Our Critique and Awards Program: Evaluating and Refining

Refining the ACO Program : Issues and Options

Refining our policies on co-authorship requirements

Refining our diagnostic system--cake or comorbid bread and fudge?

c s o t r o a t s v o h e l a T he American Psychiatric Association recently released its recommendations for DSM-V and ignited another round of vigorous debate as to how our field should categorize the vast array of behavioral problems that present for assessment and treatment. Although the public can easily dismiss this process as merely academic reshuffling of the same deck, the clinical and...

Refining our ability to measure posttraumatic growth.

Some investigators question the extent to which the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) measures perceived growth versus genuine positive change. The present study examined whether the PTGI is more likely to assess changes in emotional and psychological functioning when only including events high in event centrality. Event centrality refers to the extent to which an individual construes a str...

Refining Goal Models by Evaluating System Behaviour

Nowadays information systems have to perform in complex, heterogeneous environments, considering a variety of system users with different needs and preferences. Software engineering methodologies need to cope with the complexity of requirements specification in such scenarios, where new requirements may emerge also at run-time and the system’s goals are expected to evolve to meet new stakeholde...