In this study, we analyze the process of collaborative problem solving from the viewpoint of thinking styles. Thinking styles are defined as a preferred way of thinking; here, we focused on three styles: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. In this study, we created groups whose members displayed different thinking styles, and asked the groups to solve a creative task collaboratively. If think...

Foresight Styles Assessment fills a gap in understanding the range and qualities of foresight competency. Within the human neurological capability for long range thinking, FSA proposes six styles. It suggests four areas affecting the degree to which the six styles utilize foresight when confronted with externally imposed change. Those four areas are: temporal orientation, holistic or dual-proce...

Knowing varieties of writing a letter in a word or a subword in different handwriting styles is very beneficial in recognition specifically for online recognition. In this paper, TMU-OFS dataset consisting of 1000 frequent Farsi subwords is employed to study Farsi handwriting styles. The subwords are grouped based on their delayed strokes and their main bodies, separately. The handwriting style...

TLR signaling is associated with the transcription of various proinflammatory cytokines, including TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-1β. After transcription, the mRNA of these proinflammatory cytokines needs to be tightly controlled at the posttranscriptional level to achieve an optimal expression. However, the precise mechanism of posttranscriptional regulation is not fully understood. In the current study,...

The present study examined the relationships between leadership styles and decision-making styles among public schools principals. A total of 108 principals returned questionnaires from Russaifa Education District in Jordan. The Decision Style Inventory and the Administrative Styles Questionnaire were used in this study. "Directive decision making style" was predominant among school principals,...

The study explores the relationships between decision-making styles in hospital nurses and their attachment styles in adulthood as well as the possible mediation of these associations by self-regulation. It is based on the assumption that attachment styles, defined as mental working models of self and others, affect the decision-making process in nurses, whose profession includes frequent inter...

Cooperative learning (CL) is a learning style that refers to small, heterogeneous groups of students working together to achieve a common goal. This involves student-student interaction within small groups in a way that each group member’s success is dependent on the group’s success. Self-regulated learning (SRL) style believe on what ‘knowing’ is and how one ‘come...

Retail managers were examined to determine their leadership styles and any potential correlations to conflict management styles. Research findings suggest that successful retail managers exhibit transformational leadership styles, and those that exhibit laissez-faire leadership is strongly correlated with avoidance conflict management style. The Conflict Management Style (CMS) and Multi Leaders...