Unfamiliar Aspects Research Articles

UNVEILING UNCONVENTIONAL DEPICTIONS: NATIVE IMAGERY IN KAISER HAQ’S SELECTED POEMS

This paper aims to explore the unorthodox depictions of native imagery in the selected poems of Kaiser Haq. By employing the literary device of defamiliarization, Haq introduces unconventional representations of indigenous themes, challenging traditional perspectives and inviting readers to reconsider their preconceived notions. Through a detailed analysis of Haq’s selected poems, this study highlights the significance of Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of defamiliarization in revealing alternative dimensions of native imagery. By examining the ways in which Haq’s poetry subverts expectations and unveils unfamiliar aspects, readers gain a deeper understanding of the intricate relationship between language, culture, and representation. Ultimately, this research contributes to a broader appreciation of the power of poetic language in reshaping and reimagining indigenous imagery.

Inconsistencies Between Information Security Policy Compliance and Shadow IT Usage

ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of self-efficacy on intentions toward information security policy compliance and behaviors in shadow information technology, with self-efficacy being divided into information technology self-efficacy and information security self-efficacy. An experiment was conducted and a total of 83 valid subjects were recruited in this study. Data were collected on the subjects’ behaviors during the experiment, and quantitative data were also collected using a posttest questionnaire. The findings indicated that ITSE and ISSE positively correlated with information security policy (ISP) compliance, suggesting that improving self-efficacy in either aspect will improve ISP compliance intention. However, ISP compliance did not correlate significantly with shadow IT usage, as subjects with high ISP compliance still used shadow IT. Therefore, there was a discrepancy between intention and actual behavior. In practical terms, organizations can use training and education to improve their employees’ self-efficacy in the technically challenging or unfamiliar aspects of IT and ISP compliance, improve their ISP compliance intention, and reduce the possibility of ISP violations, such as shadow IT usage.

THE SACRAL CONCEPT AND ITS INTERPRETATION

The interest in the concept of sacral has been growing rapidly in science in recent years. The first definitions of this concept began to appear in the 80s of the 20th century. There is a lot of polemic in the definitions given to the concept of sacral. The term ―sacred‖ was described in various ways by the English philosopher D. Hume, and German thinkers F. Schleiermacher, M. Scheler, E. Cassirer, and M. Heidegger. Representatives of the French school of sociology as M. Moss, L. Lévy-Bruhl, J. Bataille, and M. Leiris interpreted the term diversely. Therefore, to reveal the meaning of the notion of ―sacral‖ thoroughly it is of paramount importance to explain the concept in the integration of religious studies, philosophy, cultural studies, art studies, archeology, ethnology, folkloristic, and philology.This research paper clarifies the concept of ―sacral‖, and shows both well-known and unfamiliar aspects of the sacred as well as its typology that is made from the point of view of the aesthetic category. We also conducted a comparative analysis of definitions in different languages. Considering that the Latin word ―sacer‖ cannot be translated like many international terms, it was suggested to use it as sacral in the Kazakh language as well.The relevance of the topic was determined and a conclusion was made through comprehensive research, differentiation, and systematization of the concept of sacral.

Look beyond the Mirror: Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Situs Inversus Totalis-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (and Report of New Technique).

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a technically and physically demanding procedure for surgeons and there is still a lack of consensus regarding the best technical approach in such cases. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate port placement, the dominant hand of the surgeon, preoperative imaging, morbidity, and mortality. Methods: We searched MEDLINE, SCOPUS, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library for studies of patients with SIT that underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Of 387 identified records, 101 met our inclusion criteria, all of them case reports or case series of maximum of 6 patients. Results: Out of the 121 patients included in the analysis, 94 were operated on using a “mirrored American” technique, 12 using the “Mirrored French”, 9 employed single-port techniques, and 6 described novel port placements. Even though most surgeries were conducted by a right-handed surgeon (93 cases), surgeries performed by the seven left-handed surgeons yielded shorter intervention times (p = 0.024). Preoperative imaging (CT, MRI, MRCP, ERCP) also correlated with a lower duration of surgery (p = 0.038. Length of stay was associated with the type of disease, but not with other studied endpoints. Morbidity was less than 1%, and conversion rates and mortality were nil. Conclusions: Cholecystectomy in SIT is a safe but challenging procedure and surgeons should prepare in advance for the unfamiliar aspects of completing such a task. While preoperative imaging and a left-handed surgeon are beneficial in terms of surgery length, when these are not available surgeons should focus on achieving the most comfortable setting based on their experience and tailor their approach to the patient at hand. Further studies are needed in order to properly describe and evaluate intraoperative findings as well as surgeon-dependent factors that could improve future recommendations.

Time to sleep.

It's said the average person spends a third of their existence asleep but for vets on call or on night shifts, it can feel like a far too unfamiliar aspect of life. Given good sleep is important for wellbeing it's important to get it right. Vet Steve Noonan tells Claire Read about the measures that help him.

Against Psychological Atomism

Total permissiveness can be captured by the phrase “anything goes.” Psychological atomism can be informally characterized by the idea that in the mind anything goes with anything. There is a strong tendency toward such thinking in Western philosophical thought—both in classical antiquity and during and since the Enlightenment. Perhaps the two most important philosophers of the Enlightenment, Hume and Kant, accepted more or less limited forms of atomism, and I shall explain in what follows in the main text and footnotes, why and how I think their atomism goes astray. Since much of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment to some extent bears its imprint, we shall also be seeing some recent examples of ill-conceived atomism. However, and despite the main themes of the present volume, I shall go well beyond the task of dealing with themes in Enlightenment thinking. In fact, I shall be relying on some unfamiliar aspects of Chinese thought to correct quite generally what I take to be erroneous atomistic thinking.

Positively Monstrous!

Positively Monstrous!

Do Mock-Ups, Presentations of Evidence, and Q&As Help Participants Voice their Opinions During Focus Groups and Interviews About Supervised Injection Services?

Controversial facilities (e.g., supervised injection services (SIS), methadone clinics, and social housing) may require feasibility studies that asses their acceptability among community stakeholders before their implementation. However, controversies about these facilities may make stakeholders ambivalent or hesitant to express opinions about them because various sources of information disagree about their harms and benefits. We responded to this challenge by creating and piloting the use of “grounding aids” or tools, objects, and methods used before qualitative data collection to provide research participants with an experience in which they can learn about how the controversial facility operates in practice. Before interviews and focus groups in a recent SIS feasibility study we conducted, participants were introduced to three of these grounding aids: a physical mock-up of an SIS, a presentation regarding evidence on SIS, and a Q&A with SIS staff. We then asked additional questions in the interviews and focus groups about participants’ experience with these grounding aids. With few exceptions, participants generally perceived the grounding aids to help them express their opinions without feeling that we were directing their opinions about SIS. Participants’ reasons for this included that the grounding aids helped them experience unfamiliar aspects of SIS visually and concretely, served as a cue for questions and as a reference for discussions, and personalized SIS and its operations. We also observed that they voiced less hesitancy overall regarding SIS than participants in our previous feasibility studies where we did not employ these grounding aids before data collection. Researchers planning to study perceptions of controversial facilities or other phenomena about which sources of information tend to disagree on may want to consider creating, evaluating, and using grounding aids to improve participant responsiveness.

Practical advice for new graduate nurses

Practical advice for new graduate nurses

George Eliot and Jonathan Swift

Étonnamment peu d’études critiques ont porté sur l’influence de Jonathan Swift sur la littérature victorienne. Cet article est fondé sur l’idée que Swift est l’un des intertextes importants, quoique sous-estimés, des œuvres de George Eliot, notamment dans son dernier ouvrage, Les Impressions de Théophraste Untel . Certaines références explicites ou allusions indirectes dans son œuvre de fiction, ainsi que certaines mentions dans ses notes de travail, ses journaux et sa correspondance, montrent qu’Eliot connaissait et appréciait l’œuvre de Swift, en particulier Le conte du tonneau et les Voyages de Gulliver . Se pencher sur Swift permet d’expliquer certains aspects originaux de son écriture, tels que son penchant anti-scientifique ou sa tendance à la satire. Des travaux récents ont étudié la présence des animaux chez Eliot à partir des notions darwiniennes ; cependant, une analyse de l’influence du quatrième livre des Voyages de Gulliver sur son écriture permet de mieux comprendre ses représentations des animaux, en général, mais aussi son utilisation de la satire et de la fable, en particulier dans Les Impressions de Théophraste Untel .

The Non-Jihadi Foreign Fighters: Western Right-Wing and Left-Wing Extremists in Syria

ABSTRACT The ongoing war in Syria reflects the interesting phenomenon of foreigners flocking to the troubled region to join the combat. While foreign Jihadists joining the fighting ranks of terror organizations such as the Islamic State or Al Qaeda have attracted considerable reporting and research, the flip side of this phenomenon has gone largely unnoticed—that of the foreign anti-ISIS fighters. Although these fighters share a common enemy, adversary on the battlefield, they hold disparate personal ideologies and motives. This article will examine manifestations of foreign anti-ISIS fighters affiliated with both the far right and far left ideologies, in order to contribute to the understanding of this unfamiliar aspect of the war in Syria and its scope, as well as the potential consequences and potential threats it embodies.

A Novice’s Experience with Merton’s Theory of Unanticipated Consequences and Being “Forced” into Qualitative Research

Qualitative research can be an unfamiliar type of research for some individuals in the nursing PhD program, and it can also be an unfamiliar aspect of any healthcare individual’s experience. This paper presents my first experience with different aspects of qualitative research and the application of Merton’s theory of unanticipated consequences to this experience.

Amy Bryzgel, Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960

Covering the work of 250 artists and art historians, Amy Bryzgel’s Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960 is a pioneering work that explores unfamiliar aspects of and connections between performance art and politics in Eastern Europe. It is aimed primarily at performance-art scholars but could also be of interest to cultural studies and gender studies scholars as well as to a general public.

Is unfamiliarity a double-edged sword for ethnic restaurants?

Unfamiliar aspects of ethnic foods are found to enhance both perceived authenticity and perceived risk. Whereas the former positively influences customers’ evaluations of foods and induces consumption behavior, the latter negatively affects customer behavior. Due to these conflicting effects, ethnic restaurateurs face a dilemma of whether to emphasize unfamiliar aspects to increase customer perception of authenticity or to eliminate them to reduce perceived risk. Thus, this study investigated (1) the effects of food information on perceived authenticity and perceived risk and (2) the comparative influences of perceived authenticity and perceived risk on customer satisfaction and purchase intention. The results revealed that unfamiliar ingredients influenced both perceived authenticity and perceived risk, whereas unfamiliar dish names only affected perceived authenticity. Additionally, the results support the notion that ethnic restaurant managers should endeavor to convey the uniqueness of their ethnic foods to maximize the effect of perceived authenticity over that of perceived risk.

Cartography of a Blind Spot: An Exploratory Analysis of European Border Cities

AbstractDespite the importance of national borders in the process of European integration and its destiny, border areas remain relatively misrecognised. This is particularly true as regards the contemporary geography of border cities across Europe. It is therefore difficult to assess what importance border cities and cross‐border urban regions have and how they have evolved in parallel with the transformation of European borders. The aim of this paper is to highlight the urban dimension of border regions in Europe and, in particular, the diversity of configurations present. Through an original cartography of border cities, we hope to draw the attention of the research community interested in borders and border regions to an unfamiliar aspect of European borderlands and some of the issues and questions it raises.

Stories of transformation: using personal narrative to explore transformative experience among undergraduate peer mentors

While past researchers suggest undergraduate peer mentors (PMs) benefit from mentoring their peers, this experience is rarely associated with transformative learning. Using narrative analysis of authentic mentoring stories, we explored how particular types of mentoring experiences contribute to transformative learning for PMs of first-year university students. In this study, transformation was more likely when PMs engaged in meaningful routines and everyday practices; exercised purposeful “pretending” in unfamiliar aspects of their role; embraced challenge and surprise; regularly reflected on experiences; and were mentored by supportive faculty and staff. Findings have implications for PM selection and training, as well as program design.

Qui Tam Litigation Against Government Officials: Constitutional Implications of a Neglected History

The Supreme Court concluded twenty-five years ago, in Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, that uninjured private plaintiffs may not litigate “generalized grievances” about the legality of executive branch conduct. According to the Lujan Court, Congress lacked power to authorize suit by a plaintiff who could not establish some “particularized” injury from the challenged conduct. The Court believed litigation to require executive branch legal compliance, brought by an uninjured private party, is not a “case” or “controversy” within the Article III judicial power and impermissibly reassigns the President’s Article II responsibility to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” The decision effectively granted the President a semi-exclusive power to monitor and ensure the legality of a broad range of executive branch activity. The Lujan Court overlooked a now relatively unfamiliar aspect of Anglo-American legal history. From the 14th through the 18th centuries, the English Parliament, American colonial and state legislatures, and early federal Congresses routinely enacted “qui tam” legislation that authorized uninjured private “informers” to collect penalties for unlawful conduct by government officials. These qui tam statutes authorized private litigation against executive officials in circumstances that would be classified as generalized grievances under modern standing jurisprudence. The Lujan Court acknowledged historical use of qui tam legislation, but apparently believed such statutes were limited to regulation of “private part[ies].” The widespread practice of regulating government officials through qui tam legislation in the five centuries leading up to the framing of our Constitution suggests the need to reconsider the reasoning of Lujan, though perhaps not the result, and to revise the Court’s understanding of legislative tools available to monitor the legality of executive branch conduct.

The Regional Construction of China in German Civic Education Publications

Using the example of the most influential serial in the field of civic education in Germany (IzpB) this article is aimed at one of the central questions as raised by intercultural hermeneutics: Do images of the other rather emphasize familiar or unfamiliar aspects of another culture? [1] The analysis as outlined in this paper – both of the regional discourse and the figure part in those seven IzpB issues dealing with China exclusively (released between 1961-2005) – reveals two aspects: first, a distinct focus on a comparatively small regional selection and second, an emphasis on exactly those regions that – for disparate reasons – already seem to be familiar to the majority of the representatives of the external perceiving culture.

Development and significance of automated history-taking software for clinical medicine, clinical research and basic medical science.

Development and significance of automated history-taking software for clinical medicine, clinical research and basic medical science.

Ortega y Gasset on Georg Cantor’s Theory of Transfinite Numbers

Abstract Ortega y Gasset is known for his philosophy of life and his effort to propose an alternative to both realism and idealism. The goal of this article is to focus on an unfamiliar aspect of his thought. The focus will be given to Ortega’s interpretation of the advancements in modern mathematics in general and Cantor’s theory of transfinite numbers in particular. The main argument is that Ortega acknowledged the historical importance of the Cantor’s Set Theory, analyzed it and articulated a response to it. In his writings he referred many times to the advancements in modern mathematics and argued that mathematics should be based on the intuition of counting. In response to Cantor’s mathematics Ortega presented what he defined as an ‘absolute positivism’. In this theory he did not mean to naturalize cognition or to follow the guidelines of the Comte’s positivism, on the contrary. His aim was to present an alternative to Cantor’s mathematics by claiming that mathematicians are allowed to deal only with objects that are immediately present and observable to intuition. Ortega argued that the infinite set cannot be present to the intuition and therefore there is no use to differentiate between cardinals of different infinite sets.