Lone Wolves: Operations and Confrontation Strategies

Dancing With Wolves: Today's Lone Wolf Terrorists

Confrontation and politeness strategies in physician-patient interactions.

The therapeutic success of physician-patient interactions depends in large part on how physicians interpret and respond to patients' implicit and explicit messages. Using a hypothetical vignette, in which a patient refuses to comply with a recommended therapeutic regimen, we found that first-year medical students with no classroom training in medical interviewing implicitly recognized that the ...

Investigation of Students’ Undesirable Behaviors and Confrontation Strategies in the View of Instructors

Introduction: Undesirable behaviors are one of the challenges faced by nursing instructors and the coping strategies are also of great importance. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the frequency of nursing students’ undesirable behaviors and confrontation strategies in the view of instructors. Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in 2017-2018. The study ...

Confrontation and Ridicule

Ridicule can be used in order to create concurrence as well as to enhance antagonism. This paper deals with ridicule that is used by a critic when he is responding to a standpoint or to a reason advanced in support of a standpoint. Ridicule profits from humor’s good reputation, and correctly so, even when it is used in argumentative contexts. However, ridicule can be harmful to a discussion. Th...

Multi-Modal Biometrics: Applications, Strategies and Operations

The need for adequate attention to security of lives and properties cannot be over-emphasised. Existing approaches to security management by various agencies and sectors have focused on the use of possession (card, token) and knowledge (password, username)-based strategies which are susceptible to forgetfulness, damage, loss, theft, forgery and other activities of fraudsters. The surest and mos...