Gould’s Creaking Chair, Schoenberg’s Metric Clarity

Role Clarity , Need for Clarity , Satisfaction , Tension , and Withdrawal 1

In a mailed-questionnaire study of 156 staff registered nurses, perceived role clarity was related negatively to voluntary turnover, propensity to leave, and job tension, and positively to work satisfaction. The correlations of role clarity with voluntary turnover, propensity to leave, and work satisfaction were nonsignificant for nurses classified as low on a need-for-clarity index; the correl...

Before Clarity

I f you're at all like me, you've spent a lot of time thinking about what makes " good design " good. Most software developers become preoccupied with this question at some point in their careers, usually after witnessing the effects of bad design first hand. At that point, we start to reflect. We go through a stage where we feel we know what good design is but can't really define it. Then we l...

Clarity for Clinical Practice

A series of articles1–4 published recently in The Lancet and Lancet Neurology raise an interesting issue that has implications for both the clinical management of hypertension and future research in hypertension, particularly in the development and use of different classes of blood pressure (BP)–lowering drugs. These studies, which were led by Peter Rothwell at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Ox...

Mycosphaerellaceae – Chaos or clarity?

The Mycosphaerellaceae represent thousands of fungal species that are associated with diseases on a wide range of plant hosts. Understanding and stabilising the taxonomy of genera and species of Mycosphaerellaceae is therefore of the utmost importance given their impact on agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Based on previous molecular studies, several phylogenetic and morphologically disti...

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