BACKGROUND This paper adopts a communication and sociocultural perspective to analyze the factors behind the lag in electronic medical record (EMR) adoption in the United States. Much of the extant research on this topic has emphasized economic factors, particularly, lack of economic incentives, as the primary cause of the delay in EMR adoption. This prompted the Health Information Technology o...

PURPOSE Sociocultural medicine is a growing curricular area in medical education. Because faculty members and residents will teach these curricula and model these skills in patient care, it is important to assess their attitudes toward diversity. This study examined faculty members' and residents' attitudes toward sociocultural issues in medicine. METHOD In November 2000, 198 physicians from ...

Eddy-Current Techniques for non–destructive testing and evaluation of conducting material are one of the most known application oriented field in electromagnetics research. According to the Italian PRIN Project (proj. 2009TCLKNF_002), the Authors, in this work, propose a novel approach based on soft computing domain to characterize defects in metallic plates in terms of depth and shape starting...

Need for incorporating expert knowledge into automated systems. In order to better understand Zadeh’s vision of going from fuzzy to computing with words, let us recall the reason why we need to use words in computations and whey fuzzy techniques were invented in the first place. These techniques come from the need for expert knowledge. In many application areas, we rely on experts: medical doct...

Large-scale corporate restructures are a commonly used business strategy performed to streamline structure and systems, and hence, improve efficiency and competitive advantage. Reconfiguring a workforce is not an easy task, however, especially if it involves the amalgamation of previously distinct workgroups. The personal and work-related consequences of merger-related change have been well-res...

Causal cognition is a core aspect of how we deal with the world; however, existing psychological theories tend not to target intuitive causal engagement that done in daily life. To fill this gap, propose an Ecological-Enactive (E-E) affordance-based account situated engagement, is, judgments and perceptions. We develop improve our understanding way dealing world, which includes making progress ...

In most parts of the world, globalization has become an unstoppable and potent force that impacts everyday life and international relations. The articles in this issue draw on theoretical insights from diverse perspectives (clinical psychology, consumer research, organizational behavior, political psychology, and cultural psychology) to offer nuanced understanding of individuals’ psychological ...

Previous empirical studies have demonstrated that speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF) display flexible use various pragmatic strategies (PSs) to support effective communication. However, date few investigated PSs usage from the perspective individual ELF speakers. Supported by Vygotskian Sociocultural ontogenetic view on pragmatics, this paper offers two qualitative case exploring firs...

High successful applications of soft computing and fuzzy logic can be found in engineering disciplines. Current research is done for computational subject, e. g. computing with words, or computing with colors, which is one of the new ideas for the processing of color information. The main fact of this approach is the adequate representation of color and its linguistic description. This approach...