This study aims to explain the creativity climate as a mediating variable on relationship of empowering leadership with management innovation and innovative behavior in hospitality industry. The expected finding is that there positive effect mediation climate. Researchers hope this conceptual model provides organizations an understanding planned changes organizational environment innovation. ar...

This paper presents the C-VISTA model enabling viewpoint representation for improving knowledge modelling from several experts: this model can thus be used for cooperative building of an ontology. We describe the C-VISTA model in the framework of conceptual graph formalism.

In this paper we focus on the transformation of a conceptual schema into an internal schema. For a given conceptual schema, quite a number of internal schemata can be derived. This number can be reduced by imposing restrictions on internal schemata. We present a transformation algorithm that can generate internal schemata of several types (including the relational model and the NF 2 model). Gui...

Although physical activity is considered an important therapeutic target in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), what "physical activity" means to COPD patients and how their perspective is best measured is poorly understood. We designed a conceptual framework, guiding the development and content validation of two patient reported outcome (PRO) instruments on physical activity (PROacti...

To date, research on the prescribing decisions of physician lacks sound theoretical foundations. In fact, drug prescribing by doctors is a complex phenomenon influenced by various factors. Most of the existing studies in the area of drug prescription explain the process of decision-making by physicians via the exploratory approach rather than theoretical. Therefore, this review is an attempt to...