Transactional analysis (TA) is a theory of personality that can be applied in virtually all fields of psychology: educational, counseling, organizational and psychotherapy. The atmosphere that supports transactional analysis is one of comfort, security and respect. A positive relationship is forged between the clinician and the client in order to provide a model for subsequent relationships tha...

Collectivism is a common concept in the cultural study, which is used to describe a community whose motivation and emphasis are strongly tight to collective perspective. Considering previous research’s suggestions on another level of analysis of collectivism, and limitations of the culturalbased view of collectivism in studying organizational behaviors, this thesis examined collectivism at the ...

We present an analytical performance modeling approach for concurrency control algorithms in the context of Software Transactional Memories (STMs). Unlike existing approaches, we consider a realistic execution pattern where each thread alternates the execution of transactional and non-transactional code portions. Also, our model captures dynamics related to the execution of both transactional r...

BACKGROUND Transactional sex is a risk factor for HIV infection. Alcohol use may increase the risk of transactional sex. No nationally-representative studies have examined the relationship between multiple dimensions of alcohol use and transactional sex in women in South Africa. The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between alcohol dependence, binge drinking and frequency of drin...

Among clinicians, it is common practice to include parents in treatment, and it has been taken for granted that parents' involvement in their children's treatment is beneficial for therapy outcome, although research on this issue is far from clear. A meta-analysis was carried out in order to investigate whether parent involvement potentiates the outcome for children with anxiety disorders when ...