BACKGROUND To better understand the process of quitting from the ex-smokers' perspective, and to explore the role spontaneity and planning play in quitting. METHODS Qualitative grounded theory study using in-depth interviews with 37 Australian adult ex-smokers (24-68 years; 15 males, 22 females) who quit smoking in the past 6-24 months (26 quit unassisted; 11 used assistance). RESULTS Based...

Can we conceive of disorder in a positive sense? We organize our desks, we clean up our houses, we cultivate good habits, we discipline our children, we govern our polities all with the aim of reducing disorder, of temporarily reversing the entropy that inevitably asserts itself in our lives. Going all the way back to Hesiod, we see chaos as a cosmogonic state of utter confusion inevitably reig...

The paper describes thinking as a complex self-organizing system that simultaneously demonstrates such properties spontaneity and purposefulness. Such an idea of allows us to consider the specific components involved in its self-organization when processing arrays information. This is particular interest for improving tactical strategic training methods. main theories are described analyzed. Am...

Culture influences how agile frameworks are implemented, and agility is said to be suitable in contexts where flexibilityand spontaneity emphasized. While past studies have investigated the influence of national culture on Agileimplementations

Carnot's reversible cycle net value was determined using the previously derived values for the transformations there occurring. A negative net value is obtained as a result, in contradiction with current thermodynamics, Clausius analysis based position that the net value for such a cycle is zero. The entropy function is introduced and the new criterion's for spontaneity, reversibility and equil...

ext communication is often perceived as lacking some components of communication that are essential in sustaining interaction or conversation. This interaction incoherency tends to make text communication plastic. It is traditionally devoid of intonation, pitch, gesture, facial expression and visual or auditory cues. Nevertheless, Instant Messaging (IM), a form of text communication is on the u...