In a thriving, busy practice, there never seems to be enough time in the day. Unfortunately, this busyness may cause the team to focus on getting things done instead of caring for patients. If our tone and communications with patients seems rushed and distracted, patients may feel unimportant to the practice. Take a breath and then a few minutes to purposefully communicate with patients, especi...

MIS curricula in business schools are challenged to provide MIS courses that give students a strong practical understanding of the basic technologies, while also providing enough hands-on experience to solve real life problems. As an experimental capstone MIS course, the authors developed a cluster-computing project to expose business students to the technologies of distributed computing, paral...

the complex and hasty worldwide changes in the areas of sciences, skills, values and criteria have forced most of the successful organizations throughout the world to shift their goals, methods and structures towards implementing creativity and innovation to provide a productive environment. in this essay, after having defined the concept of creativity, from every angle, the difference between ...

Abstract Why states comply with international law has long been at the forefront of and relations scholarship. The compliance discussion largely focused on negative incentives. We argue that there is another, undertheorized mechanism: rewarding. provide a typology illustrations how rewards can be applied. Furthermore, we explore rationale, potential, limitations rewarding, drawing rationalist p...

Our ability to think creatively is one of the factors that generates excitement in our lives as it introduces novelty and opens up new possibilities to our awareness which in turn lead to developments in a variety of fields from science and technology to art and culture. While research on the influence of biologically-based variables on creativity has a long history, the advent of modern techni...

The design of educational material has a history of allowing people to present an individual expert view (the researcher as academic teacher) and a published base of knowledge (the academic teacher as text book writer). As learning has moved online and has now become more open a new dynamic of communication is emerging from the teacher to the learner, from the teacher to the teacher, and from t...

A computational system that evaluates creativity needs guidance on what creativity actually is. It is by no means straightforward to provide a computer with a formal definition of creativity; no such definition yet exists and viewpoints in creativity literature vary as to what the key components of creativity are considered to be. This work combines several viewpoints for a more general consens...