The purpose of this paper is to reach a concept of a specific kind of competency known as informational competency. This competency does not have to be exclusively linked to those professionals that are traditionally called information workers. It might be necessary in any professional activity and it is specially needed in those activities that are intensively based on information work. One of...

Introduction: The diagnosis of cancer involves the patients, their caregivers, and families. Caregivers should obtain guidance from health care professionals to promote care facilities. The current study aimed at investigating the economic, socio-individual, informational, and psycho-spiritual problems of caregivers in post-treatment phase of breast cancer. Methods: The present descriptive stu...

This paper analyzes the effect of transaction costs on the social learning in an asset market with asymmetric information, sequential trading and competitive price mechanism. Both fixed and proportional transaction costs reduce the informational content of trading orders and lead to informational cascades. If transaction costs are very high, an informational cascade can occur not only when beli...

BACKGROUND Informational support to family members of ICU patients has significant potential for reducing their psychological distress, enabling them to better cope and support the patient. OBJECTIVES To describe family member perception of informational support, anxiety, satisfaction with care, and their interrelationships, to guide further refinement of a local informational support initiat...

For money-like informational commodities the notions of architectural adequacy and evolutionary adequacy are proposed as the first two stages of a moneyness maturity hierarchy. Then three classes of informational commodities are distinguished: exclusively informational commodities, strictly informational commodities, and ownable informational commodities. For each class money-like instances of ...

This paper presents a design method of decentralized systems with informational connection. The informational connection in this paper denotes a event link which establish a signal links among physical controlled plants via communication network. A dynamic transition of informational connection among decentralized systems is considered and the mathematical structures are discussed using a conce...

This study investigates the contraction of negatives in a carefully chosen corpus of discourse and writing, to permit comparison of the relative influences of various linguistic and social parameters on contraction. Evidence is presented that negative contraction is conditioned by interactional and other register variables. The point is made that the pragmatic as well as morphological interpret...

It is an acquired repertoire of behavioral and cognitive skills a person uses to regulate internal events that might otherwise interfere with the execution of "instrumental" behavior. In dentistry one common intense and stressful situation often interfering with treatment is the crying child. Attitudes affect the dentist’s response to the crying child; the dentist’s greater sense of personal re...