Lifelong Partnership Research Articles

BRAND COMMUNICATION OF EU LEADING UNIVERSITIES: INSPIRATIONS FOR THE UKRAINIAN CONTEXT

The paradigm shift within the administrative framework of domestic higher education institutions (universities) towards marketing management necessitates the incorporation of innovative methodologies in relation to their positioning, branding, and brand communications. Consequently, there exists merit in scrutinizing and assimilating the progressive experiences of leading European universities within the realm of their brand communications.The article presents the results of analysis of universities' branding activities in a qualitative case study of ten EU universities, which occupy leading positions in the Shanghai Academic International Ranking of Universities.An examination of the preceding decade reveals discernible qualitative transformations in the modalities through which universities articulate their inherent values. In the initial years of the second decade of the 21st century, preeminent values encompassed excellence (or quality), social justice (or diversity), third mission (or outreach), academic orientation, community (or collaboration), internationalization, and performance measurement (or evaluation) (Mampaey, Huisman, and Seeber (2015). These values were extensively disseminated by universities as part of their brand communications.Emergent values observable in the contemporary brand communications of leading EU universities include: аutonomy, academic freedom, innovative mindset, creation of an innovative ecosystem, marketization of research, ethics and academic integrity, sustainable and сlimate-friendly organization, make a difference approach, impact, openness, courageousness, effectiveness, solution-oriented thinking, life-long partnership, сreation the environment, society confidence, brand development, creativity, cultural influence.An evolution in brand communication strategies of EU universities has been discerned. While the early years of the second decade of the 21st century witnessed a notable convergence in these strategies among leading universities, accompanied by “mimic” strategies by less competitive institutions, the current trend reflects a divergence in these approaches. This differentiation is evidently driven by the distinctive characteristics inherent to each university, a strategic vision for future development, and a proactive inclination to establish a distinct and clearly differentiated position within the competitive landscape.

Memaknai Dimensi Sakramental Perkawinan Katolik dalam Kanon 1055 §1-2 dari Perspektif Teologi Tubuh Paus Yohanes Paulus II

This article aims to discuss the Catholic marriage as a covenant according to Canon Law in the light of Pope John Paul II's theology of the body. This paper is designed as a review article and focuses its attention on Canon 1055 §1-2 of Canon Law. The latter emphasizes the legal aspects of marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman that forms a lifelong partnership. This marriage is aimed at the welfare of husband and wife (bonum coniugum) and openness to the birth and education of children (bonum prolis). The sacramental meaning of marriage is interpreted within the framework of the theology of the body. The human body, theologically, is a means and sign of God's presence. The sacramental covenant dimension of the canon is analyzed in the light of Pope John Paul II's theology of the body. Christian marriage is a sacramental covenant, and the human body as the locus theologicus is a sign and means of God's presence.

The Mining Legacy of William S. Godbe

The Mining Legacy of William S. Godbe

Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea

Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea

Isabella L. Karle: A Crystallography Pioneer.

The life and work of crystallography pioneer Isabella L. Karle is recounted (1921-2017), as researched from the literature and personal stories of colleagues and family. Her story includes her family background, education at the University of Michigan, research on the Manhattan Project, and 63 productive years at the Naval Research Laboratory. Her life-long partnership and scientific collaboration with husband Jerome Karle, 1985 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry with Herbert Hauptman, is a big part of her story; however, Isabella has also established herself as a crystallographer extraordinaire through her Symbolic Addition Procedure to solve the phase problem, and her unique ability to solve the structures of complex biological molecules, including toxins, antibiotics, and peptides. Her rich family life with three daughters in a lake-front home, do-it-yourself attitude, and passions outside of science round up this portrait of a fascinating and brilliant woman.

Infection control in aesthetic medicine and the consequences of inaction

Microbiology is the study of microbes—living organisms so small they can only be seen through a microscope. They are considered the smallest form of life and include bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea and protozoa. Microbes that can cause disease are referred to as pathogens. The relationship between the human body and the microbial world is dynamic; however, despite this lifelong partnership and the undeniable value these organisms bring to both the human body and the earth's ecology, some pathogens are capable of destroying human life. The skin and mucous membranes are the body's protective barriers and if they are breached by pathogens, they can reach subcutaneous tissue, muscle, bone and body cavities. In the field of aesthetic medicine, the injection of a dermal filler into the soft tissues is one of the most sought after treatments. This procedure can incorporate multiple injection passes from skin to bone. There is therefore a risk of an infectious complication arising if all traces of make-up are not removed and the skin disinfected, if there is inadequate hand antisepsis or environmental disinfection, and if aseptic technique is not executed during the delivery of these injections.

Same-Sex Intimacies in the Early African Text <em>Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros</em> (1672): Queer Reading an Ethiopian Woman Saint

The earliest known book-length biography about an African woman, written in 1672 in the Gəˁəz language, The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Wälättä eṭros, features a life-long partnership between two women and same-sex sexuality among nuns. Revered Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church leader Wälättä eṭros (1592–1642) and another nun, ∃ḫətä Krəstos, “lived together in mutual love, like soul and body” until death. Other nuns are depicted as “being lustful” with each other. Interpreting the women’s relationships in this Ethiopian text requires different reading protocols, merging surface and symptomatic reading as well as attending to Ethiopian authorial and interpretive practices, protocols for which queer theory provides useful warnings and tools. This is the first scholarly article proffering a queer reading of pre-twentieth-century sub-Saharan African literature. By foregrounding a text in an African language, this article alerts us to the dimensions of and possibilities for queer experiences outside of the arena of twentieth-century Europhone African literatures.

Control of brain development, function, and behavior by the microbiome.

Animals share an intimate and life-long partnership with a myriad of resident microbial species, collectively referred to as the microbiota. Symbiotic microbes have been shown to regulate nutrition and metabolism and are critical for the development and function of the immune system. More recently, studies have suggested that gut bacteria can impact neurological outcomes--altering behavior and potentially affecting the onset and/or severity of nervous system disorders. In this review, we highlight emerging evidence that the microbiome extends its influence to the brain via various pathways connecting the gut to the central nervous system. While understanding and appreciation of a gut microbial impact on neurological function is nascent, unraveling gut-microbiome-brain connections holds the promise of transforming the neurosciences and revealing potentially novel etiologies for psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.

. CONDITIONS AND DETERMINANTS OF THE ACADEMIC STAFF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MODERN SCHOOL

The paper reveals the research findings concerning a complicated process of academic staff formation in the secondary school. The main determinants of the process include the discrepancy between the actual development level of academic staff and the existing requirements of pedagogic society. The author denotes the main motives for academic staff development: moral and financial incentives for professional growth, new educational tasks, unsatisfactory social status of educational institution, etc; and identifies the complex of objective and subjective conditions positively affecting the given process. According to the author, the main priority should be given to the methodological provision of academic staff, integration of their activity, and stimulation of informational, methodical, and organizational channels of school activity. In conclusion, the paper considers the principles of life-long teacher training, corporate cooperation, partnership and solidarity, and discusses the technological structure of academic staff development, based on the competence model of education.

Till Disinterest Do Us Part: Trial Marriage, Public Policy, and the Fear of Familial Decay in the United States, 1900–1930

I n 1924 n e w Y o r k S u p r e m e Court Justice Ernest Edgcomb denied eighteen-year-old lottie lazarczyk the right to have her marriage to husband Stanislaw lazarczyk annulled. lottie, the daughter of Polish immigrants, had married Stanislaw and given birth to a son before reaching the age of eighteen. alleging that Stanislaw had physically abused her, lottie sought escape from a marriage that she now viewed as a youthful mistake. Rejecting lottie’s request in the early paragraphs of his decision, Edgcomb used the remainder of his ruling to express concern over the deteriorating state of matrimony in the United States and over couples’ growing tendency to abandon unsatisfying marriages. In a key passage, he argued: “Public policy demands that the court should refuse to put its stamp of approval on trial marriages.” He therefore praised New york’s Domestic Relations law for seeking to bar young couples from “consummating a trial marriage, and then reputing their act without penalty, if perchance the experiment did not suit their passing whim or fancy.” In Edgcomb’s view, the court needed to play a stronger role in keeping marriages permanent. Two of Edgcomb’s phrases here demand further attention. The first is the term “trial marriage,” which Edgcomb used to imply that lottie and Stanislaw had exchanged vows without committing themselves to a lifelong partnership. In Edgcomb’s view, this couple represented a growing group of young and typically working-class people who married provisionally with the intent to part ways if matrimony proved unpleasant; this was a tendency he hoped to thwart. The second noteworthy phrase is “public policy,” or, more specifically, Edgcomb’s assertion that trial marriage violated public policy.

Sexual Morality: A Natural Law Approach to Intimate Relationships. By JOHN J. PIDERIT, SJ.

John J. Piderit attempts to develop ‘a systematic approach to sexual morality’ (p. xiii) to support young adults living in a hook-up culture in which most young people in the United States engage in, as he thinks, sexual intimacy without any serious commitment to one another or to a long-lasting relationship. According to the author, young men and women enjoy their way of life without planning their life as husbands and fathers, wives and mothers. Challenging the consequences of the hook-up culture, Piderit engages the need for a lasting married life. For this, he proceeds with a natural law approach, investigating whether young adults can commit themselves to a meaningful married life. This book tries to convince young adults that sexual life is to be set aside for marriage, a lifelong partnership rather than a momentary relationship. As indicated in the preface, the author brings to bear 40 years of experience as a priest and of interaction with young people. The preface and even some of the chapters are dense and sometimes repetitive, yet most are practical and deeply related to young people of American culture. The book is divided into three parts, comprising 33 chapters, and is presented in a dramatic way, presenting two young people, Maria and Davies, who plan to marry.

The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther and the Making of the Reformation, by Steven Ozment

The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther and the Making of the Reformation, by Steven Ozment. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2011. x, 325 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). The title of this engaging and delightful book comes from the copyright symbols for two of the monumental characters of the Reformation living in Wittenberg, Germany. Lucas Cranach the Elder was given the symbol of a serpent with bat wings by the elector of Saxony after he was hired as the court artist, while the lamb was one of the logos for Martin Luther, the controversial reformer and thorn in the side of the Roman Catholic church of his day. Ozment weaves a crisp and fetching narrative of the role Cranach played as the main propagandist for Luther's reformation, but his focus is definitely on the artist rather than the theologian. In doing so, the author provides a fascinating glimpse into the of medieval Wittenberg, electoral Saxony, and the ever-changing development of the artist within this context. He touches upon Cranach's personal life, his complex relationship with Roman Catholic and Lutheran patrons, and his connection with another famous artist and craftsman of the time, Albrecht Durer. Two themes develop within the pages of this book. First, Ozment explores Cranach's important role as the propagandist for the Lutheran reformation. Cranach portrays Luther's main theological themes in concrete graphic ways through his art. When combined with his involvement in the publishing business, Cranach disseminated Luther's teachings and reforms in ways that reform-minded individuals of earlier generations would never have imagined. Yet at the same time, he also painted for many Roman Catholic patrons. Cranach was above all pragmatic. At the same time, Ozment argues that the differences between Cranach and Durer reflect the differences between the Reformation and the Renaissance, respectively. The idealized human form portrayed by Durer, common to both the Roman Catholic and Renaissance traditions, are replaced with the transient moments of everyday life (p. 56), so ably portrayed by Cranach. One of the things that helped unite Cranach and Luther in a life-long partnership was how both responded to the threats posed by other, more radical reformers who wanted to get rid of all artwork and images in the churches, insisting that they were idols. For Cranach, such actions would take away a major source of income, since churches were important patrons of the arts. Luther, for his part, felt that such artwork could aid Christian piety, and that it was actually the suppressing of such artwork that turned this decorative art into the very ungodly idols the radical reformers were trying to protect against. As Ozment notes, an imageless faith was impossible (p. 134). When Cranach realized that Luther was not interested in clearing all the artwork from churches, the working relationship between them was cemented. …

SHA 073. Incidence of severe congenital heart disease in Qassim Province, Saudia Arabia

programs. Because of the pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery advances, the number of children with CHD surviving into adulthood continues to increase. The complexity of these patients on the adulthood often exceeds the expertise of the health professionals that deal with them. Therefore, North American and European task forces have been developing recommendations for the management of these individuals. According to the World Health Organization (2006) the epidemiology of CHD in Saudi Arabia has not been determined. However, this group of patients has a peculiar anatomy and complications that will have a significant impact on their lives. As most early interventions have not been curative and approximately 50% of them might face further surgery and heart failure, as health professionals, we need to support the education of CHD patients; moreover we need to discuss lifestyle issues such as exercise, pregnancy, career planning, etc. These issues are often more important to patients and families than details about their disease. ACHD teams provide education to these patients and encourage them to create their own health files in order to make them proactive about their health. These teams have to establish a life-long partnership, particularly with young adults who are highly motivated and have excellent survival profile. Only through educated professionals and educated patients we will enable every CHD patient to enjoy their full potential life.

SHA 072. Features and concepts: Saudi congenital heart defects registry

programs. Because of the pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery advances, the number of children with CHD surviving into adulthood continues to increase. The complexity of these patients on the adulthood often exceeds the expertise of the health professionals that deal with them. Therefore, North American and European task forces have been developing recommendations for the management of these individuals. According to the World Health Organization (2006) the epidemiology of CHD in Saudi Arabia has not been determined. However, this group of patients has a peculiar anatomy and complications that will have a significant impact on their lives. As most early interventions have not been curative and approximately 50% of them might face further surgery and heart failure, as health professionals, we need to support the education of CHD patients; moreover we need to discuss lifestyle issues such as exercise, pregnancy, career planning, etc. These issues are often more important to patients and families than details about their disease. ACHD teams provide education to these patients and encourage them to create their own health files in order to make them proactive about their health. These teams have to establish a life-long partnership, particularly with young adults who are highly motivated and have excellent survival profile. Only through educated professionals and educated patients we will enable every CHD patient to enjoy their full potential life.

Sexuality, Activism, and Witness in the Anglican Communion: The 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops

The international Anglican Communion is a key site for struggles over the status of gays and lesbians within Christian churches. This article examines the forms that movements for gay and lesbian inclusion have taken in the Communion through an analysis of collective action at the 2008 Lambeth Conference, a central event in Anglicanism's institutional structure. The analysis builds on recent critiques of the state-centric orientation of much social movement research, arguing that intrareligious movements provide important sites for understanding contemporary processes of social change. Although prior accounts of the sexuality debates within Anglicanism have tended to provide relatively monolithic portrayals of a “gay rights lobby,” activists at Lambeth employed diverse and contested repertoires of action. Although some use was made of conspicuously oppositional protest, many campaigners framed their activities as forms of Christian witness emanating from within the boundary of Anglicanism (rather than the field of secular politics). Gay and lesbian groups sought to complicate overly binaristic notions of conservative (or traditional) versus liberal Christians, stressing aspects of their Christian orthodoxy and their commitment to patterns of lifelong partnership and monogamy. At a moment when many secular gay and lesbian organizations are taking more notice of religion, there is a need for future research to consider how gay and lesbian Christian movements will engage with and influence wider equality struggles.

Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature (review)

Reviewed by: Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature Elizabeth Bush Sullivan, George. Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature. Clarion, 2011. [208p.] illus. with photographs ISBN 978-0-547-18203-2 $20.00 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8. Baby Charles (Charley) S. Stratton did not appear destined to make a career of the "freak show" circuit in nineteenth century America. Though he weighed a normal nine pounds at birth, his growth stalled by age five; while the outgoing child coped quite well with his diminutive size, his stature was a cause of embarrassment for his older sisters and his future a cause of worry for his father. An introduction to P. T. Barnum, the notorious showman who had just riled his public with two wildly bogus attractions (the world's "oldest" woman and the Fejee Mermaid), set them both on the path to a successful, lifelong partnership. Barnum employed and mentored Stratton and, after naming him Tom Thumb, launched him to a height of stardom that wouldn't be seen again until the age of the Silver Screen. Sullivan follows the careers of both Stratton and Barnum, setting the display of human "oddities" into historical context, exploring the genuine respect between employer and entertainer, and emphasizing the cordial relationship that Tom Thumb developed with his audience through lectures and conversations. Insets on dwarfism appear early in the text, elucidating Tom Thumb's condition for readers without seriously interrupting the genial flow of the narration. Generous leading and a large stock of photographs and period reproductions will entice readers who shy away from longer works of nonfiction. Booktalk this with Candace Fleming's The Great and Only Barnum (BCCB 10/09) for a riff on celebrity—old school. [End Page 253] Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Marriage Today: Exploring the Incongruence Between Americans’ Beliefs and Practices

This paper provides a literature review of the incongruence between Americans’ beliefs and practices regarding marriage. In the United States, marriage is conceptualized as a monogamous, lifelong partnership. Yet American practices do not support this conceptualization, which is evidenced by infidelity and divorce rates that approximate 25-50 percent. This paper explores the incongruence and examines how cultural shifts in marital practices have contributed to higher rates of infidelity and divorce. Information is presented about the purpose of marriage, and attitudes and practices regarding infidelity and divorce. We present these topics using a sociohistorical context and describe how the nature of marriage has changed over time. It is argued that the purpose of marriage has shifted from being a social obligation to a choice based on personal fulfillment; and that this shift puts individuals at greater risk of infidelity and divorce. Throughout the paper, and particularly in the concluding section, we offer commentary about how the incongruence between marital beliefs and practices can be reconciled at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual levels.

Lifelong Learning and Social Partnership: A Comparative Overview of Twelve European Countries

The notion of ‘lifelong learning’ (LLL) has gained in importance in the European debates since the 1990s, together with the assumption that the social partners at European and national levels should be actively involved in harmonized policies in the field. The paper questions the possibility and potential for such an active involvement of national-level trade unions and employer organizations in European policies of LLL. Based on comparative empirical data collected in twelve Member States, the paper shows that social partnership in LLL seems to be a distant objective in a number of national cases, notably because there is no consensus on its aims, and because the national institutional context prevails in the determination of their role in education and training.

Neurorehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is a progressive long-term neurological condition that directly affects the lives of individuals with the condition, their family, and friends. The multiplicity of symptoms that may arise as a result of damage to the central nervous system means that the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial consequences are often wide-ranging, variable, and complex. Because the disease progresses at differing rates over several decades, the needs of the individual change over time, sometimes quite suddenly and unexpectedly. Effective management therefore requires taking a long-term and proactive multidisciplinary rehabilitation approach, which begins from the point of diagnosis and evolves as the disease progresses. Central to this educational process is the development of a life-long working partnership with the patients and their family to ensure interventions remain relevant to changing needs and circumstances throughout their lifetime.

Lifelong learning, partnership and modernization in the NHS

Lifelong learning, partnership and modernization in the NHS