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This paper presents an overview of Robert Castel's discussion on the status of the individual and its «problematic character» by focusing on the notions of social supports of individuality and social property. In exploring these notions and the history of the wage-earning society, the French sociologist sheds light on the genealogy of the crucial link between work, social (dis)affiliation and individual identity. Far from adopting a workist approach, he argues in favor of the reshaping of social welfare and labour law in contemporary, neoliberal, societies.

Twitter is an Internet social-network and micro-blogging platform with both mass and interpersonal communication features for sharing 140-character messages, called tweets, with other people, called followers. Hierarchical OLS regression of survey results from 317 Twitter users found that the more months a person is active on Twitter and the more hours per week the person spends on Twitter, the more the person gratifies a need for an informal sense of camaraderie, called connection, with other users. Controlling for demographic variables does not diminish this positive relationship. Additionally, frequency of tweeting and number of @replies, public messages between Twitter users, mediate the relationship between active Twitter use and gratifying a need for connection. Results are discussed in light of uses and gratifications theory.

Social interactions are central to the health and psychological well-being of domestic animals. Until now, research has overwhelmingly focused on negative social behaviours such as aggression or the lack of social interactions such as social separation and isolation. This contradicts the fact that social animals derive benefits from living in a group, and observations that positive forms of social behaviour are the predominant type in stable groups. In particular, prosocial behaviours have been overlooked. As a result, we know little about the breadth of the prosocial behavioural repertoire, the motivation of animals to act prosocially, its modulation by individual and contextual factors, and its ultimate welfare implications.
Prosocial behaviours are generally defined as actions that an individual engages in to benefit others, and more specifically actions “expected to produce or maintain the physical and psychological well-being and integrity of others” (Wispé, 1972), hence giving animals a stake in the welfare of others. The prosocial behavioural repertoire is diverse, englobing various forms of social behaviours: parental care, affiliation, sharing, social teaching, cooperation and other types of caring and helping behaviours toward others. Prosocial behaviour differs from empathy in that empathy infers relating to another’s state whereas prosocial behaviour refers to an action, and not all prosocial behaviours may require the capacity for empathy. Nevertheless, the mechanisms that motivate an animal to act prosocially are still poorly understood. Prosocial behaviours can be modulated by a number of factors, amongst which individual characteristics (ontogeny, previous experience, dominance relationships, sociality level, emotional state, gender), the recipient (relationship to the donor, need and benefit), and the context (social and physical environments, resource availability).
To date, research on prosocial behaviour in domestic animals has mostly been limited to parental and affiliative behaviours. Evidence of other prosocial behaviours in domestic animals is sparse, but this is due to a lack of research rather than null findings. A better understanding of the social and husbandry factors modulating prosocial behaviours has implications in practice. Most importantly, the implications of prosocial behaviours for animal welfare remain to be elucidated. The link between social behaviour and affective states offers opportunities to use prosocial behaviour to promote positive mental states and well-being in social animals. Prosocial behaviours could be positive welfare indicators of bilateral nature, beneficial to the recipient and inherently rewarding to the donor.

The study looked into the ability of academic delay of gratification (e. g. intentionally miss out a social event such as parties and hanging out in order to be able to focus on their studies) and need for affiliation (e. g. establishing and managing close interpersonal relationships with others) to predict the academic achievement (e. g. average grade of all subjects during the first grading period of the academic year) of high school students. A sample of 1,021 Filipino fourth year high schools students from selected private and public high schools in Metro Manila participated in this study. Results showed that academic achievement was positively predicted by academic delay of gratification but negatively predicted by need for affiliation an indication of the ability of high school students to prioritize goals.

Hierarchical OLS regression of survey results from a random sample of 312 women bloggers reveals a statistically significant positive relationship between need for self-disclosure and seeing blogging as a way to express one’s own voice, mediated by need for affiliation and time spent blogging. In essence, women with a strong need to self-disclose information about themselves are more likely than other women to say they blog to express their own voice in the blogosphere, compared with blogging to connect with other people or to gain influence in the blogosphere. In contrast, for women who blog to connect with other people or gain influence in the blogosphere, the strongest predictors is time spent blogging, not needs that motivated them to blog. Results are discussed in relation to need theory.

There has been a growing concern about fraud peer review articles that have been published in some journals in favor of their authors' affiliation, which have been discussed extensively by some researchers. This research paper introduces another a new challenge in academic world concerning journals’ editors who look at authors' affiliations rather than papers' contents. In this short paper, we will introduce this alarming problem and do an experimental test by submitting computer generated papers to some journals and finally present the results of our experiment. The paper is an expression of our concern about providing for maximum high ethics in and quality of publication policy of modern scientific journals.

ÖZET Çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'de 2011 yılı itibariyle uygulanmaya başlanan ve gün geçtikçe kullanımı yaygınlaşan, " Üniversiteler ile Sağlık Bakanlığı'nın ilgili tesislerinin birlikte kullanımı neticesinde oluşan kurumlarda çalışan personele " uygulanan, performansa dayalı ek ödeme sisteminin çalışanların verimliliklerini olumlu veya olumsuz yönde etkileyip etkilemediğinin araştırılmasıdır. Konuyla ilgili çalışmaya literatür taraması yapılarak başlanmış; bu alanda kitap, makale, yayımlanmış ve yayımlanmamış yüksek lisans ve doktora tezleri ve internet dokümanları incelenmiştir. Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi'nde uygulanmakta olan, performansa dayalı ek ödeme sisteminin hastane çalışanlarının verimliliklerine olan etkilerini belirlemek amacıyla anket geliştirilmiş ve çalışan personel üzerinde uygulanmıştır. Araştırmanın evreni Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi ile T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı'na bağlı Muğla Devlet Hastanesi'nin 26/04/2011 tarihinde imzaladığı " birlikte kullanım ve işbirliği protokolü " ile Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi olarak adlandırılan kurumda araştırmanın yapıldığı tarihlerde çalışan personelin tümüdür. Çalışanların değerlendirmelerini almak üzere 550 adet anket çalışması sunulmuş ancak bunların 338'i cevaplandırılmıştır. Elde edilen veriler SPSS 14.0'da incelenmiştir. Çalışma sonucunda personelin PDEÖS hakkındaki düşüncelerinin olumsuz yönde olduğu görülmüştür. ABSTRACT The aim of the hereby study is to analyze whether the work system, called " Performance based additional payment " affects the employees of the institutions, emerged after the co-colcational use of the Universities and the relevant institutions of the Ministry of Health in a negative or positive manner. The study in this regard was initiated by conducting a literature review and the books, articles, published or unpublished post graduate or doctorate thesis as well as the internet based documents were studied. In order to determine the impact of the Performance Based Additional Payment System, that is currently being implemented in the Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Training and Research Hospital, on the efficiency of the employees of the said hospital, a survey was developed and implemented on the working personnel. The population of the research is comprised of the entire personnel, working in the Institution, renamed Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Training and Research Hospital, upon undersigning the " protocol for cooperation and collocation " signed by The Muğla State Hospital under the Ministry of Health and by Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University by time the indicated research was being conducted. 550 surveys were presented in order to acquire the assessments of the employees but only 338 of them were filled in. The data, received from this were analyzed in SPSS 14.0. As a result of the study it was seen that staff had negative attitudes towards to the Performance Based Additional Payment System.

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There has been a growing concern about fraud peer review articles that have been published in some journals in favor of their authors' affiliation, which have been discussed extensively by some researchers. This research paper introduces another a new challenge in academic world concerning journals’ editors who look at authors' affiliations rather than papers' contents. In this short paper, we will introduce this alarming problem and do an experimental test by submitting computer generated papers to some journals and finally present the results of our experiment. The paper is an expression of our concern about providing for maximum high ethics in and quality of publication policy of modern scientific journals.

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar los mecanismos afiliativos que emergen en la interacción psicoterapeuta-paciente bajo el Análisis de la Conversación (AC) como disciplina de estudio. De acuerdo con el enfoque empírico de esta disciplina, se han grabado dos sesiones de psicoterapia reales y se han transcrito según las convenciones propias del Análisis de la Conversación.
Partiendo de la idea de que estudiar la comunicación humana implica prestar atención a elementos de distinta naturaleza, este trabajo se desvía ligeramente del enfoque tradicional lingüístico-verbal y explora el fenómeno de la afiliación en relación con otros recursos multimodales: la prosodia y, principalmente, el cuerpo (miradas, gestos, posición corporal, manipulación de objetos) y su relación con el entorno. De esta manera, se ha contribuido a mitigar la escasez actual de investigaciones en el ámbito institucional de la terapia psicológica desde el AC, poniendo de manifiesto que la multimodalidad no verbal afecta de manera directa en la incidencia de momentos empáticos y afiliativos, fundamentales para lograr un acercamiento entre el especialista y el paciente y, por consiguiente, facilitando el éxito en el proceso psicoterapéutico.

ÖZ Bu çalışmanın amacı, afiliye olan Sağlık Bakanlığı'na bağlı hastanelerde afiliasyonun hastanelerin finansal yapılarına etkilerini ortaya koymak ve bunlar üzerinde gerekli değerlendirmeleri yapmaktır. Çalışmada hem Sağlık Bakanlığı hastaneleri büyüme oranları hem de Türkiye geneli ekonomik büyüme oranları dikkate alınmak suretiyle afiliye olan toplam 17 sağlık kuruluşundan 13'ünde afiliasyonun hastane bütçelerine olan etkileri ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Bunun için söz konusu sağlık kuruluşlarının afiliye olmadan önce ve afiliye olduktan sonraki gelir ve gider tahakkukları karşılaştırılmıştır. Bunların dışında afiliasyon uygulamasının hastane bütçe performansı üzerine etkisi daha detaylı olarak ele almak için ise afiliye olan 1 sağlık kuruluşu ayrıca ele alınmıştır. Bu kapsamda söz konusu sağlık kuruluşunda afiliasyonun personel giderlerine; tıbbi malzeme ve ilaç giderlerine; yatırım giderlerine; hastane borçlanma oranına; ayakta, yataklı, tedavi gören hasta sayısına olan etkileri ele alınmıştır. Verilerin analizinde Microsoft Excel'den yararlanılmıştır. Yapılan analizlere göre genel olarak Türkiye kamu hastanelerinde afiliasyon uygulamasının hastane bütçesini olumlu yönde etkilediği bulunmuştur. Diğer taraftan genelde eğitim araştırma hastaneleri ile afiliye olmanın afiliye olan hastane bütçesini olumsuz, devlet hastaneleri ile afiliye olmanın ise hastane bütçesini olumlu etkilediği tespit edilmiştir. Afiliasyonun mali etkilerini ortaya koymak için ayrıca SPSS 20 aracılığıyla Wilcoxon Testi yapılmıştır. Yapılan analize göre hastanelerin afiliasyon öncesi gelir-gider tahakkuku farkları ile afiliasyon sonrası gelir-gider tahakkuku farkları arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı farklılıklar bulunmamıştır.

Through content analysis of messages posted on Twitter, we categorize the types of content into a matrix — attention, emotion, information, and opinion. We use this matrix to analyze televised political and entertainment programs, finding that different types of messages are salient for different types of programs, and that the frequencies of the types correspond with the program content. Our analyses suggest that Twitter picks up where formal social television systems failed: people are using the tool to selectively seek others who have similar interests and communicate their thoughts synchronous with television viewing.

Everyday storytelling is a common interactive and multimodal practice, which gives insight into intersubjective processes of achieving affiliation between two (or more) conversation participants. In the first comparison of naturally occurring German and Turkish face-to-face communication, both corpora show the narrator and recipient playing a crucial role in the display of alignment and thereby establishing communion. To this end, they both use various nonverbal techniques in addition to verbal and paraverbal methods, the later having been the sole focus of linguistic analysis up to now.

News sourcing practices are critical as they shape from whom journalists get their information and what information they obtain, mostly from elite sources. This study evaluates whether social media platforms expand the range of actors involved in the news through a quantitative content analysis of the sources cited by NPR’s Andy Carvin on Twitter during the Arab Spring. Results show that, on balance, non-elite sources had a greater representation in the content than elite sources. Alternative actors accounted for nearly half of the messages. The study points to the innovative forms of production that can emerge with new communication technologies, with the journalist as a central node trusted to authenticate and interpret news flows on social awareness streams.

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The article demonstrates two parallel yet interlinked accounts on quality: in conversation analysis (CA) and in interpersonal process recall (IPR). We illustrate our argument with data com- ing from couple therapy. CA was used to examine asymmetry in the therapist’s affiliation with the two spouses, whilst IPR offered means to explore the therapist’s subjective experience and cognitive processes related to these events. By comparing and contrasting two approaches, the quality-related concerns in each of them are discussed. Furthermore, the analysis shows that using these two methods in parallel, in investigating the same data, can enhance the overall quality of research.

This paper discusses the epistemic value of political parties and other partisan associations from the standpoint of epistemic democracy. It examines whether political parties contribute to the quality of democratic deliberation, thus increasing the epistemic value of democratic decision-making procedures, or represent a threat that polarizes the society and impedes and distorts the public deliberation. The paper introduces several arguments that support the epistemic value of partisanship. Partisan associations empower otherwise marginalized social groups or groups that have disproportionally small political infl uence by facilitating political education or by connecting citizens and experts who share the same values. Partisan associations also help us resist the epistemi-cally damaging effects of hermeneutical (epistemic) injustice by enabling marginalized citizens to construct alternative discourses. However, though partisanship might facilitate the transmission of knowledge, this deliberative tool will only be used in a group of like-minded citizens (i.e. within a political party), thus increasing the polarization between the parties and citizens alike, and decreasing the epistemic value of such collective decision-making procedures. The paper analyses some epistemic strategies (like red-teaming or building a critical thinking culture) that can help us avoid or (at least) reduce the epistemically damaging effects of polarization. However, internal action (from within a deliberative group) might not be enough. Making the deliberation on political issues public and spreading it through different forms of citizens' organizations will ensure that political deliberation is not closed within a single homogenous deliberating group (i.e. the party). These practices should signifi cantly reduce the damaging effects of group polarization.

One aspect of threat of terrorist public communication is incitement to violence and legitimating it (Tsesis, 2017). This paper contributes to understanding how bonds tabled in discourse are exploited to legitimize 'Our' violence and to delegitimize ‘outgroups’. I argue that the inciting texts drive the strategic use of bonds to achieve a main rhetorical function: legitimizing violence. The patterns of bonds, geared as a basis for perception and (de)legitimation, are investigated as realized in a set of incitement texts communicated publicly by the former al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, and the far-rightist, Brenton Tarrant. The analytical approach mainly draws on Knight's (2010) social semiotic approach to bonding to identify the account of bonds as evidence of and entry points to (de)legitimation. The patterns of bonds across each terrorist's texts are then labelled thematically based on what is (de)legitimated. To identify reference to reasons of (de)legitimation, Van Leeuwen's (2007) semantic-functional strategies of critique and (de)legitimation are used. To map the rhetorical structure level-style of (de)legitimation, the classic appeal strategies – pathos (appeal to incitees' emotions), logos (rational arguments) and ethos (authority-based arguments) – are identified. Findings showed that both authors tended to deploy (i) communing bonds to legitimize 'Our' violence and (ii) condemning bonds to delegitimize outgroups (mainly, their actions, values, and membership), chiefly via moralization, rationalization and authorization, and by drawing on authors' ethos and logical reasoning.

Keywords: affiliation, incitement, legitimization of violence, bonding, violent extremist discourse, ideological schema

There has been a growing concern about fraud peer review articles that have been published in some journals in favor of their authors' affiliation, which have been discussed extensively by some researchers. This research paper introduces a new another challenge in academic world concerning journals’ editors who look at authors' affiliations rather than papers' contents. In this short paper, we will introduce this alarming problem and do an experimental test by submitting computer generated papers to some journals and finally present the results of our experiment. The paper is an expression of our concern about providing for maximum high ethics in and quality of publication policy of modern scientific journals.

This paper investigates how the interviewer (IR) employs repeats of his interviewees' (IEs')prior turns to further their (IEs') agenda and stance in Aljazeera's al-itijaah al-mu'akis (‘The Opposite Direction’, hereafter).‘The Opposite Direction’is a weekly news interview pro-gram that broadcasts live in Arabic on Aljazeera. The show hosts two guests with opposing political views. Twenty, 50 min episodes were studied and transcribed following Conversation Analysis as my analytic method. This paper argues that the IR uses a specific questioning practice with those interviewees whom he favors, I refer to them as interviewees in the favorable position (IEFs), allowing them to further their agenda against the other's. The paper shows how the IR's actions of agenda furthering is achieved by repeating his IEFs' previous turns in a question format which allows IEFs an opportunity to confirm and highlight a previous turn for the overhearing audience. I refer to this IR practice as the Affiliative Other Initiated Repeats (AOIRs). This study has implications that are multidisciplinary for Conversation Analysis, Arabic linguistics, cross cultural studies,and Arabic media studies.

Although it is well established that rhythmically coordinating with a social partner can increase cooperation, it is as yet unclear when and why intentional coordination has such effects. We distinguish three dimensions along which explanations might vary. First, pro-social effects might require in-phase synchrony or simply coordination. Second, the effects of rhythmic movements on cooperation might be direct or mediated by an intervening variable. Third, the pro-social effects might occur in proportion to the quality of the coordination, or occur once some threshold amount of coordination has occurred. We report an experiment and two follow-ups which sought to identify which classes of models are required to account for the positive effects of coordinated rhythmic movement on cooperation. Across the studies, we found evidence (1) that coordination, and not just synchrony, can have pro-social consequences (so long as the social nature of the task is perceived), (2) that the effects of intentional coordination are direct, not mediated, and (3) that the degree of the coordination did not predict the degree of cooperation. The fact of inter-personal coordination (moving together in time and in a social context) is all that's required for pro-social effects. We suggest that future research should use the kind of carefully controllable experimental task used here to continue to develop explanations for when and why coordination affects pro-social behaviors.

The article is a critical edition of two epithalamniums by Jan Karol Dachnowski,
a Baroque minorum gentium poet, so far unpublished as a whole. "Epos nuptiale" was included
in "Talamodia", published in 1620, whereas "Hymen weselny" (Wedding anthem) could be found
in "Filantropia" from 1631. Both texts show strong affiliations with the Antiquity. The former is
based on Claudian’s Epithalamium dictum Palladio et Celerine, while the latter was inspired by
Fragment 44, attributed to Sappho. The edition includes a critical apparatus and explanations.

Using a grounded theory qualitative research approach, this article examines the experiences of 28 adjunct faculty members who work at the same university, exploring their views on whether periodically meeting face-to-face with management and peers has the potential to affect their motivation on the job and consequently the quality of education they provide to students. A few management representatives also shared their perspectives on the phenomenon; this enabled the researcher to compare the views of these two populations on whether face-to-face contact among faculty enhances teaching performance. The results of this study suggest a few issues that online schools must address in their efforts to improve adjuncts’ sense of affiliation and loyalty to their institution, which in turn will positively affect student retention levels. The main issues of concern to adjunct faculty are (a) inadequate frequency and depth of communication, regardless of the means used, whether online or fac...

Abstract This paper investigates how the interviewer (IR) employs repeats of his interviewees' (IEs') prior turns to further their (IEs') agenda and stance in Aljazeera's al-itijaah al-mu'akis (‘The Opposite Direction’, hereafter). ‘The Opposite Direction’ is a weekly news interview program that broadcasts live in Arabic on Aljazeera. The show hosts two guests with opposing political views. Twenty, 50 min episodes were studied and transcribed following Conversation Analysis as my analytic method. This paper argues that the IR uses a specific questioning practice with those interviewees whom he favors, I refer to them as interviewees in the favorable position (IEFs), allowing them to further their agenda against the other's. The paper shows how the IR's actions of agenda furthering is achieved by repeating his IEFs' previous turns in a question format which allows IEFs an opportunity to confirm and highlight a previous turn for the overhearing audience. I refer to this IR practice as the Affiliative Other Initiated Repeats (AOIRs). This study has implications that are multidisciplinary for Conversation Analysis, Arabic linguistics, cross cultural studies, and Arabic media studies.

In the Russian justice system, the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil was developed at the case law level and is used to prevent abuse in corporate relationships on the part of those who control a legal entity in detriment to the property rights of the legal entity's creditors. Since the principle of limited liability is important for Russian civil circulation, it is necessary to identify the relevant grounds for the application of said doctrine and its application criteria. Our objective is to justify not only the need for preservation of the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil in the Russian legal system, but also the development of the doctrine by giving it concrete substance based on generalization of existing case law. The criteria for applying the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil are: monitoring the activities of a legal entity by another entity which can influence commercial companies' decision making, actually or legally; violations or abuse of rights; existence of a cause-and-effect relationship between a violation or an abuse of rights on the part of the beneficiary and the creditor's losses; the existence of exceptional circumstances in which it is impossible to protect the creditors' legitimate interests with other legal measures; and dispute arising from private law relations. The main consequence of applying the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil is the disregard for the corporate entity. Autonomy can manifest in three areas (extension of a party's debts to the legal entities under its control; acknowledgement that the rights and liabilities are actually vested in the party which managed the legal entity; acknowledgement of the legal entity as a representative of the controlling legal entity).