Human-Wildlife Conflicts (HWCs) occur when nonhuman animals’ needs clash with those of humans. One recent effort regards shifting HWCs into Human-Human Social Conflicts, where conflicts are about humans disagreeing on how to deal animals. This method can help reduce guilt placed animals, but also robs them their agency. Conversely, some in the field biology seek increase animal agency and moral...

Politeness might lessen imposition in argumentative conversations which potentially result conflict. However, different conventions on politeness among cultures may cause problems for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners who often transfer their native communication preferences to target language usage. This article explores the (im)politeness employed by multilingual casual agreeing-di...

That patients undergoing breast cancer (BC) surgery need instruction post-surgery has been well described in the literature. Therefore, new off and online patient instructions have developed made available Israel. This study aimed to evaluate degree which these reach Israeli medical centers reasons for use or non-use. A case study. The population were managers of physical therapy services cente...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to characterize the perception of mothers children at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder about their children's communicative difficulties, and investigate possible changes after intervention based on brief guidance by telemonitoring. Methods: eight aged 32 45 months with suspected undergoing diagnostic investigation participated. The Communicative Difficulties Questionnaire wa...

In this paper I have the pleasure of responding to three insightful commentaries to my paper, Bridging the gap between politics and techniques: On the next practices of participatory design (Kyng 2010). The commentaries are by Ellen Balka (2010), Helena Karasti (2010) and Dan Shapiro (2010). They deserve more in depth consideration than time and space allow. Hopefully the authors and I, as well...

EDRS PRICE MF-$0.25 HC-$1.05 ATTITUDES, *BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE RESEARCH, *COLLEGE STUDENTS, CONFLICT, FEMALES, *INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, MALES, *STUDENT ATTITUDES, *STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, STUDENTS THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT SUBJECTS WILL PREFER TO SIT NEARER TO AN AGREEING STRANGER THAN TO A DISAGREEING STRANGER. A SECOND PURPOSE WAS TO PROVIDE A BEHAVIORAL AND AN UNO...

Molecular phylogenetic studies have not yet reached a consensus on the placement of Ginkgoales, which is represented by the only living species, Ginkgo biloba (common name: ginkgo). At least six discrepant placements of ginkgo have been proposed. This study aimed to use the chloroplast phylogenomic approach to examine possible factors that lead to such disagreeing placements. We found the seque...

Apurported downside of social category diversity is decreased relationship focus (i.e., one’s focus on establishing a positive social bond with a coworker). However, we argue that this lack of relationship focus serves as a central mechanism that improves information processing even prior to interaction and, ultimately, decision-making performance in diverse settings. We introduce the construct...

In 1895 Starling (2) first showed that the colloid osmotic pressure of the serum was proportional to the concentration of protein in it. He advanced the theory that decreased osmotic pressure in the serum was responsible for the deposition of water in the tissues. Disagreeing with Starling, Martin Fischer (3) claimed that edema resulted from alteration of the hydrogen ion concentration of blood...

After nearly a quarter century of large budget deficits—causing the public debt to double from 20 percent to 42 percent as a share of GDP in the industrialized countries—the need for greater fiscal discipline appears to be reaching a consensus. Last spring a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed in the House of Representatives and came close to passing in the Senate—a swing ...