background previous research supports the claim that managers are vital players in the implementation of clinical practice guidelines (cpgs), yet little is known about interventions aiming to develop managers’ leadership in facilitating implementation. in this pilot study, process evaluation was employed to study the feasibility and usefulness of a leadership intervention by exploring the inter...

This paper analyses the role of distributed leadership and trust in online communities. The team-based informal ethos of online collaboration requires a different kind of leadership from that in formal positional hierarchies. Such leadership may be more flexible and sophisticated, capable of encompassing ambiguity and rapid change. Online leaders need to be partially invisible, delegating power...

OBJECTIVE We examined the effect of switching from a familiar to an unfamiliar setting on household task performance in healthy adults. We also examined the influence of the cognitive functions abstract reasoning and memory on the ability to adapt to different environments. METHOD Thirty healthy adults were observed in two different settings while they performed two daily tasks. We evaluated ...

Although individuals with Williams Syndrome (WS) are empathic and sociable and perform relatively well on face recognition tasks, they perform poorly on tasks of facial expression recognition. The current study sought to investigate this seeming inconsistency. Participants were tested on a Garner-type matching paradigm in which identities and expressions were manipulated simultaneously as the r...

Anxiety disorders affect approximately 1 in 5 (18%) Americans within a given 1 year period, placing a substantial burden on the national health care system. Therefore, there is a critical need to understand the neural mechanisms mediating anxiety symptoms. We used unbiased, multimodal, data-driven, whole-brain measures of neural activity (magnetoencephalography) and connectivity (fMRI) to ident...

A recent debate in the language production literature concerns the influence of a word's orthographic information on spoken word production and the extent to which this influence is modulated by task context. In the present study, Mandarin Chinese participants produced sets of words that shared orthography (O+P-), phonology (O-P+), or orthography and phonology (O+P+), or were unrelated (O-P-), ...

In an earlier paper, we reported task specific impairments and improvements caused by applying TMS over cortical visual area V5 [28]. The phenomenon is further investigated in the present study using two of the previous tasks; a motion/form conjunction in which TMS impaired performance and a colour/form conjunction in which performance was enhanced with TMS. In the earlier experiment subjects w...

The current study examined cardiac and behavioral responses to changing auditory and visual information while using modified oddball tasks. When instructed to press the same button for auditory and visual oddballs, auditory dominance was found with cross-modal presentation slowing down visual response times and decreasing visual accuracy. When instructed to make separate responses to auditory a...

In an earlier paper, we reported task specific impairments and improvements caused by applying TMS over cortical visual area V5 [28]. The phenomenon is further investigated in the present study using two of the previous tasks; a motion/form conjunction in which TMS impaired performance and a colour/form conjunction in which performance was enhanced with TMS. In the earlier experiment subjects w...

Group facilitation is an important element of group approaches to Requirements Engineering (RE). The facilitation in ‘traditional’ face-to-face groups is challenged by the increased globalization of the software industry. Thorough empirical investigation of human facilitation in computer-mediated requirements meetings is needed. This paper presents findings about the facilitation of distributed...