Place meanings and desired management outcomes

Constraints Children Place on Word Meanings

This paper views lexical acquisition OS a problem of induction: Children must figure out the meaning of a given term, given the large number of possible meanings any term could have. If children had to consider, evaluate, and rule out an unlimited number of hypotheses obout each word in order to figure out its meaning, learning word meanings would be hopeless. Children must, therefore, be limit...

E-Learning and Desired Learning Outcomes

Isoperformance: Analysis and design of complex systems with desired outcomes

The design of technical systems such as automobiles and spacecraft has traditionally focused exclusively on performance maximization. Many organizations now realize that such an approach must be balanced against competing objectives of cost, risk, and other criteria. If one is willing to give up some amount of performance relative to the best achievable performance level, one introduces slack i...

Development and pilot testing of four desired health outcomes scales.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop and pilot test scales to measure desired health outcomes hypothesized to result from high-quality cancer nursing care: Fortitude Scale, Trust in Nurses Scale, Cancer Patient Optimism Scale, and Authentic Self-Representation Scale. DESIGN Instrument development. SETTING Community cancer support organization. SAMPLE 66 recently treated patients with cancer who ...

The growing number of female physicians: meanings, values, and outcomes

Throughout the developed world the proportion of women in professions such as medicine is increasing. This commentary uses Haklai et al's nuanced report on the feminization of medicine in Israel as a starting point. I discuss whether gender shifts are an outcome of more egalitarian attitudes towards women overall, or instead arise from men choosing other professions, the extent of the shift, an...