since the late seventies the german literary scene has witnessed a rising presence of german writers of foreign extraction examining their intercultural experiences on pivotal topics like refugees, schism, alienation, identity crises, and social and cultural conflicts. this paper deals with the method of presentation of the conflicts and problems related to culture, society and identity as depi...

Let us say that a normative conflict is a situation in which an agent ought to perform an action A, and also ought to perform an action B, but in which it is impossible for the agent to perform both A and B. Not all normative conflicts are moral conflicts, of course. It may be that the agent ought to perform the action A for reasons of personal generosity, but ought to perform the action B for ...

OBJECTIVE To examine how general practitioners experience patients' complaints. SETTING General practices in Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham health authority. PARTICIPANTS Representative sample of 30 general practitioners who had had complaints made against them under either the old or new complaints system. DESIGN Qualitative study with detailed interviews. RESULTS Participants descri...

.......Competition between platforms generates vendor behavior that sometimes aligns with the interests of users and application developers, and sometimes does not. For example, competition gives platform leaders incentives to improve the functionality of their code and improve the experiences of their users. It also leads them to make it difficult for users and programmers to switch between pl...

The period of overcoming crises in society due to pandemics, declining economic growth, social stratification, job loss business is characterized by political and instability, which creates conflict situations at all levels the hierarchy. transformation modern institutions, development processes reforming are accompanied a deepening contradictions between interests needs different groups indivi...

This Article proposes a new direction for addressing financial conflicts of interest, which plague biomedical research and threaten scientific integrity. This Article descriptively states the controversy surrounding financial conflicts of interest by explaining how these conflicts arise and the damage that can be created as a result. By describing the scientific process, the Article explains th...

While existing literature on third-sector support for ageing migrants shows that social clubs can be a vital source of support, what remains unclear is how these positive outcomes are attained an interactional level. Drawing fieldwork conducted over the course one year in meeting place older Russian-speaking capital region Finland, this paper adopts processual approach to examine sense groupnes...