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The article discusses the author's experience of witnessing the official debut of the paper sari at the Lotos Club in New York City. A certain amount of time was spent in admiring the baroque façade of the club, as well as reading its New York Community Trust plaque. The author had some time to survey the party and be introduced to several people by a friend. Performer Susan Hoffman was one of the several people introduced to the author.

The article discusses the effort of Champion Paper & Fibre Co. of Hamilton, Ohio to produce films that will broaden its relation with people. It says that Champion, which covers a great deal of territory with its plants, mills, and timberland sprawled in Ohio, Texas, and the Carolinas, produces three films at a cost of more than 200,000 dollars explaining the company's manufacturing operations. Champion president Reuben B. Robertson stresses the company's dedication to human relation management.

The author outlines some factors to consider when filing for divorce. The author mentions that the month of January is common for couple who file for divorce wherein most of them are hesitant to file before or during the festive season to avoid disruptive family traditions and holiday happiness. The author notes that the ability to forgive is one of the greatest gestures of love.

The article offers information on the responsibilities for engaging the research community, discussions of findings and conclusions online, and responses to comments on social media. It mentions that scholarly communication librarians (SCLs) partner with researchers in the scholarly publication lifecycle; and also mentions researchers are search engines specifically designed to find scientific papers and digital platforms for sharing the data behind the experiments they describe.

Curiously Meta Coltan Scrivner's curiosity about morbid curiosity is ushering him to higher and higher realms. Scrivner defines morbid curiosity as "a motivation to seek out information about dangerous phenomena". Scrivner also teamed up with colleagues for a related 2020 study that New Scientist readers may recall: "Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the covid-19 pandemic". [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on some facts about oneself that a girl should never reveal in an interpersonal relation. One should never tell that she loved when her competitive work "friend" put on 10 pounds during her much-bragged-about trip to Paris. One should never admit that sometimes she steals tissue paper from the office when money is tight. One should never reveal that she wanted to have his babies from the moment she met him. One should never reveal that there's a stack of bridal magazines and a scrapbook entitled "My Dream Day" sitting under bed.

Microstressors are small pressures that seem like mere bumps in the road—a vague, worrying text from your teen while you’re in a meeting, the sight of a colleague who always wants to vent to you, or having to tell your team that the project they’ve been grinding long hours on has been scrapped. But these microstressors aren’t as harmless as they seem. Because they’re so small and brief, they don’t trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us cope; instead, microstress embeds itself in our minds and accrues over time. The long-term impact of this buildup is debilitating: It saps our energy, damages our physical and emotional health, and contributes to a decline in our overall well-being. Through hundreds of interviews with high performers from 30 global companies, authors Rob Cross and Karen Dillon have uncovered the science behind microstress, where it comes from, and how our bodies respond to it. They share the most common sources of microstress so that you can learn to recognize how they arise in your life, and include a downloadable diagnostic to help you identify which of the 14 sources of microstress have the greatest impact on you. Finally, they offer strategies to push back on microstress. These include everything from learning how to say no to small asks, to being aware of the microstress we could cause others, to keeping perspective so you can rise above. Most important, Cross and Dillon’s research suggests that people with more diverse connections with others have rich, multi dimensional lives that inoculate them to microstress’s effects. INSET: What's Driving Your Microstress?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Adrian Ghenie's major solo exhibition, "The Brave New World," at Pace Gallery in New York. The exhibition features eleven new paintings and four works on paper that explore the relationship between the human body and technology. Ghenie's artworks depict distorted bodies interacting with electronic devices, highlighting the contradiction of these devices increasing isolation despite being created to strengthen interpersonal relationships. The article suggests that Ghenie's paintings reflect his own experiences growing up in Communist Romania and serve as snapshots of life under the surveillance of modern devices. [Extracted from the article]

The article describes the research paper "Not Learning from Others," by John J. Conlon et al., which focuses on the way that humans often trivialize and dismiss the information given to us by others.

The author discusses several fundamental factors in achieving happiness. She mentions the importance of interpersonal relations for computer scientists and engineers, the use of feedback, responses in conversation, and expressions of joy to create happiness, and

The article presents a research paper on the influence of maternal odor on infants' response to strangers, which references a research paper by Yaara Endevelt-Shapira et al., published in an issue of "Science Advances". Topics discussed include the method used in the study, findings on the effect of maternal odor on infants' brainwaves, and the implication of the study for research on infants' social behavior.

Trust relationship is an effective basis for reducing the dimensionality of decision makers (DMs) for group decision making (GDM) problems in the context of social networks, and have received extensive attention in the past few years. However, most existing studies describe the trust relationship only from the single perspective of the interpersonal relationships between DMs, which easily leads to inaccurate decision-making results. In this paper, we propose a dynamic consensus method using a dual-trust relationship-based social network (DTRSN) to solve large group emergency decision-making (LGEDM) problems. First, to more accurately reflect the trust relationship among DMs, a DTRSN based on familiarity-based trust and similarity-based trust is developed, which can comprehensively model the interpersonal relationships and opinion similarity between DMs simultaneously. Next, a DTRSN-based clustering method that considers dual-trust relationships is introduced to divide the large-group DMs into several clusters. Subsequently, to improve the efficiency of LGEDM, the exit-delegation mechanism is modified and introduced into our study, which can speed up consensus by excluding some subgroups whose opinions differ greatly from other subgroups and reserve their influence. Subsequently, a dynamic consensus method based on the modified exit-delegation mechanism is proposed to help DMs reach an agreement quickly. Finally, a case study regarding emergency alternative selection to deal with heavy rainstorms in Zhengzhou, China, is conducted to verify the efficiency of our study, and several comparison and simulation analyses are also conducted to demonstrate the feasibility and practicality of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planning a major change in your organization? If so, chances are you have arranged a huge rally, rousing speeches, videos, and special editions of the company paper. Stop. This sort of communication is not working. If you want people to change the way they do their jobs, you must change the way you communicate with them. Drawing on their own research and the research of other communication experts from the past two decades, the authors argue that senior managers--and most communication consultants--have refused to hear what frontline workers have been trying to tell them: When you need to communicate a major change, stop communicating values, communicate face-to-face, and spend most of your time, money, and effort on frontline supervisors. Frontline employees don't want to find out about a change by watching a video. Nor do they want to read about it in a company publication, which they know is untrustworthy and usually incomprehensible. Large meetings won't do the trick, either. Change may be acceptable to employees, but empty slogans won't be. Despite research showing that frontline employees prefer to receive information from their supervisor--the person to whom they are closest--companies continue to depend on charismatic executives to inspire the troops. Why doesn't this work? Because frontline supervisors are the real opinion leaders in any company. Senior managers must discuss a change face-to-face with supervisors, who will pass information along to their subordinates. Communication between frontline supervisors and employees counts the most toward changed behavior where it matters the most: at the front line. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Laura Wollen, group marketing director for ARPCO, Inc., was getting ready to recommend her best product manager, Charles Lewis, for a position in the London office. Lewis needed the international exposure to progress toward senior management, and compared with Frank Billings, the only other serious contender for the job, Lewis was more experienced, creative, and mature. Yet David Abbott, Wollen's counterpart in the United Kingdom, didn't agree with Wollen's recommendation. He admitted that Lewis looked good on paper, but he wondered whether Lewis would fit in with the team and adjust to the British market. At first, Wollen didn't understand Abbott's reservations, but then she realized what he was really saying: "Lewis won't fit in because he's black." Wollen knew that Lewis was capable and that all he needed was a change to prove himself--just as she had had a chance as the only woman in the home workshop division. But when she became manager of power saws, she had support. From what she was hearing about the London office, Lewis would not. Lewis was excited about the possible promotion and was prepared to accept the challenge. But then he heard rumors about the difficulties he might encounter. He approached Wollen, saying "I don't want any guarantees, but if you don't think I can make it in that slot, don't recommend me." Suddenly, Wollen was less sure about who to recommend. Promoting Lewis would reflect well on her and help an important product line. But if Lewis failed, the product line would be delayed and Lewis might leave ARPCO for good. Wollen had to submit her recommendation by the end of the day. She was less sure than ever: Frank Billings or Charles Lewis? Four experts analyze that question. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on relations between business and the press in the United States. Newspaper owners, publishers, and reporters, who are interested in the business community and civic leadership, will sometimes feature business events that are newsworthy. Although relationships between the press and business leaders often develop on the personal level, that does not mean a company will get free publicity or favorable coverage in a news story. Advertising is a newspaper's revenue source so publisher's have little interest in "free space" items. Topics include 12 newsworthy events compiled by Lawrence McCracken, the newspaper's editorial function, the duties and public responsibility of journalists, and advice for dealing with reporters.

Many sensational ideas have faded away into obscurity because they failed to reach the right people. A strong personal network, however, can launch a burgeoning plan into the limelight by delivering private information, access to diverse skill sets, and power. Most executives know that they need to learn about the best ideas and that, in turn, their best ideas must be heard by the rest of the world. But strong personal networks don’t just happen around a watercooler or at reunions with old college friends. As Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dun- lap explain, networks have to be carefully constructed through relatively high-stakes activities that bring you into contact with a diverse group of people. Most personal networks are highly clustered—that is, your friends are likely to be friends with one another as well. And, if you made those friends by introducing yourself to them, the chances are high that their experiences and perspectives echo your own. Because ideas generated within this type of network circulate among the same people with shared views, though, a potential winner can wither away and die if no one in the group has what it takes to bring that idea to fruition. But what if someone within that cluster knows someone else who belongs to a whole different group? That connection, formed by an information broker, can expose your idea to a new world, filled with fresh opportunities for success. Diversity makes the difference. Uzzi and Dunlap show you how to assess what kind of network you currently have, helping you to identify your superconnectors and demonstrating how you act as an information broker for others. They then explain how to diversify your contacts through shared activities and how to manage your new, more potent, network. INSET: How to Fix a Networking Slump. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Promoting human flourishing among the sick and the dying as the spiritual goal of life—union with Christ—presents one of the most challenging experiences for patients, families, clinicians, and the Christian community in today's healthcare environment. This article will present a framework and the important Catholic moral principles that can help guide and facilitate ethical decisions in end-of-life care that promotes and protects human dignity, freedom, and human flourishing in Christ as the telos of the journey of hope in the Christian community. Summary: As members of the Christian Community we have been called to bring the healing message of salvation and hope to one another. This ministry calls each of us to reach beyond ourselves and to touch our loved ones, our neighbors, those made vulnerable by the circumstances of their illness and to protect and defend human dignity, freedom and promote human flourishing. As Jesus did in his own time, each of us is called to help bring healing and wholeness to the sick and the dying in our world. How we can respond to our obligation to care for the sick and dying at the end-of-life, grounded in the principles of the Catholic moral tradition that govern our care and treatment decisions, is the focus of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the dynamics of romantic relationships in the workplace, discussing the prevalence of office romances and the varying perspectives across cultures and generations. Topics include the changing attitudes toward workplace relationships; the risks and consequences associated with such relationships; and the impact of movements like #MeToo on the discussion of sexual harassment and workplace dynamics.

The article examines a study conducted using the Delphi technique on the cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal competencies and professional skills required by computer data analysts. The use of structured questionnaires in the Delphi technique is described along with rankings of skills such as analysis, continuous learning, and problem solving allegedly important for data analysts.

This article focuses on a study which suggests that friends are one of the keys to a long life. Previous research has shown that strong social networks help older people live longer. But the work has not distinguished between contact with friends or relatives. Friends might help people cope in times of stress and difficulty, the team suggests. They might also encourage healthy behaviors, such as seeking help for medical symptoms. Close friends might even have a positive physiological effect, suggests Carlos Mendes de Leon of the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago in an editorial about the paper.

The article informs that the first rough pencil sketch of a DNA molecule by the late Francis Crick was made available online for the first time on Monday. The scribble, along with an archive of his work, will give a unique insight into the discovery of the legendary double helix. The 1953 breakthrough heralded a new era of genetic science and earned Crick and James Watson a share of the 1962 Nobel prize for medicine. Crick's doodle is one of 350 documents and images posted online by the Wellcome Trust, some from Crick's personal archive, including his original research papers on DNA and genetic codes. The hope is that the finished archive compiled with the help of U.S. National Library of Medicine will contain 11,000 items.

Predicting information diffusion cascade is an essential task in social networks. We mainly focus on predicting the size of the information cascade. The relationships inside a cascade are diverse, including global and relative spatio-temporal relationships, as well as interpersonal influence relationships. These complex relationships between nodes play a crucial role in cascade prediction, but they have not been thoroughly investigated. The Transformer's global receptive field can assist in capturing the relationships between two arbitrary nodes. However, using Transformer directly for a cascade is insufficient without considering its temporal and structural characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel cascade Transformer for the first time, called CasTformer, specifically designed for cascade size prediction. CasTformer utilizes a global spatio-temporal positional encoding and relative relationship bias matrices on the self-attention mechanism to capture diverse cascade relationships. Moreover, self-knowledge distillation is employed for obtaining a better cascade representation to enhance prediction performance. We use four datasets with nearly millions of cascade samples to validate our model and it achieves training in 3 hours. Experimental results show that it outperforms state-of-the-art methods by an average of 11.9%, 6.1%, and 9.6% on MSLE, MAPE, and R 2 , respectively. • Our proposed CasTformer can fully capture the diverse cascade relationships. • The STPE effectively marks the global spatio-temporal position information. • The RRB complements the complex local interaction information. • The self-knowledge distillation module further enhances the predictive performance. • CasTformer has both strong prediction performance and high running efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a snapshot of a woman's life in a rural Pennsylvania town where she has recently moved due to her husband's job. The narrative follows her experiences, including interactions with nature and her reflections on parenthood and her own career, against the backdrop of her surroundings and the challenges she faces in adjusting to her new environment.

The article discusses the evolving landscape of digital convergence in professional life and workplaces over the past 30 years reflecting on three trends including professionals pushing back and cross-examining digital convergence, return to core professional values for new ideas, and preservation of individual authority during organizational change. It also emphasizes importance of understanding human interactions in employment relationship to navigate ongoing digital convergence effectively.

Why do the same activities lead to renewal in one company and to more-of-the-same performance in another? Almost always, the explanation comes down to "leadership." But while it is easy to recognize leadership in action, defining the essence of leadership is hard because it cannot be reduced to a set of personal attributes nor confined to particular activities and roles. Intent on capturing the essence of leadership, Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne turned to lessons that Kim had learned as a youth in the temples of Korea's Kyung Nam province. These lessons dealt with the qualities that define true leaders. But their points were made through stories, not through statistics or research. Thus they provided the inspiration for five parables of leadership. A young prince sent into a forest to learn to hear the unheard. A discouraged disciple whose journey down a mountain teaches him perspective. A tale of fire and water. In these and their other parables, the authors illuminate the qualities and actions that define a leader. In so doing, they give every reader an occasion to reflect on his or her own life and work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a discussion on the benefits of a human resources approach to management, adapted from a paper presented at the Southwest Academy of Management meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana in April 8, 1966. The human resources approach to management maintains that managers must view employees as the company's greatest asset and must take advantage of their talents by presenting opportunities for challenge and contribution. The author supports his claim with findings gained from open-ended interviews and discussions with managers from various organizations.

Join the conversation by tweeting @psychmag coming soon… conversations on class, and much more contribute… options to reach 50,000 colleagues. Practicing psychologist and research psychologists collaborating, keeping the purpose in mind (not numbers of papers written but evidence of impact). [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on gathering insightful quotes about integrity, growth, and other essential aspects of mental fitness from various issues of Men's Health. It mentions these quotes touch on topics like friendship, integrity, humility, and connecting with others, offering wisdom and perspectives on these subjects.

The article offers information on Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum's escape from her father, Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Topics include information on her experience as a prisoner in Dubai, her escape plan with the help of a Finnish martial-arts instructor, and her eventual capture and return to Dubai.

The article discusses the experiences and emotions of adoptees, particularly the sense of loss and identity issues they may face. It describes the stories of three adoptees, including a pastor who became upset during a discussion of safe-haven laws at the Supreme Court, to explore these themes. It mention the numbers of adoptees in psychiatric hospitals and addiction programs, and the potential difficulties adoptees may have in feeling fully accepted and loved by their adoptive families.

The article discusses the work and life of composer Dame Ethel Smyth and author Virginia Woolf along with their relations. It mentions troubling from Virginia's perspective, though, was Ethel's tendency towards melodrama and Virginia provided Ethel with both the muse and the emotional support that she needed to write. It also mentions her books primarily as a way to promote her music, and given how much she had already suffered from sexism in her career.

The article focuses on philosopher Agnes Callard and discusses her relationships with current husband Arnold and former husband Ben, marriage, as well as family and home life. Topics mentioned include falling in love with Arnold, divorcing Ben and sharing custody of their children, moving back to Ben's apartment with Arnold, and loneliness.

At many restaurants, owners and servers pat Kushner on the back, a thank-you to the Trump administration pushing to reopen businesses during the pandemic. Kushner built a team of about 30, including veteran private equity guys and a slate of people from Trump's White House, including his longtime aide Avi Berkowitz as a partner. LONG SHADOWS Kushner at Fox News in 2022; the former senior White House adviser meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh in 2020; Trump accepting a posthumous award for her mother, Ivana, in Prague, in 2022. Previous spread: Trump at a family outing in Miami; an aerial view of Trump and Kushner's $24 million Indian Creek mansion; Kushner frolicking on Memorial Day. [Extracted from the article]

In the article, the author discusses social issues in the U.S., particularly on cancel culture, compassionate conservatism, feminism, and sexual liberation. Also cited are the author's proposal for the adoption of sex-role realism to promote the rights of both men and women, and how cancel culture or cancellations are affecting marriages, friendships, and evangelicalism.