Construction of national identity and national pride of Germans in the intercultural context

National identity and patriotism are very problematic and highly sensitive concepts in contemporary Germany. Many scholars agree that a positive national identity is crucial for a nation’s well-being. This research attempts to investigate the process of forming a national identity and the display of national pride in the intercultural communication context. One focus group was conducted to analyze how Germans construct and/or reinvent their national identity when communicating with individuals from other nations. The results show that German national identity and national pride are strongly intertwined and poise a unique problem for every German. Germans have major difficulties in developing and expressing national pride, which consequently makes it even harder for the country to form a healthy and positive national identity. Thus, for Germany and its people, the connection between national identity and patriotism is a double-edged sword

Irrisept: Redefining Irrigation

IrriSept is the only FDA-Cleared device that delivers a pressurized solution containing Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) for cleansing and debridement. As a final rinse, prior to closure in surgical procedures, IrriSept has the potential to help reduce SSIs and associated treatment costs. IrriSept was developed with the goal of becoming the Standard of Care and improving patient outcomes. IrriSept has a wide range of activity against gram positive and gram negative bacteria, fungi, and viruses. It has demonstrated antimicrobial efficacy and persistence in laboratory testing.https://digitalcommons.centracare.com/nursing_posters/1088/thumbnail.jp

The Economic Impact of Policy Incentives in Eliminating Bad Habits :Mandatory Drug Testing for TANF Recipients

From the Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts (WUSHTA), Spring 2018. Published by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Joy Zalis Kiefer, Director of Undergraduate Research and Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences; Lindsey Paunovich, Editor; Helen Human, Programs Manager and Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences Mentor: Tat Cha

Foreign Investment in the United States

Cord-F. Koening is a student in the Graduate Program, School of Business, Georgia Southern College

A Classification Scheme for Young Stellar Objects Using the WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER ALLWISE Catalog: Revealing Low-Density Star Formation in the Outer Galaxy

We present an assessment of the performance of WISE and the AllWISE data release in a section of the Galactic Plane. We lay out an approach to increasing the reliability of point source photometry extracted from the AllWISE catalog in Galactic Plane regions using parameters provided in the catalog. We use the resulting catalog to construct a new, revised young star detection and classification scheme combining WISE and 2MASS near and mid-infrared colors and magnitudes and test it in a section of the Outer Milky Way. The clustering properties of the candidate Class I and II stars using a nearest neighbor density calculation and the two-point correlation function suggest that the majority of stars do form in massive star forming regions, and any isolated mode of star formation is at most a small fraction of the total star forming output of the Galaxy. We also show that the isolated component may be very small and could represent the tail end of a single mechanism of star formation in line with models of molecular cloud collapse with supersonic turbulence and not a separate mode all to itself

Asymptotic model for shape resonance control of diatomics by intense non-resonant light

Non-resonant light interacting with diatomics via the polarizability anisotropy couples different rotational states and may lead to strong hybridization of the motion. The modification of shape resonances and low-energy scattering states due to this interaction can be fully captured by an asymptotic model, based on the long-range properties of the scattering (Crubellier et al 2015 New J. Phys. 17 045020). Remarkably, the properties of the field-dressed shape resonances in this asymptotic multi-channel description are found to be approximately linear in the field intensity up to fairly large intensity. This suggests a perturbative single-channel approach to be sufficient to study the control of such resonances by the non-resonant field. The multi-channel results furthermore indicate the dependence on field intensity to present, at least approximately, universal characteristics. Here we combine the nodal line technique to solve the asymptotic Schrödinger equation with perturbation theory. Comparing our single channel results to those obtained with the full interaction potential, we find nodal lines depending only on the field-free scattering length of the diatom to yield an approximate but universal description of the field-dressed molecule, confirming universal behavior.Financial support by the Spanish project FIS2011-24540 (MICINN), grants P11-FQM-7276 (Junta de Andalucía), and by the Andalusian research group FQM-207

Bioéthique et anthropologie : Situer le " bien " dans la pratique médicale

RÉSUMÉBioéthique et anthropologie. Situer le « bien » dans la pratique médicaleCet article examine comment des anthropologues qui travaillent sur la bioéthique ont réussi à concilier deux conceptions de la morale médicale : l'une qui s'enracine dans les mondes locaux et l'autre, issue de la philosophie occidentale, qui applique des principes universels. Nous replaçons différentes notions de la personne dans le contexte de leur émergence pour montrer les difficultés qui surviennent lorsqu'il faut juger que telle pratique médicale est «appropriée» ou non. Notre ethnographie sur les soins en fin de vie et sur l'éthique dans la recherche médicale internationale montre qu'une bioéthique imprégnée de connaissances anthropologiques permet d'ancrer les conceptions universelles dans la réalité locale. Notre analyse révèle la fragilité d'une bioéthique qui ignore le contexte social et qui prône une version particulière (américaine) de l'autonomie individuelle. Selon nous, l'application simpliste de principes éthiques universaux élude la complexité de l'expérience vécue et les dilemmes de la réalité.Mots clés : Marshall, Koenig. anthropologie, bioéthique. État-UnisABSTRACTIntersections of Bioethics and Anthropology : Locating thé "Good" in Médical PracticeThis paper explores how anthropologists working in thé field of bioethics hâve bridged thé gap between conceptions of médical morality grounded in local worlds and thé universal understandings espoused within thé western philosophical tradition. We highlight culturally diverse notions of personhood to illustrate difficulties that émerge when judging certain practices as "appropriate" or "inappropriate". Our ethnographie work in end-of-life care and international research ethics demonstrates how an anthropologically informed bioethics produces an account that grounds ethical universals in local moral worlds. Our analysis reveals thé thinness of bioethics accounts that disregard social context and celebrate a spécifie (American) version of individual autonomy. We argue that a simplistic application of ethical universals to particular cases dénies thé complexity of lived expérience and real world dilemmas.Key words : Marshall. Koenig. bioethics. anthropology. United State