Abstract
This paper explains that the disjunction between patient and nurse perception of call bells is the crux of the research reported by Deitrick, Bokovoy, Stern and Panik in their article "Dance of the Call Bells: Using Ethnography to Evaluate Patient Satisfaction with Quality of Care". The paper points out that Deitrick et al found that the nursing staff often ignored patient calls or deferred responsibility for answering them because the nurses often viewed the calls as being a nuisance. The paper concludes that ethnographic methods provide a more comprehensive picture than quantitative data alone.

Table of Contents:
Research Problem and Purpose
Literature Review
Research Question
Research Design
Sampling
Variables
Method of Data Collection and Analysis
Issues of Rigor
Legal Issues and Research Ethics
Limitations
Findings/Conclusions
Implications
Recommendations

From the Paper
"A number of different data collection methods were used. First, researchers mapped the site in question including the layout of the patient unit, nursing stations, public and private areas, utility rooms, and the position of the unit in relation to the rest of the hospital. Also, the nursing stations were themselves mapped to provide greater detail about the location of their materials. Special attention was given to mapping the central nurse station. Second, photographs captured a large amount of information for the current study such as snapshots of the call bell console at the nurse's stations."

Tags:disjunction ethnograph, work flow, system photographs

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This paper describes how Margaret Atwood's literature fuses feminism with the Canadian experience of survival in the wilderness and how Atwood finds the same dilemma repeated in the experience of woman struggling against patriarchal domination. Indeed she locates patriarchy at the root of both evils. The paper analyzes key poems of Atwood such as "The Journals of Susanna Moodie" to show how she expresses the existential disjunction that occurs in patriarchal society when it tries to dominate nature.

From the Paper
"It is in order to emphasize this disjunction that Atwood chooses to focus on the experiences of the early 19th century Canadian poet Susanna Moodie in her cycle of poems under the heading The Journals of Susanna Moodie. She was a genteel English Lady who emigrated to Canada with her husband, and writes about her harsh experiences of surviving in the wilderness. Atwood's contention is that Moodie's experience is not just an adaptation process for an English lady, but in fact points to a permanent Canadian experience, which persists in more subtle forms to this day. In the Journal she tries to recreate the 19th century experience in light of the modern one. "

Tags:patriarchy, disjunction, wilderness, handmaid's, tale, Susannah, Moodie

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This paper describes historicity in post-modern fiction as yielding a sense of radical disjunction or of combinations of events that do not take place either chronologically or in terms of historical veracity. It discusses examples of historicity in two modernist postmodern novels - Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man".

From the Paper
"In Farishta's hallucinations, as Rushdie implies, his dream-images of the Prophet Muhammad offer him, in the latter years of the 2oth century, no modern day comfort. Controversial portions of The Satanic Verses, including this one, examine, in fragmented post-modern fashion, the imagined (by this troubled fictional character) the roots of a belief system, Islam, that within this character's hallucinations are not what they are historically; theologically; and traditionally believed to be. Here, therefore, Rushdie playfully "rewrites" Islamic history, in the form(s) of far-fetched dreams of an unstable and unreliable character. Farishta hallucinates, among other things that the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, moonlight as prostitutes, and that Muhammad himself is (in Farishta's strange dreams) but a "for profit" Prophet."

Tags:chronological, authenticity, plot

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This paper provides an analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli's "Prince," written during the Italian Renaissance. "Prince" was dedicated, the paper states, to Lorenzo de Medici, the ruler of Florence, and was composed as a counsel for ruling by providing practical and reasoned advice. In the book, the paper notes, Machiavelli carefully explores the distinctive qualities that a successful prince is deemed to possess. The paper explains that scholars from all corners of the world have ascribed to two distinct opinions - some view Machiavelli as a representative of modern democracy, while other scholars view Machiavelli as the founding father of non-democratic regimes. The paper strives to explore both views in detail, concluding that Machiavelli is a strong proponent of realism - a cynical view of politics devoted to furthering personal interests with no regard to moral or religious structures; thus, Machiavellianism represents a disjunction from the established tenets of democracy.

From the Paper
"Machiavelli encourages the prince not to hesitate in using force to gain and stay in power. He also goes on to say that a prince ought to protect the weaker neighbours and prevent the powerful ones from gaining power (Machiavelli, 1997). He makes it clear that virtue or ability is more related to statecraft and less related to morality. This goes against the grain of conventional virtue and hence justice as it encourages people in power to use whatever means, even ruthless, to preserve their power."

Tags:realism, political, structure, moral, Lorenzo, de, Medici, Italian, Renaissance

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This paper looks at Mendelian genetics, Mendel's law of segregation and Mendel's law of independent assortment. The paper looks at sex linkage, and gives an example in humans, and looks at karyotyping and its significance. The paper then talks about non-disjunction of homologous chromosomes and its effects.

Tags:Mendelian Genetics, sex linkage, karyotype, nondisjunction of homologous chromosomes

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This paper analyzes three different thinking styles: logical, persuasive and systematic thinking. The author uses workplace examples to show how the critical thinking-process moves into the decision making-process. The paper explains that one component of logical thinking is the deductive thinking process, which then is broken down into three types of syllogism-- categorical, hypothetical and disjunctive. The author relates that a successful persuader usually has knowledge of the subject, is objective, and honest, and can appeal to the other person's needs, wants, and values. The paper utilizes the example of an employee asking for a raise to demonstrate systematic thinking.

From the Paper
"Persuasive thinking can be positive when following moral and ethical guidelines. In doing so one must be aware of his or her biases and control them. It's necessary to be objective and see things from different perspectives and to know the audience's values and needs.
Thinking systematically, or methodically, is probably the most popular and most organized style of thinking. Systematic Thinking involves the thinker to follow four simple steps, they are: (1) recognize and investigate the problem, (2) devise multiple alternatives, (3) characterize and institute a selection criteria, and (4) make a concluding verdict."

Tags:logical, persuasive, systematic, ethical, syllogism

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This paper explains that critical thinking and critical decision-making are partners in managing beneficially any business or organization; therefore, managers need the proper skills to make good sound decisions. The author explores logical thinking by looking at the deductive thinking process, which includes categorical, hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms. The paper points out that a successful persuader usually has knowledge of the subject, is objective, follows ethical guidelines and can appeal to the other person's needs and values The author relates that persuasive thinking is a form of creative thinking, which takes quite a bit of involvement, ingenuity and thought. The paper describes the process of systematic thinking as (1) recognizing and investigating the problem, (2) devising multiple alternatives, (3) characterizing and instituting a selection criterion and (4) making a concluding verdict.

From the Paper
"A good example of systematic thinking occurs when an employee is in need of a raise or promotion. The employee would first establish a plan. The employee would analyze his or her individual position within the company as well as analyze the situation. What does the employee need to do now to achieve the raise or promotion? What will their next step be in order to bring them closer to his or her raise or promotion? This allows the employee to think coherently by developing a timeline and acting accordingly."

Tags:workplace, conclusion, syllogism, process, ethical

Abstract
Geoffrey Chaucer is a well-known poet of the 14th century who worked for the king as a manager of societal and traditional events. Nonetheless, his poems are rooted with compassionate consideration towards women, the common people, and uniqueness as articulated through multicultural signs signifying states and religious convictions. This paper deals with the impact of pagan settings on the story "The Knight's Tale." To illustrate how fundamental the impact has been, this paper utilizes disjunctive mixtures of the story as its theme.

From the Paper
"Contemporary readers might consider that a narrative in which so many aspects of a story take place coincidentally is a weakly schemed story, without a doubt. However this is the exact point that Chaucer is attempting to make throughout this story. The functions of "Fortune" do have an accidental and unintentional method of running. How can humans tolerate such an inadequately structured universe? This is one manner of wording the major issue which the poem portrays (Minnis, 1982)."

Tags:Thebes, Talamon, Arcite

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This paper describes how, while working within the most innovative period in Soviet cinema, before the coming of sound, Dziga Vertov created the film "Man with a Movie Camera", a tribute to the newly formed Communist State, urban environments and technological advancement. It analyzes how in order to create a variety of themes, including those comparing the bourgeois and working classes, man and machinery and the nature of film itself, Vertov uses editing to relate a series of seemingly unrelated shots. It looks at how these shots are comprised of five types of images: industrial construction, traffic, machinery, recreation and citizen-workers. It also shows how he constructs meaning through editing in the film to form an argument in favor of the newly formed soviet state by juxtaposing disjunctive images, but also linking the images through composition.

From the Paper
"The main theme of Vertov's film is a cameraman performing his daily routine in an urban environment, and this meaning is produced through the films ability to show both the cameraman at work and the reaction he receives from the people he films. The entire film is reflexive in the sense that the audience is constantly reminded that film is a constructed environment, designed by the filmmaker. Mixing in shots of the camera, the cameraman, and the editing process maintain the idea that the film is just a part of Vertov's usual routine. The sequence opens with a shot of the cameraman reflected in the camera's lens, continues with a shot of the urban setting in which the events will unfold, and then returns to the filmmaker's "work" of filming traffic."

Tags:working, classes, bourgeois, cameraman, recreation

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This paper explains that Jessica Hagedorn's novel Dogeaters, which takes place in Manila in the Philippines during the heyday of the Marcos dictatorship, is written in a style that is sensually seductive, structurally fragmented and with a multiple-viewpoint. The author points out that this novel reflects, in depth, the contrast between the overwhelming superficiality of the wealthy and powerful in keenly class-conscious Manila and the "dogs", the various down-and-out young Filipinos characters in the story. The author points out that "Dogeaters" is 'radically-disjunctive' in form, which means that instead of writing in a traditional linear storytelling framework, Hagedorn allows bits of memories to surface so that characters can recall past impressions and experiences through their senses.

From the Paper
"Throughout this story, Rio looks back at past times spent in her homeland, by way of adult associations often spurred by memories. In the end, the fragments Hagedorn describes do not quite add up to a clearly recognizable picture. (Proust's, or even Rushdie's do so much better.) Still, Hagedorn's main character Rio continually recollects sharp (for whatever reason) youthful impressions from distant memory. In what still might be loosely but justifiable called "Proustian [sic] fashion", Hagedorn also implicitly "shifts" the former, original, significances of them, in Rio's adult mind, to a more integrated adult one. "

Tags:manila, loosely-connected, narrative, coming-of-age