Marriage Of Convenience Research Articles

Health informatics and evidence-based medicine - more than a marriage of convenience?

The importance of informatics in healthcare is more than just a consequence of rapid information technology (IT) developments over the last couple of decades. Informatics-related activities are located at the very heart of healthcare and involve biomedical sciences, computer sciences and healthcare policy and management. Evidence based medicine (EBM) may be defined as the explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The key principles of EBM - from finding, appraising and using research-based knowledge, to establishing systems for managing medical knowledge and promoting and facilitating evidence-based decisionmaking - have parallel informatics functions. Benson has described these as knowledge browsing, messagingand counting.Health informatics can be described as the very engine room driving EBM. As a consequence of this health informatics is embroiled in an intense social and medical dialogue about the very basis of scientific method, theory and practice of medicine.

Principe de précaution et souci éthique : un mariage de raison ?

Precautionary principle and ethical concern: a marriage of convenience? Taking as example the representative case of the genetically modified organisms, this article proposes a clear chart of the interrelations between scientific development, technological innovations, socio-economical and political aspects that form the basis of the application results partly from the reduction procedures (scientific modelling). Even though characteristic for scientific approach, the procedures depend to some extent on the social context of the moment. While including social aspects to some proposed models, they could contradict each other and give rise to social controversies that surround the application of the precautionary principle. Such a circumstance is something to take into consideration during the ethical reflection that is inevitably associated to the determination of the precautionary measures to be adopted. Principe de précaution et souci éthique : un mariage de raison ? Prenant appui sur le cas emblématique des organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM), cet article propose un tableau synoptique des relations imbriquées entre avancées scientifiques, innovations technologiques, aspects socio-économiques et politiques qui sous-tendent l'application du principe de précaution. L'indétermination scientifique qui préside à cette application provient pour une part de procédures de réduction (de modélisation), certes propres à la démarche scientifique, mais toujours reliées d'une manière ou d'une autre au contexte social du moment et aux représentations du monde en vigueur. Incluant pour certaines d'entre elles des aspects sociaux, les modélisations proposées pourront s'avérer concurrentes et alimenter ainsi la controverse sociale qui se développe autour des applications du principe de précaution. Une telle contingence est un préalable à prendre en compte dans le questionnement éthique inévitablement associé à la détermination des formes de précaution qui seront adoptées.

Dovetailing peace: technological convergence in the defence and aerospace industries

Military technology is traditionally shrouded in secrecy. Even joint research between allies can be a marriage of convenience. But with the end of the Cold War and greater European integration, the technological landscape is changing, and a closer interface is emerging between military and civilian technologies. A worldwide stagnation in defence spending is accelerating the take‐up of commercial off‐the‐shelf technologies, while in the aerospace sector, the factors of safety and the environment are becoming at least as important as cost.

Sexuality and Attachment: a Passionate Relationship or a Marriage of Convenience?

The ubiquitous and persistent bodily urges of sexuality and their vicissitudes are explored in this paper, focusing on the complex relationship between libidinal desire and the attachment system, especially the latter’s affect-regulating function. This complicated interrelationship is highlighted with clinical vignettes. Implications for transference and countertransference are explored in the discussion of affect regulation and its possible sexual entwining. Clinical data is presented to highlight the plasticity of sexuality. Sexuality’s protean nature allows for a reassessment of the case of Little Hans, with emphasis on the unique interconnections between sexuality and the vital need for an attachment relationship. Stressing such interconnections raises important questions about the traditional concept of psychosexual stages.

Management of Religious Conflict In Nigeria: The Form Of Government Intervention.

The Nigeria State is a product of marriage of convenience by the colonial master. It is composed of heterogeneous groups with uncompromising identity struggle at the detriment of a nation state. The elite and the political class have continued to champion the subversive treats of ethnicity, tribal and religious bigotry, thereby making it difficult to have a way out of the social and persistent armed conflicts among the various communities in Nigeria. The present mechanism of managing conflicts by the government has not yielded any changes but has rather aggravated the rate and preponderance of armed conflict in the country. This paper examined the regional perception of Nigeria on religion and the form of government intervention in conflicts. Institutional frameworks that will promote the use of other options apart from force were recommended. IFE PsychologIA Volume 9 no 3, 2001, pp. 59-70

A Marriage of Convenience? Domestic and Foreign Policy Reasons for the 1943 Soviet Church‐State 'Concordat'

(2000). A Marriage of Convenience? Domestic and Foreign Policy Reasons for the 1943 Soviet Church‐State 'Concordat' Religion, State and Society: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 337-346.

Lee Smith and the Bronte Sisters

Early in her recent book Lee Smith, Dorothy Combs Hill names Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Spencer, Katherine Anne Porter, and Virginia Woolf as among the early inspirations who taught Smith that she could write out of female experience (8). My purpose here is demonstrate that Charlotte and Emily Bronte are also among the most important inspirations for Smith's work. will begin with some of Smith's more obvious--if less significant--connections with the Brontes and build up what believe be the most important relationship: that between Smith's Oral History (1983) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847). The most readily apparent examples of Smith's use of the Brontes are, however, the several references in Fair and Tender Ladies (1988) Charlotte: Bronte's Jane Eyre. Smith's protagonist letter writer Ivy Rowe, who, like Jane Eyre, is writing kind of autobiography, reports when in her mid-teens, I am reading grate book Jane (86); and she draws on this reading for terminology and images that allow her impose some shape and definition on the powerful emotions she is beginning experience, emotions that sometimes startle and frighten her. When Jane Eyre is undergoing her ordeal of deciding whether or leave Rochester, she says that a of iron grasped my vitals. Terrible moment: full of struggle, blackness, burning! (278) Ivy borrows and employs this fiery hand image at least half-dozen times, describe both the height of feeling she experiences at religious meeting (A of fire clutched me in the stomach ..., was the of God almighty [102]) and the physical passion aroused in her by the young man Lonnie Rash (When he kissed me felt that firey as always [118]). In her anxiety and confusion over her feelings for Lonnie, fearing that she may be going crazy and in danger of a complete nervous breakdown like Jane Eyre when she got shut up in the Red Room (104), Ivy is drawing on another of the powerful scenes in Jane Eyre, scene in which the child Jane is subjected by her cruel guardian frightening and permanently scarring emotional experience. Later Ivy uses Jane's great for Rochester as measure of her own for Lonnie Rash and finds the latter wanting, not stop the heart (113). Smith again draws on Jane Eyre, this time with no indication of the source, in setting up Ivy Rowe's relationship the Boston missionary Miss Torrington, who, recognizing Ivy's gifts, would take her out of the hills be educated for calling. There are close parallels here Jane Eyre's situation with the sternly religious cousin St. John Rivers, who would make missionary of Jane and even have her enter with him into loveless marriage, entirely against her own nature and inclinations. Rivers and Miss Torrington are, for example, given quite similar physical descriptions. Both appear cold and hard like piece of sculpture, he like an antique statue, she like cameo; he with marble-seeming features (323), high forehead, colorless as ivory, and ... large and blue (303), she with face ... carved in pure white marble (1045), forehead ... wide and white, big deep eyes ... dark blue (100). In addition, St. John Rivers and Miss Torrington alike threaten their charges with the displeasure of God if they do use their talents as the adviser wishes: Rivers warns Jane that she must turn to profit the talents which God has committed your keeping and of which He will surely one day demand strict account (344); and Miss Torrington tells Ivy that it is sin ... if we do use our talents that God has given us ... may be the greatest sin of all (105). Both Jane and Ivy are also offered love that they consider counterfeit (Jane the marriage of convenience with Rivers and Ivy lesbian relationship with Miss Torrington); and both finally reject these somewhat dubious apostles of the higher calling and return their earthly lovers, Jane Rochester and Ivy Lonnie Rash. …

Seven‐Eleven Japan and The Southland Corporation: a marriage of convenience?

Sparks, in a case study of the takeover of The Southland Corporation (USA) by Ito‐Yokado and Seven‐Eleven Japan, raised a number of fundamental questions about the nature of retail internationalisation and our understanding of the subject. This paper returns to this subject and, using an analysis of the changes in both businesses since the takeover, again explores our depth of comprehension of the processes of retail internationalisation. The changes in The Southland Corporation since 1991 have essentially replicated the Japanese convenience store model and produced a business turnaround. This illustrates both the depth and length of components of internationalisation. The stage is now set for the global transformation of the business.

Ethics, Integrity, Compliance and Accountability in Contemporary UK Government–Business Relations – Till Death Do Us Part

This paper takes as its main themes the impact of public choice theory and the impact of Thatcherism and the rise of public management on the delivery of public services. These themes have created, according to a Chief Executive of a Regional Health Authority, the need ‘to learn new disciplines of commercial relationships and competitive tendering and so on, and at the same time . . . remember the very important traditional public service values; and that is not an easy combination’. Whether the relationship with business has been a temporary affair, a marriage of convenience or a marriage until death do us part, business and business practices have had significant implications for the dominant morality now prevailing in the delivery of public services.

Japan's Search for Political Stability: The LDP-New Komeito Alliance

Research Article| November 01 1999 Japan's Search for Political Stability: The LDP-New Komeito Alliance Daniel A. Metraux Daniel A. Metraux Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1999) 39 (6): 926–939. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021146 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Daniel A. Metraux; Japan's Search for Political Stability: The LDP-New Komeito Alliance. Asian Survey 1 November 1999; 39 (6): 926–939. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3021146 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1999 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

O56. Emergency and forensic medicine: a marriage of convenience

O56. Emergency and forensic medicine: a marriage of convenience

Jews and the Conservative Rift (review)

American conservatism was enveloped in a mood of doubt and angst during the 1980s and 1990s precisely at the time when its message had seemingly never resonated more strongly. These two decades saw a worldwide movement liberating markets from governmental restrictions, even among countries identifying themselves as socialist; the dissolution of the Soviet empire and the end of the Cold War; and widespread disillusionment with the Great Society reforms of the 1960s. During these years, however, conservative thinkers were increasingly somber rather than exultant. Part of the reason for this gloom was a long, bitter, and multifaceted struggle within the conservative camp over the meaning of conservatism and the identity of the rightful heirs of the conservative legacy. At times it seemed that conservatives believed their most notable enemies to be fellow conservatives. Despite the widely held perception that Jews, and particularly Jewish intellectuals, were people of the Left, Jews played an important role in this conflict. One of the most important of the recent intraconservative rumbles has been between two small but influential groups of conservative intellectuals--the traditionalists, or "paleoconservatives" as they frequently were called, and the "neoconservatives." While there were few Jews among the paleos, Jews comprised a majority of the most significant neoconservative thinkers, and Jews edited Commentary and Public Interest, the two most important neoconservative magazines. No group of conservative thinkers "had ever come close to carrying as sizable a Jewish imprint as the neoconservatives," wrote Seth Forman, a young historian. For the first time in American history, "an identifiable group of well placed and influential Jewish thinkers had exhibited a willingness to reorder the priorities of American Jews and to suggest in the strongest terms that Jewish well-being might not necessarily be tied to . . . progressive social and political forces of any kind." The rift between the paleoconservatives and the neoconservatives cannot be fully explained without considering the Jewish dimension of neoconservatism. Although it appeared to outsiders to be a tempest in a teapot, this rift is an important chapter in the history of recent American conservatism in general and the American Jewish conservative intelligentsia in particular. 1 [End Page 195] The hostility between the paleocons and neocons, which went back as far as the 1970s, was intensified in 1980 when the election of Ronald Reagan raised the stakes in the struggle over the conservative patrimony. A conservative government was now in power in Washington, headed by a man who thought of himself as a conservative and was interested in conservative ideas; conservative think-tanks were anxious to provide employment for right-thinking intellectuals; and conservative foundations, awash in cash, were eager to assist in this new era of conservative governance. The neoconservative and traditionalist rivalry, which had largely involved policy differences, now also became a struggle over political and academic appointments, grants from the major conservative foundations, and other emoluments. In this more hospitable environment for conservatives, the question as to what conservatism was all about and who were the true keepers of the conservative flame became more important. Another factor in intensifying the paleocon-neocon rivalry was the collapse of communism in Europe. The fear of communism had been the single most important element unifying the notoriously fractious conservative movement. With the lifting of the Iron Curtain in Europe in 1989 and with the end of communism in Russia in 1991, conservative ideologues now had the luxury of focusing their attention on the supposed heretics within conservative ranks. And as foreign policy became less prominent on the conservative agenda, the social and cultural issues which had divided the neconservatives and the traditionalists became more important. For some paleoconservatives, their union with the neoconservatives had always been a marriage of convenience. Now it was time for a divorce. In 1966 Jeffrey Hart, a traditionalist conservative, had anticipated and welcomed the emergence of neoconservatism. Hart, a professor of literature at Dartmouth College, predicted in The American Dissent, published during the heyday of the New Left and the counterculture, that...

Female Illness And Male Heroism: The Works Of Caroline Von Wolzogen

The heroines of Caroline von Wolzogen’s works frequently fall ill. Although not overtly critical of women’s subordinate position in society, Wolzogen suggests through these (mainly psychosomatic) illnesses the stresses endured by women as a result of their limited scope for action and of autocratic treatment by male characters. Wolzogen herself suffered from what she called a ‘Nervenkrankheit’, a psychosomatic condition that seems to have originated in her frustration as an intellectually gifted women confined in a marriage of convenience. The restric‐tedness of her heroines’ freedom is emphasised by her clear admiration for the heroic, a mode of action normally open only to men, in which mind and body can work in harmony; in her dramatic fragment Der leukadische Fels she experiments with a classical setting to open up heroic action to a female character. Her admir‐ation for her brother‐in‐law, Friedrich Schiller, is shown by her heroic portrayal of his struggle against illness in her biography Schillers Leben. Though she depicts Schiller’s world after his marriage as a harmonious community of like‐minded people in which contemporary ideals of femininity are fulfilled, her creative work offers insights into the unhappiness occasioned by women’s lack of liberty and status.

A history of popular women's magazines in the United States, 1792-1995

Introduction Women's Magazines, 1792-1918 Birth of the Big Six Leaders in the Field Editing the Women's Magazines Marriage of Convenience: Advertising and Women's Magazines What They Were Reading: Content in Women's Magazines, 1890-1918 Women's Magazines, 1919-1945 Women's Magazines in the Interwar Years Targeting Readers Creating the Women's Magazines Attracting Advertising Content in the Interwar Years World War II Women's Magazines, 1946-1995 Big Six to Seven Sisters New Contenders Epilogue Collections Used Bibliography Index

Negotiating with Chinese: a cultural perspective

Talks about the cultural aspects of negotiating in China and compares this with Western approaches. Focuses on cultural factors (and the dominant role of Confucianism), followed by steps in the negotiating process. Explains Confucian ethics and how that translates into everyday behaviour of how to treat and address other people. Points out that the Chinese will only do business with people they know and trust, so the importance of first building good personal relationships cannot be overstated. Suggests ways to make a good first impression, including attending banquets and other social occasions, although that opens up a further behavioural minefield. Recommends viewing doing business with the Chinese as a marriage contract based on old‐fashioned courting, rather than in the West, where entering a business relationship could be deemed the equivalent of a marriage of convenience.

The “Fourth Part” ofPediatrics: 50 Years of Display Advertising

The uncertain romance between scholarly journals and the drug industry has long been like a marriage of convenience between partners who become friends ultimately, not because they were very fond of each other originally, but because they needed each other.1 From the very beginning, advertising revenue was a major motivation to establish a journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a major focus of the board of directors. The first editor, Dr Hugh McCulloch, proclaimed that “ Pediatrics will consist of four divisions; the fourth division is advertising.”2 Until the late 1970s, this was all display advertising or advertising prepared by advertising agencies in camera-ready format. Classified advertising was introduced later, but a discussion of this form of advertising is not included in this article. I examined a convenience sample of 50 years of display advertising in Pediatrics as well as AAP board minutes, committee reports, and other related documents. A brief questionnaire tapped the memories of a select group of 68 physicians and scientists in academic pediatrics and office-based pediatric practice, and those involved with the AAP, and assessed their reactions to advertising in Pediatrics . Before the establishment of Pediatrics in 1948, the Journal of Pediatrics , owned by CV Mosby Company, St Louis, MO, was the official journal of the AAP. The board determined that “there should be more money accruing to it from the Journal [ of Pediatrics ].”3 One option was to revise the agreement with Mosby. Although he acknowledged that, with one exception, he made more money from the Journal of Pediatrics than from any other, Mosby refused to open his books to the AAP. He also made it clear that “the Journal of Pediatrics is not for sale.”4 The board's alternative was to create a new …

The killing spree

Behind the recent massacres In Algeria lies a darker struggle: war between the rival clans of the military government, one now in a marriage of convenience with the armed wing of the banned Islamic Salvation Front, the other fighting to ensure its for survival behind a democratic facade

The Whitlam Labor Government: Barnard and Whitlam: A Significant Historical Dyad

On 8 February 1967 Gough Whitlam was elected Federal Labor leader with Lance Barnard as his deputy. It was beginning of a remarkable partnership that was most aptly illustrated by celebrated duumvirate, the smallest government... since brief Wellington Administration of 1834, when Whitlam and Barnard assumed government as a two-man ministry in December 1972. It was, however, a close relationship that went back to when they first entered Parliament. Friendship is a delicate bloom which flourishes only rarely in jungle of politics and Whitlam-Barnard connection was that seemed to transcend usual political marriage of convenience, persisting beyond inevitable tensions, and generating a unique and historically significant alliance, characterised by Kelly as one of most successful in recent years in Australian politics.

A Marriage of Convenience: Business and Social Work in Toronto, 1918-1957.

A Marriage of Convenience: Business and Social Work in Toronto, 1918-1957.

Lawrence Weinbaum, A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government

Lawrence Weinbaum, <i>A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government</i>