We show how and why it makes sense to use a relational formalisation instead of the usual functional one in the treatment of term graphs. Special attention is paid to term graphs with bound variables, that have, to our knowledge, never been formalised with such a generality before. Besides the novel treatment of term graphs themselves, we present an innovative relational homomorphism concept th...

pursuant to the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The author is grateful to David L. Featherman for helpful comments on an earlier draft and to Arthur S. Goldberger for helpful discussions at several stages, but neither colleague necessarily agrees with any part of the current version. ABSTRACT The book under review deals with modelS which identify and measure factors determin...

Occupational therapists confront issues of cultural diversity more than ever before because of the increased number of clients seen in their professional practice who are of differing racial or cultural backgrounds. In this study, we examine perceived cultural competence in a sample of 477 occupational therapists. The study's results indicate that among the variables that most affected how ther...

OBJECTIVE The relationships between clinical outcomes and predictors used to screen applicants for entrance into a Master in Occupational Therapy (MOT) program were examined. METHOD MOT student records from 1986 to 1992 were used to gather data for three dependent variables and six predictor (independent) variables. The dependent variables used to gauge student success were grade point averag...

investigating sociological factors affecting job alienation this research is a study on the efficient sociological factors on job alienation across elementary school teacher of tehran. the research data was collected through a surveying method, and participants were 380 persons out of 18452 among elementary school teacher of tehran. with consideration of previous research and the theoretical fo...

* Associate Professor Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine National University of Singapore Address for Reprints: Dr Chia Kee Seng, Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119260. Introduction In modern medical research, it is rare to limit data analysis to merely two variables: a single e...