a r t i c l e i n f o Much theorization and research have been done independently on thinking styles and psychosocial development. The primary objective of this research was to further investigate the predictive power of thinking styles for psychosocial development through replicating Zhang and He's (in press) study of Chinese university students in Shanghai, mainland China. Data were collected...

decision making is the essence of managers activities and is of great importance in all of their responsibilities. the main purpose of this study is to investigate general decision making styles of n.i.o.p.d.c ‘s managers in order to study the construction validity of g.d.m.s questionnaire. a collection of 55 managers were selected as statistical sample and rational, intuitive, dependant, spont...

Within the past decade many writers and researchers have recognized the importance of including psychological characteristics in managerial decision models. Cognitive styles have been singled out for research attention to determine their importance in information use and the acceptance of the recommendations made by management scientists. Despite the evidence that cognitive styles influence inf...

Architectural styles codify commonly used idioms in system structures, organizations, and interactions. Existing classifications of architectural styles provide empirical guidelines for style selection, but fail to systematically characterize styles or reveal their foundations. Moreover, the mapping between architectural styles and their implementations is generally poorly understood. This pape...

Relationships between attachment styles and the content and structure of mental representations of parents were investigated. Undergraduates completed 3and 4-category measures of attachment style and wrote descriptions of their parents. Securely attached participants' parental representations were characterized by differentiation, elaboration, benevolence, and nonpunitiveness. Representations b...

Product agile customization design is an effective technological measure to win the customers and improve development efficiency. In this paper, on the basis of analyzing the characteristics of product design process and integrating the advantages of artificial neural network (ANN), a novel design method of product agile customization based on ANN is put forward. In the method, ANN models betwe...

The increasing availability of pen-based hardware has resulted in a parallel growth in research in sketch recognition. However, many challenges remain in terms of recognition accuracy, robustness to different drawing styles, rotational invariance, and the number training samples. To address these challenges, a new structural approach to online sketched symbol recognition was proposed, which foc...