Transactional Analysis: Conceptualizing a Framework for Illuminating Human Experience

Transactional family dynamics: a new framework for conceptualizing family influence processes.

A Framework for Supervised Conceptualizing

In this paper, we introduce a framework allowing users to conceptualize by both constructing and supervising the evolution of an ontology. Because of the various discussions around the terms ontology and conceptualization in the knowledge sharing community we will firstly show, by means of a simple example, how these terms are apprehended by our framework. We will then discuss philosophical asp...

A Framework for Conceptualizing Competence to Mentor

Although advertisements for jobs in academe increasingly suggest that mentoring students is a job requirement, and although academic institutions are increasingly prone to consider a faculty member’s performance as a mentor at promotion and tenure junctures, there is currently no common approach to conceptualizing or evaluating mentor competence. This article proposes the triangular model of me...

A theoretical framework of divorcing couples experience

Divorce is an event affecting couples, children, families, and community. Little is known about the perception of Iranian couples who intended to get divorced with regard to the process of decision making on divorce. The purpose of this study was to build a theory about the process that leads the couples to get divorced. The grounded theory in qualitative paradigm was used. Ten couples were int...

CAGISTrans: A Transactional Framework for Cooperative Work1

The problem addressed in this paper deals with data sharing as a means to cooperate. Our main focus is on transactional mechanisms to manage concurrent accesses to (partially) shared dataand resource bases. Several transaction models have been developed for this purpose. However, they may still be unsatisfactory with respect to support for runtime changes and heterogeneity. The paper outlines o...