the medial footprint right up to the articular margin for both bone preparation and anchor placement. This article describes the benefit of keeping the arthroscope in the joint to facilitate footprint preparation and medial-row suture anchor placement prior to going to the subacromial space. This small technical modification can often offer surgeons far superior visualization of the entire greater tuberosity footprint especially when encountering a cone-shaped tear or high-grade articular-sided tear that requires repair. To further enhance viewing of the footprint with the scope intra-articularly, proficiency in using a 70° scope directed laterally will typically allow surgeons the most ideal view achievable. Once anchors are placed into the medial row, the arthroscope is inserted into the subacromial space to complete the repair.

Наука и современный гуманизм

The article proposes an understanding of science as a process of production of human­istic values and their translation in society, as well as an analysis of reflection on sci­ence from the point of view of humanistic ideals. This is one of the key topics of cultural/historical epistemology, the leading representative of which is Vladislav Alexandrovich Lektorsky. In the paper, the meaning of scientific humanism is re­vealed through answers to three questions similar to the Kant’s ones: about the possi­bility of cognition, communication and normativity. These possibilities are understood as three forms of freedom: freedom of oneself, freedom with others, and freedom to transcend one’s limits. The question of freedom is the problematization of science in terms of its conformity with the values of humanism, as well as of how humanism itself is consistent with the pathos of scientific inquiry. The main thesis of the article says that the humanistic nature of science consists not so much in mastering the forces of nature or discovering its secrets, not in truth or benefit. Rather, science compels man to think historically and critically about himself and his present. True humanism is not a measure of all things by the human arshin, not the exaltation of man, but the bringing him into consciousness; not an adaptation to circumstances, but going be­yond one’s limits; not a concept, but a constant revision of the current state of affairs.

On Aging: a Critical Phenomenology of Transitions

This article advances a critical phenomenology of the meaning of aging embodiment. Its broad aim is to profoundly challenge an idealized view of aging as foremost and fundamentally a natural or normative procession of “ready-made” stages pre-set “in” time (i.e., infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and “old age”) or pre-given units of time that unfurl along a timeline (i.e., chronological age), from past to present to future. Combining, defending, and adapting resources from Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception with a reading of the concept of institution (Stiftung) via the phenomenon of puberty in Institution and Passivity: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955) as well as insights from critical gerontology, I argue that the phenomenon of aging embodiment demands to be understood in terms of transitions, that is, as an intensive reorientation in relationality, sociality, and the style in which one has a past rather than as changes along a timeline.

Crowd-Sourced Identification of Characteristics of Collective Human Motion.

Crowd simulations are used extensively to study the dynamics of human collectives. Such studies are underpinned by specific movement models, which encode rules and assumptions about how people navigate a space and handle interactions with others. These models often give rise to macroscopic simulated crowd behaviours that are statistically valid, but which lack the noisy microscopic behaviours that are the signature of believable real crowds. In this article, we use an existing Turing test for crowds to identify realistic features of real crowds that are generally omitted from simulation models. Our previous study using this test established that untrained individuals have difficulty in classifying movies of crowds as real or simulated, and that such people often have an idealised view of how crowds move. In this follow-up study (with new participants) we perform a second trial, which now includes a training phase (showing participants movies of real crowds). We find that classification performance significantly improves after training, confirming the existence of features that allow participants to identify real crowds. High-performing individuals are able to identify the features of real crowds that should be incorporated into future simulations if they are to be considered realistic.

Pre-Assumption of Tess’ Happy Ending as Seen in Tess of The D’ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

The object of this research is the struggle of women as reflected by the main character Hardy, namely Tess. The author intends to show how the picture of a woman who never gives up to get a decent life, even though in the end she chose the wrong decision and ended her own life.
 The approach used in the analysis of women's struggles is a feminist approach, this is intended to provide an ideal view of women in literary works that are the object of male domination. In this research, the writer uses three methods: data collection by applying library research, data analysis using content analysis method that emphasizes the implied and explicit meaning in the fictional character of the literary work, and data representation by compiling the data obtained in systematic writing, namely thesis.
 The author sees that the character of Tess, as a woman who never gives up in her life. He had made several fatal mistakes which later brought misery and his own end. If only Tess hadn't made that mistake her life would have been for the better. First, if Tess hadn't told her she'd been raped then Angel wouldn't have left her. Second, if Tess didn't reject Angel's intention to return then she would live happily with her husband. Third, if Tess hadn't killed Alec, then she wouldn't have been sentenced to death and could live her life with her husband Angel.

Body text

Body text: Typography and the corporeality of literature In one of his fragments, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg explains that German books printed with roman type, instead of the then default gothic type, always give him a feeling that he needs to translate them – evidence, he says, of “the degree to which our concepts are dependent on these signs”. The article elaborates on this thought. It explores the relation between literature, text (abstract and material), and typography, and argues – by means of bibliographical theory, Goethe’s mother, Jean-Luc Nancy, Roman Ingarden, and a diagnostic comparison between hand writing and digital fonts – that the longstanding, idealistic view, within literary criticism and history, of texts’ ‘content’ as independent of books’ and texts’ materiality and form, obstructs scholars’ striving for understand-ing. Text is not only representation; it is also presentation. Text has form, and the form produces meaning.

Remote identification of psychophysiological parameters for a cognitive-emotional conflict

The contradiction between the conscious and emotional assessment of situations often arises when there is a discrepancy between reality and ideal view. The purpose of this study is to identify a system of remotely diagnosed parameters (by video recording using Skype tools), which can objectively indicate the presence of a cognitive-emotional conflict during a dialogue. The current study has become particularly relevant in the COVID-19 environment, where face-to-face communication is limited, and all interactions must occur in a remote online format. In such an environment, the identification of formal signs indicating latent conflicts in online interactions comes to the fore. To stimulate an outburst and fix the cognitive-emotional conflict remotely, various schemes were used: interviews based on the self-attitude technique, discussions based on the transactional analysis model, free reasoning about situations that were selected by the age, and other parameters of participants, as well as watching video clips with an unexpected end. For automatic marking of people's emotional reactions in video data, a computer program was developed using neural network algorithms based on VGG16.Furthermore, the neural network for emotion recognition was pretrained based on open sources by the P. Ekman FACS model. Finally, video recordings were marked according to the expert assessment results regarding the presence of cognitive-emotional conflict. We conducted 27 interviews with the participation of both genders, including ten high school students (from 12 to 17 years old), a total of 338,075 frames were received. As a result, it was found that the two facial expression parameters identified by the program reliably distinguish the presence of a cognitive-emotional conflict. Furthermore, in all the studied schemes of telecommunication dialogue, the «happy» parameter was significantly more pronounced in a situation of conflict.

Mixed layers and surface ducts

The upper ocean is strongly effected by the sun and the wind. In an idealized view, this leads to a warm mixed layer with a nearly constant temperature and salinity. Then, the increase in pressure with depth causes an increase of about 1.7 m/s in sound speed for every 100 m in depth (i.e., a gradient of 0.017/s). This gradient forms an acoustic surface duct, which is a nearly universal feature of the world’s oceans. They can be just tens of meters thick or several hundred meters in the Southern Ocean or the North Atlantic during periods of winter storms. Not surprisingly, the surface duct is very important in terms of sound propagation; However, as we shall describe, the surface duct has some peculiar acoustic properties and can produce vast shadow zones inside the duct. This simplified description is a good beginning; however, “mixed” layers are generally not well-mixed. It is more precise to speak of the upper ocean as a zone where there may be periods of mixing and heating driven by changes in winds and cloud cover. Upper ocean models predict this evolution and often lead to much more complicated sound speed structures. This, in turn, has lead to a wide variety of ways of characterizing the features of the surface duct. This talk will touch on the interesting acoustics of surface ducts and how variations in different (oceanographic) upper ocean models effect the sound propagation.

Review Paper: ‘Discourses on the Place of Mothers Rights where They Are Subject to Domestic Violence within Child Protection Work in England’

This article examines the place of gendered relationships between parents with regard to child protection work in England, and the effects of this on mothers who are abused by their male partners. These areas are discussed within an emotionally, socially, and politically charged set of issues concerning to what extent the State should intervene, why, and how between parents and their children in terms of parental rights and child protection. In this way, the article examines fault lines in the Western world’s ideology of the family, and concepts and realities of parental, mothers’ and children’s rights. In examining dominant and competing discourses on parental rights in child protection work, the case is made for the need to disaggregate concepts and approaches away from parental rights per se, to viewing the possibility of needing to see fathers and mothers needs and rights as at times being in conflict. This becomes particularly problematic in relation to mothers’ rights to their own protection from abuse, and how this relates to professional interventions when both the mother and the children are being abused. It considers the need to acknowledge and foreground taking account of how the mother and child(ren) are experiencing the abuse, not how society and professionals might like to view the situation by way of an idealized view of families through a particular ideological lens.

An Ecological View in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: The Landscape of Nagasaki Implied by the Narrator

ABSTRACT Kazuo Ishiguro’s sixth novel, Never Let Me Go (2005), describes a society in which organ transplantation utilizing human clones is realized owing to technological advancement in the field of regenerative medicine. This paper, through considering the work as a dystopian novel with an ecological theme, explores the subject of the author’s critique and what his ideal vision really was. In this novel, universal themes such as love, friendship, memory, and a view of life are foregrounded by means of a first-person narrative and backgrounded by a dystopian world view of cloning. In addition, criticism of consumerism and nuclear policy are embedded in the narrative of the story’s protagonist, whose reluctant narration implies the ruined landscape of Nagasaki. This paper attempts to expose such themes, while at the same time it becomes clear that Ishiguro’s ideal view of the world is an ecological one where people are satisfied with older analogue technologies and clean energy is promoted.

Marital Realism: Beauty and Pettiness inMiddlemarch

Marital Realism: Beauty and Pettiness in<i>Middlemarch</i>

The Mystery of the Lorentz Transform: A Reconstruction and Its Implications for Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and cosmology.

The Lorentz Transformation (LT) is an arbitrary and poorly conceived mathematical tool designed to make Maxwell’s electromagnetism conform to Galilean relativity, which formed the basis of classical mechanics and physics. A strange combination of this transform with an axiomatic assumption by Albert Einstein that the velocity of light c is an absolute and universal constant has led to an idealist, geometrical and phenomenological view of the universe, that is at variance with objective reality. This conundrum that has lasted for more than hundred years has led to rampant mysticism and has impaired the development of positive knowledge of the universe. The present reconstruction of LT shows that the gamma term, which fueled mysticism in physics and cosmology is, on the contrary, a natural outcome of the subjective geometrical rendition of the speed of light and the idealist unification of abstract space and time into a 4D “spacetime” manifold; by Minkowski and Einstein. Only a materialist dialectical perspective of space and time can rid physics of all mysticism arising out of LT; from the quantum to the cosmic.

Rural-urban gap and career preparation trajectories in a Chinese elite university

ABSTRACTFollowing Bourdieu’s classic work on habitus and field, scholars use habitus fit/misfit to distinguish students’ college experience but how students’ experiences habitus misfit and transformation in relation to their career preparation process remains understudied. This study conducted longitudinal in-depth interviews with 32 students at an elite university in China from 2014 to 2018. We highlight that how students think about the future and design plans to achieve it is an important part of reflexivity in shaping habitus transformation. A reconciliation between students’ reflexive deliberation about future and the blueprint of career preparation path promoted on campus led to a range of creative and multi-faceted career preparation trajectories––habitus fits can be fluid. These trajectories present ideal or rational views of future careers pertaining to students’ family backgrounds. This study sheds light on the mechanism that shapes inequality in higher education.