This study investigated whether perceived parental support and different parenting styles were related to adherence to diabetes management, metabolic control, and perceived quality of life of adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Adolescents between 12 and 18 years of age (N = 102) diagnosed with type 1 diabetes for at least one year participated. Parents were classified into one of four ...

How to satisfactorily implement the public–private partnership (PPP) network is most important target for infrastructure and public services policymakers. In this article, we elaborate on how project- process-management styles can combine deliver a satisfactory PPP. This paper uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis investigate relationship between management PPP outcomes. Specifically,...

A current concern of modern societies is the quality of their educational systems. Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are technological tools that have been used to improve and extend the traditional educational system. Although LMSs have greatly benefited from technological advances, this type of educational platforms are still in need of mechanisms to provide virtual educational environments ...

Researchers agree that it is possible to diagnose student’s learning style and that learners with a dominant preference for certain learning style may have difficulties in knowledge acquisition in conditions where teaching strategy is not compatible with it. This paper presents an experimental work conducted in order to determine if students with different learning styles have different navigat...

The present study examines the predictive power of socialization variables for thinking styles among adults in the workplace. One hundred and seventeen managerial personnel (aged between 18 and 55 years) in England responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory—Revised based on Sternberg's theory of mental self-government and to questions concerning two groups of socialization variables: overt and ...

Learning management systems (LMS) are very successful in e-education but provide only little adaptivity. Adapting courses to the needs of individual learners such as to their learning styles improves the learning progress of learners. However, a requirement for providing adaptivity is to know the needs of learners. In this paper, we describe an approach that enables LMS to identify the learning...

Objectives To explore the potential tension between the need for managers to produce measurable change and the skills required to produce cultural change, and to investigate how managers of primary care trusts are attempting to deal with this tension. Design Qualitative case studies using data derived from semistructured interviews and a review of published documents. An established cultural fr...

OBJECTIVES To explore the potential tension between the need for managers to produce measurable change and the skills required to produce cultural change, and to investigate how managers of primary care trusts are attempting to deal with this tension. DESIGN Qualitative case studies using data derived from semistructured interviews and a review of published documents. An established cultural ...