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Many Dimensions (many + dimension)
Selected AbstractsEstablishing Strategic Objectives: Measurement and Testing in Product Quality and DesignDESIGN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Issue 4 2000Noel Mark Noël APRODUCT is composed of many dimensions,stimuli that generate perceptions. Noel Mark Noël presents a methodology that allows researchers to gauge consumer perceptions among competing products, dimension by dimension. Reactions are charted on a relative scale so that, for any given dimension, it is easy to identify the product with the strongest consumer impact. Such analysis helps firms to design and target products more accurately, and creates common ground for communications among design and business managers. [source] Is good ,quality of life' possible at the end of life?JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 4 2001An explorative study of the experiences of a group of cancer patients in two different care cultures INFORMATION POINT: Factor analysis ,,The purpose of this paper was to explore how a group of gravely ill patients, cared for in different care cultures, assessed their quality of life during their last month of life. ,,The study material comprised quality of life assessments from 47 cancer patients, completed during their last month of life. Two quality of life questionnaires, the EORTC QLQ-C30 and a psychosocial well-being questionnaire, were used. The data were treated in accordance with instructions for the respective questionnaires, and the results are presented primarily as means, mostly at the group level. Assessments from patients in two different care cultures, care-orientated and cure-orientated, were compared. ,,The results show that despite having an assessed lower quality of life in many dimensions than people in general, several patients experienced happiness and satisfaction during their last month of life. ,,,Cognitive functioning' and ,emotional functioning' were the dimensions that differed least from those of the general population, and ,physical functioning', ,role functioning' and ,global health status/quality of life' differed the most. ,Fatigue' showed the highest mean for the symptom scales/items. ,,There was a tendency for those cared for in the cure-orientated care culture to report more symptoms than those in the care-orientated care culture. An exception to this was ,pain', which was reported more often by those in the care-orientated care culture. ,,The implications of the results are discussed from different angles. The significance of knowledge concerning how patients experience their quality of life is also discussed with respect to the care and the planning of care for dying patients. [source] A multimodal behavioral approach to performance anxietyJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 8 2004Arnold A. Lazarus Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) stresses a trimodal assessment framework (affect, behavior, and cognition [ABC]), whereas the multimodal approach assesses seven discrete but interactive components,behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relationships, and drugs/biological factors (BASIC I.D.). Only complex or recalcitrant cases call for the entire seven-pronged range of multimodal interventions. Various case illustrations are offered as examples of how a clinician might proceed when confronted with problems that fall under the general heading of performance anxiety. The main example is of a violinist in a symphony orchestra whose career was in serious jeopardy because of his extreme fear of performing in public. He responded very well to a focused but elaborate desensitization procedure. The hierarchy that was eventually constructed contained many dimensions and subhierarchies featuring interlocking elements that evoked his anxiety. In addition to imaginal systematic desensitization, sessions were devoted to his actual performance in the clinical setting. As a homework assignment, he found it helpful to listen to a long-playing record of an actual rehearsal and to play along with the world-renowned orchestra and conductor. The subsequent disclosure by the client of an important sexual problem was dealt with concomitantly by using a fairly conventional counseling procedure. Therapy required 20 sessions over a 3-month period. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session. [source] To prosper, organizational psychology should, bridge application and scholarship,JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 4 2008Wayne F. Cascio Academics and practitioners differ on so many dimensions that researchers have described them as living in different "thought worlds." That gap persists, and there are important explanations for it, but a confluence of economic and organizational forces is driving academics and practitioners toward each other. To date, much of the effort by academics to reach out to practitioners has focused on the diffusion of scientific knowledge, not its creation. This paper explores several promising strategies for improving both the bidirectional diffusion of knowledge as well as its creation. It argues that for genuine change to occur, it is necessary to modify academic reward systems and to promote much closer collaboration between academics and practitioners. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Separation of Regulatory Powers When Contracts Are IncompleteJOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC THEORY, Issue 2 2010DAVID BARTOLINI The investment of a regulated firm affects the service/good provided on many dimensions. Should an integrated regulator take care of them all? Or is it better to have separate regulators responsible for them? We analyze the effect of the separation of regulatory powers on the regulated firm's,ex ante,incentive to invest in a "cooperative" innovation. The effects of the innovation are not verifiable and the cost of investing is sunk, hence, there is a problem of hold-up. We find that when the innovation produces opposite effects the,ex ante,firm's incentive to invest is larger in the case of separation than in the case of integrated regulation. We also stress the risk of over-investment that the separation of regulatory powers may induce. We maintain that along with classical incentive regulation,which mainly provides incentives for the firm to be efficient,the separation of regulatory powers may play a role in providing an incentive for cooperative innovations. [source] Homelessness in Europe and the United States: A Comparison of Prevalence and Public OpinionJOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 3 2007Paul A. Toro Random samples of 250,435 adults were interviewed by telephone in five different nations (N= 1,546): Belgium, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the United States. The interview included questions on respondent attitudes, knowledge, and opinions regarding homelessness; respondents' own personal experiences with homelessness and homeless people; and demographic characteristics of the respondents. The highest rates for lifetime literal homelessness were found in the UK (7.7%) and United States (6.2%), with the lowest rate in Germany (2.4%), and intermediate rates in Italy (4.0%) and Belgium (3.4%). Less compassionate attitudes toward the homeless were also found on many dimensions in the United States and the UK. Possible explanations of these findings, drawn from various theoretical perspectives, and policy implications are provided. [source] Living with chronic illness: A phenomenological study of the health effects of the patient,provider relationshipJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 3 2008Associate Professor of Nursing), CNS (Psychiatric, Mental Health Clinical Specialist, Sylvia Fox PhD Abstract Purpose: To understand the patient,healthcare provider (HCP) relationship from the lived experience of women with chronic disease and determine how this relationship affects women's health. Data sources: Narrative accounts of 25 women's relationships with HCPs in repeated group and individual interviews were audio-taped and transcribed verbatim. Interpretive phenomenology was used to explore the data using three interconnected modes of paradigm cases, exemplars, and themes. Conclusions: Women with chronic disease believed their health was significantly affected by their relationships with HCPs. They experienced a greater sense of well-being and security in connected relationships and had more confidence and motivation to manage their illness. Implications for practice: This research suggests that for women with chronic disease, relationships with HCPs that are connected, and characterized by partnership, and personableness result in the women feeling better in many dimensions. The context of today's healthcare system often pushes the nurse practitioner (NP) to provide care more attuned to medical issues, leaving little time for the development of connected relationships. In spite of this pressure, NPs need to strive to develop relationships with patients that are intersubjective/connected. [source] Structure determination without Fourier inversion.ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION A, Issue 6 2009The parameter-space concept for solving crystal structures from reflection amplitudes (without employing or searching for their phases) is described on a theoretically oriented basis. Emphasis is placed on the principles of the method, on selecting one of three types of parameter spaces discussed in this paper, and in particular on the structure model employed (equal-atom point model, however usually reduced to one-dimensional projections) and on the system of `isosurfaces' representing experimental `geometrical structure amplitudes' in an orthonormal parameter space of as many dimensions as unknown atomic coordinates. The symmetry of the parameter space as well as of the imprinted isosurfaces and its effect on solution methods is discussed. For point atoms scattering with different phases or signs (as is possible in the case of X-ray resonant or of neutron scattering) it is demonstrated that the `landscape' of these isosurfaces remains invariant save certain shifts of origin known beforehand (under the condition that all atomic scattering amplitudes have been reduced to 1 thus meeting the requirement of the structure model above). Partly referring to earlier publications on the subject, measures are briefly described which permit circumventing an analytical solution of the system of structure-amplitude equations and lead to either a unique (unequivocal) approximate structure solution (offering rather high spatial resolution) or to all possible solutions permitted by the experimental data used (thus including also all potential `false minima'). A simple connection to Patterson vectors is given, also a first hint on data errors. References are given for practical details of various solution techniques already tested and for reconstruction of three-dimensional structures from their projections by `point tomography'. We would feel foolish if we tried to aim at any kind of `competition' to existing methods. Having mentioned `pros and cons' of our concept, some ideas about potential applications are nevertheless offered which are mainly based on its inherent resolution power though demanding rather few reflection data (use of optimal intensity contrast included) and possibly providing a result proven to be unique. [source] The seventh servant: The implications of a truth drive in Bions theory of ,O'THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 5 2004JAMES S. GROTSTEIN Drawing upon Bion's published works on the subjects of truth, dreaming, alpha-function and transformations in ,O', the author independently postulates that there exists a ,truth instinctual drive' that subserves a truth principle, the latter of which is associated with the reality principle. Further, he suggests, following Bion's postulation, that ,alpha-function' and dreaming/phantasying constitute unconscious thinking processes and that they mediate the activity of this ,truth drive' (quest, pulsion), which the author hypothesizes constitutes another aspect of a larger entity that also includes the epistemophilic component drive. It purportedly seeks and transmits as well as includes what Bion (1965, pp. 147-9) calls ,O', the ,Absolute Truth, Ultimate Reality, O' (also associated with infi nity, noumena or things-in-themselves, and ,godhead') (1970, p. 26). It is further hypothesized that the truth drive functions in collaboration with an ,unconscious consciousness' that is associated with the faculty of ,attention', which is also known as ,intuition'. It is responsive to internal psychical reality and constitutes Bion's ,seventh servant'. O, the ultimate landscape of psychoanalysis, has many dimensions, but the one that seems to interest Bion is that of the emotional experience of the analysand's and the analyst's ,evolving O' respectively (1970, p. 52) during the analytic session. The author thus hypothesizes that a sense of truth presents itself to the subject as a quest for truth which has the quality and force of an instinctual drive and constitutes the counterpart to the epistemophilic drive. This ,truth quest' or ,drive' is hypothesized to be the source of the generation of the emotional truth of one's ongoing experiences, both conscious and unconscious. It is proposed that emotions are beacons of truth in regard to the acceptance of reality. The concepts of an emotional truth drive and a truth principle would help us understand why analysands are able to accept analysts' interpretations that favor the operation of the reality principle over the pleasure principle,because of what is postulated as their overriding adaptive need for truth. Ultimately, it would seem that Bion's legacy of truth aims at integrating fi nite man with infi nite man. [source] Cross-cultural psychology: A symbiosis of cultural and comparative approachesASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2000J.W. Berry Culture,behaviour relationships can be understood in relation to many dimensions. It is argued that the cultural, indigenous and comparative traditions of research are mutually compatible, and indeed permit a symbiotic approach. This symbiosis produces a generic field, that of cross-cultural psychology, into which the three traditions can be incorporated, and permits the pursuit of a universal psychology. [source] Mindfulness Training and Problem FormulationCLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Issue 2 2003John D. Teasdale Evidence suggests mindfulness-based clinical interventions are effective. Accepting this, we caution against assuming that mindfulness can be applied as a generic technique across a range of disorders without formulating how the approach addresses the factors maintaining the disorder in question. Six specific issues are raised: mindfulness has been found to be unhelpful in some contexts; where mindfulness has been found to be effective, instructors have derived and shared with clients a clear problem formulation; there may be many dimensions of effectiveness underlying the apparent simplicity of mindfulness; mindfulness was developed within a particular "view" of emotional suffering that implies wider changes that go beyond meditation practice alone; professionals need to match the different components of mindfulness with the psychopathology being targeted; nonetheless, mindfulness may affect processes common to different pathologies. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||