the developmental, individual-difference, relationship-based model (dir) aims to describe and explain human psychological development in an integrated way. it has been believed that cognitive, linguistic, affective, personality abilities emerge within stages of “functional emotional development”. the human development influenced by a dynamic interaction among biopsyosocial variables. as a child...

Given the importance of care centers in helping with the children’s developmental processes, the management style and model employed therein becomes crucial in terms of its effectiveness. To define a framework for effective management in child care centers, a set of 163 articles/documents was reviewed and 55 of them, meeting the predetermined criteria, were identified. By synthesizing the findi...

Why people conduct different sharing about their travel is unclear. Understudied areas include the roles of tourism activity type, tourist well-being, and social context. Under framework construal level theory, three studies which combined secondary data experiments revealed that: 1) challenging (relaxing) activities lead to more desirability (feasibility) sharing; 2) eudaimonia (hedonia) occup...

Based on some recent advances in understanding and modeling cortical processing for space [1] and time [2], we propose a developmental, general purpose model for language acquisition using multiple motor areas. Through the ventral pathway, the “what” motor learns, abstracts and projects (as recurrent top-down context) information that is related to the meaning of the text. Via the dorsal pathwa...

Managerial proficiency, a multifaceted construct, encompasses numerous attributes and is thought to be augmented by experience. Despite the inherent complexities of management roles, susceptibility manipulation poses significant challenge organizational success. The cultural context in which manager operates may exert either positive or negative influence on this vulnerability, highlighting nee...

Abstract This study uses acoustic energy measures for /b, d, g/ after /f, s, ∫, l, r/ in Catalan in order to test whether postconsonantal voiced stop lenition is ruled by minimization of articulatory effort, acoustico-perceptual continuity of an ongoing prosodic constituent or some other principle of articulatory organization. Data for eight speakers reveal that lenition is more prone to operat...

BACKGROUND Given the relatively sudden change from learner to teacher-provider that new consultants experience and the likely clinical and managerial challenges this may pose, there is a relative dearth of research into the problems they may have in relation to their new roles, or how supported they feel by senior colleagues acting in a mentoring role. This research sought to determine new cons...