Unfamiliar Forms Research Articles

Measures to increase the retention of migrant healthcare professionals in Germany

Abstract Background The shortage of skilled workers in the healthcare sector is a pressing issue in Germany that has been worsening in recent years. It is often compensated by the deployment of specialists from abroad. However, this is accompanied by various challenges. This article synthesizes challenges from nine years of research and proposes approaches to solutions that have proven successful in practice in Germany as well as in international settings. Methods The insights presented here condense the results from a total of six research projects (four on physicians and two on nursing). The research projects are based on exploratory qualitative interviews, quantitative questionnaires, mixed-methods designs, and the generation and testing of measures that can help with the integration of foreign skilled workers. Results The main challenges for migrated skilled workers are inadequate language and communication skills, lack of knowledge about the national healthcare system, disease and therapy concepts, unfamiliar forms of inter-hierarchical and inter-professional collaboration, a lack of understanding of administrative and bureaucratic processes and social integration. The following measures have proven successful in Germany and abroad: increasing social integration of physicians (e.g. through partner or peer programs), streamlining systems, establishing professional structures for the integration of foreign skilled workers, and creating a positive work environment. Conclusions Compared to findings from international studies, in Germany the hurdles of administrative processes, the peculiarities of the healthcare system (e.g. social medicine), and learning the language are considered to be the highest. It is important to counteract these challenges with appropriate measures in order to prevent a migration of healthcare professionals already in Germany to (mostly English-speaking) foreign countries. Key messages • In Germany the hurdles of administrative processes, the peculiarities of the German healthcare system (e.g. social medicine), and learning the German language are considered to be the highest. • It should be considered to no longer leave the migration of healthcare staff to individual integration efforts, but to create appropriate government structures that focus on their social integration.

Uncertain Waters and Irony in Australian Settler Literatures

Critics are increasingly recognizing the presence of irony in environmental cultures, often stressing its ability to highlight disjunctions between the individual’s convictions and their compromised behaviors. This article extends this work by taking up the relationship between irony and settler-colonial imaginaries in writings about unpredictable bodies of water. Focusing on settler writing in Australia, the article juxtaposes nineteenth-century author Henry Lawson and contemporary novelist Jane Rawson to argue that irony constitutes a form of environmental knowledge, calling up norms and hierarchies regarding water but also creating openings toward waters that cannot be given meaning. Lawson’s writings about ephemeral rivers and lakes stress their divergence from metropolitan ideas of water’s continuity, presence, and visibility. Largely ignoring Indigenous peoples’ relationships with water, his ironies of overturned expectations and norms make contact with but also disparage water in unfamiliar forms. By contrast, Rawson’s A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists (2013) employs irony to grasp how climate-changed floodwater disrupts settler norms founded upon the erasure of floodplains and of Indigenous and colonial histories of urban rivers. Juxtaposing Rawson with Lawson illuminates an ongoing need to be cautious about the ideals that irony may evoke in response to changing and uncertain waters. At the same time, irony provides a multivalent tool to critically address what Mark Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” to glimpse the persistence of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives, and to acknowledge occluded forms of environmental agency.

Reading, rhetoric, rhythm

This paper considers reading a hermeneutical co-respondence with understanding’s becoming. It describes how understanding’s plurality is caught up in the dialogical interplay of reading, rhetoric, and rhythm characteristic of hermeneutic engagement. Reading positions a reader in relationship with a text 1 seeking participation in the matter under consideration. As such, its potential for creating new understanding lies in a reader’s ability to attend to unfamiliar forms of expression and engage with the speculative nature of sense and sense-making. Rather than reduce hermeneutic practice to an unmoored relativism, reading hermeneutically fosters a radical responsibility that comes with the uncertain and difficult labor of speculative thinking.

Crisis as Method: Politics, Temporality, and Agency

This special issue demonstrates how theorizing the present in terms of crisis generates insights into contradictory experiences of historical time. The core questions addressed are these: What are the temporal forms through which crisis is expressed today, and what are the political implications? The contributors pay close attention to the nonsynchronicity and the discordance of times that constitute the present. The contributors ask how contemporary crisis can be better understood with reference to long-term and ongoing colonial and racial histories. This article functions as both an introduction to the special issue as well as a development of some of the key theoretical coordinates, first thinking through the relationship between crisis and everyday politics, disentangling crisis theory from its association with determinism, and then showing how crisis theory challenges conventional understandings of political agency. Recent work in Black studies offers significant ways of understanding how subaltern actors improvise and forge unfamiliar forms of agency in times of brutal constraint. With reference to this work, the article argues that understanding crisis not only as an “object” of study but as a “method” has generative implications for theorizing the present.

Artificial Intelligence for detecting and preventing procurement fraud

The utilization of powerful machine learning models in artificial intelligence offers novel prospects for the identification of fraudulent activities. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a revolutionary technological tool that enhances the ability to detect and prevent fraud by improving efficiency and effectiveness. This research offers a thorough examination of the utilization of artificial intelligence technology in the realm of procurement fraud prevention and detection. Additionally, it highlights the obstacles that arise when employing machine learning techniques for the purpose of identifying and preventing fraudulent activities. A mixed methods approach was employed in this study, wherein data was collected through an unstructured interview and questionnaire. We conducted a comprehensive review of relevant scholarly articles and online resources. The findings indicate that fraudsters are progressively advancing in their skills, which poses a significant challenge in detecting fraudulent activities. The advent of AI in fraud detection has demonstrated its transformative impact. AI has achieved unparalleled precision and velocity in crime detection and prevention, surpassing the capabilities of any human. Artificial intelligence (AI) enhances the capacity for automation. Accessing unstructured data in the form of spreadsheets, digital documents, and email inboxes poses a significant issue for the procurement function. In order to achieve a successful procurement transformation, businesses should prioritize the creation of essential tools, guarantee acceptance through the establishment of a superior user experience, and integrate both novel and pre-existing technology. It is imperative to disseminate knowledge to the general public regarding the escalating sophistication of artificial intelligence (AI) in the realm of fraud detection and prevention. This includes elucidating the potential benefits of AI in identifying patterns of suspicious activities, assessing its efficacy in predicting potential threats or fraudulent activities prior to their manifestation, and exploring its utility in analyzing historical data pertaining to both familiar and unfamiliar forms of fraudulent behavior.

The dialectic of the familiar and the unfamiliar in Islamic photography

This research is concerned with the study of (the dialectic of the familiar and the unfamiliar in Islamic photography), and it consists of four chapters.If you dealt with the problem of the research subject (the dialectic of the familiar and the unfamiliar in Islamic photography, as it appeared realistic, familiar forms and strange and strange unfamiliar forms represented in many of the main schools of Islamic photography that emerged in Iraq and Persia and then the Ottomans and the However, Islamic painting still retains those previously witnessed and unseen images, which pose themselves forcibly in the form of many questions that must be faced and studied by investigation, observation, extrapolation and conclusion through scientific research. The problem of research also lies in asking whether the Muslim artist intended to He puts those familiar forms of man with previously unfamiliar forms of the eye. Either he represents them through reality and myth together, or the fictional narration of the heavenly books, or by combining the two sides of the equation for the familiar and the unfamiliar in establishing its rules and technical principles for such a complex phenomenon Which is: revealing the dialectic of the familiar and the unfamiliar in Islamic photography. The first chapter included the objective, temporal and spatial boundaries and the definition of the most important terminology mentioned in the research. The second chapter was devoted to the theoretical framework, which was divided into two sections. The first concerned the familiar and the unfamiliar in Islamic philosophical thought. The second topic concerned the epistemological and aesthetic approaches to the art of Islamic painting. To reach the third chapter represented by the research procedures: including the research community and its large sample (3) of the artistic depictions of Islamic photography. The fourth chapter was devoted to the results of the research, conclusions, recommendations, and proposals. Among the most prominent results that the researcher reached: the emergence of familiar and realistic images of man and existence together with non-spiritual images Familiar ones, such as people with sacredness, such as images of messengers, prophets, the House, angels, people of knowledge and authority distributed between the world of theology and the world of humanity, where the unseen or unfamiliar spiritual side prevailed in this dialectic that connects the upper world with the lower world or connects everything that is realistic and lived with what is. Unfamiliar and hypothetical by Muslim artist and whoThis is what the research came up with, as well as the conclusions, research recommendations, suggestions, and sources.

Going Sibylline

Throughout the sixth chapter of the Aeneid, Virgil conjugates the zigzagging temper of the Cumaean Sibyl as the probabilistic ambivalence of the cosmos itself rather than as its playful or inaccurate duplication. By wrapping “true things with uncertainty”, the Sibyl’s chants cultivate more sensibilities regarding the “paths of fortune” branching the cosmos, thus engaging with the given in multi-linear and inconclusive terms. This essay suggests that, by conceiving such a cosmic fortuity as a general form of subjectivity, the Sibyl’s oracular set-up might help us enliven more ways of engaging with Donna Haraway’s quest for elaborating notions of objectivity and subjectivity that constitute one another without abandoning their own purpose. I would like to contend that such a sibylline engagement is an invitation to deploy more feminist lines of flight when it comes to technology’s intertwining with nature. It might help us think of the technical and natural as always already enfleshed, yet not so much in keeping with the Promethean claim for “making the given” as in pursuit of enlivening unfamiliar forms of coexistence with the given’s probabilistic ambivalence – a conceptualization making room for thinking of technicality in terms of syntonization, the calibration of attunement processes involving both gymnastic training and cosmetic fashioning.

Coverage Shortfalls at the Library of Agency

In his “Games and the Art of Agency,” C. Thi Nguyen makes an intriguing and very plausible suggestion: games, or at any rate a great many of them, are artworks whose medium is, roughly, how one goes about doing what one does. In assigning an objective, laying down the constraints under which it has to be achieved, and specifying the terrain on which it will be played out, a game sculpts the decision-making processes of its players, the ways they see their environment and option space, their motivations, and much else. Thus our by now quite extensive repertoire of games constitutes a library of agency. This library allows us to try on different modes of agency before deciding which is best for us—for a given type of occasion, or generally. It can help educate us into unfamiliar forms of agency, by providing the sort of controlled exercises that allow beginners the practice they need, which is to say that games are exercise and preparation for autonomous agency. And it promises to broaden and enrich our philosophical treatments of the topic, in part by serving as a testbed for competing theories of practical rationality; if we want to get a realistic sense of what it would be like to decide what to do, in the way that one or another theory of practical deliberation says, we can experiment with it in an appropriately designed game.

Assemblage Theory: Recording the Archaeological Record: Second Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

"Book Lover" and "House of the Deer": First Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

Interactive Mapping of Archaeological Sites in Victoria: First Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

Messy Assemblages, Residuality and Recursion within a Phygital Nexus: First Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

Remembering the Romans: Second Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

What’s the Meaning of Stonehenge? Second Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

Assemblage Theory: Recording the Archaeological Record

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

Publish and Perish: Second Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

The Melian Dilemma: Remaking Thucydides

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

Hearing Corwin Hall: First Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

Dermographic Opacities: First Response

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.

Remembering the Romans in the Middle East and North Africa: memories and reflections from a museum-based public engagement project

A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as ‘paradata’ or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.