The construct validity of Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS) variables theoretically linked to alexithymia was evaluated in 92 outpatients with inflammatory bowel disease, 32 of whom were categorized as alexithymic, 15 as indeterminate-alexithymic, and 45 as nonalexithymic, on the basis of Toronto Alexithymia Scale scores. Six sets of Rorschach CS marker variables were selected for analysis: f...

Su Doku, ”The Rubik’s cube of the 21st century” is the faster growing puzzle phenomenon in the world, replacing traditional crosswords, alphawords and lateral thinking games in nearly all major newspapers, Smith (2005). A craze that is almost impossible to ignore, with clubs, worldwide tournaments, books, software and even television programmes dedicated to the puzzle. In this paper we introduc...

The theory of linguistic relativity—the idea that our language influences our thinking— has a long history in the humanities. Speakers of different languages may systematically think and behave differently. This phenomenon has only recently attracted attention from economists. This paper provides the first comprehensive review of this nascent literature. First we explain the linguistic relativi...

To date, no comprehensive, theoretical framework exists for providing instructional environments for distance learning. With this paper we hope to lay out a Collaborative Hypermedia Educational Framework (CHEF) for instruction at university level that addresses this gap. The CHEF provides a fundamental philosophy or vantage point for thinking about how best to serve distance learning students, ...

The objective of this paper is to provide a contemporary look at the current state-of-the-art in wireless sensor and fiber optic sensor for structure health monitoring (SHM) applications and discuss issue related to those system and hence, to make the efficient decision that provided the better system thinking. Specially, this paper provides review about structural health monitoring like, bridg...

Although faculty have the best of intentions when a concept-based curriculum is developed and implemented, this process requires more than just designing a curriculum based on concepts. The full benefit of a concept-based curriculum occurs when faculty adopt conceptual teaching methods, where the roles and expectations of instructor and learner are different than in a traditional paradigm of te...

Recent studies have shown that experts in military tactical command treat decision making as a problemsolving process. Experts have large collections of schemas, enabling them to recognise a large number of situations as familiar. Another capacity of experts are their problem solving skills if an immediate match between the actual problem situation and available schemas in memory cannot be esta...

This paper presents relevant interoperability approaches and solutions applied to global/international networked (collaborative) enterprises or organisations and conceptualise an enhanced enterprise interoperability framework. The paper covers several key aspects including how holistic approaches of architecting principles, standards and semantics contribute to the development of an interoperab...

In the late 1970s, a new approach to the management of operations was developed by Goldratt. Now known as the theory of constraints (TOC), it provides a coherent management theory for running an organisation. It has two major components: a philosophy which underpins the working principle of on-going improvement and a generic approach for investigating, analyzing, and creating solutions to probl...

An innovative logic tree, Failure Expansion Tree (FET), is proposed in this paper, which improves on traditional Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). It describes a different thinking approach for risk factor identification and reliability risk assessment. By providing a more comprehensive and objective methodology, the rather subjective nature of FTA node discovery is significantly reduced and the resul...