Motivation is, by its very nature, a dynamic process. Human motives and desires fluctuate in direction and strength according to inner promptings and environmental contingencies that can facilitate or inhibit the satisfaction of needs, and desires also vary as individuals negotiate their day-to-day lives. This dynamic character of motivation has implications for research designs and analytic ap...

The Emergency Management Information System (EMIS) field has an established tradition of user-centered methodological approaches for design and evaluation research. However, visual analytics, a new field that is starting to intersect with EMIS, is barely using such approaches. Thus an opportunity has emerged to expand these user-centered approaches from EMIS towards visual analytics via the des...

Efforts to expand sharing of neuroimaging data have been growing exponentially in recent years. There are several different types of data sharing which can be considered to fall along a spectrum, ranging from simpler and less informative to more complex and more informative. In this paper we consider this spectrum for three domains: data capture, data density, and data analysis. Here the focus ...

virtue epistemology is a class of recent approaches to epistemologythat, in contrast with analytic epistemology, focuses on epistemicevaluation of persons’ properties, rather than properties of beliefs.this paper seeks to explain the nature of virtue epistemology as wellas its main approaches. explaining the nature of epistemic virtue as areliable belief-forming faculty and the character traits...

Nowadays harmonic analysis and wavelet-based decomposition approaches play an important role in image processing naming applications as image denoising, segmentation, or compression methods among others. In particular, analytic or monogenic wavelet approaches have found entrance in image processing delivering additional phase and orientation information or may be used for scale-based demodulati...

Elder abuse is a global issue, with an estimated 4-10% of older persons in Canada abused each year. Although Canadian legislation has been created to prevent and punish the abuse of older persons living in nursing homes and other care facilities, community-dwelling older persons are at greater risk of abuse. This paper highlights the importance of evidence-based actions targeted at three determ...

In present paper a certain convolution operator of analytic functions is defined. Moreover, subordination and superordination- preserving properties for a class of analytic operators defined on the space of normalized analytic functions in the open unit disk is obtained. We also apply this to obtain sandwich results and generalizations of some known results.

Independent component analysis (ICA) for separating complex-valued sources is needed for convolutive sourceseparation in the frequency domain, or for performing source separation on complex-valued data, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) i s a technique that produces complex-valued data; however the vast majority of fMRI analyses uti...

This is a short outline of the development of psychoanalysis and of analytic training in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The Han Groen Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe was founded by the IPA and the EPF in 2002 to organize and coordinate this. The activity of such an unusual training institute, virtual and time-limited up to the birth of new IPA study group...

OBJECTIVE Outcome research has documented worsening among a minority of the patient population (5% to 10%). In this study, we conducted a meta-analytic and mega-analytic review of a psychotherapy quality assurance system intended to enhance outcomes in patients at risk of treatment failure. METHOD Original data from six major studies conducted at a large university counseling center and a hos...