Personal Exchange Research Articles

Use Language to Mean What You Say

Abstract: This reflective essay recounts two of my personal experiences with Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. My first encounter with her was in 2009 when I attended a class she taught on American Indian studies. I found her forthright in her teaching and in our personal exchange after the class. She said something to me that ended my lifelong inner struggle with my identity. What may have seemed inconsequential was actually a profound moment that helped me move forward to focus my writing on American Indian issues. My second encounter with her was a tense moment in the racist history of Rapid City, South Dakota. I attended a rally to call attention to the inordinate number of Lakota people killed by Rapid City's law enforcement. Twenty-four hours later, a Native male residing at Lakota Homes in Rapid City was shot and killed by a Rapid City police officer. Elizabeth and I attended a small gathering of concerned citizens to address the situation. Already familiar with her as a scholar, author, poet, and educator, I saw her that day as an activist.

Have You Heard?: How Gossip Flows Through Workplace Email

We spend a significant part of our lives chatting about other people. In other words, we all gossip. Although sometimes a contentious topic, various researchers have shown gossip to be fundamental to social life—from small groups to large, formal organizations. In this paper, we present the first study of gossip in a large CMC corpus. Adopting the Enron email dataset and natural language techniques, we arrive at four main findings. First, workplace gossip is common at all levels of the organizational hierarchy, with people most likely to gossip with their peers. Moreover, employees at the lowest level play a major role in circulating it. Second, gossip appears as often in personal exchanges as it does in formal business communication. Third, by deriving a power-law relation, we show that it is more likely for an email to contain gossip if targeted to a smaller audience. Finally, we explore the sentiment associated with gossip email, finding that gossip is in fact quite often negative: 2.7 times more frequent than positive gossip.

“Traces Devised Reminiscence”

One of the last performances Vertical City (Bruce Barton and Pil Hansen) created before moving from Toronto to Calgary was Trace, which premiered at the 2014 SummerWorks festival. Crafted in a compact and intense development process with close collaborators Michelle Polak and Martin Julien, Trace marked a subtle but defining moment in our artistic trajectory. Engaging participants in ways unconceivable in our present pandemic world, it was one of our most illuminating explorations of the potential for/in deeply intimate personal exchange between performers and audience members. Trace was built on, with, and through a process of spontaneous collective reminiscence-one perhaps only conceivable within SummerWorks’ combination of careful curatorial oversight and empowering artist autonomy. Adopting similar structural and aesthetic principles, this impressionistic three-way meandering reflects back on that experience. In the process, it renders a fittingly fragmented but deeply felt ode to SummerWorks’ distinctive blend of intention, intelligence, and opportunity.

Why this realtor®? Branding at Boyes Group Realty Inc. version: 2020-10-07

Theoretical basis The case learning objectives and discussion questions relate very closely to several theories related to branding, including brand positioning, brand growth, brand management, customer value proposition, brand matrix and brand identity. Research methodology The information provided in this case was gathered by the author through personal interviews and email exchanges with Jordan Boyes, managing broker and owner of Boyes Group Realty Inc. Secondary research was also conducted to gather relevant academic materials, as well as industry and competitor information. Case overview/synopsis Jordan Boyes opened Boyes Group Realty Inc. in 2015 after working as a Realtor® at another private realty firm in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for several years. They offered buying and selling services in the areas of commercial, residential and farm real estate. Over the past five years, they had experienced strong sales numbers and growth in the number of new agents joining the company. However, Boyes saw untapped potential in the marketplace and wanted to develop a brand strategy that took the best advantage of brand extension opportunities to drive the continued growth of his company. Complexity academic level This case is suitable at the undergraduate level for a branding course, marketing strategy course or services marketing course. The case is best used to apply the concept of developing brand identity and making strategic decisions in a service-based organization.

Organizational determinants of information transfer in palliative care teams: A structural equation modeling approach.

Several organizational factors facilitate or hinder information transfer in palliative care teams. According to past research, organizational factors that reduce information transfer include the inconsistent use of shared electronic patient files, frequent changes of healthcare staff, a lack of opportunities for personal exchange, and a lack of evaluation of collaborative processes. Insufficient information sharing between professionals can negatively impact patient safety, whereas studies have shown that some organizational factors improve collaboration between professionals and thus contribute to improved patient outcomes. The main purpose of this study is thus to investigate whether, and if so how, organizational factors contribute to successful information exchange in palliative care teams in Switzerland, while also accounting for the different care contexts of primary and specialized palliative care. A nationwide survey was aimed at medical professionals working in palliative care. In total, 379 participants (mean age = 49.8 years, SD = 10.3) were included in this study. Two main outcome variables were examined: healthcare providers’ satisfaction with information transfer in their team and their overall satisfaction with communication in their team. Hypotheses were tested by employing structural equation modeling. Findings revealed that the strongest predictors for effective information transfer in palliative care teams were sufficient opportunities for face-to-face meetings and supervision alongside feedback tools to improve collaborative practices and the application of guidelines and standards for collaboration. Face-to-face meetings were an even greater contributor to information transfer in specialized settings, whereas sharing the same work-based values with colleagues was considered more important in primary settings. Results from this study contribute to the existing literature elucidating how information transfer is facilitated in the field of palliative care. If proposed measures are implemented, this could possibly improve patient outcomes in palliative care. Furthermore, the findings can be useful for healthcare organizations and associations to make more efficient resource allocation decisions with the aim to optimize information transfer within the workforce.

Chances and Barriers of Online Problem-Based Learning (ePBL) for Advanced Training in the Healthcare Sector.

An online advanced training for professionals within the healthcare sector was developed including a problem statement to be solved following the steps of problem-based learning (PBL).The findings show that it is feasible to transfer PBL electronically (ePBL) where participants favoured the flexibility and time independency of ePBL. However, the evaluation revealed issues with the learning platform, insufficient technical conditions in the hospitals and a lack of personal exchange. Thus, ePBL offers advantages especially for advanced training in the healthcare sector but requires adaptations and the necessary technical prerequisites.

Ethics in times of physical distancing: virtual training of ethical competences.

Ethics teaching in medicine, nursing and other health care professions does not only consist of knowledge transfer that can be easily implemented digitally. Rather, it focuses on specific ethical competences (such as arguing and articulating one's own moral position) and attitudes (such as empathic patient orientation, critical self-reflection, and ambiguity tolerance), for whose development interactive formats are superior. Competence-oriented ethical learning goals are important for the development of professionalism, but require time, space and personal exchange. Due to contact restrictions and the widespread cancellation of (face-to-face) courses in the wake of the corona pandemic, ethics teaching was forced to keep its distance in many places, which posed great challenges. This article is based on an exchange of experiences from members of the working group ethik learning of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine about ethics teaching in times of physical distancing. Recommendations will be given on how ethical competence can be successfully taught in the context of exclusively digital teaching. Starting with the question what is at risk of being lost in digital teaching, the potentials of digital formats are explored and illustrated with concrete practical examples. Beyond ethics teaching, the article also aims to provide ideas and suggestions for other specialist and cross-sectional areas where interactive formats are central.

Digitalization of presence events in the COVID-19 pandemia - the lecturers' perspective.

Objective: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic a large part of attendance in medical education became impossible for reasons of disease control. Teachers had to switch to online courses at short notice. The associated developmental push of digital teaching methods, such as online teaching, has anticipated changes, some of which are tantamount to establishment. This study examines the experiences and effects of these changes from the teachers’ perspective.Methods: We conducted ten guideline-based anonymized e-mail interviews with lecturers of the Medical Faculty of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Questions were asked on the subject areas of advantages and disadvantages, teaching experience and the future of digital teaching. The qualitative evaluation was based on Mayring.Results: The assessment of the digitization of face-to-face courses could be described by the inductively formed categories “social aspects”, “methodological aspects”, “institutional aspects”, “technical aspects” and “temporal-spatial aspects”. These revealed in particular concerns about the lack of personal exchange, temporal-spatial advantages, technical barriers and disagreement about the future role of digital teaching.Conclusion: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face courses were replaced by online teaching, which is currently an accepted part of the curriculum. The results show, that teachers were able to implement the comprehensive ad-hoc digitization of theoretical courses well, although previously known problem areas were aggravated. Furthermore, a fundamental examination of the future role of digitized courses in medical education must take place.

COVID-19 as a chance for hybrid teaching concepts.

COVID-19 has turned the 2020 spring semester upside down. Three days before the start of the block week of the “Teamwork” module, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) announced the ban on live interaction, which made it impossible to conduct five days of practice in the simulation centre of the University Hospital of Zurich. But how can the teaching of all the learning objectives necessary for medical training be guaranteed during an exceptional situation with constantly changing conditions? In the case of the BSc Human Medicine at ETH Zurich (ETHZ), the answer is: Hybrid teaching.The field report “COVID-19 as a chance for hybrid teaching concepts” outlines how ETHZ switched to hybrid teaching within a very short time and how hospital placements were combined with video conferences. The qualitative surveys conducted at the end of the semester and the weekly quantitative surveys of students from March to June indicate the importance of personal exchange despite the ban on contact and that interactivity is possible even without physical proximity. An example from the autumn semester will also be used to show which aspects have proved to be successful and can therefore be retained.

와인학습이 지식수준과 와인소비만족도에 미치는 영향

This study looks at the current situation of domestic wine education in the growing wine market in Korea. The survey consisted of wine learning & knowledge level, satisfaction of consumption, education status, morphological characteristics of wine drinking and consumer demographic characteristics within the survey group. As a result of the Main Factor Analysis, there were 3 factors of wine education which were 'Wine concept learning', 'Wine experience learning', and 'Personal exchange'. wine knowledge level and consumption satisfaction were done by One Factor Analysis and each of them are the factors. Multiple Regression Analysis showed that ‘Wine concept learning’ had the strongest effect on the knowledge level. on the other hand, the ‘Personal exchange’ had the lowest. Simple Regression Analysis resulted in the knowledge level of the wine having a significant effect on satisfaction of consumption. Also, according to the result of Multiple Regression Analysis, ‘Wine concept learning’ and ‘Wine experience learning’ had great effects on satisfaction of consumption among three wine education factors while the 'Personal exchange' had the smallest effect. This result means the importance and necessity of wine learning and the necessity to organize the curriculum to emphasize the importance of wine labels as well during wine education programs in schools, businesses and work places. It is also important to include how to read wine labels in wine books or magazines. so, the public can interpret and understand the wine labels easier than before. It is necessary to consider the benefits of wine learning from the consumer's perspective. Wine learning leads to successful wine sales by helping consumers needs that they want to get some wine.

Digitalization within the MME study program - teaching and assessment of communicative and interprofessional skills in the Heidelberg module via video conference together with a virtual OSCE course.

Background: Due to the corona pandemic, we conducted the Heidelberg module of the Master of Medical Education (MME) study program, which focuses on teaching and assessment of communicative and interpofessional skills, digitally for the first time.Method: We outsourced the teaching to a pre-module phase in the weeks upfront. During the module week, the lecturers picked up again and deepened the topics and the participants created, revised and simulated a virtual OSCE course. Results/Conclusion: Evaluation and reflection of the module showed that the digital implementation including an OSCE examination can be an appropriate alternative to a classroom-based training. However, important elements of the MME program that provide networking possibilities and personal exchange can only be replicated in the digital environment to a limited extent. In the future, sensibly applied digital components can be used to enrich the study program.

Behind the Scenes of ESDR

Behind the Scenes of ESDR

The Comparison with International Historiography: the Turning Point of the Seventeenth Century

This article aims to examine the approaches adopted by Rosario Villari to seventeenthcentury history in the light of his relationships with scholars outside Italy. Villari’s works will be interpreted by consulting his correspondence housed at Fondazione Gramsci. It appears clear that his ideas on the complexity of the seventeenth century developed and matured in close connection with the contemporary international debate, just as it was fostered by intense scholarly and personal exchanges with French, British, American and Spanish historians. We have identified two important points in his career: the late 1960s, when he became interested in the comparative study in Europe of popular rebellions and social relationships in the rural setting; and, later, in the 1980s, when at Princeton his scholarly attention shifted from economic-social topics to political and cultural history. His last work – Un sogno di liberta – reflects this change in a problematic way.

Dedicated to a peptide chemist of few words and immense impact: Louis A. Carpino

Dedicated to a peptide chemist of few words and immense impact: Louis A. Carpino

BKMT Kota Jayapura Dalam Mengembangkan Majelis Ta’lim Tingkat Mesjid

BKMT Jayapura in carrying out its duties in fact there is still a majelis ta'lim has not been tracked by BKMT, even in the implementation of religious activities BKMT sometimes does not involve Majelis Ta'lim of Mosque level, so the contribution posed BKMT Jayapura is not yet felt. The research aims to determine the role of managers in developing the organization, the form of activities undertaken, and the inhibitory factor of activities conducted by BKMT Jayapura. The management of BKMT Jayapura is expected to be able to conduct communication with the founder of BKMT Jayapura so that the exchange process, understanding the information conducted between the Board with the founder of BKMT. The importance of norms communication, the value in the actions of its members conducting activities, there is no appreciation for managers who have a large contribution to the organization, planning the personnel, identifying the work, placing new members taken from the district level BKMT, implementing socialization on the new officers on the task, responsibility to be carried out. Training and development conducted for BKMT managers constraints of available funds, the contact between the board of BKMT Jayapura to know each other so as to facilitate managers interconnected, decision making is done individually, but some are done in a group. Decision making by the leadership of BKMT based on certain considerations, or based on the properties of its urgency, coordination is done if there is work done together, carrying out personal exchange between the managers in the body BKMT and with the caretaker in the province or BKMT at the district level.

Pareto-Efficient Solutions for Shared Public Good Provision: Nash Bargaining versus Exchange-Matching-Lindahl

We compare two cooperation mechanisms for consumer/producers of a public good: the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) and the Exchange-Matching-Lindahl (EML) solution, where each agent specifies her demand for and supply of the public good according to her personal exchange rate. Both mechanisms are Pareto-efficient. EML is equivalent to matching. In our specific model with linear or quadratic benefits and quadratic costs, EML and NBS are equivalent when there are two agents. With more than two agents, the high-benefit/low-cost agents are better off under EML. We also analyze outsourcing, where agent i can pay agent j to produce the amount that agent i promised to contribute. In our specific model, payments from high-cost to low-cost agents (and from high-benefit to low-benefit agents) are (usually) lower in EML than in NBS.

Defining and Defending a Progressive Market Square: Bringing Institutionalist Development Discourse in Line with the Reality of Post-Soviet Transition Experiences

:This article is a response to two crucial ideas about progressive institutional change: the first is J. Fagg Foster’s principle of “minimal social dislocation,” which asserts that socio-economic changes should be implemented gradually, to avoid unraveling the social fabric of the community; the second is Karl Polanyi’s principles of redistribution of rights and powers by relevant authorities and reciprocity, a symmetrical and highly personalized exchange system, which is likewise a protective mechanism that society employs against anonymity and disintegration brought about by unregulated market. Using lessons learned in the thirty-year transition to market in post-Soviet countries, this article argues that to commence progressive institutional change in the honesty- and transparency-resistant cultures of former Soviet states, impersonal exchange and impartial rule of law must be given far greater weight than personalization of contacts and continuation of cultural traditions.

The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity

The modern approach to the market as a place with autonomy depends on a certain view of money. According to that view, money is a neutral technology that expresses individual choices made about real goods and services. But the controversies over money that regularly arise in political communities reveal that money is far from a transparent medium. It is a legal project that structures economic activity. Money literally makes the market. The article extracts a definition of money from the most recent controversy over it. That controversy, the debate over safe assets, suggests that moneys overwhelmingly share a particular character: they are made of sovereign debt, short-term IOUs, that are enabled to act as cash by the sovereign who issues them. The article constructs a thought experiment to illuminate exactly why governments would create money according to this pattern. The experiment suggests, first, that governments gain enormous capacity when they convert in-kind obligations due to them into countable units that can be anticipated, spent, and levied. Second, governments benefit even more when they enable those units to circulate, a feat they manage by enforcing transactions in law – making money the default mode of payment for contracts, torts, property, and other transactions. That activity takes public authority into the intricacies of personal exchange, curating it in ways that condition its exercise. The article explores each of these qualities – the identity of money as sovereign debt and its enhancement as cash – because each of them represents a legal initiative that fundamentally reconfigures a society’s political economy. In that moment, money departs its reputation as a neutral technology and the market loses its claim as the product of private choice. To the contrary, economic exchange depends on a medium made in law and travels within the channels that medium enables through law.

Importance of Bilingual Textbook in Logistics for International Cooperation Between China and Russia

The economic progress of the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation is more dependent on improving the interaction of logistics professionals. Their communication through translators increases the transaction costs of interaction. To eliminate them and reduce the training time for Chinese and Russian logisticians who are able to solve professional problems without intermediaries through personal exchange of information. The traditional use for this English is not optimal. The situation when native speakers of two languages use the third language for communication leads to the fact that the conceptual fields of native speakers do not enrich each other and bind them to the third language, which makes it impossible to reveal the potential of the two languages in their direct interaction. It is proposed to use a Chinese-Russian bilingual textbook based on the parallel text method to train specialists in the field of logistics. Bilingual training expands the boundaries of thinking of a future specialist in the subject area, teaches him to see the essence of processes from the standpoint of different cultures. The theory of creating bilingual textbooks for subject areas as applied to any pair of languages is currently lacking. The features of the Russian and Chinese languages, as well as the characteristic features of the cultures of the two peoples, exacerbate the difficulties of solving the task. To accumulate empirical material, the authors of the article co-authored with Professor S. A. Uvarov was the first multivolume textbook in the history of Chinese and Russian—a bilingual on logistics, and his first volume was published. In a book prepared using the technology of "bilingua", the pages are divided into two columns. The first column contains text in one language, and the second contains text translation into another language. The practical use of the first volume of the textbook—Logistics Bilinguals has already shown the increased effectiveness of teaching Chinese students who are training at the Russian Baltic State Technical University, located in St. Petersburg in a joint program with Changchun University.

ASECS at 50: Interview with Susan S. Lanser

ASECS at 50:Interview with Susan S. Lanser Sarah Eron (bio) and Susan S. Lanser Many of us know Susan S. Lanser for her groundbreaking contributions to narratology, eighteenth-century studies, and queer & feminist theory. Amongst her many professional honors, she served as president of ASECS from 2017 to 2018 and is the 2020 recipient of the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to narrative studies. Now Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, English, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis, Lanser has also taught at the University of Maryland and Georgetown. She has produced several monographs and several more edited collections along with countless articles. Some of her influential works include: "Toward a Feminist Narratology" (1986), "Feminist Criticism, 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' and the Politics of Color in America" (1989), Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Cornell, 1992), "The Novel Body Politic" (2005), "Of Closed Doors and Open Hatches" (2012), and The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565–1830 (Chicago, 2014). For me, The Sexuality of History is a crowning moment in Lanser's ca-reer—mostly because of its impulse to do away with the notion of the closet. Lan-ser's sapphic history reveals an inspiring truth that resounds throughout the entire body of her work: those voices we have elided as repressed, closeted, or silenced have actually been there all along—out in the open platforms of history. They are the forces that have shaped modernity and literary form. The issue lies in their reception. What changes history are the readers who bear witness (or fail to bear witness) to the diverse ideologies and ontologies voicing themselves on the page. At stake here is how we read literature and textual documents. For Lanser, reading is part and parcel to history-making from her earlier work on culturally-embedded [End Page 351] point of view and feminist narratology to her more recent work on modernity and the sapphic. In her recent PMLA article, "Aging with Austen," Lanser addresses how we read the same texts differently across the decades depending on the cultural impulses and trends of the moment: "Reading over time, in this sense, may well mean using newer critical rubrics to hang on to old literary loves" (655). In this, she argues that interpretive communities shape, and even control, the ways that literary critics read. Reflecting on her career to date, Lanser writes: "A quiet thread through some of the scholarship I've produced since my late fifties asks whether novels have any effect in fomenting social change . . . (657)" For me, this thread is not so quiet. Rather, Lanser's oeuvre persistently points to the powers of reading, suggesting that how we read influences history. The implication serves as a warning to emergent generations of literary critics that the past is never far from our present. Ideology is always in the making and yet never divided from the historical nuances of literary form. In both her scholarship and her leadership, Lanser asks us to consider those voices that are yet unheard, to read between the lines in order to find a history constituted by diverse ethnicities, sexualities, and genders. Sarah Eron: What does ASECS mean to you? Sue Lanser: Ideally, ASECS enables sociability in the most active eighteenth-century sense of the term, which puts conversation at its core. I experience the annual meeting as a space of intellectual, professional and personal exchange that makes me better at how I think and what I do. It offers a forum for taking our collective pulse: for reflecting on the state of the field and the profession, for trying out new ideas and responding to the new ideas of our colleagues, for testing theories and discovering scholarly resources. Innovative projects often emerge from both formal sessions and informal conversations; co-authorships and co-editorships get started; plans for panels emerge in conversations that transpire from one year to the next. Research tells us that the most generative intellectual situation is not that of the scholar working in isolation but the sparking that takes place in a pair or a group. At its best, then, ASECS offers me—and I hope, most of...