BACKGROUND Facilitation is a widely used implementation method in quality improvement. Reviews reveal a variety of understandings of facilitation and facilitator roles. Research suggests that facilitation interventions should be flexible and tailored to the needs and circumstances of the receiving organisations. The complexity of the facilitation field and diversity of potential facilitator rol...

Recent work has demonstrated that competition and facilitation likely operate jointly in plant communities, but teasing out the relative role of each has proven difficult. Here we address how competition and facilitation vary with seasonal fluctuations in environmental conditions, and how the effects of these fluctuations change with plant ontogeny. We planted three sizes of pine seedlings (Pin...

Transmitter release at the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction may be increased by previous activity of the nerve. This facilitation phenomenon involves at least two processes, one short-term and other long-term. These are shown to based on different mechanisms because (i) a mutant was found that had abnormal long-term facilitation but normal short-term facilitation; and (ii) long-term fa...

This paper uses the thinkLet framework to advance collaborative writing (CW) processes, facilitation techniques, and writing technologies. Specifically, this paper proposes critical requirements for CW tools, and key CW facilitation considerations in terms of configurations and scripts. Several examples of successful facilitation and CW processes are presented, including case-specific scenarios...

Disagreement exists about whether color-word Stroop facilitation is caused by converging information (e.g., Cohen et al., 1990; Roelofs, 2003) or inadvertent reading (MacLeod & MacDonald, 2000). Four experiments tested between these hypotheses by examining Stroop effects on response time (RT) both within and between languages. Words cannot be read aloud to produce facilitation between languages...

Facilitation is a positive interaction assembling ecological communities and preserving global biodiversity. Although communities acquire emerging properties when many species interact, most of our knowledge about facilitation is based on studies between pairs of species. To understand how plant facilitation preserves biodiversity in complex ecological communities, we propose to move from the s...

In four experiments, we examined the facilitation that occurs when spoken-word targets rhyme with preceding spoken primes. In Experiment 1, listeners' lexical decisions were faster to words following rhyming words (e.g., ramp-LAMP) than to words following unrelated primes (e.g., pink-LAMP). No facilitation was observed for nonword targets. Targets that almost rhymed with their primes (foils; e....

Contrast sensitivity for a Gabor target can be increased by a factor of two when identical patches are separated by about three wavelengths (lambda) and positioned collinearly (Polat and Sagi, 1993, 1994a, 1994b). The facilitation effect was found for a wide range of spatial frequencies but was tested with well-experienced observers. Since practice modifies the range of lateral interactions, in...

This paper addresses the need for automated facilitation to buttress facilitation efforts in managing behavior in the virtual environment. We assert that it is within this environment that we need to concentrate our efforts as the nature of virtual work brings added challenges to successful facilitation. We propose the concept of embedded facilitation in which we implant intelligent agent based...

Plasticity at the neuronal level commonly involves use-dependent changes in strength of particular synaptic pathways or regulation of postsynaptic properties by modulatory transmitters. Here we analyze a novel form of short-term plasticity mediated by use-dependent facilitation of postsynaptic responsiveness. Using current- and voltage-clamp recordings, we found that all spinal ventral horn neu...