Younger Colleagues Research Articles

Social Media Recommender Systems (SMRS): A Bibliometric Analysis Study 2000–2021

The increasing popularity of social media resources such as blogs, bookmarks, chatrooms, forums and video portals in recent years has attracted diverse users. Following the rise of the Internet, online content has become overloaded, prompting the introduction of recommender systems on social media. As a result, research on the dynamic growth of recommender systems in social media has gained significant traction since the year 2000. Social media recommender systems (SMRS) utilize multiple recommendation fields such as item, user, location, tag, event, tour and game in searching for preferred recommended information. Thus, young research fellows, academic scholars and practitioners must understand the need for SMRS to be complemented with recommendation fields. This requirement underlines the significance of a bibliometric analysis that focuses on social media based on existing publications. Hence, using the Web of Science (WoS) database, this study aimed to gather statistical information on SMRS to help researchers acquire an extensive understanding of such systems. The analysis was conducted by identifying SMRS-related publications and scientometric indicators to assess the growth rate, including the relative growth rate (RGR), doubling time (DT) and the field-normalized citation score (NCSf)—for citation analysis. Overall, this bibliometric study provides relevant measures for comparing and improving the citation rate of publications for new researchers.

A GENTLE GRADUALIST IN A CATASTROPHISTS’ WORLD: REINHOLD SEEMANN’S TECTONIC THEORY OF RIES IMPACT CRATER (GERMANY)

ABSTRACT The German geologist Reinhold Seemann (1888–1975), curator at the Wurttemberg natural history collections in Stuttgart, focussed most of his scientific work on the younger Tertiary north of the Alps. After 1936 he became especially interested in the Nordlinger Ries, an enigmatic geological structure in Southern Germany, which at that time was considered by most geologists to have originated through a volcanic catastrophe, but in the 1960s was to be reinterpreted as an impact crater. Seemann, however, adhered to a gradualist theory of Ries Basin genesis throughout his life, regarding the abundant broken and fragmented debris at Ries Basin as tectonic breccias, crushed by a hypothetical subterranean ‘wedge’ of rock slowly moving north, pushed by pressure built-up during alpine orogenesis and surfacing at the Ries area. As his correspondence with his younger colleague Helmut Holder shows, Seemann’s tectonic alternative was motivated strongly by his philosophical attitude preferring even wildly speculative and complex processes—as long as they acted gently and gradually—over any violent, catastrophic explanations however well-founded. His philosophy may have been influenced by his personal experience with two world wars, leading to his preference and campaigning for a gentle view of geological processes.

Intimacy in Psychotherapy: An Exploratory Survey Among Therapists.

A certain level of intimacy is necessary in psychotherapeutic relationships for them to be effective, but it can sometimes develop further into more intimate feelings and behaviors related to friendship and sexuality, into friendship, or even into sexual relationships. In this study, a self-administered questionnaire was sent to psychotherapists in Flanders (Belgium), asking about the occurrence of these situations. It provides an overview of these occurrences and comparative data to view for generational and cultural differences with previous studies. A response rate of 40% was obtained (N = 786): 69% of respondents were female therapists and none were transgender. A total of 758 therapists stated that they had actually provided psychotherapy and were included for further analysis. Three percent started a sexual relationship with a current and/or former client, 3.7% started a friendship during therapy, and 13.4% started a friendship after therapy. About seven out of ten therapists found a client sexually attractive, a quarter fantasized about a romantic relationship, and a fifth gave a goodbye hug at the end of a session (22%). In general, more male therapists reported sexual feelings and behaviors than female therapists. Older therapists more often behaved informally and started friendships with former clients compared to younger colleagues. Psychiatrists reported sexual feelings and fantasies less often than non-psychiatrists, and behavioral therapists reported this less frequently than person-centered and psychoanalytic therapists. Overall, prevalence rates of intimate feelings and behaviors related to friendship and sexuality are lower than those in previous studies.

Perceived stress and associated factors among healthcare workers in a primary healthcare setting: the Psychological Readiness and Occupational Training Enhancement during COVID-19 Time (PROTECT) study.

Disease outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic significantly heighten the psychological stress of healthcare workers (HCWs). The objective of this study was to understand the factors contributing to the perceived stress levels of HCWs in a public primary care setting during the COVID-19 pandemic, including their training, protection and support (TPS), job stress (JS), and perceived stigma and interpersonal avoidance. This cross-sectional study using an electronic self-administered questionnaire was conducted at the National Healthcare Group Polyclinics in March 2020. Data was collected anonymously. Analysis was performed using regression modelling. The response rate was 69.7% (n = 1,040). The mean perceived stress level of HCWs in various departments ranged from 17.2 to 20.3. Respondents who reported higher perceived stress were those who made alternative living arrangements, were more affected by the current pandemic, reported higher JS and were Muslims. Respondents who reported lower perceived stress were those who had been through the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic in 2003 and H1N1 pandemic in 2009 as HCWs, and those who had higher confidence in the organisation's TPS. All HCWs, regardless of their scope of work, were similarly stressed by the current pandemic compared to the general population. Improving the confidence of HCWs in their training, protection and the support of personal protective equipment, and retaining experienced HCWs who can provide advice and emotional support to younger colleagues are important. Adequate psychological support for HCWs in the pandemic can be transformed into reserves of psychological resilience for future disease outbreaks.

Graphic traditions of the “World of art” in the early work of V.M. Konashevich

The purpose of the article is to concretize and somewhat correct the seemingly indisputable statement about the commitment of one of the most prolific Russian illustrators, V.M. Konashevich, to the graphic tradition of the “World of Art”. The influence of the masters of this circle was particularly evident in the early work of Konashevich (1917-1922). However, even in this period, the artist was not the epigone of the luminaries, he used the discoveries of his older comrades to solve problems that lay outside the circle of their interests, he was looking for his own style. The article compares the experiences of the novice illustrator with the works of the masters of the famous association, analyzes their statements about the works of a younger colleague, as well as Konashevich's opinions about the aesthetics of the “World of Art” and about his own creative path.

Gardien ou soignant ? Les photographies d’Hippolyte Laurent, infirmier à l’asile de Bron de 1903 à 1907

Hippolyte Laurent, a male nurse and then mortuary attendant at the Bron lunatic asylum, took 270 photographs on glass plates at the beginning of the XXth century. We compared five of these pictures with archive documents and with bibliography. The French lunatic asylum were largely under-medicalized, and the number of patients in continuous increase before 1914. The profile of pathologies was very different from that of modern psychiatric hospitals, with a high proportion of age-related dementias and neurosyphilis, and an annual mortality of more than 10%. At that time, the nursing staff, compelled to a continuous service and celibacy, was multipurpose, also taking care of the cleaning of the premises. Their hard conditions of work were a major cause of the high turnover (around 30%). Fig. 1 shows an experienced male nurse training his younger colleagues in the technical gesture of forced feeding. This scene happened before management introduced a vocational certificate in 1907 to improve training. The medical care relied mainly on the nursing staff, backed by a community life that we can perceive in the clothing exchanges in Fig. 3. The framework of what was then called “moral treatment” included entertainment, depicted in Fig. 2, and close work support to work (Fig. 5). Hygiene and comfort care, specific procedures, balneotherapy support, medication delivery, the management of restlessness, came in addition to the range of nursing care. The daily supervision of nurses, carried out by supervisors, was based on written transmissions (Fig. 4), contradicting the preconceived idea of illiteracy in the profession. Nurses’ social and family conditions improved a few years before the war with the relaxation of continuous service and marriage authorization (1907). Still, permanent service did not disappear until after 1919. So, the nursing staff was not reduced to the role of keepers and they perfectly deserved the qualification of nurses, which the Bron asylum and many other lunatic asylums had recognized before 1900. But the possibility of moral treatment was undermined by the continuous increase in the number of patients.

Narrating Memory: Weighing up the Testimony

Memory is the ability to store, maintain and recall information and experiences. Although predominantly an individual attribute, memory coincides with the life-world, with consciousness and with the ability to define reality – all of which are shared with others. When analysing narratives the sociologist needs to situate individual memory within its broader context. The article follows the argument that individuals acquire their memories within a broader social context. They also recall and localise their memories within a broader social context. This article interprets a remarkable testimony: the story of a former political prisoner who circumcised a large number of young fellow inmates in the notorious prison on Robben Island, South Africa, during the period of Nelson Mandela‟s incarceration. The article relates the narrative in question to the life-world of the narrator and to his experiences whilst serving his 18-year prison sentence. It reflects on the epistemological questions regarding memories. Memory as recollection, as reconstruction of events and information, and as process of re-membering come under the spotlight. Narratives that are often repeated start taking on a life of their own – particularly in the case of trauma memories. When analysing these narratives, the sociologist needs to distinguish between objective markers and subjective interpretation. Memory does not constitute pure recall by the individual. The article illustrates the effect of intersubjective and collective factors on the process of remembering. It calls for a reflexive process to identify, re-interpret and unpack the process of remembering.

Why do or don't older employees seek knowledge from younger colleagues? A relation–opportunity model to explain how age‐inclusive human resources practices foster older employees' knowledge seeking from younger colleagues

AbstractKnowledge‐related interactions between older and younger employees are crucial for business success. Although research has contributed much to understanding why older employees share knowledge with younger colleagues, little is known about older employees' motivation to seek knowledge. In this study, we answer the question of how age‐inclusive human resources (HR) practices can foster older employees' knowledge seeking from younger colleagues. Drawing on social learning theory that conceptualises learning‐oriented behaviour (i.e. knowledge seeking) as being inextricably linked to social context and person‐related factors, we develop a dual pathway relation–opportunity model outlining how age‐inclusive HR practices foster older employees' development striving, which, in turn, promotes knowledge seeking from younger colleagues. On the one hand, we propose a relation‐based pathway that identifies contact quality with younger colleagues as a socio‐emotional mechanism linking age‐inclusive HR practices with knowledge seeking via development striving. On the other hand, we suggest an opportunity‐based pathway that identifies older employees' future time perspective as a person‐related mechanism. We find support for our hypotheses in a sample of 502 older employees who participated in a three‐wave survey. We discuss theoretical implications and encourage scholars to further shift the conversation towards an inclusive perspective that overcomes stereotypical views of older employees.

Childhood in the memoirs of Russian female historians of the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries

The present paper studies ego-documents of Russian female historians written in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries, with a focus on the works of N.I. Gagen-Thorn, E.V. Gutnova, M.M. Levis, V.N. Kharuzina, S.V. Zhitomirskaya, E.N. Shchepkina, and N.D. Flittner. How do these authors, in their childhood descriptions, discuss their professional choices? By producing ego-documents, the female historians wanted to preserve their memory of childhood events in the form of a new historical source. In so doing they followed the principles that they also adhered to when wri- ting historical essays. At the same time their texts are very subjective: each reflects the respective researcher's personal experiences. Each text is unique, and there are few overlaps with the memoirs of other female historians of their time, or with those of younger colleagues. In many ways, the women were influenced by authors of the Russian memoirist tradition; they often adhered to self-censorship (even when there was no clear ideological pressure from society). As a result, the narrative about childhood turned into a narrative about the prerequisites for the self-identification of women as scientists. Memories became a form of self-representation, and this conditioned the selective nature of childhood narratives; later success in the profession was projected back onto childhood memories. The childhood narratives of Russian female historians differ from texts of their male colleagues: women preferred to describe their impressions with references to material artifacts and to everyday rituals, writing carefully about their emotional experiences. One of the most important subjects in these womens memoirs and diaries was when they for the first time experienced the gender conflict in their lives: when they understood that their scholarly ambition runs against the common attitudes about gender attitudes that they had internalized in early childhood.

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

<i>Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad</i> by Michela Wrong

The poetics of the riddle in Lesya Ukrainka`s "northern" works

The article considers the ways of realization of the motif of the riddle in the works by Lesya Ukrainka such as the poem "One word" and the fantasy "Polar Night". The artistic means of creating a mystery are analyzed at the level of metrics, syntax, vocabulary, phonics as well as at the semantic level. Lesya Ukrainka's lyrical heritage is rich in images of exotic loci, an interesting attempt was taken to recreate the topos of the north as a place inherently alien to the Ukrainians both psychologically (opposition "warm-cold", "near-far", "day-night") and socio-historically (the north as a place of exile of the intelligentsia, a point of no return, a hostile wasteland, which took away strength, health, deprived of life). In the poem "One Word" the author not only outlines this locus, but also speaks on behalf of its inhabitant. Recitative manner, folklore formulae introduce a fairy-tale context to the reader, syntactic constructions emphasize the mysterious context of the story. The phonics of the poem also gives the key to understanding the work: if at the beginning of the poem, which tells about the appearance of "strangers" in the settlement, close sounds of high rise like "y", "i" prevail, later we can see that rounded, "harmonious" "o" often appears to characterize the "stranger". Lesya Ukrainka is concluded to be a genius in mastering the word: the author subtextually emphasizes that, having a phantom freedom, a man dies because of the restriction of his freedom, existential inability to reach it neither at home nor in prison. In the fantasy "Polar Night" a phantasmagoric depiction of the meeting of an old man, a young fellow, a woman, a child in a mysterious locus, their conversation about darkness and light, day and night, the motives of the feast and spilled wine reflect the biblical context of the afterlife or the level of existential search for human existence, ability or inability to experience the joy, to wake up to a new life. All things considered, in the poetic works of Lesya Ukrainka there are still many unsolved mysteries, finding the key to which will allow us to read the hidden meanings of modern culture of the turn of XIX and XX centuries.

2021 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Speech

2021 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Speech

Economic perspectives on the future of academic publishing: Introduction to the special issue

Economic perspectives on the future of academic publishing: Introduction to the special issue

Generational differences in international research collaboration: A bibliometric study of Norwegian University staff

This paper addresses the relationship between age and international research collaboration. The main research question is: do younger researchers collaborate more internationally than their senior colleagues? A common assumption is that younger generations are generally more internationally oriented than older generations. On the other hand, senior researchers may have larger international networks compared to younger colleagues. The study is based on data for 5,600 Norwegian researchers and their publication output during a three-year period (44,000 publications). Two indicators for international collaboration are used: The share of researchers involved in international collaboration measured by co-authorship and the average proportion of publications with international collaboration per researcher. These indicators reflect two different dimensions of international collaboration. Although the findings are not consistent across age cohorts and indicators of internationalization, the overall trend is that international collaboration tends to decline with increasing age. This holds both at aggregate levels and within groups of academic positions. However, the generational differences are not very large, and other variables such as the field of research explain more of the differences observed at an individual level.

Age discrimination at work against health-related professionals in Portugal.

Age discrimination affects older and younger workers, and prevents equal access to opportunities. This study aimed to characterize age discrimination at work in health-related professionals, and to explore its association to demographic variables. Exploratory cross-sectional, web-based questionnaire survey, including the Workplace Age Discrimination Scale (WADS), performed amongst 369 Portuguese health-related professionals. Participants were classified into two groups: physicians (medical doctors) and non-physicians (all other health-related professions). 82%of the professionals experienced age discrimination at work, non-physicians being the ones who most often experienced it (WADS 20.1 vs. 17.6). They have been more frequently passed over for a work role, evaluated less favourably and blamed for failures or problems due to their age. Non-physicians, with less experience in the profession, and with lower quality of life may experience age discrimination more frequently. They need to be closely monitored for discrimination. A key policy priority should be to plan for age diversity teams where older and younger professionals may work together and where older can teach/mentor younger colleagues.

Vladimir Alexi‐Meskishvili (1941–2021)

Vladimir Alexi‐Meskishvili (1941–2021)

Give and take? Knowledge exchange between older and younger employees as a function of generativity and development striving

Purpose Knowledge exchange between older and younger employees enhances the collective memory of an organization and therefore contributes to its business success. The purpose of this paper is to take a motivational perspective to better understand why older and younger employees share and receive knowledge with and from each other. Specifically, this study focuses on generativity striving – the motivation to teach, train and guide others – as well as development striving – the motivation to grow, increase competence and master something new – and argues that both motives need to be considered to fully understand intergenerational knowledge exchange. Design/methodology/approach This paper takes a dyadic approach to disentangle how older employees’ knowledge sharing is linked to their younger colleagues’ knowledge receiving and vice versa. The study applied an actor-partner interdependence model based on survey data from 145 age-diverse coworker dyads to test the hypotheses. Findings Results showed that older and younger employees’ generativity striving affected their knowledge sharing, which, in turn, predicted their colleagues’ knowledge receiving. Moreover, the study found that younger employees were more likely to receive knowledge that their older colleagues shared with them when they scored higher (vs lower) on development striving. Originality/value By studying the age-specific dyadic cross-over between knowledge sharing and knowledge receiving, this research adds to the knowledge exchange literature. This study challenges the current age-blind view on knowledge exchange motivation and provides novel insights into the interplay of motivational forces involved in knowledge exchange between older and younger employees.

Polarized Light Demonstrations with the Overhead Projector

The overhead projector is perhaps passing out of use, but it is still a useful device with which to do lecture demonstrations. In my early years at Kenyon I was teaching the pre-med course, and found that the overhead projector was an ideal platform for showing the phenomena of polarized light. This note is a discussion of how I learned to use the projector for these demonstrations. Now that I am in my eighth decade, I would like to pass on some of my earlier teaching techniques to my younger colleagues.

Elizabeth A. Clark September 27, 1938 - September 7, 2021

Obituary| November 01 2021 Elizabeth A. Clark September 27, 1938 - September 7, 2021 Catherine Michael Chin Catherine Michael Chin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2021) 5 (4): 478–480. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2021.5.4.478 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Catherine Michael Chin; Elizabeth A. Clark September 27, 1938 - September 7, 2021. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 November 2021; 5 (4): 478–480. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2021.5.4.478 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search A reminiscence and request from a former student At the age of twenty-five, Elizabeth Clark founded the Department of Religion at Mary Washington College. At the age of forty-three, she became the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor (later Professor Emerita) of Religion at Duke University. For the fifty-seven years altogether of her career, she changed what it was possible for people in the academy to do. She will not do this in the same way any more, and the loss her death represents is great. This is as it should be. Liz received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1964, shortly before starting to teach at Mary Washington. When she was older, she was fond of telling her students and younger colleagues, sometimes as encouragement, sometimes as self-deprecation, that it was not until she reached the age of forty that she finally decided to become the kind of scholar her graduate... You do not currently have access to this content.

Palliative Care in Neurology

Palliative Care in Neurology Abstract. Neurology as a discipline clearly overlaps with palliative care. Nevertheless, an early integration of palliative care accompanying neurological treatment rarely takes place, and there are still misunderstandings with regard to the timing of the inclusion of palliative care and its role beyond pure end-of-life care and hospice care. A further expansion and use of synergies should become an integral part of both disciplines in the coming years, and training should focus on appropriate training, especially for our young medical colleagues.