This article presents an instrument and data testing a theory of the Moral Construct of Caring in Nursing as Communicative Action. Pilot testing involved 185 items administered to 82 nurses in 3 countries. The instrument includes 7 subscales addressing the nurse's personal and professional selves, the patient's personal and illness selves, the bidirectional interaction, the moral maturity of bo...

We introduce a new flexible approach to modelbased diagnosis based on satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solving. The idea is to translate a diagnosis problem into a SAT problem with additional theory constraints. An entirely discrete model can be translated directly into a SAT representation, but for a hybrid (continuous-discrete) model, additional numerical equalities between terms will be ...

Abstract: Personal construct psychology is a theory of individual and group psychological and social processes that takes a constructivist position in modeling human knowledge but bases this on a positivist scientific position that characterizes conceptual structures in axiomatic terms. It provides a fundamental framework for both theoretical and applied studies of knowledge acquisition and rep...

The nature of personal construct theory seems especially suited to research with children, since it is essentially a forward-looking theory that emphasizes change, and all children change as they grow up (Hayhow, Lansdown, Maddick & Ravenette, 1988, p.199). Yet there is relatively little research with children in Personal Construct Psychology. (The bibliography of Chiari (1990) lists only 45 re...

While finite cop-win finite graphs possess a good structural characterization, none is known for infinite cop-win graphs. As evidence that such a characterization might not exist, we provide as large as possible classes of infinite graphs with finite cop number. More precisely, for each infinite cardinal and each positive integer k, we construct 2 non-isomorphic k-cop-win graphs satisfying addi...