Showing compliance, celebrating commitment – the EQualities Award

Celebrating the “Ostād”

This is a short tribute to Dr. Seyed Ali Fakhr Tabatabaei celebrating his excellent and fruitfull career in neurosurgical practice and mentorship. 

The Low-Ball Compliance Technique: Task or Person Commitment?

Three experiments were conducted to examine the mediating process involved in the low-ball procedure for increasing compliance. In Experiment 1, subjects who agreed to but were not allowed to perform an initial request complied with a more costly version of the same request to a greater extent than did controls only when the second request came from the same person as did the first request and ...

Compliance, engagement and commitment: Increasing employer expenditure in training

Celebrating ONS's 40th anniversary and its commitment 
to cultural competency, diversity, and inclusiveness.

Today, we all have been taught that cultural competence is a valuable tool in providing patient-centered care. However, this concept was not considered a standard of oncology nursing practice when the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) began. It was not regarded as a critical component of patient safety, satisfaction, or quality care. In fact, in the 1970s, the importance of providing culturally co...

Interprocedural Herbrand Equalities

We present an aggressive interprocedural analysis for inferring value equalities which are independent of the concrete interpretation of the operator symbols. These equalities, called Herbrand equalities, are therefore an ideal basis for truly machine-independent optimizations as they hold on every machine. Besides a general correctness theorem, covering arbitrary call-by-value parameters and l...