Duringthepast fewdecades,significantbiomedicaladvances have increased diagnostic and treatment effectiveness.Recentresearchfrompsychologyprovidesaspecialopportunitytoaddvaluetothetraditionalcornerstone ofmedicine: the patient-clinician relationship. What is it about the conversation between patient and physician that gives it therapeutic value? At the most basic level, physicians and other clin...

This dissertation examines the relationship between two social psychological theories: Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954) and Construal Level Theory (Liberman & Trope, 1998). More specifically, this research assesses how a person’s level of mental abstraction (i.e., construal level) might influence the way social comparison information from individuals or aggregates is used to form self...

Within the epidemiological framework that describes the relationship of smokers (host), cigarettes (agent), tobacco companies (vector) and environment, both the agent and the vector are man-made and, in theory, controllable. Nonetheless, the smoking pandemic is expected to claim one billion lives in this century, even among people who are not yet born. With a preventable problem that is not bei...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mindset shift, systems change and boundary spanning practices needed transition a regenerative approach in tourism. seeks deliver concrete ways shift thinking paradigm. Design/methodology/approach This viewpoint defines tourism, explores its principles levers for driving transformational It outlines what conscious tourism entails working concl...

In this paper, a boosting-based incremental hybrid intrusion detection system is introduced. This system combines incremental misuse detection and incremental anomaly detection. We use boosting ensemble of weak classifiers to implement misuse intrusion detection system. It can identify new classes types of intrusions that do not exist in the training dataset for incremental misuse detection. As...