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Allied health new graduates’ voice behavior – new perspectives using realist synthesized narratives

PurposeEffective voice behavior in healthcare workers is critical for patient safety, quality improvement and workforce well-being. A review of the literature on voice behavior in healthcare highlights that little is known about the voice behaviors of new graduates in allied health and that current theory, from medical and nursing research, does not adequately apply to this sector. New knowledge about voice behavior for this sector of the workforce will support education and healthcare institutions in building and sustaining a healthy voice behavior culture.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reports on phase two of a two-phase study looking at the voice behavior experiences of new allied health graduates over one year. Using a realist perspective and narrative analysis, we uncover and illustrate what works, with whom and under what conditions.FindingsFour synthesized narratives outline the contexts and mechanisms that result in different voice behavior outcomes – speaking up effectively, speaking up with unmet expectations, not speaking up and a reduction in speaking up over time. Experiences of positive interprofessional collaboration and reflective supervision supported effective voice behavior.Research limitations/implicationsThis study used a case study approach, focusing on healthcare providers within a large New Zealand city and a cohort of 10 participants. Some researchers argue that small numbers limit the generalization of findings to different populations. Realists argue that, given the way in which knowledge is developed using realist methodologies, the resultant theory is portable. Interviews were conducted online during the COVID-19 pandemic. This may have impacted the connection between the interviewer and interviewee, causing the interviewees to not express their true thoughts. However, the interviewer did take time to connect with the interviewees and build trust over the three interviews over one year. Participants did not capture the diversity in the allied health workforce – most identified as female and none identified as Māori/Indigenous. And finally, participants could inhibit or exaggerate information due to the influence of social desirability. This does not appear to be a significant limitation in this study, given the many examples shared by the participants highlighted their challenges.Practical implicationsThis study provides an in-depth exploration of how new graduates in allied health experience speaking up. Our findings enrich the knowledge of speaking up by using synthesized narratives to provide insights into what factors can enable a healthy speaking up culture within the new graduate allied health workforce. This is new knowledge that will be of interest at the individual, team and organizational levels of healthcare. The findings will support curriculum design and new graduate support frameworks for the education and health sectors. Highlighted in this study are the importance of the following factors in supporting speaking up for allied health new graduates: the employment of reflective supervision, purposeful facilitation of team belonging and interprofessional collaboration and tailored speaking up training for allied health new graduates and leaders in healthcare.Originality/valueBy taking a realist perspective and using narrative analysis, we gain an understanding of the voice behavior experiences of new graduates in allied health and the contextual factors and mechanisms that activate effective voice behavior in sub-acute and rehabilitation settings. These findings differ from nursing and medicine and highlight the benefits of reflective supervision and interprofessional collaborative practice.

On the Moral Considerations of Machiavelli’s “De-Moralization” of Politics

Machiavelli was an influential political thinker during the Western European Renaissance period, and his work “The Prince” has been a subject of controversy for proposing the “de-moralization” of politics. However, an in-depth study of his writings reveals a profound moral consideration for people, the populace, and the state, which aids in a more comprehensive understanding of Machiavelli’s true thoughts.

EXISTENCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AUTOMATION OF CONTRACT FORMATION BASED ON THEORY CONTRACT LAW

Artificial intelligent technology gives rise to contract automation. In contract law, intention is one of the principles of making contracts. In addition, contracts must also be formed based on the results of discussions and meetings of minds which result in accordance with the wishes or desires so that they can be included in a contract. Contract automation through Artificial Intelligent can be called a conflict of fundamental requirements for contract formation. The general contract law that has emerged through Artificial Intelligence does not take into account mental state and does not examine the true thoughts or intentions of the parties. Based on the explanation above this research aim is to find out Artificial Intelligent in contract formation based on the theory of contract law.
 Law is conceptualized as a norm or rule that applies in society and becomes a reference for everyone's behavior in normative legal research with the goal of discovering facts that are used as research data relating to the existence of artificial intelligent for automation og contract formation based on contract theory contract law. This research method employs a statutory approach involving a review of all relevant laws and regulations. This type of research is also known as descriptive-analytical research because the findings are presented descriptively and analytically, so this method was chosen
 The findings research, contracts formed using artificial intelligence are not legally binding, even if the technology underlying them advances. The technology that underpins them advances. Currently, despite the fact that computer programs or Artificial Intelligence create contracts. There is no authority to support any legal distinction based on the level of human involvement or program complexity. If the common law of contract is to introduce a distinction depending on how the theory of contract law is based on the appearance of the intent of a person or legal entity in making the statements in the contract as intended."Unintended contracts," or contracts that do not arise from the intention of a person or legal entity and are not based on the fairness and trust theory, will be prohibited

Based on Ku Hongming’s “The Sprite of the Chinese People” to Explore the Formation of Cultural Self-Confidence from Cultural Conservatism

Conservatism, as a cultural trend, was accompanied by the process of modernizations. Its basic feature is that it attempts to critique the overextension of instrumental rationality in modernization and the resulting social problems such as human alienation and moral loss. Its humanist tendencies and reflections on the modernization movement have their own unique cultural value. As a kind of critical and constructive thinking, Ku Hongming’s cultural conservatism can participate in historical dialogue. In the new era, how should we view modernization and Chinese culture, how to maintain our national identity in the midst of the cultural storm of globalization, how to correctly treat Chinese traditional culture in the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and how to promote the formation of cultural self-confidence, Ku Hongming’s cultural perspectives have somehow given us deep thought and inspiration to some extent. The Spirit of the Chinese People is one of Ku’s major works, and its contents are a direct reflection of Ku’s thinking. Reading and Studying on this book will help us to understand his true thoughts and appreciate his cultural confidence and independent personality.

Fox Point's Own Gemma Hopper by Brie Spangler

Reviewed by: Fox Point's Own Gemma Hopper by Brie Spangler Danica Ronquillo Spangler, Brie Fox Point's Own Gemma Hopper; written and illus. by Brie Spangler. Knopf, 2023 [272p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780593428498 $21.99 Paper ed. ISBN 9780593428481 $13.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780593428504 $8.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 6-8 Seventh-grader Gemma Hopper resents her baseball star older brother—after all, she loves the sport, too, but since her parents' divorce, she's had to be the responsible sibling and take care of any chores or needs at home. Still, she and her brother practice together when they can, and one afternoon in particular reveals Gemma's skill for the sport when she outpitches her brother. This opens a rift between the siblings, and the more Gemma recognizes her passion for baseball, the more she is conflicted about abandoning her family duties and relationships for her own needs. Brie's powerful middle-grade graphic novel is a tribute to women in sports while focusing on the delicate intricacies of family relationships and friendships. White, black, and gradients of green and blue highlight the innovative composition and panels that coordinate well with the moving narrative. Dark shading and curved lines in the dynamic illustrations express isolation and uncertainty when the characters are provoked, with captions narrating Gemma's struggles to communicate her true thoughts and feelings about her identity with baseball, school, and family. Appropriately lengthy dialogue in the speech bubbles between Teddy and Gemma capture a complex and genuine sibling bond as they share the same insecurities for the future and deal with the fallout of their parents' divorce. Sports fans seeking ways to juggle life will appreciate this heart-warming read about finding yourself in the things you love and being your own hero. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Learning Users Inner Thoughts and Emotion Changes for Social Media Based Suicide Risk Detection

Suicide has become a serious problem, hurting the well-being of human society. Thanks to social media, from peopleslinguistic posts, suicide risk detection has achieved good performance. The aim of this study is to investigate whether more significantaccuracy could be achieved. Motivated by the observation that the prior solutions strived to detect suicide risk based on users explicitouter post expressions on social media, and no attempt was made to infer users inner true thoughts and emotion changes from theirnormal open posts for suicide risk detection, we propose to firstly learn the correlations between users normal open posts and hiddencomments, trying to understand users inner true thoughts and emotion changes from his open posts, and then detect users suiciderisk upon the generated intermediate results. The performance study on the microblog dataset (3,652 at-risk microblog users and 3,652ordinary microblog users) and forum dataset (392 at-risk forum users and 108 ordinary forum users) shows that, based on the inferredhidden thoughts and inner emotion changes, the proposed approach can achieve 95% and 90% detection accuracy, respectively.

Lie as a Norm of Decency in Japanese Society

The topic of lies is of considerable interest in linguocultural analysis. The article discusses the role of lies in the language behavior of the Japanese in connection with the most important Japanese socio-cultural attitudes. Lying in Japanese culture is characterized as a social phenomenon without negative components. Japanese culture, which reflects the main features of traditional societies of the Far East, has its own special socio-cultural space with the dominant role of Shinto beliefs. Shinto is characterized by following the natural and traditional order of things and the absence of a firm scale of assessment of good and evil. Lies for the Japanese do not create a rejecting effect: they are not condemned harshly and are not punished and lying is not a source of internal experiences and torment. The morality of the Japanese is situational and intuitive, moral virtues are often replaced by a sense of shame, and the Japanese need to maintain harmony, so lies are allowed and accepted favorably. A lie is even necessary as an element of etiquette, polite (decent) behavior to preserve harmony in the group. The Japanese tend to behave relating to the surrounding group members, so the use of easy, inconspicuous, and kind lies may be caused by a specific situation, by the rules of group behavior. In addition, the Japanese are not characterized by the anguish of conscience, internal awareness of their guilt, or reasoning about immorality — the main motivating point for them is what others will say. And people around them will recognize it as acceptable and necessary. Lying is closely related to the concept of tatemae — an external model of behavior demonstrated before another person. A person, hiding behind a facade, under a mask, says what the listener wants to hear. That behavior seems a little insincere or duplicitous but is usually used to avoid conflict and ensure smooth social communication, rather than to trick or deceive. One who does not use the rules of tatemae may hurt the feelings of the person he or she is talking to or make the conversation unpleasant by revealing too much. Lying can take the form of polite and socially acceptable silence when the speaker hides his disagreement and true thoughts from the listener.

The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith

<i>The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind</i> by Martin Sixsmith

“The Riddle does not exist”. On proposition 6.5 of the Tractatus logico-philosophicus

The essay has as its main theme proposition 6.5 of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus and, in particular, its second paragraph "The riddle does not exist". In the first section, the notion of riddle is compared with that of problem, emphasising, among other things, the great relevance that, for Wittgenstein, the distinction between problems of philosophy and problems of natural science has; in the second, an attempt is made to clarify the meaning that Wittgenstein assigns to the word “riddle”: a riddle would be a question “in the void”, without any “direction”, that is, so to speak, a question that does not know what it is asking. This means that, even if it presents itself as a question, the riddle is a non-question. The third section highlights how the denial that there is the enigma is complementary to the denial, so characteristic of the Tractatus, that there are a priori true thoughts or propositions.

Celia, Misoka, I by Xue Yiwei

Reviewed by: Celia, Misoka, I by Xue Yiwei Xu Gang Xue Yiwei Celia, Misoka, I Trans. Stephen Nashef. Toronto. Rare Machines. 2022. 286 pages. THE AWARD-WINNING Chinese Canadian author Xue Yiwei’s novel Celia, Misoka, I tells a story of immigrants in this great, globalized age. In a most unusual winter in Montreal, the death of his wife and the moving out of his daughter throws the first-person narrator, a middle-aged Chinese man who has been living in Montreal for fifteen years, into an unprecedented spiritual crisis: “I was aware that something had changed between the world and me. I was no longer a husband, no longer even a father, no longer the owner of a business, maybe no longer even really a man.” Engulfed by despair and disillusionment, the narrator’s world is gray, full of sadness, loneliness, and a kind of “powerful coldness.” Fortunately, on Montreal’s Mount Royal, two mysterious women enter his collapsing world at the same time: one is Celia, “the healthy sufferer”; the other is Misoka, who is sitting in a wheelchair and busy writing by the frozen Beaver Lake. “Just like that, they entered my life, Celia and Misoka, two mysterious women with completely different energies, appearing before me like some irresolvable contradiction.” The contradiction in these two peculiar beings arouses in the narrator an intense curiosity about life itself. Isn’t it human nature to be curious about others? This intense curiosity not only gives the narrator a sense of longing and anxiety for the future but also a sense of fullness he has never felt before. Quite unexpectedly, it also gives him a new understanding of the past. The novel is about the wonders of life that befall the lonely strangers whose lives are thrown into the infinite void. “Three insignificant grains of sand” were brought to Mount Royal by the winds of this globalized age. In this moment of wonder, “it was as though the rose of time had come into bloom,” and the three trajectories of fate constantly crisscross and mirror one another like three movements of a sonata. The value and meaning of being as well as the outlook of the bigger picture of life also appear in this sonata of fate. In Xue Yiwei’s literary works, history and reality are always looking for an opportunity in the character’s inner world to collide and produce some far-reaching and profound sparks of humanity. The multiple foci of his narrative serve to connect the obscure past of the characters: once the abyss of memory and imagination is open, one can see the heart-stirring power of the characters’ inner storm. Celia, Misoka, I shows the plight of modern men and women in the era of globalization through the suspenseful life stories of the three characters. Xue skillfully employs a narrative structure similar to that of a detective novel, in which the characters take turns to reveal the darkest memories of the enigmatic women. The greatest suspense of the story is why the women had become what they were. The author uses the rhythm and emotional flow of the story to draw the readers into the mood of melancholy and disillusionment. As the greatest wonder in frigid Montreal, Celia and Misoka eventually save the narrator from despair. However, their experiences seem to overlap with the narrator’s, so that when we examine them retrospectively, we realize that they appear so suddenly and disappear so quickly, as if they never existed. Perhaps they are just a supplement to the relationship between the narrator and his dead wife, or a fantasy of the bigger picture of life out of the narrator’s desperate state of mind. In this sense, both Celia and Misoka may be in fact different personas of the narrator. At the end of the novel, the narrator reveals his true thoughts about humanity through the words of Hermit Wang: “Once an immigrant, always an immigrant. For someone who has emigrated, returning home is simply a second emigration. You can never go home! You will forever and everywhere be a stranger!” This is true for Misoka, whose suffering came from the emotional trauma caused by...

Social noise: the influence of observers on social media information behavior

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of social noise. Under the influence of social noise, a social media user may adjust information behavior based on external cues, attempting to present themselves in a more desirable way to increase their social capital.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative study informed by an ethnographic approach was used to examine social media information behavior. Participants were observed using Facebook, followed by semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was theoretically grounded in thematic analysis but also adaptive to observations in the data.FindingsFour constructs of social noise were identified in the data. Identity curation emerged as the overarching consideration for individuals. The constructs cultural commitments and relationship management both had a strong presence within the data as well. The fourth construct, conflict management, was identified as social media users decided how to respond to individuals or information with which they did not agree.Originality/valueThis study reveals that social media users' awareness of observation by others does impact their information behavior. Efforts to craft a personal reputation, build or maintain relationships, pursue important commitments and manage conflict all influence the observable information behavior of social media users. As a result, observable social media information behavior may not be an accurate reflection of an individual's true thoughts and beliefs.

Role of consumers in the organisation: Moderating coerciveness in the involuntary treatment/coercive practice to enhance the consumer’s satisfaction in community mental health settings

In mental health treatments, the recovery procedure of patients could be affected by multiple factors, such as their satisfaction toward the diagnosis, mental health conditions and willingness to receive the treatments. However, in Australia, the balance between patient-centered care and the coercive practices from the clinic has rarely been focused. Therefore, in this study, the author tries to address the gap between the ideal participation of patients in mental health treatments and real situations the author experienced. To achieve this objective, two case studies combined with literature reviews are utilized. The author concludes that playing the role of coordinators, advocating the consumer’s rights to express their true thoughts, maintaining the patient-centered practices and making efforts to refine related official documents should be considered in future mental health treatments.

Using a Person-Centered Approach to Facilitate a Male Amateur Distance Runner’s Personal Growth

This case study analyzes, synthesizes, and tests a person-centered approach by a trainee sport and exercise psychologist working with a male amateur distance runner. The aim of applying a person-centered approach was to enhance the athlete’s understanding of himself, enable him to make sense of his experience, and facilitate personal growth. This case study explores the client’s change process and how developing the quality of the relationship allowed him to share his true thoughts and feelings and move towards his authentic self. The trainee describes the theoretical framework that guided the consultancy; reflects on the experiences of exhibiting empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence; and discusses the challenges with implementing the approach. The case study reflects on and evaluates the support service, so that the practitioner could learn from this experience and enhance service delivery as he moves toward the end of his formal training.

The Poetry and Prose, as Well as the Impact of Communist Ideology in the Albanian Literature of the ’80

Albanian literature has come a long way through the many historical events it has passed and managed to survive. One of the harshest periods for Albanian literature, has not come as a consequence of external invasion, but from within. The communist dictatorship in Albania, which started in the remains of the Second World War, and lasted up until 1991, besides controlling the politics, foreign relationships, economy and social structures, used art and in particular literature as a weapon to demolish free thought and enforce its ideology through the canonized structures and cliches, such as the martyrdom. This led the Albanian authors to find new ways hidden inside literary figures, which they mastered, to spread their message and express their true thoughts and feelings beyond the censorship, and trained the readers to read through and understand the intentions of the authors.

Stage techniques "subtext" and "apartе" in the verbal action of the actor

Purpose of Article. To find out the peculiarities of understanding and interpretation of the techniques "subtext" and "apart"; in the stage speech of the actor; prove the features and commonalities between the two techniques. Methodology: analytical – to study the existing theoretical interpretations of the subtext and apparatus and their practical application; comparative – in the comparison and comparative analysis of theoretical and practical interpretations and applications of the techniques of "subtext" and "apart"; logical-generalizing – to summarize the results of the study, to formulate conclusions. Scientific novelty. Work is to prove that the subtext, as a method of expression of true thoughts, feelings, and intentions of the protagonist – is always present in the text. In the case of direct text – the subtext is open and is a thorough verbal action of the actor. In the case of non-direct text – the subtext is hidden and is an expression of foreign content, the meaning of the statement. For the first time, the commonalities and peculiarities of stage techniques "subtext", "apart" and the essence of the comedy of the situation at apart are considered and proved. Conclusions. It was found that K. Stanislavsky and the followers of his teachings interpret the subtext (illustrated subtext) as the inner life of the role, psychological baggage, the emotional and volitional beginning of stage speech, which justifies the utterance of the text. The commonalities and peculiarities of the stage techniques "subtext" and "apart" in the verbal action of the actor and the essence of the comedy of the reception "aparte" are considered and proved.

RETRACTED: The value of physical education to the physical and mental health development of left-behind children from the perspective of health dividend

Nowadays, due to the rapid development of social economy, many rural labors have flowed into more developed cities, resulting in more and more left-behind children(LBC), which is an urgent problem in our country's life. Although there are many researches on LBC, there are few researches on LBC's physical and mental health(PMH).In this regard, this paper studies whether physical education and exercise are very important for improving PMH in LBC, and collects and classifies data on PMH in LBC by referring to the literature. Interviews are used to collect the true thoughts of LBC and to understand PMH. The questionnaire survey was used to investigate the PMH status of LBC, and objectively and comprehensively collected the PMH status data of LBC. Finally, the data obtained are statistically analyzed by the method of several examples. This paper studies the situation of LBC participating in extracurricular sports activities and makes a comparison with non-LBC. The results show that the LBC who take part in more after-school sports training have better PMH, more cheerful personality, more love and compassion, can quickly adapt to a new environment, and are emotionally stable. They can handle things calmly and develop their individual emotions well. In addition, the probability of PMH problems of non-LBC is smaller than that of LBC. Through the research and analysis of sports and PMH of LBC, it is found that sports play a positive role in promoting the PMH of LBC. Therefore, physical education is of great value to promote the healthy development of LBC.

A Change of Verbs

How much of your life is trapped in social norms? What would you say if you were free to say what you really thought? How would you live your life differently? In this work of philosophical short fiction, Simon in a married, middle aged, college professor. Inch by inch, day by day, over his life he has given up his freedom to social norms. He stays quiet in his true thoughts in the face of his wife, and his co-workers. One day, something changes, and he decides to “change his verbs.” He tells his wife what he thinks. He tells his students what he thinks. He says no to attending pointless meetings. In short, he releases himself from the social cages that he has created for himself, and he is happy. He comes home to his wife and, seemingly for the first time in years, is free to tell her honestly that he loves her.

Comparing the explicit and implicit attitudes of energy stakeholders and the public towards carbon capture and storage

Research on the attitudes of energy stakeholders and the general public towards Carbon Capture and Storage is a necessary starting point for the industry to understand the development trajectory of the technology. However, previous studies have only used explicit approaches, such as self-report questionnaires, to measure attitudes. Some researchers have argued that explicit measures are not able to reflect participants’ true thoughts. To investigate the potential gap between the results of explicit tests and the true attitudes of participants, this study uses the implicit association test, to detect the attitudes towards environmental technology for the first time (to our knowledge), by comparing the explicit and implicit attitudes of energy stakeholders and the public towards carbon capture and storage. The results indicate that energy stakeholders hold favorable attitudes, whereas public vary across the two tests. Public show supportive attitudes in the explicit test, but present their concerns about the risk of carbon capture and storage in the implicit test. The inconsistencies between the explicit and implicit test results among the public indicate that researchers need to be very cautious about the method they use to understand attitudes towards carbon capture and storage as well as other environmental technologies. Further, we suggested that implicit association test would be an effective and easy-to-use approach to complement traditional explicit tests to discover participants’ real attitudes towards environmental technologies in the future research.

The Kharkiv actresses Polina Kumanchenko and Lidiya Krynytska in the image of a mother in the films “Human’s blood is not water”, “Dmytro Horytsvit”, “People don’t know the all” and “Lymerivna”

The Kharkiv actresses Polina Kumanchenko and Lidiya Krynytska in the image of a mother in the films “Human’s blood is not water”, “Dmytro Horytsvit”, “People don’t know the all” and “Lymerivna”

Unconscious Collusions and Radioactive Identifications: When an Analyst’s Personal Experience of a Traumatized Society Meets a Patient’s Developmental Trauma

A case vignette of a woman with multiple developmental traumas is presented to illustrate the potential collusion of her self-protective retreats and powerful projections with the analyst’s own countertransference, which was colored by his transgenerational adaptation to a totalitarian political condition. The author, an analyst from the Czech Republic, explores his passive interpretative stance and extended capacity to tolerate the patient’s retreat and her fear of disclosing her true thoughts in light of “false adaptations” known in former Communist states. Psychoanalytic models of intrapsychic functioning of residents and psychoanalysts under the Communist regime are described. Finally, the author examines how his analytic functioning is impacted by his own ancestors’ adaptations, his own upbringing, and his own psychoanalytic training.