True Style Research Articles

WORK TIME AND WORK STYLE REFORM AMONG PHYSICIANS IN JAPAN

Background: The April 2019 amendment of the Labor Standards Act in Japan led to a current ongoing work style reform. The amendment set the monthly overtime cap at 100 hours, but physicians are exempt for the next five years. The work style reform for physicians aims to ensure both their health and well-being and to provide appropriate community medicine. From April 2024, the maximum overtime permitted for physicians will be 100 hours a month and 960 hours a year. Community medicine hospitals, however, will have a different time limit and their physicians will be allowed to work up to 100 hours a month and 1,860 hours a year overtime. Junior/senior residents can also apply for exemption by registering for accredited training programs. Exempt physicians are required to comply with additional measures to ensure their good health and well-being.
 Objectives: This paper proposes promotion strategies for work style reform for physicians in Japan.
 Method: The Japan Medical Association Physicians’ Work Style Reform Committee developed proposals using the Delphi methods.
 Results: To manage physicians’ work time, an objective understanding of real work conditions, a review of employment agreements, active use of occupational health teams, task shifting, support for female physicians, and KAIZEN (a Japanese business philosophy) activities are important. The roles fulfilled by occupational health physicians, hospital directors, supervisors, physicians, patients, and community medicine systems are summarized from the perspective of comprehensive management.
 Conclusions: The Japanese health care system defines the work style of Japanese physicians. However, physicians as highly specialized professionals can more or less choose any workplace. A physician being aware of their characteristics and independently choosing their own work style would give meaning to an appropriate work–life balance. True work style reform should aim for this.

The creative personality of Grigory Sokolov in the piano art of the XX–XXI centuries

The creative personality of Grigory Sokolov in the piano art of the XX–XXI centuries

Work Insecurity and Compensation on Turnover Intention Mediated by the Job Satisfaction of Employees

Among the challenges companies must face is to reduce the intensity of employee turnover. Companies need to improve and implement policies that can minimize turnover. The purpose of this study is to examine and explain the influence of job insecurity, compensation, and job satisfaction on turnover intention and examine the mediating role of job satisfaction in the influence of job insecurity and compensation on turnover intention. This research is quantitative associative research conducted at PT. True Partner Style. The total population is 98 employees with a sample of 79 employees. The data were obtained through a questionnaire using the 5-point Likert scale. The data analysis technique used was SEM-PLS. The results revealed that job insecurity has a positive and significant influence on turnover intention, compensation and job satisfaction has a negative influence on turnover intention, job insecurity has a negative influence on job satisfaction, compensation has a positive influence on job satisfaction, and job satisfaction was able to partially mediate the influence of job insecurity and compensation on turnover intention.

РАННЕЕ ТВОРЧЕСТВО И.В. ЖОЛТОВСКОГО КАК ЧАСТНЫЙ СЛУЧАЙ КОНСТРУИРОВАНИЯ КЛАССИКИ В ЭПОХУ МОДЕРНИЗМА

I.V. Zholtovsky’s (1867–1959) the earliest works are traditionally considered by researchers like a sort of marginalia in his professional biography, although it is reasonable to assume that he was formed as an architect just during the pre-revolutionary period. According to S.O. Khan-Magomedov, Zholtovsky was engaged in something like laboratory experiments in 1900–1910s, selecting the forms and techniques that were most perfect from an artistic point of view. However, that process should be viewed not so much in the plane of abstract artistic quality as in the context of stylistic searches of the early 20th century aimed at overcoming eclecticism. It is usually to associate those searches with Art Nouveau, but in Russia the idea of acquiring a true style was embodied in neoclassic tendency. The new classical architecture as a phenomenon was built against the background of the steady modernization of the society and culture, so that the talking about the revival of the historical traditions had a small relation to reality. The originality of the aesthetic choice became truly significant in architecture, and Zholtovsky’s radical Palladianism, based not on approximate imitation of the classics, but on the exact quotation of famous villas and palazzo, fully corresponded to the trend.

From Scotland to India: the Sources of James Fergusson’s Theory of Architecture’s “True Styles”

James Fergusson’s (1808-86) books on architectural history were widely read in Britain, America, India and Australia. He was born in the Scottish town of Ayr and educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. Family connections made it possible for him to work and travel in India between 1829 and 1839. Fergusson wrote notes on a vast array of the country’s antiquities. He began publishing this material in London during the 1840s and completed a comprehensive survey of the subject in 1876, the History of Indian and Eastern Styles of Architecture. For him, each Indian architectural style was classified according to its region and period, as well as the religion and race of the builders. This essay considers the Scottish background for Fergusson’s writings of India, particularly as set out in letters and a diary, written during his journeys within the country. He discerned an ideal, in which the arts of agriculture and architecture are similarly practiced in a logical manner. Fergusson was especially impressed by the way workers in India respected common sense when constructing and adorning a building. Such an edifice was described as “pure”; and conformed to his mature definition of a “true style” of architecture.

The Presence of Style Drift in Active Mutual Funds: Evidence from China

Fund managers’ style drift behaviour alters fund risks and may have an impact on fund performance that is detrimental to fund investor’s interest. This paper is a first study on the existence and effects of style drift in the fast growing fund management industry in China. It provides a fine-grained analysis of China’s open-end equity funds based on our fund classifications that accurately reflect the true style of each fund whose name, objective, strategy, philosophy and prospectus are all manually analysed for drift detection. Employing a holding-based methodology and using a unique Chinese dataset, we find evidence of style drift in China. The behaviour is found regardless of fund age. We also examine whether style drift is influenced by fund characteristics and investment timeframe. Our findings offer a new approach in addressing the issue of style drift with evidence providing new insights on fund performance evaluation and design of fund managers’ compensation.

Inspiration, innovation and integration: highlights from the third ICPCN conference on children's palliative care, 30 May to 2 June 2018, Durban, South Africa.

The International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) held its third international conference on children’s palliative care in Durban, South Africa, from May 30 2018 to 2 June 2018. The conference—inspiration, innovation and integration—brought together 250 participants from 41 countries and was held in conjunction with local partners—Umduduzi Hospice Care for Children, Palliative Treatment for Children South Africa (Patch SA) and the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of South Africa. It built on national and global developments in palliative care such as its inclusion in Universal health coverage (UHC), the Lancet Commission report on pain and palliative care and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and aimed to raise the profile of children’s palliative care in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and nationally. Seven pre-conference workshops were held prior to the conference on topics such as pain and symptom management, children’s palliative care within a humanitarian crisis, perinatal palliative care, research, developing programmes, ethical issues and difficult conversations in children’s palliative care. Delegates were welcomed in true Durban style at the welcome reception hosted by the City of Durban and uShaka Marine World. The opening plenary included entertainment from the Open Air School and Hillcrest Primary School, and inspirational talks from the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health, a representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Chief Executive of ICPCN and the Noble Peace Prize Nominee Dr MR Rajagopal from Pallium India. Plenary sessions were interspersed throughout the conference with 56 oral concurrent presentations and workshops, six ‘Meet the expert sessions’ 100 poster presentations and the South African Premier of the film ‘Hippocratic: 18 Experiments in gently shaking the world’. There was a great feeling of networking and learning throughout the conference, with the conference being well evaluated, and an increase in the level of presentations and research from previous conferences demonstrating the steps that are being taken in children’s palliative care globally.

A Brief Survey on the Contribution of Mirka Miller to the Security of Statistical Databases

This survey directs its focus, not on the history of security in statistical databases, but on the contribution of Mirka Miller to this field. It begins with her early work in her PhD thesis in which she formalised the varieties of compromise, introduced a new compromise, the relative compromise, and classified supplementary knowledge. It follows on to include her innovative work in employing combinatorial concepts to formulate the bounds of usability of Audit Expert in both the absolute and relative compromise. It finishes in true Mirka style, leaving the reader with open problems and directions in which this area might progress.

Masked men: hacktivism, celebrity and anonymity

In her 1991 article ‘Signs of Melodrama’ Christine Gledhill provocatively claimed that the Hollywood star system descended from the stage melodrama’s ‘drive to realise in personal terms social and ethical forces’. The disguise is a melodramatic convention, concealing the true personality revealed in the narrative, as the melodrama reveals hidden moral truths. Approaching contemporary celebrity through this dramatic mode, this article considers the unmasking of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden in three recent films, We Steal Secrets, The Fifth Estate and Citizenfour. In true melodramatic style, the films’ presentation of state violence and surveillance is rapidly displaced by moral studies of these three ‘hacktivists’. Drawing on melodrama and genre studies as a methodological approach to studying these films, I trace the mask back to Alan Moore’s anti-melodrama V for Vendetta. This article proposes celebrity studies would be well served by paying closer attention to the political efficacy of celebrity’s opposite: anonymity.

A new western Atlantic species of Didiscus Dendy, 1922 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Halichondrida) with a key to the species of the genus

Didiscus gladiussp. nov. is described from Bahia State (Brazil). The sponge is thinly encrusting to lump-shaped and has a glassy, translucent appearance, through which the spiculation is clearly visible. The megascleres are styles and two categories of oxeas. The microscleres are discorhabds. Colour is beige or brown in ethanol.Didiscus verdensisis the nearest relative in the Atlantic which differs from the new species in a series of traits (e.g. absence of true styles and presence of strongyles). A key to species ofDidiscusis given.

An American hedge fund in Japan: Exploring the role of investor relations as a form of false signalling

Focusing on the case of Shinsei Bank Limited, this article explores the role of Investor Relations (IR), which has become a major activity among large Japanese firms. This is an iconic case of the recent, controversial, intrusion of Shareholder Value Added (SVA) management into corporate Japan since the bank’s takeover by an American investment fund, Ripplewood Holdings LLC. Qualitative interview data with current and former employees of Shinsei demonstrate that drastic changes to corporate form and practice have occurred since the takeover. However, although Shinsei’s public claims were based around a move towards SVA management, the actual processes of the restructuring do not, in reality, seem to be genuinely associated with SVA. The bank’s IR act as a form of ‘false signalling’ intended to hide an undisclosed business model: effectively a form of ‘narrative management’ used to obscure their true style of restructuring. Interestingly, this smoke-screening did not work effectively, and criticism from employees and outsiders became severe.

What’s Hidden in Gravity Falls: Strange Creatures and the Gothic Intertext

What’s Hidden in Gravity Falls: Strange Creatures and the Gothic Intertext

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Air Brian Phillip Whalen (bio) I’d lost the electric inflater, so I sat opposite my father on the hard-wood floor while we took turns blowing air into the rubber nipple. The more the mattress amplified, the faster air escaped. To offset the pressure lost, we inhaled deeper and blew harder and before we knew it we were feeling pretty high. “In Nam,” my father said, hugging the mattress with his tree-trunk arms, “They dropped me from twelve-thousand feet with nothing but a bed sheet.” He huffed and puffed and slid the mattress to me. I said, “I hope they let you keep the sheet.” “Get a job,” he said, “and maybe you could buy a spare set for when your old man visits.” I tried not to think about my father’s slobber while I blew into the nipple. “Hey,” my father asked, “Are you feeling light-headed?” “Do I look old enough to be wearing shorts designed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?” The mattress was a game of pong between us, a rubber lung receiving and releasing air with every pass. “True style never fades,” my father answered, adjusting his elastic waist and cotton headband. “Only sanity,” I said. My father blew and handed me the mattress, wet with arm-sweat. It was 110 degrees outside. “When I caught touchdowns back in college,” he said, “I did back flips in the end zone.” I bit the nipple with my teeth but air slipped out. I was in fact a little dizzy. I couldn’t catch my breath. “No, Dad, that was Uncle Skip.” And it was Skip, my father’s older brother, who went to Vietnam. My father was, it’s true, in the airborne division, but he jumped from helicopters, not planes, and never from more than a few hundred feet. He was too young for the draft, and the war was over by the time he’d joined the infantry. But Uncle Skip enlisted in his junior year, and no amount of back flips could land him back in Jersey. He died over enemy lines. “I’m high as a kite!” my father cried. His laughter came in bursts, his tired lungs intaking air before he had a chance to blow it out again. Crying, I let go of the mattress and it flew like a balloon around the room, and we waved our arms as if we could touch it. [End Page 12] Brian Phillip Whalen Brian Phillip Whalen is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University at Albany, NY. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Iowa State University. His work most recently appears or is forthcoming in Blueline, The Chattahoochee Review, Chautauqua, Cutbank, the Newer York, PANK, and Rhino. Copyright © 2014 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

Alignment of Teaching Style to Learning Preferences: Impact on Student Learning

The learning outcome can be effective if the students practice study habits according to their learning styles. Students can also learn best when teaching methods match their learning style. The present study tries to unearth the possibility of relationship between the teaching style and learning preferences of the students through the application of VARK inventory and is also interested in finding out whether the students carry out study habits as per their learning preferences. The study relies on the VARK inventory to assess learning styles. Many a times there is no alignment between the teaching style of the teachers and the learning preferences of the students due to which the learning will hardly be effective. Also, students will not know their true learning styles and study in a manner their peers are studying which actually may not bring out productive performance from them. There is less correlation between the learning style of the students identified through VARK and learning style identified by self. Though there is no relationship between learning style of the students and the study habits with the performance of the students in the three examinations, namely SSLC, PUC and University exams. No learning style is superior as it hardly plays a role in influencing the performance of the students. This study reiterates that understanding one's learning style makes the learning effective and meaningful.

Cytological and mapping analysis of a novel male sterile type resulting from spontaneous floral organ homeotic conversion in marigold (Tagetes erecta L.)

A male sterile line was isolated in marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) and cytological analysis determined this to be a novel genic male sterility trait (Tems). Through the use of amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) and bulked segregant analysis (BSA), tightly linked markers of Tems were identified with a view towards a map-based cloning strategy. It was found that spontaneous homeotic conversion of floral organs was the underlying cause of the male sterility in this marigold line. Thus, petals of male sterile plants resembled sepal-like structures and the stamens were partially converted to styles, although without the full characteristics or function of the true style organs. We have constructed a fine marker-based map for the Tems gene. This is intended to provide a tool for marker assisted selection (MAS) strategies in hybrid breeding and map-based cloning strategies for the male sterility locus. We discuss the significance of this spontaneously derived genic male sterility trait relating to the homeotic conversion of floral organs in marigold.

Activity theory and small-scale interventions in schools

The five papers in this special issue are tackling head-on some of the problems faced by researchers who try to engage with school practices so that research-based understandings can inform those practices and so that educational research may be grounded in what matters in schools. Motivation for working with schools varies from trying to change practices to trying to do better research. One suggestion, for example, is that closer links between research and practice can enable researchers to work alongside practitioners, become jointly aware of their anticipations and develop research programs which take forward both practice and social science (Edwards et al. 2007). The papers in this issue reflect a wide selection of the reasons given by researchers for working with schools; and they provide detailed evidence of the micro-processes of this engagement and the challenges they reveal for researchers, teachers, and learners. The five studies are all interventions which aim at influencing the pedagogic practices of schools, and to different degrees most of the studies are also concerned with research outcomes and the learning of the university students who are involved in the interventions. The papers therefore present multiple purposes, of varying priority, over different timescales. The challenge for the contributors has been to lift their analysis away from the useful detail of the micro-processes they have examined, in order to offer conceptual framings which might inform analyses of relationships between universities and schools. The analytic tools of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) are used in all five papers and rise to the occasion. At the same time, each contributor works in true Vygotskian style by assessing the usefulness of the conceptual tools for the analytic task and where necessary developing existing tools or finding new ones. The social practices of schools are notoriously difficult to change for a wide range of totally understandable reasons, most of which relate to the high stakes national and international accountability systems in which most schools are enmeshed; and to the precarious fragility of systems of social order in many schools. Schools, therefore, operate as tightly bounded systems where retaining the stability of within school social practices is

At Home in Singaporean Sitcoms

At Home in Singaporean Sitcoms

Who Do I Turn (in)to for Help?

Who Do I Turn (in)to for Help?

Asymptotic and Bayesian Confidence Intervals for Sharpe-Style Weights

Sharpe style regression has become a widespread analytic tool in the financial community. The style regression allows one to investigate such interesting issues as style composition, style sensitivity, and style change over time. All previous methods to obtain the distribution and confidence intervals of the style coefficients are statistically valid only in the special case in which none of the true style weights are zero or one. In practice it is quite plausible to have zero or one for the values of some style weights. In this paper we apply new results of Andrews (1997a, 1999) and develop a comparable Bayesian method to obtain statistically valid distributions and confidence intervals regardless of the true values of style weights.

A return to Wales after 20 years

This year's Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Annual Conference, Mapping New Horizons: Politics and Change, was special. Midwives were given a wonderful welcome, in true welsh style, with warmth, song and humour.