Cell gap thickness is one of the most important design parameters for liquid crystal displays ~LCD!. Existing measurement methods only apply to transmittive LC cells. These methods are obviously unsuitable for measuring the cell gaps of reflective LCDs with internal reflectors. This kind of LCD includes single polarizer reflective displays and liquid crystal on silicon displays. The objective o...

Recent research has indicated that parental reflective functioning or mentalization plays a crucial role in the development of a range of healthy adaptations in both parent and child. While many parenting interventions developed over the course of the last 20 years have implicitly attempted to enhance mentalization in parents, this article describes an effort to directly intervene with parents ...

PURPOSE Structured narrative reflective writing combined with guided feedback is an efficient teaching method for enhancing medical students' reflective capacity. However, what kinds of feedback offered and reflection presented in a reflective group remain unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of feedback in a reflective dialogue group. METHODS Fifth-year medic...

Reflective practice is a paper requirement of your career progression in health care. However, if done properly, it can greatly improve your skills as a health care provider. This article provides some structure to reflective practice to allow a health care provider to engage more with reflective practice and get more out of the experience.

Reflection has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However there are very little systems that fully support reflective programming and are in real use. In this paper we try to understand the reasons for this lacking acceptance of fully reflective systems and explain how our own reflective Java system, metaXa, tries to tackle some of these problems.

Reflective thinking based on experiential learning is a key skill for the professional engineer. The use of a reflective learning journal is thought to be a valuable tool in developing ‘reflexivity’. An evaluation was undertaken of student perceptions of an on-line reflective journal introduced into an engineering management study unit.

Reflective journals have been used widely in teacher education programs to promote reflective thinking (Freidus, 1998; Carter & Francis, 2000; Yost, Senter & ForlenzoBailey, 2000). Smyth (1992) advocated that posing a series of questions to be answered in written journals could enhance reflective thinking. It was for this reason that reflective responses to directed questions were introduced in...

In this paper, we are concerned with knowledge workers that want or need to improve their work performance, and choose to do so by reflective learning. These knowledge workers think back to own work experiences, critically re-evaluate them, and distil lessons learned relevant to their own work practice. We highlight in this work the functions of sharing own work experiences, observations and in...

Recent attention has focused on the development of reflective teachers. Teacher educators have developed and used several reflective strategies, programs, and models to enhance preservice and in-service teachers' reflective abilities. The purpose of this article is to describe and comment on the different perspectives regarding theory and research on reflective teaching. This paper focused on t...

In this paper we explore the object-oriented reflective world, performing an overview of the existing models and presenting a set of features suitable to evaluate the quality of each reflective model. The purpose of the paper is to determine the context applicability of each reflective model examined.