The mediation metamodel: Understanding practice

Elder mediation in theory and practice: study results from a national caregiver mediation demonstration project.

Mediation is a process through which a third party facilitates discussion among disputing parties to help them identify interests and ideally reach an amicable solution. Elder mediation is a growing subspecialty to address conflicts involving older adults, primarily involving caregiving or finances. Mediation is theorized to empower participants but critics argue that it can exacerbate power im...

Metamodel Usage Analysis for Identifying Metamodel Improvements

Modeling languages raise the abstraction level at which software is built by providing a set of constructs tailored to the needs of their users. Metamodels define their constructs and thereby reflect the expectations of the language developers about the use of the language. In practice, language users often do not use the constructs provided by a metamodel as expected by language developers. In...

A Booch Metamodel a Booch Metamodel

Object-oriented methods, like the Booch method, are widely used in the development of software systems nowadays, but their syntax and semantics are only de ned by natural language text and examples. This paper provides a formalized description of the syntax of the Booch method by using the EER/GRAL approach of modeling.

MEDICAL PRACTICE Clinical Topics Mediation of hidradenitis suppurative by androgens

Forty two women with hidradenitis suppurative were assessed clinically and biochemically for evidence of androgen excess. Thirteen had irregular menses; 22 of 36 experienced exacerbation of hidradenitis suppurative premenstrually; 19 had or had had acne vulgaris; and seven were hirsute. Comedones (blackheads) were found in apocrine sites in 37, but also in retroauricular sites in 18 and were co...

Understanding theory in clinical practice