Organizational change, whether it involves the development of a computerized system or the re-engineering of business processes, is a purposive activity driven by the goals of the involved stakeholders. Its effectiveness depends on being able to make good decisions about what goals to pursue and on selecting the appropriate strategies for achieving the desired goals. This paper presents an anal...

The objective was to study the prevalence of obesity among adolescents in public schools of Ludhiana, catering to the affluent segment of population. We selected 1000 students from these schools by random, purposive sampling. Their anthropometry was taken. Students also filled-up a prevalidated questionnaire regarding dietary habits and lifestyle. Overweight/Obesity was defined using age and se...

The psychologist and social scientist are aware of the complexities of phenomena in their own field and may look upon the metaphors and analogies of the cyberneticians with skepticism. The danger is that eventually some cybernetician goes astray and makes proposals which to the psychologist and social scientist are completely outrageous. The end point of the process may come when each field ret...

The traditional goal of computer vision, to reconstruct, or recover properties of, the scene has recently been challenged by advocates of a new purposive approach in which the vision problem is defined in terms of the goals of an active agent. In the starkest light the debate can be characterized as one about the role of explicit representations. The extreme traditionalists strive for a detaile...

BACKGROUND The stigma of mental illness can be a barrier to effective medication management in the community pharmacy setting. This article explored mental health consumers' or caregivers' experiences of stigma in Australian community pharmacies. MATERIALS Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with a purposive sample of consumers or caregivers (n = 74). Interview transcri...

The present study involved data collection from 3 samples of Hong Kong managers to examine mechanisms by which age would relate to work well-being. A total of 634 managers was drawn by random sampling and purposive sampling methods. The results showed that age was positively related to well-being (job satisfaction and mental well-being). Furthermore, older managers reported fewer sources of str...

as young-dali-hte, the literal translation of which is ' to be ticklish and nervous The condition is characterized by paroxysms of apparently purposive actions which occur independently of the will as a result of a given stimulus. I have noticed two distinct types of sufferers :? Type I.?Individuals who react to sudden stimuli by imitating words, gestures and actions of those in the immediate n...

In active vision the percepts can be acquired in a purposive way by action of a camera. However, it is often necessary to change features of an environment in order to solve a visual task. Some of the features that may be modified by a robotic agent (using for example a robotic arm) are the edges/corners contained in the image (spatial content), the motion (the optical flow computed from the im...

Auto-imitation is a type of unsupervised learning which enables a controller to quickly acquire the inverse dynamics of plants. The basics of the method are demonstrated using a one-segment robot arm. If embedded into a learner-operator schema, the inverse model can be updated while the robot performs purposive or even arbitrary movements. So, the proposed algorithm would be an alternative to s...