introduction: in this study, the authors aimed to examine the effects of cooperative learning methods using web quest and team-based learning on students’ self-direction, self-regulation, and academic achievement. methods: this is a comparative study of students taking a course in mental health and psychiatric disorders. in two consecutive years, a group of students were trained using the web q...

one of the significant issues in ir is that of inter – state conflict and cooperation. various schools such as realism and liberalism have endeavored to theoretically explain it. in so doing, this article seeks to outline the views offered by a constructivist thinker, alexander wendt. he treats ir as a socially constructed discipline. this article argues that although wendt has managed to advan...

In distributed database systems, immediate global consistency of replicated data can be achieved by distributed commit protocols that are typically unpredictable. If real-time characteristics are necessary, such unpredictability has to be avoided. In a distributed realtime database, optimistic replication can be used to avoid unpredictable delays by allowing transactions to commit locally. The ...

While the adversarial nature of construction is frequently cited in the construction press only a few researchers have investigated conflict within the construction industry. Due to the interdisciplinary construction environment, which inevitably results in clashes of interest, the uses of conflict and recovery from conflict must be a subject of real interest, yet construction management resear...

We introduced a new approach, termed schema coordination, as an alternative to the well-known schema integration approach for processing cooperative queries in federated database systems. The schema coordination approach is based on the attribute correspondence matrix that links similar attributes in all component databases. In this paper, we compare the schema coordination approach with the sc...

Everything about conflict is difficult for physicians, who are by nature and conditioning quite confrontation adverse. But conflict is inevitable, and conflict management skills are essential life skills for effective people. The keys to conflict management are prevention, effective communication, and anger management, skills that can be learned and polished. Conflict management skills can enha...

Change and stability: putting these two concepts together may appear contradictory. In fact, their coupling constitutes one of the most important paradoxes contemporary business leaders and managers have to face in their day-to-day action. When resistance to change appears, it is often considered as a negative by-product of the change process, instead of being seen as warning against instabilit...

The impact of team heterogeneity on effectiveness has received extensive attention. paper aims to explore the mechanism effect cognitive behavioral integration in R&D teams. Based IPO theory, this study proposed six hypotheses about how directly and indirectly (via conflict management) affect Using data collected from 383 teams 326 high-tech enterprises China, we investigated whether dimens...

in this paper, we discuss the ways that communication accommodation theory (cat) can be a useful framework for understanding and diagnosing interactional issues in interpersonal and intergroup conflict situations. we argue that the theory’s construct of attuning strategies provides a multidimensional view of mutual adjustment, leading to insights relevant to successful versus unsuccessful confl...