Unusual Work Research Articles

Stress and Satisfaction While Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Personal and Job Resources

This study investigates how perceived work from home (WFH) stress affects job and life satisfaction and the role of specific personal and job resources in stress and job and life satisfaction for WFH employees. The rising demand for WFH due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant changes in employees’ job and overall life satisfaction. We conducted a quantitative survey of 283 first-time WFH employees in Bangladesh, applied the job demands–resources (JD-R) and conservation of resources (COR) theories, and employed a partial least squares–structural equation model. The results indicate that high stress resulting from WFH reduces job and life satisfaction; under such unusual work conditions, job satisfaction is a strong predictor of life satisfaction. Moreover, the effects of personal resources, such as job competence and perceived hope, on life satisfaction become operational through perceived supervisor support, perceived WFH stress and job satisfaction. Our study contributed to the literature by applying the JD-R and COR theories in a new WFH context to suggest that job resources, such as perceived supervisor support, become more effective when an employee is exposed to WFH for the first time, and some personal resources, such as job competence, become dependent on job resources.

Hemoptysis and Deep Vein Thrombosis in a middle aged male due to Anti Phospholipid Antibody (APLA) Syndrome’’ - A Case Report

Abstract 36 Years old male, farmer by profession from rural Tamil Nadu presented with complaints of unilateral painful leg swelling for 1 month and cough with hemoptysis for 3 weeks. Chest skiagram revealed Hampton’s hump and ultrasound venous Doppler revealed deep vein thrombosis of the left leg. His computed tomography pulmonary angiogram revealed pulmonary embolism. Due to unusual presentation work up was done and we found positive anti cardiolipin antibody, lupus anticoagulant and anti β 2 glycoprotein antibody. Patient was diagnosed as APLA and was started on oral anticoagulant.

Nicolaus De Sanctis, Clement IV and the Roman Curia in Search of Identity

This article deals with a less known Latin treatise, called Moral Rhetoric on the Functions of the Members of the Human Body. It is by the Capuan rhetorician Nicolaus de Sanctis, chaplain to several popes, and is dedicated to pope Clement IV (1265–1268). This unusual work has shown that it is perhaps a kind of mirror of Christian society as the Roman Curia wanted it to be, through the difficult times during the wars over the Sicilian succession, in which the Papacy was deeply involved. It is also an important link in the history of medieval organological literature and the rhetorical tradition associated with ars dictaminis cultivated in Southern Italy.

Dezvoltarea reprezentărilor despre operațiile aritmetice la copiii de vârstă preșcolară mare prin prisma metodei exercițiului

Solving arithmetic operations requires an unusual mental work that corresponds to a real action, characterized by mathematical transformations. Any arithmetic operation starts from a mathematical situation, random or provoked, which through observation, discovery, action that triggers a rational act of thinking. The most effective way to form representations about the arithmetic operations, addition and subtraction, is exercise, because only by repeating some actions can certain results be obtained.

A Work Out of Time: Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty

Abstract The year 2021 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), a book that set the agenda for decades of scholarship on the history of popular religion and supernatural beliefs. The book brought to life a lost world of early modern English magic, its success ultimately confirming popular beliefs and practices as respectable objects of historical study. This review essay, emerging out of a conference celebrating the book’s legacy, explores why Religion and the Decline of Magic came to have such a lasting hold on the historical imagination and why, despite half a century of historiographical development, it has managed to achieve a kind of ahistorical permanence. The essay traces this apparent timelessness, in part, to the book’s contested origins. Religion and the Decline of Magic was an unusual and unexpected work to emerge out of the Oxford History Faculty and the maelstrom of social history in the 1960s. While much attention has been paid to its engagement with anthropological theory, we argue that the book’s longevity owes more to its status as ethnography and to Thomas’s methods as a historian, allowing generations of new readers to gain fresh insights from a work out of time.

Crafting Medical Education Differently: An Innovative Pedagogical Approach to Enhance Deep Learning in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

In this article we explore an innovative pedagogical approach initiated during the COVID-19 lockdown period to support student learning in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. Student isolation and the lack of exposure to clinical cases during this period brought many challenges to the teaching platform. However, the global disruption enabled an ontological opening for imaginative and creative experimentation, an aspect of teaching rarely brought into medical training. We take up the unusual work of a clinician educator and others to describe the process of developing novel video recordings for undergraduate medical students. These videos, used as pedagogical tools, enabled new ways of engaging with core curricular needs in this discipline: for the teacher, new ways of producing teaching materials, and for the students, new ways of learning medical content. The videos drew on a range of creative modes including drawing and acting, to augment student learning. As authors, we suggest that the collision of the clinical content and the performative delivery in the videos fostered deep learning and made the curricular material alive and engaging. The existence of the videos enables a sustainable blended learning approach moving forward. The uploading of the videos as Open Educational Resources onto a YouTube channel and a public website now also contribute to teaching resources extending beyond institutional boundaries.

Review: The Construction of the Supernatural in Euro-American Cultures: Something Nice About Vampires, by Benson Saler

Review: <i>The Construction of the Supernatural in Euro-American Cultures: Something Nice About Vampires</i>, by Benson Saler

COVID-19가 헤어미용인의 위생인식에 미치는 영향

This study attempted to explore a beauty salon operation plan by investigating hairdressers’ perception of hygiene in the COVID-19 pandemic and analyzing differences depending on work patterns. For this, a questionnaire survey was performed against beauty salon managers from across the country. A total of 311 copies were used for final analysis, and the collected data were analyzed, using SPSS WIN 21.0. To examine subjects’ general characteristics and work patterns, frequency analysis was conducted. To examine hairdressers’ perception of hygiene in the COVID-19 era and analyze differences in such perception by work patterns, cross-tabulation analysis was implemented, and the study results found the followings: There were differences in hairdressers’ perception of hygiene depending on work patterns (e.g., type of beauty salon, No. of employees, work duration per day, number of customers served per day, number of days off, average monthly income) in the COVID-19 pandemic. To cope with current COVID-19 situations which are anticipated to continue, it is required to suggest a proper operation plan according to unusual work patterns in consideration of differences in hygiene awareness instead of responding to them as expected.

Unusual work hardening rate of a 3D gradient high purity Ti fabricated by laser surface treatment

Three types of heterogeneously structured high purity Ti samples, containing two iso-strained types and one iso-stressed type, were fabricated by using linear-scanning of laser surface treatment. The distances between the scanning-lines were modified to alter the space between the treated-zone and the matrix, forming a 3D gradient structure. These samples were tensile-tested at ambient temperature to characterize the strength and ductility. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), and transmission electron microscope (TEM) were employed to characterize the microstructures. Results indicate that the laser-treated zone contains a melting zone (MZ) and a heat affected zone (HAZ). Among all the laser-treated samples, a variant of iso-stress type specimen exhibits the best combination of mechanical properties together with unusual work hardening rate. Microstructure investigation and DAMASK simulation results indicate that a variant of iso-stress type specimen might have lower stress and strain concentrations under unaxial tension than homogenous samples, which explains their unusual performance.

ERGONOMIC ANALYSIS OF TRANSMISSION OVERHAUL PRACTICES WITH THE RULA METHOD IN THE DEPARTMENT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

This research was conducted to determine the work posture and the level of ergonomics risk in the transmission overhaul practice activity which later resulted in recommendations for designing ergonomic practical tools based on anthropometry of students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering Education UPI. Descriptive method through a cross-sectoral approach is used to answer the objectives of this study. Instruments such as anthropometric questionnaires regarding the dimensions of student body measurements include data on upright height, length of arm span to the side, and length of arm forward. The Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) questionnaire was also used for ergonomic risk level data requirements. The data that has been obtained is then processed by means of a data uniformity test, data adequacy test, and percentile calculation to determine 3 students who represent body size at the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles and continue to practice transmission overhaul which will be observed through a questionnaire. The results of data processing in this study explained that students' unusual work postures such as the neck upturned, legs bent, and the position of the hands reaching upwards for a long enough duration to cause aches and pains after the practice was over. This is evidenced by the acquisition of an overall score of 7 which means it is necessary to investigate and make changes to the process as well as the tools used in the transmission overhaul practice.

Incidence and Study of Sociodemographic Factors &amp; Other Risk Factor fors Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Backgound: The burden of pelvic organ prolapse in parous women is enormous. Bangladeshi women suffers a lot due to (POP) pelvic organ prolapse. Minor prolapse or laxity is generally ignored. When serious functional disability develops, women seek treatment advice. Home delivary and subinvolutions during puerperium is thought to predispose to urogenital prolapse. Here the incidence of different degree of prolapse and associated risk factors are assessed. Materials and method; This prospective observational study was carried out in outpatient department of gynaecology and obstetrics of SSMCMH during the period of January 2018 to September 2018. 100 parous women with subjective symptom of prolapse were included. Degree of prolapse and related risk factors were identified. Results: Here 53% had Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System (POP-Q) grade 1,32% had grade II and 15% had grade III and IV. Majority showed anterior vaginal wall defect. Cystocoele was 77% and perineal tear was 79%. Rectocoele was also present in 60% cases. Risk increases with increasing age 45% was &gt;60 years. Multipara (&gt;4 child) had the highest incidence. Also H/O home delivery, delivery by untrained personal, puerperial unusual work load increases the risk. Conclusion : POP is a common condition. Here the prevalence of grade I and II were high. But grade III and IV requiring surgical treatment among the women was 12% and 3% respectively .Incidence rises with increasing age, parity, prolonged and difficult labour . Birth spacing &lt;2 years and neglected puerperial period also contribute. Sir Salimullah Med Coll J 2022; 30: 129-132

Freud’s Moses and Fromm’s Freud: Erich Fromm’s silence on Freud’s Moses – a silence of negation or a silence of consent?

ABSTRACT In 1939 Sigmund Freud published his latest book, Moses and Monotheism, which is his most unusual and problematic work. In Moses Freud offers four groundbreaking claims in regard to the biblical story: [a] Moses was an Egyptian [b] The origin of monotheism is not Judaism [c] Moses was murdered by the Jews [d] The murder sparked a constant sense of unconscious guilt, which eventually contributed to the rational and ethical development of Jewish monotheism. As is well known, Freud’s Moses received extremely negative reviews from Jewish thinkers. The social psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, who wrote extensively on Freud as well as on Judaism and the biblical narrative, did not explicitly express his position on Freud’s latest work. This paper offers explanations for Fromm’s roaring silence on Freud’s Moses.

A qualitative study of reinforcement workers' perceptions and experiences of working in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A PsyCOVID-ICU substudy.

PurposeDuring the COVID pandemic, many hospitals had to mobilize reinforcement healthcare workers, especially in intensive care (ICUs). We investigated the perceptions and experiences of reinforcement workers deployed to ICUs, and the impact of deployment on their personal and professional lives.MethodsFor this qualitative study, a random sample of 30 reinforcement workers was drawn from 4 centres participating in the larger PsyCOVID-ICU study. Individual semi-structured interviews were held, recorded, transcribed and analyzed by thematic analysis.ResultsThirty interviews were performed from April to May 2021 (22 nurses, 2 anesthesiology nurses, 6 nurses’ aides). Average age was 36.8±9.5 years; 7 participants had no ICU experience. Four major themes emerged, namely: (1) Difficulties with integration, especially for those with no ICU experience; (2) lack of training; (3) difficulties with management, notably a feeling of insufficient communication; (4) Mental distress relating to the unusual work and fear of contaminating their entourage.ConclusionHealthcare workers deployed as reinforcements to ICUs at the height of the pandemic had a unique experience of the crisis, and identified important gaps in organisation and preparation. They also suffered from a marked lack of training, given the stakes in the management of critically ill patients in the ICU.

Maine approves plan to extend MH support to emergency responders

A Maine legislative committee has signed off on a proposal to try to help emergency responders better access mental health support, The Associated Press reported Feb. 7. The proposal establishes a presumption that firefighters, emergency medical technicians, police officers, emergency dispatchers and others who are diagnosed as having post‐traumatic stress disorder have the condition because of “extraordinary and unusual work stress,” a bill before the Maine Legislature states. The Legislature's Labor and Housing Committee unanimously approved the proposal on Feb. 7. Professional Firefighters of Maine backed the change. The organization said the bill would shift the burden of proof to the employer to prove the condition is not related to work. The full Maine Legislature must still vote on the proposal. The rule is currently on the books but is due to end in October. The bill before the Legislature would make it permanent.

Scale of the Nation: Alberto Giacometti's Miniature Monument

In 1939, Alberto Giacometti proposed an unusual work for the Swiss National Exhibition: a tiny head placed on a wide pedestal, which gave rise to dramatic scalar effects. This essay places this little‐known episode at the origin of Giacometti's post‐war experiments with scale, and argues that those experiments emerged out of a historical context – Switzerland's tense negotiation of national identity in the 1930s – in which monumental forms of sculpture could no longer fulfil their political functions. By untethering the bigness of a monument from its scale, Giacometti's little head disclosed scale's more profound social operation: to formalize and embody our historical practices of engaging with vast structures, including the political structure of the nation. This alignment of aesthetic and political scale suggests how a new phenomenological account of modern sculpture, indebted to Jean‐Paul Sartre rather than Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, calls into question modernism's supposed negation of the monument.

La imagen de Nuestra Señora del Rosario en Urubamba (Perú). Historia y culto

This article presents a multifaceted analysis of a painting depicting the image of Nuestra Señora del Rosario from the parish church in Urubamba. The canvas is an unusual work, especially in terms of iconography and in the context of the local rosary cult, which has a very well-established tradition. The painting itself carries a lot of information, the work tells its story through the portraits and inscriptions on it. Thanks to the analysis of the canvas, as well as archival documents, it became possible to reconstruct the context of the work’s functioning.

The Functional Role of Colloquial Syntax Elements in Tatyana Tolstaya’s Novel &lt;i&gt;Kys&lt;/i&gt;’

The article deals with a contextual analysis of one chapter in the novel Kys by Tatyana Tolstaya, a contemporary Russian writer. The linguistic peculiarity of this work is shown together with the importance and role of certain elements of colloquial syntax (such as incomplete sentences, syntactic parallelism, rhetorical questions, repeats, etc.). Specific ways and techniques of transforming syntactic units from a neutral plane of an utterance to an expressively emotional one are revealed on concrete examples. Arguments are provided that the functions of the colloquial syntax elements in the novel are to create a comical effect, to strengthen the emotionality of both the characters and the text in general, to organize the speech rhythm, as well as to reveal both the protagonists inner world and an aesthetic atmosphere of this unusual work.

Unusual Work Hardening Rate of a 3d Gradient High Purity Ti

Unusual Work Hardening Rate of a 3d Gradient High Purity Ti

Between fiction and truth - W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz as an anti-novel

The aim of this article is to discuss the most important characteristics of the so-called anti-novel on the example of a literary work (literary "photo-text") by W.G. Sebald Austerlitz, which in the history of contemporary German literature is considered to be extremely original in terms of form and an unusual (unconventional) prose work drawing on numerous, non-literary means of artistic expression such as photography or film. At the same time, such an unusual (i.e. going far beyond the traditionally understood novelistic genre framework) and unambiguously unclassifiable prose form is an original literary exemplification of the fight against oblivion in the context of the experience of war trauma and the hardships of searching for one's own identity in the postmodern era at the threshold of the twenty-first century, it is strongly oriented towards the reader and the horizon of his reading expectations (Wolfgang Iser), and the line between literary fiction and truth seems to be almost abolished. When discussing the most important anti-novel features, reference was made to the definition of the term "anti-novel" and selected theories in the field of aesthetics of the reception of a literary medialized text (Dieter Wellershof).

Perceptions About Flow and Boredom in the Information Technology Profession

This article aims to identify evidence of propensity for boredom and flow states among information technology (IT) professionals. A survey using the boredom proneness scale, Lee job boredom scale, and short flow scale resulted in 175 responses from professionals working in diverse IT activities. The main findings offer empirical evidence on the perception of IT professionals regarding (1) the occurrence of boredom and flow (even simultaneously), (2) highest occurrence of flow and boredom in the public sector, and (3) highest occurrence of boredom among younger IT professionals. This article offers relevant interpretations and contributions for theory and practice as it points out an emergent issue: IT professionals must also learn to deal with the routine and protocols of a maturing profession in order to meet industry standards, which interposes an unusual work situation for these professionals and their managers, since still prevail in the field the notions of a propensity for concentration to enjoy the task of coding and a willingness to face challenges, in a relaxed and funny way.