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Bannister, Frank, and Dan Remenyi. "Acts of Faith: Instinct, Value and it Investment Decisions." Journal of Information Technology 15, no. 3 (September 2000): 231–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026839620001500305.
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Although well over 1000 journal articles, conference papers, books, technical notes and theses have been written on the subject of information technology (IT) evaluation, only a relatively small subset of this literature has been concerned with the core issues of what precisely is meant by the term ‘value’ and with the process of making (specifically) IT investment decisions. All too often, the problem and highly complex issue of value is either simplified, ignored or assumed away. Instead the focus of much of the research to date has been on evaluation methodologies and, within this literature, there are different strands of thought which can be classified as partisan, composite and meta approaches to evaluation. Research shows that a small number of partisan techniques are used by most decision makers with a minority using a single technique and a majority using a mixture of such techniques of whom a substantial minority use a formal composite approach. It is argued that, in mapping the set of evaluation methodologies on to what is termed the investment opportunity space, that there is a limit to what can be achieved by formal rational evaluation methods. This limit becomes evident when decision makers fall back on ‘gut feel’ and other non-formal/rigorous ways of making decisions. It is suggested that an understanding of these more complex processes and decision making, in IT as elsewhere, needs tools drawn from philosophy and psychology.
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DeVivo, Renée, Lauren Zajac, Asim Mian, Anna Cervantes-Arslanian, Eric Steinberg, Michael L. Alosco, Jesse Mez, Robert Stern, and Ronald Killany. "Differentiating Between Healthy Control Participants and Those with Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Volumetric MRI Data." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 25, no. 08 (May 27, 2019): 800–810. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135561771900047x.
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AbstractObjective:To determine whether volumetric measures of the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and other cortical measures can differentiate between cognitively normal individuals and subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).Method:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 46 cognitively normal subjects and 50 subjects with MCI as part of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center research registry and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative were used in this cross-sectional study. Cortical, subcortical, and hippocampal subfield volumes were generated from each subject’s MRI data using FreeSurfer v6.0. Nominal logistic regression models containing these variables were used to identify subjects as control or MCI.Results:A model containing regions of interest (superior temporal cortex, caudal anterior cingulate, pars opercularis, subiculum, precentral cortex, caudal middle frontal cortex, rostral middle frontal cortex, pars orbitalis, middle temporal cortex, insula, banks of the superior temporal sulcus, parasubiculum, paracentral lobule) fit the data best (R2= .7310, whole model test chi-square = 97.16,p< .0001).Conclusions:MRI data correctly classified most subjects using measures of selected medial temporal lobe structures in combination with those from other cortical areas, yielding an overall classification accuracy of 93.75%. These findings support the notion that, while volumes of medial temporal lobe regions differ between cognitively normal and MCI subjects, differences that can be used to distinguish between these two populations are present elsewhere in the brain.
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Holst, Søren, Dorte Lystrup, and John L. Taylor. "Firesetters with intellectual disabilities in Denmark." Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour 10, no. 4 (November 28, 2019): 72–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jidob-10-2019-0021.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gather epidemiologicalinformation concerning firesetters with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Denmark to identify the assessment and treatment needs of this population and inform further research in this area. Design/methodology/approach The records held by the Danish Ministry of Justice concerning all firesetters with ID convicted of deliberate firesetting were reviewed for the period January 2001 to December 2010 inclusive. File information was extracted for 83 offenders concerning: demographic and personal characteristics; mental health characteristics; offending behaviour; offence-specific factors; and motives for offending. A sub-group of seven offenders were interviewed to explore some of the themes that emerged from the file review. Findings The majority of study participants were male and were classified as having mild ID and around 50 per cent had additional mental health problems. Many came from disturbed and deprived backgrounds. Two-thirds had set more than one fire and over 60 per cent had convictions for offences other than firesetting. Alcohol was involved in the firesetting behaviour in a significant proportion of cases (25 per cent). The motives for setting fires were – in descending order – communication (of anger, frustration and distress), fire fascination and vandalism. Interviews with participants indicated the important communicative function of firesetting, the difficulties people had in talking about and acknowledging their firesetting behaviour, and lack of access to targeted interventions. Research limitations/implications Interventions for Danish firesetters with ID, as for firesetters with ID elsewhere, need to target the communicative function of this behaviour, along with offenders’ lack of insight and initial reluctance to accept responsibility for their behaviour and associated risks. Adjunctive treatment is required to address the psychiatric comorbidity experienced by many of these offenders, along with the alcohol use/misuse that is associated with many of these offences. Originality/value This is the first study concerning nature and needs of firesetters with ID in Denmark.
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Koretzky, Martin B., and Alexis S. V. Rosenoer. "MMPI Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Alcoholic Vietnam Veterans." Psychological Reports 60, no. 2 (April 1987): 359–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1987.60.2.359.
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One hundred Vietnam-era male veterans in a Veterans Administration. 28-day inpatient alcohol treatment program were classified into combat and noncombat groups according to whether they served in Vietnam or elsewhere during the Vietnam conflict. The MMPI scores of the two groups were compared according to a diagnostic decision-rule developed by Keane, Malloy, and Fairbank in 1984 for posttraumatic stress disorder. Chi-squared analysis showed that the combat group passed the decision-rule in significantly higher numbers than the noncombat group. The results provide evidence that the F-2-8 decision-rule to determine this diagnosis applies to alcoholic as well as nonalcoholic populations.
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Kim, Sung-Soo, and Hun-Sung Kim. "Comorbidity Patterns and Management in Inpatients with Endocrine Diseases by Age Groups in South Korea: Nationwide Data." Journal of Personalized Medicine 14, no. 1 (December 28, 2023): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm14010042.
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This study aimed to examine comorbidity associations across age groups of inpatients with endocrine diseases as the primary diagnosis throughout the life cycle to develop an effective management strategy. Data were obtained from the Korean National Hospital Discharge In-depth Injury Survey (KNHDS) from 2006 to 2021, involving 68,515 discharged patients aged ≥ 19 years with a principal diagnosis of endocrine disease. A database was constructed for analysis, extracting general characteristics and comorbidities. Employing R version 4.2.3, the Chi-squared test and the Apriori algorithm of ARM (association rule mining) were used for analyzing general characteristics and comorbidity associations. There were more women (53.1%) than men (46.9%) (p < 0.001, with women (61.2 ± 17.2) having a higher average age than men (58.6 ± 58.6) (p < 0.001). Common comorbidities include unspecified diabetes mellitus; essential (primary) hypertension; unspecified diabetes mellitus; and other disorders of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance. Notably, type 2 diabetes mellitus, disorders of lipoprotein metabolism and other lipidemia, polyneuropathy in diseases classified elsewhere, retinal disorders in diseases classified elsewhere, and essential (primary) hypertension prevail across all age groups. Association rules further highlight specific comorbidities appearing selectively in certain age groups. In conclusion, establishing a management strategy for comorbidities in patients with a primary diagnosis of an endocrine disorder is necessary.
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Kopacz, Marek S., Cathleen P. Kane, Brady Stephens, and Wilfred R. Pigeon. "Use ofICD-9-CMDiagnosis Code V62.89 (Other Psychological or Physical Stress, Not Elsewhere Classified) Following a Suicide Attempt." Psychiatric Services 67, no. 7 (July 2016): 807–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201500302.
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Leach, Stephen. "History, Ethics and Philosophy: Bernard Williams’ Appraisal of R. G. Collingwood." Journal of the Philosophy of History 5, no. 1 (2011): 36–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187226311x555446.
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AbstractThe author examines Williams’ appraisal of Collingwood both in his eponymous essay on Collingwood, in the posthumously published Sense of the Past (2006), and elsewhere in his work. The similarities and differences between their philosophies are explored: in particular, with regard to the relationship between philosophy and history and the relationship between the study of history and our present-day moral attitudes. It is argued that, despite Williams usually being classified as an analytic philosopher and Collingwood being classified as an idealist, there is substantial common ground between them. Williams was aware of this and made clear his sympathy for Collingwood; but, nonetheless, the relationship between Williams and Collingwood has not previously been explored in any detail. After establishing the common ground between these philosophers, and the areas of disagreement, the author suggests that both may have something to gain from the other.
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WALTON, JOHN K., and DAVID TIDSWELL. "‘Classified at random by veritable illiterates’: the taking of the Spanish census of 1920 in Guipúzcoa province." Continuity and Change 20, no. 2 (August 2005): 287–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416005005503.
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This article offers an approach through administrative and cultural history to the problems associated with gathering and processing data for the Spanish national census of 1920, and by implication for earlier Spanish censuses. It focuses on the Basque province of Guipúzcoa, making use of correspondence between the central statistical office in Madrid, the provincial jefe de estadística and the localities, and of reports on three problematic towns within the province. The issues that emerge regarding ‘undercounting’, the definition of administrative boundaries and the classification of demographic characteristics are set in the wider context of census-taking practices and problems elsewhere in Spain and in other cultures.
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Volkmar, Fred R., and Linda C. Mayes. "Gaze behavior in autism." Development and Psychopathology 2, no. 1 (January 1990): 61–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579400000596.
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AbstractGaze behavior was assessed in 20 autistic individuels and in an age- and mental-age-matched mentally retarded control group. A time-sample technique was used to collect frequency of gaze directed at staff, at task, and elsewhere (at other) in familiar educational settings as subjects interacted with familiar staff and engaged in familiar educational activities. Gaze behaviors were sampled in each of three interactional conditions defined by staff-subject ratio. Significant effects of the intensity of the interactional condition were observed for both groups. Overall autistic subjects were more likely to look elsewhere than the matched control cases and looked less at staff during one-to-one interaction. Relationships to age, developmental level, and other measures are discussed.
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Apostal, Robert A. "Interpretable and Noninterpretable Female-Male Score Differences on Selected Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory Occupational Scales." Psychological Reports 58, no. 3 (June 1986): 899–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1986.58.3.899.
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This study classified the differences between scores based on female norms (same-sex scores) and scores based on male norms (other-sex scores) on 12 Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory Occupational Scales in a sample of 87 college women. The same- and other-sex score differences were classified as interpretable (of practical use in guidance) if one score indicated interests similar to those of persons working in the occupation and the other score indicated interests dissimilar to those persons' interests. The score differences were classified as noninterpretable if both scores indicated similar interests or both scores indicated dissimilar interests. There were 224 interpretable score differences on the 12 scales and 820 noninterpretable score differences. These findings were related to the practice of interpreting other-sex scores on Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory Occupational Scales.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Other psychology not elsewhere classified"
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(13108657), Robert McClure. "The nature of coping and emotional intelligence: An empirical study with the nursing profession." Thesis, 2005. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/The_nature_of_coping_and_emotional_intelligence_An_empirical_study_with_the_nursing_profession/20327460.
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This thesis used a homogeneous sample of 116 professional nurses to empirically test the theoretical proposition that transactional coping and emotional intelligence are different constructs. Using that same sample, the research also empirically tested the theory that professional nurses' emotional work response behaviours require emotional intelligent ability (McQueen 2004; Molter 2001). Other research questions were related to testing relationships between emotional work, emotional intelligence, coping and the outcome variables of job satisfaction and health and well-being.
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(9797021), Kerry Francis. "Finding meaning in tragedy: A social constructionist perspective." Thesis, 2010. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Finding_meaning_in_tragedy_A_social_constructionist_perspective/13462931.
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Under the banner of social constructionism, this study examined meaning making around tragedy. This was achieved through investigating the category of tragedy; in particular, how the category is applied and under what conditions it is deployed. Secondly, the study investigated the discursive resources with which we make sense of tragedy. The specific aims of this research were to examine how the category of tragedy is utilised in language; how meaning making around tragedies occurs in the discursive context; and to investigate how these resources are flexibly combined in both diverse and shared patterns understanding of tragedy. The scope of this research entailed (1) an examination of public text about tragedies in order to develop an understanding of the circumstances in which the category is deployed and what is being achieved by this deployment; (2) an identification of the resources available in public text via which we make sense of tragedy, and (3) an application of a representative sample of ways of talking about tragedy in order to investigate the ways in which these are flexibly and meaningfully combined. Two methodologies were employed to address these aims: a discursive psychological analysis and Q method. Social constructionism has provided an overarching framework for much of the unpacking of discursive interaction that occurs in a variety of settings. Social constructionism has highlighted the constructive and performative nature of language use, and under its umbrella, many hitherto taken-for-granted phenomena have been investigated. Within psychology, this has meant a reconceptualisation of the individual and many of the processes presumed by psychology to be intrinsically individual processes, such as memory, attitudes, attribution, motivation, and social categorisation. Following in the relatively new and arguably non-mainstream tradition of the application of social constructionist theorising and methodologies, this study explores tragedy from this fresh perspective, using a mixed method approach to do so. Material for the discursive analysis was gathered from two national newspapers (The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald) spanning approximately a two-year period. Articles where the word tragedy was used or could reasonably be expected to be used were collected. This material was examined in order gain a sense of ‘characteristics’ of tragedy; what functions its use performed in the public text; and to investigate whether the meaning making themes identified in previous research were apparent in this data. Of interest were the variable ways the category of tragedy was utilised, the characteristics that appeared to make deployment of the category more likely, and the themes deployed in making sense of tragedy. Analysis demonstrated that the category of tragedy is applied flexibly across a range of situations, events, and outcomes and that its application performs different functions in different situations. For example, the descriptor ‘tragedy’ can signal the profound nature of an event and its impacts or it can be used ironically. Various meaning making themes were apparent in this public discourse, and these included accounting for why something happened (finding reasons), connection with others, coming to terms, moving on, and finding benefits from the experience. In addition to this newspaper text, data gathered from a series of 3 focus groups with a total of 12 participants and from a further 8 participants who supplied their written contributions to the topic formed the concourse from which the Q statements were drawn. Initially, 94 statements were pilot tested by 15 participants to check for clarity and relevance to the topic. The resultant final sort comprised 60 statements and was administered to a diverse group of 20 participants, including 8 males and 12 females, aged between 21 and 69 years. Five factors with eigenvalues above 1 resulted from the principal components analysis and were retained for rotation using the varimax technique. Factor one, labelled growth, was characterised by an emphasis on the good that comes out of tragedy. Factor two, connection, emphasised the interconnectedness that tragedy makes possible. Factor three, labelled pragmatic, captured the construction of tragedy as media and politically driven. Factor four, labelled the individual account, focussed on the subjective nature of the experience of tragedy, while Factor five, described an existential construction of tragedy that emphasised the impacts that tragedy has on our perspectives and psyches. The study confirmed prior findings that meaning making is of key importance in adjusting to major upheavals. It also illustrated that meaning is made socially through talking and other symbolic forms of interaction, such as ritual. Given the importance of meaning making for acceptance and positive growth, further investigation into meaning making, particularly after tragic events is warranted.
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(9822725), Cao Nguyen. "Creating a bullying measure for Vietnamese high school students." Thesis, 2019. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Creating_a_bullying_measure_for_Vietnamese_high_school_students/13454789.
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This thesis sought to create a culturally sensitive bullying measure for students in Vietnam. The measure was developed via two qualitative studies with Vietnamese educators and students. A third, quantitative, study provided initial validation of the measure.
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(12826875), Roslyn T. McCarthy. "Effects of explanatory style optimism and self-esteem training on children's psychological and academic wellbeing." Thesis, 2000. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Effects_of_explanatory_style_optimism_and_self-esteem_training_on_children_s_psychological_and_academic_wellbeing/20022584.
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Explanatory style optimism and Self -Esteem theorists both claim to be able positively to influence the child's psychological well-being. This study was conducted to compare the effects of Optimism training and Self -Esteem training with children. Participants were 157 children (83 boys and 74 girls) attending Grade 6. Participants in Class groups were assigned to one of three conditions for
training in Optimism (n = 51), Self -Esteem (n ----49) and a Control group (n = 57). Children completed self -report questionnaires on explanatory style (CASQ), depression (CES-DC), global self-esteem (RSE), and domain self-esteem (PH). Peer ratings on each participant were conducted via a sociogram, school achievement was assessed using the Milton Spelling Age test, and participants completed three hypothetical questions based on Flavell's theory of metacognition. This battery of tests was completed on three occasions: before training, immediately after the training and six months following the training. Comparison of the two theoretical models showed that the Optimism model fitted the data better than the Self -Esteem model. Optimism training was more effective than Self -Esteem training in increasing optimism, and decreasing depression with a follow-on effect to social skills and aspects of domain self-esteem. Implications for education are that Optimism training may have a greater influence on the child's psychological welfare than existing Self -Esteem programs.
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(9836804), Madeline Sprajcer. "The impact of on-call work on anxiety, sleep, and cognitive performance in a laboratory environment." Thesis, 2019. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/The_impact_of_on-call_work_on_anxiety_sleep_and_cognitive_performance_in_a_laboratory_environment/13452683.
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Given the current production and service requirements for many organisations, 24/7 operations have become increasingly commonplace. This has resulted in a greater use of non-standard working arrangements, including shift work, and increasingly, on-call work. Despite being operationally essential for many industries, there has been limited research on the human impact of on-call work. There is evidence to suggest that workers experience increased anxiety surrounding their on-call periods, which has been linked with poorer sleep outcomes. It is well known that poor sleep can result in significant cognitive and work performance decrements. As such, it is vital to understand any changes to anxiety and subsequent sleep, as decrements may have far reaching implications for worker and organisational health and safety. This is particularly pertinent as on-call work is often performed in response to emergency situations or in workplaces with high levels of safety risk (i.e., emergency services, healthcare, power network services).
Despite the potentially severe consequences of impaired cognitive performance when on-call, no research has determined which components of on-call work may lead to increased worker anxiety and poorer sleep. Additionally, little previous research has investigated the effects of on-call periods decoupled from the sleep restriction that accompanies the calls and call-outs themselves. As such, this thesis investigates how certain components of on-call work affect anxiety, sleep, and cognitive performance in a laboratory context, without the confounding effect of shortened or interrupted sleep periods. This thesis consists of three studies, each designed to address one component of on-call work thought to cause anxiety. Seventy-two healthy, male participants were recruited to participate in a four-night laboratory study in the Appleton Institute’s time-isolated sleep laboratory (n = 24 per study). The same methodology was employed in each study, aside from the on-call conditions they comprised. The four nights of each study were; an adaptation night, a control night (not on-call), and two counterbalanced on-call nights designed to address specific on-call components.
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Study 1: The likelihood of receiving a call (on-call conditions = definitely and maybe; Chapter 3),
Study 2: How stressful the tasks to be performed on-call are (on-call conditions = high stress and low stress; Chapter 4), and
Study 3: The perceived chance of missing the alarm (on-call conditions = high chance and low chance; Chapter 5).
Participants were given instructions regarding their on-call status prior to bed each night. Outcome measures included pre-bed state anxiety, sleep (as measured by both polysomnography and quantitative electroencephalographic assessment), and next day cognitive performance. The effect of trait anxiety on state anxiety, sleep, and cognitive performance was measured across all three studies. The relationship between trait anxiety and each of these outcome variables was examined in the context of each on-call component, to determine if higher levels of trait anxiety result in poorer tolerance of on-call work (Chapter 6).
Results indicated that conditions with uncertainty around the on-call alarm resulted in poorer sleep and cognitive performance. These differences were seen when participants were instructed that they may be called (Chapter 3), and when there was a high chance of missing the alarm (Chapter 5). Further, next day cognitive performance improved when participants performed a high stress task on-call, compared with a low stress task, potentially as a result of increased physiological and psychological arousal (Chapter 4). However, the magnitude of these changes was limited. When the effect of trait anxiety was examined in the context of these three studies, it appeared that individuals with lower trait anxiety were no more tolerant of on-call working arrangements than those with higher trait anxiety (Chapter 6).
From this thesis we can conclude that there are some components of on-call work that affect anxiety, sleep, and cognitive performance outcomes more than others. Specifically, the uncertainty around calls seems to produce the most noticeable decrements, though these decrements were not large in magnitude. The findings of this thesis suggest potentially simple, cost-effective strategies for minimising the uncertainty surrounding on-call periods (e.g., a backup call system, or the identification and management of call likelihood). Additionally, findings suggest that there may be some protective effects of performing high stress tasks on cognitive performance on-call. However, it is important to note that this protective effect was apparent under laboratory conditions with just one high stress on-call night, and must be interpreted with caution. These findings are presented with a view to making on-call periods safer and more productive for workers and organisations.
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(9801566), Christine Hanley. "An examination of question order effects on population health survey data using split sample CATI experiments." Thesis, 2012. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/An_examination_of_question_order_effects_on_population_health_survey_data_using_split_sample_CATI_experiments/13463285.
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"The use of CATI methods for conducting population health surveys is an enduring and popular practice. Although it is one of the most reliable ways to collect data, there is a range of sampling and non sampling errors which can potentially affect the abiliity of CATI surveys to provide accurate results. This thesis examined the impact of a particular type of non-sampling error - question order effects - in CATI surveys. Two studies were conducted one which examined order effects in data collected using a standard health survey instrument designed to measure and classify physical activity behaviour, and one which examined order effects in data collected using two question blocks designed to evaluate health related knowledge and attitudes"--Abstract.
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(9785117), John Callanan. "Activating parents in early intervention: The role of relationship in functional and family gains." Thesis, 2021. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Activating_parents_in_early_intervention_The_role_of_relationship_in_functional_and_family_gains/16807915.
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Including parents of children with a disability in early intervention programs has been widely advocated by multiple health professional disciplines. Within these interventions a substantial body of research supports the positive influence of the parent-child relationship on developmental outcomes. Programs that upskill parents, reflect family context and focus on increased participation in broader community and social settings are now considered best practice. Such programs have good face validity, with recent studies showing parents strongly endorsing the sharing of skills and strategies, allowing them to extend the child’s learning to multiple situations including within the family and wider community. Despite this evidence, successful widespread implementation of relationally-based programs has been difficult to achieve. Working directly with parents can include challenges beyond simply introducing strategies and having them apply these outside therapy sessions. It requires therapists to work in a context where parents may be struggling with feelings of incompetence and experiencing high levels of individual and relational stress that are often associated with parenting a child with a disability. Developing therapy goals that reflect family imperatives can also present challenges as therapists and parents may be driven by objectives derived from developmental checklists rather than contextual, family-prioitised goals. This thesis investigated the efficacy of a manualised program designed by the candidate (PCRI-EI; parent child relationally informed – early intervention) in addressing these challenges in an early childhood development clinic that delivers multidisciplinary services to children with disabilities. A preliminary case study showed promising changes for the family, in reduced stress and improved sense of competency for the parents, as well as positive impacts on functional outcomes for the child. Parents reported improvements in family engagement in community activities as well as in their own ability to more broadly understand their child’s challenges. A subsequent qualitative study investigated the experience of therapists as they made the transition to a relationally-based practice. Feedback from therapists indicated the systematic approach embedded in the protocol combined with reflective supervision built their competence and confidence in working collaboratively with families. At the same time, they reported being better able to generate therapeutic goals that preferenced family context and priorities over therapist-driven developmental aims. Changes in parents’ stress, psychological well-being and sense of competence, was investigated in a third study. Findings showed notable reductions in stress levels over time particularly those generated by parents’ conceptualisation of their child as difficult. Increased parental wellbeing and sense of competency were also reported. These changes were consistent across diagnostic categories. The final component of the thesis investigated impacts of PCRI-EI on the child’s functional capacity. Significant and marked increases in functioning were observed across time. The gains did not differ by diagnosis and parental feedback indicated family context was prioritised and valued. These improvements were generalised throughout social, community and educational settings. Taken together these findings indicate that through the combination of a manualised therapy model and ongoing reflective supervision, PCRI-EI supports the implementation of relationally-based, family-centred practices. PCRI-EI appears to provide the how-to component. The absence of which seems to have inhibited the widespread adoption of such programs in early intervention. Given the exploratory nature of the thesis these conclusions require further investigation. Nonetheless, they suggest successfully engaging parents in early intervention requires a systematic approach embedded in the practices of the organisation. The role of the therapist in supporting parents build the skills to work in this context is critical. Achieving that change in therapists’ capacity involves a similarly methodical approach that integrates professional development, reflective supervision and an appreciation of the professional identity challenges the changed way of working may present. This combination of factors does not appear to have been addressed in previous investigations around establishing relationally-based practices in early childhood interventions.
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(9777875), Sandra Arnold. "Sing no sad songs: Grieving the death of a young adult child from cancer." Thesis, 2010. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Sing_no_sad_songs_Grieving_the_death_of_a_young_adult_child_from_cancer/13450763.
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For bereaved parents the death of a child is the most tragic of all deaths. When a child dies, parents lose not only their child, but all their child represents, such as a future together and descendants. Life as they assumed it would be ends with the child’s death and the role of parent changes to that of bereaved parent. A child’s death seems to subvert the natural order. Parental grieving can be, therefore, the most devastating, the longest lasting, and the most far-reaching in its effects of all forms of grief. Although much has been written about grieving infant death, adolescent suicide and violent death, information is sparse on grieving the death of a young adult child from cancer. One of the reasons for this is that the incidence of cancer in the 18 to 25-year-old group is very rare. This thesis aims to address the gap with a creative nonfiction memoir titled Sing no sad songs and an exegesis titled Grieving the death of a young adult child from cancer. The creative work is a memoir of my own experience in dealing with the diagnosis, illness and death from cancer of my 23-year-old daughter, Rebecca. The exegesis consists of six chapters which provide a context for Sing no sad songs. Chapter one comprises a critical reflection on the inspiration and influences that informed my writing, the process I used, and issues that arose during the drafting. Chapter two contextualises Sing no sad songs within the findings of psychological and sociological theories of grief. Chapter three elaborates on these findings with an examination of spiritual perspectives on grief. Chapter four analyses the language traditionally used to describe grief and bereavement in Western societies. It concludes with an examination of the human affinity with story telling and the way in which narrative can be used as a tool to help the bereaved assimilate their grief into their changed life story. Chapter five is an analysis of creative nonfiction and examines my rationale for incorporating creative nonfiction techniques in my memoir. Chapter six concludes the exegesis. -- Abstract.
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(9850364), KS Islam. "Social-psychological analysis of accounting manipulation : A study of US and Australian companies." Thesis, 2014. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Social-psychological_analysis_of_accounting_manipulation_A_study_of_US_and_Australian_companies/13387238.
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This study examines the circumstances of accounting manipulation in the United States of America (USA) and Australia during the period 1998-2010. It is argued that academics mostly undertake research within the confines of positive accounting in which accounting manipulation is viewed narrowly as earnings manipulation, and, as a consequence, a wide range of social-psychological factors remain unexplored. That research gap prompted this study to appraise accounting manipulation from a broader perspective, considering earnings and balance sheet
manipulation by using an interpretive research paradigm and explicitly
incorporating the social-psychological factors. The theoretical framework of this study is premised on the fraud triangle theory and a composite model devised as the institutional analysis and development/fraud triangle framework. The analysis and interpretation of findings are based on four banking and financial institutions, namely Fannie Mae and Lehman Brothers Inc. from the USA, and Heath International Holdings Limited and Allco Finance Group Limited from Australia. The study relies upon companies’ annual reports, various investigation reports and
other public documents. An interpretive text analysis approach was used for analysing the data.
The study finds that accounting manipulation is an intentional activity engendered by individuals’ subjective use, misinterpretation or violation of accounting standards. It arises from multiple realities constructed by the interaction of socialpsychological factors, including the macro-economic environment, a company’s financial conditions, and accountability and ethical factors resulting from dysfunctional corporate governance, agency failure, audit failure and regulatory failure. The findings of the study have practical implications for senior executives and boards of directors who need to establish effective corporate governance by discharging active stewardship roles with financial expertise. It is expected that auditors of high-risk clients would prudently scrutinise going concern issues,
regulatory compliance, and misstatements to provide quality assurance. The bodies that set accounting standards need to be independent of industry capture so that they can set high quality standards that reduce the scope for subjective (mis)interpretation. Governments should remedy regulatory overlaps and expedite enforcement. It is imperative that educational institutions re-engineer their curricula to provide ethical education to students who will lead business firms, audit firms and regulatory bodies in the future. Furthermore, the study offers several contributions and suggestions. It proposes a broader lens to view
accounting manipulation by covering both earnings and balance sheet
manipulation. As positive accounting research, based on large samples, is not designed to holistically address questions relevant to multiple factors of accounting manipulation unique to individual companies, it is suggested that future researchers conduct more case studies using an interpretive research paradigm to explore and examine interactions of the accounting and relevant other social-psychological factors.
Books on the topic "Other psychology not elsewhere classified"
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Canada. Occupational Analysis and Classification Systems Division., ed. Canadian classification and dictionary of occupations, occupations in major groups: 91, transport equipment operating, 93, material handling, 95, other crafts and equipment operating, 99, occupations not elsewhere classified. [Ottawa]: Employment and Immigration Canada, 1986.
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Britain, Great. Manufacture of Other Transport Equipment Not Elsewhere Classified. Stationery Office Books, 1996.
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Grant, Jon E., and Marc N. Potenza. Overview of the Impulse Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified and Limitations of Knowledge. Edited by Jon E. Grant and Marc N. Potenza. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195389715.013.0012.
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Several disorders have been classified together in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (4th ed.; DSM-IV) as impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified. These impulse control disorders have been grouped together based on perceived similarities in clinical presentation and hypothesized similarities in pathophysiologies. The question exists whether these disorders belong together or whether they should be categorized elsewhere. Examination of the family of impulse control disorders generates questions regarding the distinct nature of each disorder: whether each is unique or whether they represent variations of each other or other psychiatric disorders. Neurobiology may cut across disorders, and identifying important intermediary phenotypes will be important in understanding impulse control disorders and related entities. The distress of patients with impulse control disorders highlights the importance of examining these disorders. More comprehensive information has significant potential for advancing prevention and treatment strategies for those who suffer from disorders characterized by impaired impulse control.
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Mataix-Cols, David, and Odile A. van den Heuvel. Neuroanatomy of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders. Edited by Gail Steketee. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376210.013.0027.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) shares features and often co-occurs with other anxiety disorders, as well as with other psychiatric conditions classified elsewhere in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), the so-called “OCD spectrum disorders.” Neurobiologically, it is unclear how all these disorders relate to one another. The picture is further complicated by the clinical heterogeneity of OCD. This chapter will review the literature on the common and distinct neural correlates of OCD vis-à-vis other anxiety and “OCD spectrum” disorders. Furthermore, the question of whether partially distinct neural systems subserve the different symptom dimensions of OCD will be examined. Particular attention will be paid to hoarding, which is emerging as a distinct entity from OCD. Finally, new insights from cognitive and affective neuroscience will be reviewed before concluding with a summary and recommendations for future research.
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Webber, Jonathan. Rethinking Existentialism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198735908.001.0001.
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Rethinking Existentialism argues that the core of existentialism is the theory that Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre described when they popularized the term in 1945: the ethical theory that we ought to treat human freedom as intrinsically valuable and the foundation of all other value. The book argues that Beauvoir and Sartre disagreed over the structure of this freedom in 1943 but that Sartre came to accept Beauvoir’s view by 1952, that Frantz Fanon’s first book should also be classified as a canonical work of existentialism, and that Beauvoir’s argument for a moral imperative of authenticity is a firmer ground for existentialism’s ethical claim than any of the eudaimonist arguments offered by Fanon and Sartre. It develops its arguments through critical contrasts with Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The book concludes by sketching contributions that this analysis of existentialism can make to contemporary philosophy, psychology, and psychotherapy.
Book chapters on the topic "Other psychology not elsewhere classified"
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Kriti, Charu. "Selective Mutism." In Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies, 363–80. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4955-0.ch019.
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Selective mutism is a disorder that is characterized by a failure to speak in certain social settings, like the school, while speaking normally in other settings, like home. The settings in which the failure to speak occur are those where speech is expected from the individual. It is a disorder that onsets in childhood, and if left untreated, may go well into adolescence. For a very long time, this disorder has been overlooked and understudied. Though rare, the disorder may pose a potential threat to the social and academic development of a child suffering from it. The DSM-5 has classified selective mutism as an anxiety disorder. The present chapter intends to cover the psychosocial approach to the disorder, the diagnostic criteria, the etiology, the treatment of the disorder, and the management by respective caregivers. An analysis of case studies has also been given in the chapter.
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Nehring, Daniel. "Making Neoliberal Selves: Popular Psychology in Contemporary Mexico." In A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?, 47–70. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529200997.003.0003.
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Since the 1970s, academic debates have considered how psychological discourses may legitimize or challenge capitalist forms of social organization. However, these debates have largely focused on the USA and Western Europe. The roles which psychological discourses play in contemporary popular cultures in Latin America remain poorly understood. Here, I use an analysis of the Mexican self-help publishing industry to examine the roles which psychological narratives may play in constructing, bolstering or subverting neoliberal subjectivities. Self-help books, my subject matter, are widely read in Mexico and at the international level. They therefore constitute a nexus through which the narratives of self and social relationships of academic psychology percolate into popular culture. In Mexico, self-help publishing involves, first, the translation and sale of texts written elsewhere, often in the USA, Europe and other Latin American nations, and, second, the sale of books by Mexican authors. This gives the Mexican self-help industry a distinctively hybrid character, as a variety of interpretations of self-improvement compete with each other for a readership. Here, I contrast self-help texts that blend psychological concepts with Christian nationalism with secular accounts that rely on pseudo-scientific and philosophical arguments to formulate a moral vision of a successful life. In spite of their narrative diversity, I argue that neoliberal understandings of self, choice, and personal responsibility are pervasive in self-help texts. The organization of the self-help publishing industry according to neoliberal economic principles and the refashioning of authors as competitive self-help entrepreneurs may explain this narrative convergence to some extent.
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Radden, Jennifer. "Lumps and Bumps Kantian Faculty Psychology, Phrenology, and Twentieth-CenturyPsychiatric Classification." In Moody Minds Distempered, 130–46. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195338287.003.0009.
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Abstract Influenced by the great psychiatric classifiers of the past, Western twentieth century no so logical maps reveal a notable division among the severe conditions known as either disorders (DSM) or psychoses (ICD). The forms of dysfunction associated with mood or affect are separated from those associated with schizophrenia. We may suppose we understand why this is so. Yet many psychological concepts, we know, are a reflection of culture. And it is not only that other cultures mark aspects of the self, personality, disposition, and behavior in terms and categories distinguishable from ours and adhere to contrary mental health norms. In addition, the very broadest categories and divisions by which different mental disorders are classified are in other cultures and traditions radically different from ours, as a recent survey (1990) by Wig has illustrated. Based on an analysis of medical classifications in Asian, African, and Islamic traditions, Wig concludes of the current division of psychoses separating mood or affective disorder from schizophrenia that “such concepts do not find are cognitionin traditional Third World classifications” (195; my emphasis).
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Ferrer, Gemma García. "The Observation." In Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services, 78–91. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6371-8.ch006.
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This chapter discusses the observational technique as a scientific method that includes a broad spectrum of techniques, which could be classified in several ways. On the basis of the observation concept, its characteristics, advantages, and inconveniences are described. A quick run-through of the deployment of observation in other social sciences such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology is made, noticing to what extent market research has leveraged the latest advances in these areas, most specifically in psychology. It analyzes how to run the sampling in observation and also presents the registry and coding process. After the description and classification of the different observation types, a special mention is made to ethical aspects. Throughout this chapter the authors expose real research cases in which observation has being applied.
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Natu, Sadhana. "Enabling spaces for and with marginalised young people: the case of the Disha peer support and speak out group." In Young People, Radical Democracy and Community Development, 131–48. Policy Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447362753.003.0008.
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This chapter foregrounds the challenges first- and second-generation learners face in Indian higher education campuses by sharing insights gained through the work of Disha, a speak out and peer support group that has been functioning for the last 29 years. Established by the author Dr Sadhana Natu in 1992, Disha is a community-building project based in a psychology department. The chapter shows how thinking from psychology can inform community education processes and how community work can inform a democratic politics of mental health. A key aspect in Disha is the building of friendship and the consequent unlearning of privilege by those who inherit high caste status. The chapter speaks to many marginalised, as well as privileged youth elsewhere, whether subject to a caste system or other forms of oppressive social hierarchy.
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Gill, Paul, Kurt Braddock, Sanaz Zolghadriha, Bettina Rottweiler, and Lily D. Cushenbery. "Terrorist Propaganda After the Islamic State." In ISIS Propaganda, 242–64. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190932459.003.0009.
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Tactical and technological innovations of one terrorist group often cross-pollinate into other groups with wildly different ideologies and from geographically diverse combat theaters. The aim of this chapter is thus to examine the potential imitation/emulation dynamics that extremist groups (both jihadist and other) might enter following the “success” of the propaganda produced by the Islamic State (IS). The chapter looks at two aspects of this problem: first, to what extent did IS innovate or imitate while producing its propaganda, and, second, how likely is it that IS’s propaganda will constitute a source of imitation for today’s and tomorrow’s violent groups? Drawing on what organizational psychology, business management, communications science, and terrorism studies say regarding creativity and innovation, the chapter highlights the drivers of IS’s innovation and thereby considers the likelihood of their being replicated elsewhere.
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Byrne, Fiachra. "The ‘report of a nightmare’: hallucinating conflict in the political and personal frontiers of Ulster during the IRA border campaign of 1920–22." In Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict, 1914-45. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097850.003.0008.
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The influence of the ‘new psychology’ was less notable in early-twentieth-century Ireland than elsewhere. Nonetheless, the personal narratives of patients can be used to unravel the meaning of warfare and conflict. This chapter exploits a 1940 article published by the former medical superintendent of the Downpatrick District Asylum, Michael J. Nolan, of a ‘case of acute systematized hallucinosis’. His article provided a detailed journal account of an extended period of hallucination authored by a patient in the immediate aftermath of his disturbance during the War of Independence. Nolan’s article was also distinguishable by its focus on the actual substance of hallucinatory experience. The patient recounted a hallucinatory episode in which a battle took place in his sickbed between an army of cockroaches and an army of hairs. These phantasmagorical battalions clearly functioned as proxies for the participants of the ‘real’ conflict raging beyond the doors of the asylum. His hallucinations were also deeply coloured by his personal relations with, and violent impulses towards, two women, one Protestant and the other Catholic. This chapter critically analyses in an ethnographic frame this account of a hallucinatory episode and the psychiatric discourse which enfolded and structured it.
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Dodwell, Peter. "New Perspectives on Representation and Reality." In Brave New Mind, 107–25. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195089059.003.0006.
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Abstract How does all this jibe with modem theories of cognition? Despite the great variety of research techniques, levels of study, and explanatory ideas, as expressed in table 5.1, there is a striking and apparently anomalous characteristic of most cognitive theorists, especially those who initiate major “schools.” They tend toward profound commitment to a single particular conception of the nature of their field. Perhaps some minor variance is allowed, but still there is only one central way to approach the important questions, one valid principle of explanation. Indeed, that principle is what makes the theory unique. Theories of perception, in other words, like most other theories in cognitive science, always have a strong metaphysical message to convey. Köhler in Gestalt psychology, Hebb, Gibson, and Marr in their perceptual theories, all insisted that everything, but everything, is to be classified and explained in terms of a single overriding principle. This single-mindedness seems truly remarkable once we have recognized that the study of perception, and perception itself, are intrinsically multifaceted and varied. The unswerving dedication to a single principle of explanation of its major theorists seems to belie the very nature of their subject. Or does it? Let us consider in more detail the views of one of the century’s most influential theorists, James J. Gibson. As stated in chapter 2, Gibson was a fiercely “antiphysiological” theorist who swam against the very strong current of orthodox opinion, then as now, basically the standard model.
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McElroy, Michael B. "Power from the Sun Abundant But Expensive." In Energy and Climate. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190490331.003.0015.
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As discussed in the preceding chapter, wind resources available from nonforested, nonurban, land-based environments in the United States are more than sufficient to meet present and projected future US demand for electricity. Wind resources are comparably abundant elsewhere. As indicated in Table 10.2, a combination of onshore and offshore wind could accommodate prospective demand for electricity for all of the countries classified as top- 10 emitters of CO2. Solar energy reaching the Earth’s surface averages about 200 W m– 2 (Fig. 4.1). If this power source could be converted to electricity with an efficiency of 20%, as little as 0.1% of the land area of the United States (3% of the area of Arizona) could supply the bulk of US demand for electricity. As discussed later in this chapter, the potential source of power from the sun is significant even for sun- deprived countries such as Germany. Wind and solar energy provide potentially complementary sources of electricity in the sense that when the supply from one is low, there is a good chance that it may be offset by a higher contribution from the other. Winds blow strongest typically at night and in winter. The potential supply of energy from the sun, in contrast, is highest during the day and in summer. The source from the sun is better matched thus than wind to respond to the seasonal pattern of demand for electricity, at least for the United States (as indicated in Fig. 10.5).There are two approaches available to convert energy from the sun to electricity. The first involves using photovoltaic (PV) cells, devices in which absorption of radiation results directly in production of electricity. The second is less direct. It requires solar energy to be captured and deployed first to produce heat, with the heat used subsequently to generate steam, the steam applied then to drive a turbine. The sequence in this case is similar to that used to generate electricity in conventional coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear- powered systems. The difference is that the energy source is light from the sun rather than a carbon- based fossil fuel or fissionable uranium.
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van den Dool, Huug. "The Practice of Short-Term Climate Prediction." In Empirical Methods in Short-Term Climate Prediction. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199202782.003.0016.
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While previous chapters were about methods and their formal backgrounds, we here present a description of the process of making a forecast and the protocol surrounding it. A look in the kitchen. It is difficult to find literature on the subject, presumably because a real-time forecast is not a research project and potential authors (the forecasters) work in an ever-changing environment and may never feel the time is right to write an overview of what they are doing. Moreover, it may be very difficult to describe real-time forecasts and present a complete picture. Nearly all of the material presented here specifically applies to the seasonal prediction made at the NWS in the USA, but should be relevant elsewhere. A real-time operational forecast setting lacks the logic and methodical approach one should strive for in science. This is for many reasons. There is pressure, time schedules are to be met, input data sets could be missing or incorrect, and one can feel the suspense, excitement and disappointment associated with a forecast in real time. There are habits that are carried over from years past—forecasters are partly set in their ways or find it difficult to make major changes in mid-stream. The interaction with the user influences the forecast, and/or the way the information is conveyed. Psychology enters the forecast. Assumptions about what users want or understand do play a role. Generally speaking a forecast is thus a mix of what is scientifically possible on the one hand and what is presumably useful to the customer on the other. The CPC/NWS forecasts are moreover for the general user, not one user specifically. Users for short-term climate forecasts range from the highly sophisticated (energy traders, selling of weather derivatives, hydrologists) via the (wo)man in the street to entertainment. The seasonal forecast has been around a long time in the USA. Jerome Namias started in-house seasonal forecasts at the NWS in 1958. After 15 years of testing, his successor Donald Gilman made the step to public release in 1973.
Conference papers on the topic "Other psychology not elsewhere classified"
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Marchenko, Nataliya. "Navigation in the Russian Arctic: Sea Ice Caused Difficulties and Accidents." In ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2013-10546.
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The 5 Russian Arctic Seas have common features, but differ significantly from each other in the sea ice regime and navigation specifics. Navigation in the Arctic is a big challenge, especially during the winter season. However, it is necessary, due to limited natural resources elsewhere on Earth that may be easier for exploitation. Therefore sea ice is an important issue for future development. We foresee that the Arctic may become ice free in summer as a result of global warming and even light yachts will be able to pass through the Eastern Passage. There have been several such examples in the last years. But sea ice is an inherent feature of Arctic Seas in winter, it is permanently immanent for the Central Arctic Basin. That is why it is important to get appropriate knowledge about sea ice properties and operations in ice conditions. Four seas, the Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi have been examined in the book “Russian Arctic Seas. Navigation Condition and Accidents”, Marchenko, 2012 [1]. The book is devoted to the eastern sector of the Arctic, with a description of the seas and accidents caused by heavy ice conditions. The traditional physical-geographical characteristics, information about the navigation conditions and the main sea routes and reports on accidents that occurred in the 20th century have reviewed. An additional investigation has been performed for more recent accidents and for the Barents Sea. Considerable attention has been paid to problems associated with sea ice caused by the present development of the Arctic. Sea ice can significantly affect shipping, drilling, and the construction and operation of platforms and handling terminals. Sea ice is present in the main part of the east Arctic Sea most of the year. The Barents Sea, which is strongly influenced and warmed by the North Atlantic Current, has a natural environment that is dramatically different from those of the other Arctic seas. The main difficulties with the Barents Sea are produced by icing and storms and in the north icebergs. The ice jet is the most dangerous phenomenon in the main straits along the Northern Sea Route and in Chukchi Seas. The accidents in the Arctic Sea have been classified, described and connected with weather and ice conditions. Behaviour of the crew is taken into consideration. The following types of the ice-induced accidents are distinguished: forced drift, forced overwintering, shipwreck, and serious damage to the hull in which the crew, sometimes with the help of other crews, could still save the ship. The main reasons for shipwrecks and damages are hits of ice floes (often in rather calm ice conditions), ice nipping (compression) and drift. Such investigation is important for safety in the Arctic.
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Stillwell, Ashlynn S., and Michael E. Webber. "Feasibility of Wind Power for Brackish Groundwater Desalination: A Case Study of the Energy-Water Nexus in Texas." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90158.
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With dwindling water supplies and the impacts of climate change, many cities are turning to water sources previously considered unusable. One such source for inland cities is brackish groundwater. With prolonged drought throughout Texas, cities such as El Paso, Lubbock, and San Antonio are desalinating brackish groundwater to supplement existing water sources. Similar projects are under consideration elsewhere in Texas. While brackish groundwater contains fewer total dissolved solids than seawater, desalination of brackish groundwater is still an energy-intensive process. Brackish water desalination using reverse osmosis, the most common desalination membrane treatment process, consumes 20 to 40 times more energy than traditional surface water treatment using local water sources. This additional energy consumption leads to increased carbon emissions when using fossil fuel-generated electricity. As a result of concern over greenhouse gas emissions from additional energy consumption, some desalination plants are powered by wind-generated electricity. West Texas is a prime area for desalination of brackish groundwater using wind power, since both wind and brackish groundwater resources are abundant in the area. Most of the Texas Panhandle and Plains region has wind resource potential classified as Class 3 or higher. Additionally, brackish groundwater is found at depths less than 150 m in most of west Texas. This combination of wind and brackish groundwater resources presents opportunities for the production of alternative drinking water supplies without severe carbon emissions. Additionally, since membrane treatment is not required to operate continuously, desalination matches well with variable wind power. Implementing a brackish groundwater desalination project using wind-generated electricity requires economic feasibility, in addition to the geographic availability of the two resources. Using capital and operating cost data for wind turbines and desalination membranes, we conducted a thermoeconomic analysis for three parameters: 1) transmission and transport, 2) geographic proximity, and 3) aquifer volume. Our first parameter analyzes the cost effectiveness of tradeoffs between building infrastructure to transmit wind-generated electricity to the desalination facility versus pipelines to transport brackish groundwater to the wind turbines. Secondly, we estimate the maximum distance between the wind turbines and brackish groundwater at which desalination using wind power remains economically feasible. Finally, we estimate the minimum available brackish aquifer volume necessary to make such a project profitable. Our analysis illustrates a potential drinking water option for Texas (and other parts of the world with similar conditions) using renewable energy to treat previously unusable water. Harnessing these two resources in an economically efficient manner may help reduce future strain on the energy-water nexus.
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Sayar, Alperen, Tuna Çakar, Tunahan Bozkan, Seyit Ertuğrul, and Mert Güvençli. "Emotional Analysis of Candidates During Online Interviews." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003278.
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The recent empirical findings from the related fields including psychology, behavioral sciences, and neuroscience indicate that both emotion and cognition are influential during the decision making processes and so on the final behavioral outcome. On the other hand, emotions are mostly reflected by facial expressions that could be accepted as a vital means of communication and critical for social cognition. This has been known as the facial activation coding in the related academic literature. There have been several different AI-based systems that produce analysis of facial expressions with respect to 7 basic emotions including happy, sad, angry, disgust, fear, surprise, and neutral through the photos captured by camera-based systems. The system we have designed is composed of the following stages: (1) face verification, (2) facial emotion analysis and reporting, (3) emotion recognition from speech. The users upload their online video in which the participants tell about themselves within 3 minutes duration. In this study, several classification methods were applied for model development processes, and the candidates' emotional analysis in online interviews was focused on, and inferences about the situation were attempted using the related face images and sounds. In terms of the face verification system obtained as a result of the model used, 98% success was achieved. The main target of this paper is related to the analysis of facial expressions. The distances between facial landmarks are made up of the starting and ending points of these points. 'Face frames' were obtained while the study was being conducted by extracting human faces from the video using the VideoCapture and Haar Cascade functions in the OpenCV library in the Python programming language with the image taken in the recorded video. The videos consist of 24 frames for 1000 milliseconds. During the whole video, the participant's emotion analysis with respect to facial expressions is provided for the durations of 500 milliseconds. Since there are more than one face in the video, face verification was done with the help of different algorithms: VGG-Face, Facenet, OpenFace, DeepFace, DeepID, Dlib and ArcFace. Emotion analysis via facial landmarks was performed on all photographs of the participant during the interview. DeepFace algorithm was used to analyze face frames through study that recognizes faces using convolutional neural networks, then analyzes age, gender, race, and emotions. The study classified emotions as basic emotions. Emotion analysis was performed on all of the photographs obtained as a result of the verification, and the average mood analysis was carried out throughout the interview, and the data with the highest values on the basis of emotion were also recorded and the probability values have been extracted for further analyses. Besides the local analyses, there have also been global outputs with respect to the whole video session. The main target has been to introduce different potential features to the feature matrix that could be correlated with the other variables and labels tagged by the HR expert.
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Dong, Hanzhang. "A cross-cultural contextual study of Wong Kar-wai’s films driven by online reviews." In Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET-AI 2024). AHFE International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004562.
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With the development of science and technology, the distance between people in space is getting smaller and smaller, and economic globalization has been a historical inevitability. At the time of accelerating globalization, the film and television industry, as a part of the economy, cannot escape the impact of globalization. Moreover, compared with other industries, film and television works often carry more cultural connotations. How should filmmakers cope with the cultural differences in storytelling, create cross-cultural works, and get the same or different word-of-mouth feedback from different cultural groups? In the current multi-cultural context, Wong Kar-wai can be said to be one of the representative figures. In his films, From "Carmen", "Ashes of Time" and "Days of Being Wild" to "Chungking Express", "In the Mood for Love" and "The Grandmaster", Wong Kar-wai has been widely understood and accepted in different cultural and social contexts. This article start with online comments and study the elements of cross-cultural film creation in the context of globalization according to data mining technology. Research methods and processes: Firstly, data acquisition and pre-processing are carried out. The data source of online comments needs to be determined before crawling the review data. For the research objects selected in this study, the relevant sections of online movie rating websites, online movie platforms and social attribute platforms with large audiences were chosen as data source. For example, metascore has a weighted average of many movie reviews from well-known critics, which is highly reliable. Then, the key step in text mining is word segmentation. It's the process of breaking a sentence into several words. Accurate word segmentation can improve the efficiency and accuracy of subsequent text mining. After the word cloud is established, attribute features of the comments are extracted and classified, and the factors that highly affect the acceptance and empathy of Wong Kar-wai's film works in the cross-cultural context are summarized. Finally, combined with the study of his film scenes and narrative structure, the research focuses on the following factors:1.Theme selection: Explore universal themes, such as love, loneliness, loss and dreams. These themes are cross-cultural, and people face similar issues and emotions across cultures.2.Narrative structure: Such as non-linear narrative structure, which not only increases the complexity of the film, but also provides the audience with space to think and interpret, so that audiences from different cultural backgrounds can interpret the film in different ways.3.How emotions are expressed: Wong Kar-wai's films emphasize the emotions and inner world of characters, which is a universal emotional experience that can touch people's emotions across cultural boundaries.4.Character complexity: Complex and multi-dimensional characters with unique personalities, desires and inner conflicts enable the audience to immerse themselves in understanding the inner journey of these characters, regardless of their cultural background.5.The beauty of cultural elements: Different cultural elements, such as the backgrounds and traditions of China Mainland, Hong Kong, or elsewhere. Although these elements sometimes have a specific impact on the story, they are usually presented in an aesthetic and emotional way that allows the audience to enjoy the film without knowing the cultural details.6.Aesthetic of sight and sound: Films have a distinctive vision and sound style. Create memorable movie atmospheres. This visual and aural allure can transcend the language barrier and touch the hearts of the audience.In a word, the reason why Wong Kar-wai's films can be accepted and understood by people in cross-cultural contexts will be explored in a more specific way along the above directions, and the methods of film creation will be explored under the background of multi-context globalization.
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Sayar, Alperen, Tuna Çakar, Tunahan Bozkan, Seyit Ertuğrul, and Fatma Gümüş. "Emotion Recognition from Speech via the Use of Different Audio Features, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003279.
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Speech has been accepted as one of the basic, efficient and powerful communication methods. At the beginning of the 20th century, electroacoustic analysis was used for determining emotions in psychology. In academics, Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has become one of the most studied and investigated research areas. This research program aims to determine the emotional state of the speaker based on speech signals. Significant studies have been undertaken during the last two decades to identify emotions from speech by using machine learning. However, it is still a challenging task because emotions rotate from one to another and there are environmental factors which have significant effects on emotions. Furthermore, sound consists of numerous parameters and there are various anatomical characteristics to take into consideration. Determining an appropriate audio feature set for emotion recognition is still a critical decision point for an emotion recognition system. The demand for voice technology in both art and human – machine interaction systems has recently been increased. Our voice conveys both linguistic and paralinguistic messages in the course of speaking. The paralinguistic part, for example, rhythm and pitch, provides emotional cues to the speaker. The speech emotion recognition topic examines the question ‘How is it said?’ and an algorithm detects the emotional state of the speaker from an audio record. Although a considerable number of the studies have been conducted for selecting and extracting an optimal set of features, appropriate attributes for automatic emotion recognition from audio are still under research. The main aim of this study is obtaining the most distinctive emotional audio features. For this purpose, time- based features, frequency-based features and spectral shape-based features are used for comparing recognition accuracies. Besides these features, a pre-trained model is used for obtaining input for emotion recognition. Machine learning models are developed for classifying emotions with Support Vector Machine, Multi-Layer Perceptron and Convolutional Neural Network algorithms. Three emotional databases in English and German are combined and a larger database is obtained for training and testing the models. Emotions namely, Happy, Calm, Angry, Boredom, Disgust, Fear, Neutral, Sad and Surprised are classified with these models. When the classification results are examined, it is concluded that the pre- trained representations make the most successful predictions. The weighted accuracy ratio is 91% for both Convolutional Neural Network and Multilayer Perceptron algorithms while this ratio is 87% for the Support Vector Machine algorithm. A hybrid model is being developed which contains both a pre-trained model and spectral shaped based features. Speech contains silent and noisy sections which increase the computational complexity. Time performance is the other major factor which should be a great deal of careful consideration. Although there are many advancements on SER, custom architectures are designed to fuse accuracy and time performance. Even further for a more realistic emotion estimation all physical gestures like voice, body parts of movement and facial expression can be obtained together as humans use them collectively to express themselves.