(Fam Med 2004;36(8):541-3.) Editor’s Note: Teaching communication skills to learners is an important responsibility of office-based teachers. In this month’s column, John F. Clabby, PhD, and Robert O’Connor, MD, of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School describe how to teach mirroring techniques, which learners can easily use to build rapport with patients. I welcome your comments about this ...

CONTEXT Of the members of a family, the mother is without doubt the most important one, which provides justification for including an evaluation of her mental health as one of the variables to be considered as determining factors in each child's level of development. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of the application of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) on child development, home environment a...

It is tempting to think of the brain as functioning very much like a computer. Like the digital computer, the brain takes in data and outputs decisions and conclusions. However, unlike the computer, the brain does not store precise memories at specifi c locations. Instead, the brain reaches decisions through the dynamic interaction of diverse areas operating in functional neural circuits. The r...

Due to the intrinsic uncertainty and dynamics of industrial environments schedulers must continually reconcile what is expected with what actually happens. One of the most common sources of uncertainty encountered at the operational level is the one associated with variable processing times. This work contributes in the area of proactive scheduling by developing an innovative Constraint Program...

This article explores the application of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) as a framework through which to map transformative learning. This is original work that makes use of NLP as a methodology for inquiring into subjective experience. The authors outline issues in the theory of and research into transformative learning, introduce the field of NLP, then describe the research design for the ...

The single-row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is concerned with finding the optimal linear placement of n departments with different lengths in a straight line. It is typically achieved by minimizing the cost associated with the interactions between the departments. The semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation model that incorporates cutting planes proposed recently by Anjos, Kennings, and Va...

This paper studies the fastest distributed consensus averaging problem on branches of an arbitrary connected sensor network. In the previous works full knowledge about the sensor network’s connectivity topology was required for determining the optimal weights and convergence rate of distributed consensus averaging algorithm over the network. Here in this work for the first time, the optimal wei...