OBJECTIVE When counseling women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), healthcare providers can benefit from understanding the factors contributing to a women's motivation to change her situation. We wished to examine the various factors and situations associated with turning points and change seeking in the IPV situation. METHODS We performed qualitative analysis on data from 7 focus ...

Relaxation oscillations of two-dimensional planar singular perturbed systems with a layer equation exhibiting canard cycles are studied. The canard cycles under consideration contain two turning points and two jump points. We suppose that there exist three parameters permitting generic breaking at both the turning points and the connecting fast orbit. The conditions of one (resp., two, three) r...

The issue of detecting optimal split points for linear regression trees is examined. A novel approach called Turning Point Regression Tree Induction (TPRTI) is proposed which uses turning points to identify the best split points. When this approach is used, first, a general trend is derived from the original dataset by dividing the dataset into subsets using a sliding window approach and a cent...

Historic practice has been to optically monitor narrow bandpass filters by the termination of each layer at a turning point. The problem is that turning points are the least sensitive points to the change of the optical signal with thickness and, thereby, those points are most prone to errors. It is shown that better performance in the production results can be achieved by designing and monitor...

If a point is in the ¿u-limit set and the a-limit set of the same point, then we call it a y-limit point. Then a y-limit point is an w-limit point and thus a nonwandering point. In this paper, we prove that, on the interval, a nonwandering point which is not a y-limit point is in the closure of the set of forward images of turning points, and such points are not always the forward images of tur...

The intricate issue of detecting and forecasting turning points of macroeconomic cycles has been one more time well illustrated recently with the global downturn experienced by most countries around the world in 2000-2001. Governments and Central Banks are very sensitive to economic indicators showing signs of deterioration in order to adjust their policies sufficiently in advance to avoid more...

This chapter is based on the study “Strategic Processes and Turning Points in ICT Business: Case Nokia” (Rusko, 2012), in which the analysis reached no further than Spring 2011. Those days, one important strategic turning point was just beginning: the era of CEO Stephen Elop (September 2010) and collaboration with Microsoft (February 2011). Although the long-term perspective, strategic turning ...