Published PCP research is dominated by analyses of construct and element ratings, or the use of structural measures. An attraction of grids is the potential to examine subjectivity through such ‘quantitative’ analyses. In contrast, significantly less use has been made of approaches for analysing the content of construing. Content analysis has the potential to provide techniques for systematical...

Quick and incremental growth in the processor power of desktop personal computers and network bandwidth due to recent extraordinary technological advances, have shifted the trend of parallel processing from conventional costly massively parallel supercomputers to the comparatively inexpensive cluster of networked desktop PCs for solving data and computation intensive sequential as well as paral...

ness of theory’s concepts has given generality extending beyond clinical realm and original historical context. Amenability to operational definition PCP concepts have been operationally defined, often using assessment methods developed from the theory. Modifiability and ultimate expendability Little or no modification of the theory, perhaps indicating its viability, but possible expendability ...

Idiographic personal construct (PC) measures of self-image disparity were hypothesized to be stronger than nonidiographic conventional construct (CC) measures in predicting neuroticism. Ninety-six college students completed PC and CC measures of real self, ideal self, social self, and ideal social self; the NEO Five-Factor Inventory; and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Content ana...

and Christie, 1976). A current debate concerns the explanatory power of various theories, and in particular media richness theory (e.g., Kinney & Dennis, 1994; Markus, 1994). Media richness theory (Daft & Lengel, 1986) has been one of the most cited, yet controversial, theories explaining media choices. In this paper, we attempt to clarify media richness theory by more precisely characterizing ...

The role of personal construct psychology in computer research and applications concerned with the development of ‘expert systems’ and their beginnings in ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘cognitive science’ are covered in this chapter. Research on expert systems led to the identification of the ‘knowledge acquisition bottleneck,’ that it was generally extremely difficult to make overt the presume...

This paper estimates a structural model of demand for the personal computer (PC) in order to evaluate the drivers of the “Digital Divide.” Taking advantage of a large dataset on household-level PC purchases, the econometric model incorporates dynamic optimization, observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and the presence of a (sunk) learning cost incurred by first-time purchasers. The model there...

Distributed network computing environments have become a cost effective and popular choice to achieve high performance and to solve large scale computation problems. Unlike past supercomputers, a cluster or grid or peer-to-peer (P2P) system can be used as multipurpose computing platform to run diverse high performance parallel applications. Cluster computing environment consist of Personal Comp...

本研究は，手指衛生が必要とされる場面において，A病院の医師にどのような認知，感情，行動傾性があるのかを明らかにすることを目的とした．5名の医師を対象に個人別態度構造（Personal Attitude Construct：PAC）分析を行い，質的記述的に分析した．手指衛生実施の判断は経験や推測が影響していた．十分な手指衛生教育と手指衛生促進に集団で取り組む体制が不足していた．他者の促し，ポスター掲示，擦式アルコール手指消毒薬の設置が手指衛生の想起に繋がっていた．医師の手指衛生を促進するには，手指衛生リマインダーの設置，医師の中でのロールモデルの育成，医師も手指衛生促進活動に参加できる体制作り，十分な手指衛生教育と医師の関心にフィットするアプローチが必要と考える．