background : the ability to accept illness is a major issue in the life of a person with cancer. acceptance of disease is simultaneously conducted at two levels: the emotional and cognitive-behavioral one. it is consequential to cancer af-fecting numerous aspects of patient's life, i.e. the physical, mental, social and the spiritual area. the aim of the study was to verify the influence of soci...

This research determines the Acceptable Level of Acceptance (ALA) based on countries with active Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). The ALA is a particular value public acceptance NPP, indicating support and participation in program. If level lower than ALA, then probability resistance against program relatively high would harm NPP. There no correlation between number populations. uses four categories ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of SciELO and MEDLINE indexing on the number of articles submitted to Jornal de Pediatria. METHODS Analysis of total article submission, submission of articles from foreign countries and acceptance figures in the following periods: stage I - pre-website (Jan 2000-Mar 2001); stage II - website (Apr 2001-Jul 2002); stage III - SciELO (Aug 2002-Aug 2003); stage I...

N=number of women having triple test; p=prevalence of Down's syndrome; p*N=total number of fetuses with Down's syndrome; DR=detection rate; FPR=false positive rate; p*N*DR*AR=number of women with true positive results who have amniocentesis; (1-p)*N*FPR*AR=number of women with false positive results who have amniocentesis; p*N*DR*AR=number having an abortion (all positive amniocentesis results)...

Many centralized entry-level labor markets use the firm-proposing deferred-acceptance (DA) algorithm to compute the matching that is implemented among workers and firms. We propose a definition of the strategic options a worker faces in the DA-algorithm. Then we develop a theory to advise workers who distinguish between the firms from which they believe not to receive a proposal, the firms from...

At the core of Wilson et al.'s paper stands the question of intentional change. We propose to extend this notion by introducing concepts from the domains of innovation and knowledge creation. By going beyond their "acceptance and commitment therapy" approach we present a comprehensive framework for a theory of change culminating in the change strategy of "learning from the future as it emerges."

Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis by Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler* and Alexander Westkamp Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mecha...

Social groups capable of functioning in an agent-like way are capable of constructing new social things (such as social institutions) by performative acceptance. As groups can function only via their members, we can say that it in the last analysis is the members’ collective acceptance qua members of a group that creates new items into the social world and maintains previously constructed items...