Objectives: Since problem solving group training is a comprehensive, active program and based-on cognitive behavioral approach, the aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of problem solving therapy on depression and coping style in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: In an experimental design the study was done with pretest-posttest with control group. Totally 3...

Measures of working memory capacity are associated with performance on a variety of cognitive tasks, and reliably predict academic achievement, fluid intelligence, controlled attention, problem solving, the ability to follow directions, and a number of other cognitive abilities. A number of recent studies have provided evidence that training working memory can lead to improvements in fluid inte...

Diffpack, developed and marketed by inuTech, is an object-oriented problem-solving environment for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). Diffpack is used worldwide for research and development in the industry and the academic sectors. Among Diffpack customers are industrial and academic leaders such as Bosch, Cambridge, Canon, CEA, Cornell, DaimlerChrysler, Furukawa, ...

We introduce a new software platform called Cahoots for enhancing innovation in both groups and individuals. The word cahoots means working together. Cahoots possesses two main features. First, Cahoots embodies a visualization method that is intuitive for users and matches the pattern of successful problem solving. Second, a standardized problem solving grammar is natural for users to express t...

What does it mean for engineers to engage in global problem solving? What forms of knowledge or sets of capabilities characterize the effective global problem solver? What sorts of learning experiences are involved in gaining such knowledge and capabilities? The purpose of this paper is to present the design, initial steps, and preliminary assessment of the “Engineering Cultures: Building the G...

This paper reports on experiments in measuring the general level of conversational interactivity in COMPS problemsolving dialogues. COMPS is a web-delivered computermediated problem solving environment for student collaborative exploratory learning. The primary mode of interaction is typed dialogue. We anticipate that the computer will provide a status display to aid the instructor, who is effe...

Ethnic and religious divisions were primary, signi¢cant factors in the cause and escalation of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.These issues remained highly volatile in the immediate post war process and continue to impact current social, economic and political systems and structures. Psychosocial peacebuilding theory and practices are important means to facilitate social and relational change, an...

A common feature of problem solving in real world complex domains is detecting moments of high informational uncertainty and trying to resolve this informational uncertainty. Yet, relatively little is known about these important aspects of real world cognition. Expert and novice performance is contrasted for relative use of informational uncertainty indicator strategies and problem solving stra...

ABSTRACT One hundred and sixty-two subjects of three age levels were tested to examine the relationship between crystallized and fluid abilities and three problem solving tasks varying in the abstractness/concreteness of their stimuli and emphasis on past experience. These dimensions have been used by Davis to distinguish between Type "0" and Type "C" problem solving. Predictions regarding prob...

Due to the growing importance of metropolitan regions for the economy this work aims at analyzing what fosters economic prosperity. We propose the theory that creativity generates new ideas and enhances the entrepreneurship level in the city. In this research the focus lies on metropolitan regions, located around 30 Informational World Cities, which are prototypical cities of the knowledge soci...