the concept of teacher efficacy has received significant attention in educational contexts in the recent years and has been empirically probed at 2 levels: individual teacher efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. having their origins in the social cognitive theory, teacher and collective efficacy perceptions are quite distinct constructs, each affecting educational decisions and student ach...

This paper addresses a gap in the literature concerning the management of Intellectual Capital (IC) in a port, which is a network of independent organizations that act together in the provision of a set of services. As far as the authors are aware, this type of empirical context has been unexplored when regarding knowledge management or IC creation/destruction. Indeed, most research in IC still...

This paper is an overview of some recent and ongoing developments formal logical systems designed for reasoning about rational agents who act in pursuit their individual collective goals, explicitly specified the language as arguments strategic operators, a socially interactive context objectives attitudes which guide constrain agents’ behavior.

this paper aims to investigate the role of relative deprivation in the formation of collective behavior among the young in kermanshah based on blumer’s interactionism theory. he is one of the outstanding figures concerning studies done about collective behavior in the field of sociology. he believed that collective behavior develops through five stages: social motivation, formation of connectiv...

THE ESHUN-SMITH model explains the care given to older patients when they are admitted to Holcot ward, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. Holcot ward is a rehabilitation ward within the hospital’s new elderly care centre. The model was developed five years ago on Cavell ward by the author and the ward’s co-manager Sue Smithon. It was used as the basis of nursing practice for more than four...

It has long been recognized that systems based on user modeling and adaptivity are associated with a number of typical usability problems—which sometimes outweigh the benefits of adaptation. This talk will show that the anticipation and prevention of usability side effects should form an essential part of the iterative design of user-adaptive systems, just as the consideration of medical side e...

Wound care professionals can improve clinical, patient-oriented wound outcomes and do so cost-effectively by using scientific evidence to meet patient and wound care goals and needs. A review of the literature was conducted to define evidence-based wound management, describe the potential of science to improve outcomes in wound care, and summarize strategies, tactics, and tools for wound care p...