Group brainstorming is a very popular technique for the creation of ideas, although the state of the art in psychological research backs from this kind of brainstorming. Electronic brainstorming overcomes some of the drawbacks and regains some value. Unfortunately, the electronic brainstorming still is in infantile state and lacks some modern techniques which may make the whole approach more ef...

The municipalities of Sweden are offering an increased amount of e-services to their population. The ambition of the municipalities is to offer a wide range of e-services and at the same time have good quality. One of the municipalities is Uppsala Kommun and one of the services they are offering is a school choice e-service called eBarnUngdom. The e-service is currently used for a few types of ...

The Knowledge Modeler Description Language KMDL is able to represent the creation, use and necessity of knowledge along common business processes. So KMDL can be used to formalize knowledge-intensive processes with a focus on certain knowledge-specific characteristics and to identify weak points in these processes. For a computer-aided modeling and analyzing the tool K-Modeler is introduced.

INTRODUCTION Ideas of reference (IOR), paranoia and social anxiety are features of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, which appear to be conceptually related; however, the precise nature of these relationships is unclear. These relationships may be partially explained by perceived intentionality (PI), a social-cognitive bias for perceiving other people's actions during unpleasant situations as b...

Purpose – The assumption of ecological thinking as a main ideology for social systems implies many relevant changes concerning the relation between social and ecological systems. Changes meaning a deep redefinition of goals and strategies pursued for centuries by human communities, like the uncertainty reduction in relation to resources’ availability and management, defence respect to variance ...

Inclusive curriculum development in Higher Education is increasingly witnessing the of institutional inclusive frameworks and toolkits. This short paper introduces one such framework recently developed at a modern university South East England. The IDEAS model (Inclusive learning teaching, Digital inclusion, Employability learning, assessment for Sustainability mindset) involves range distincti...

The purpose of the study was to identify subjective experiences that are characteristic of schizophrenia. A questionnaire for self-assessment of disturbances in several cognitive-perceptual areas (the Eppendorf Schizophrenia Inventory) was constructed and administered to first episode schizophrenia patients (SCHf; n = 45), negative-syndrome schizophrenia patients (SCHn; n = 45), remitted schizo...