This chapter is concerned with my interrelated theoretical work in the areas of cooperation competition, conflict resolution, social justice, and social relations. The theory of cooperation competition is a component of the other theories. Thus, the theory of conflict resolution is based on this theory and my Crude Law of Social Relations. My work in social justice is also based on this theory,...

Causal modeling was used to explore the processes by which individual characteristics, job satisfaction, and intention to quit explain turnover among nursing personnel in 29 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) long-term psychiatric settings. The sample consisted of 1,106 registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurses' aides. We conceptualized turnover as a multistage proc...

The vocational schools in Taiwan regard professional certifications as a badge of skills achievement. However, due to a national policy, pure online courses are not permitted. Moreover, it remains unclear whether every subject is suitable to be delivered via online courses. In this regard, the author conducted a quasi-experiment to examine the effects of applying blended learning (BL) with diff...

Background: At the moment, in educational psychology, questions of training future teachers remain relevant. The same is for formation not only professional competencies but also system value and sense attitudes a teacher to his/her activities. Aim: paper aims study structure (on example university students). Materials methods: involved first-year students South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogi...

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the types of career anchors university hospital nurses and alignment with current work, from perspective workers’ health. Method: a descriptive quantitative study, developed in 135 nurses, December 2018 February 2019. The Career Orientations Inventory was used as an instrument assess job. Results: it identified that most frequent were: Security/Stability, Service...

Aim. The article represents the results of research into success students who are preparing themselves for teaching activity in nearest future while obtaining their professional education. aim this is to examine notion success, with focus on cognitive component process through prism purpose life. Methods. In accordance a developed theoretical model achieved by person, empirical was carried out ...

Acyclic orientations with exactly one source and one sink ~ the so-called bipolar orientations _ arise in many graph algorithms and specially in graph drawing. The fundamental properties of these orientations are explored in terms of circuits, cocircuits and also in terms of “angles” in the planar case. Classical results get here new simple proofs; new results concern the extension of partial o...

Unique-sink orientations (USOs) are an abstract class of orientations of the ncube graph. We consider some classes of USOs that are of interest in connection with the linear complementarity problem. We summarise old and show new lower and upper bounds on the sizes of some such classes. Furthermore, we provide a characterisation of K-matrices in terms of their corresponding USOs.

We study graph orientations that minimize the entropy of the in-degree sequence. The problem of finding such an orientation is an interesting special case of the minimum entropy set cover problem previously studied by Halperin and Karp (Theoret. Comput. Sci., 2005) and by the current authors (Algorithmica, to appear). We prove that the minimum entropy orientation problem is NP-hard even if the ...

Visual attention has long been known to be drawn to stimuli that are physically salient or congruent with task-specific goals. Several recent studies have shown that attention is also captured by stimuli that are neither salient nor task-relevant, but that are rendered in a color that has previously been associated with reward. We investigated whether another feature dimension-orientation-can b...