Effect of collaborative strategies on retrieval: the evidence from different task materials

Utilising a two-character Chinese compound words list as task material, this study examines the effects of three combinations of deep and shallow encoding levels (operationalised via semantic and perceptual tasks, respectively) of two members within the same collaborative group on collaborative retrieval and subsequent individual memory. During the encoding phase, both the collaborative group and the nominal group conducted independent semantic or perceptual encoding. In the retrieval phase, the collaborative group engaged in collaborative retrieval and post-collaborative individual retrieval using three encoding combinations: semantic + semantic, perceptual + perceptual, and semantic + perceptual, while the nominal group continued with individual retrieval. The results indicate that the combination of differing encoding levels (semantic + perceptual) not only eliminates collaborative inhibition and reduces erroneous retrieval during collaborative retrieval but also enhances individual memory performance post-collaboration. This improvement reflects two complementary mechanisms: differentiated encoding levels reduce strategy interference, while cross-cueing facilitates reciprocal cueing between deep and shallow encoders, enabling them to leverage each other's retrieval strengths and optimise collaborative performance.

Strategic information system planning (SISP) has become an pivotal issue for enterprise management, especially in today's digital era. However in its implementation, the SISP process requires a variety of acting roles and the ability to share resources among the parties involved, so the success rate will also depend on the collaboration scheme being built. Examine the main aspects of the SISP collaborative scheme is objective of this paper. The results indicate that researchers are paying attention to the importance of collaboration in the SISP process, but at the same time indicating the unavailability of a holistic collaborative scheme with detailed aspects to be considered. Collaborative leadership as a basis in addition to collaborative principles such as share knowledge, share the vision, share viewpoint, active partnership approach, active communication and active participation and activities supported by the willingness of data/information and past experience, is the result of this research. Research results may be useful to other researchers and practitioners interested in collaborative schemes in the SISP process and can be a reference for them.

The description of collaboration models and the key underlying principles provide important information for designing services. However, to apply this broad corpus of information to clinical services and policymaking, we need to know which key principles (or strategies) of collaboration are the most accepted by local physicians. In this context, we designed a survey that included 2 objectives: 1) to collect the opinions of practising general practitioners (GPs) and psychiatrists in Montreal with respect to strategies for improving collaboration between these 2 groups and 2) to identify demographic and practice characteristics of those physicians associated with the acceptance of such strategies. We designed a questionnaire to specifically elicit physicians' opinions about strategies involving communication, continuing medical education (CME) for GPs in psychiatry, and access to consulting psychiatrists, as well as to identify the profiles of the respondent physicians. We mailed the questionnaire to 203 GPs and 203 psychiatrists who were randomly selected. The response rate was 86% for GPs and 87% for psychiatrists. Physicians expressed favourable opinions about most strategies involving 1) the improvement of communication and 2) the organization of CME activities concerning GP practices in the field of psychiatry. On the other hand, they did not indicate acceptance of the strategies involving on-site collaboration between GPs and psychiatrists. Physician age, sex, place of practice, type of practice (such as seeing patients with or without appointments), and responsibility for administrative duties associated significantly with the degree of acceptance of the proposed strategies. Communication and CME strategies for GPs in psychiatry can be an option to improve collaboration between GPs and psychiatrists. However, strategies of access to consulting psychiatrists require significant alterations to established clinical routines and professional roles.

MEC and UDN are two key technologies in the field of wireless communication. In a UDN network, deploying MEC servers in both macro and micro base stations can effectively improve user experience. However, according to the actual scenario, the processing capability of each MEC server is different. If the collaborative processing of the server is not considered, some servers may be busy and idle, and how to design a server collaborative processing strategy to get the best user experience is an issue that needs to be addressed. Therefore, we first establish a system model of the topological MEC server under UDN, and then establish the objective function considering delay and energy consumption. In order to find the cooperation strategy between servers, we use cooperation algorithm to find the optimal solution. Finally, the results are compared with the baseline algorithm. The results show that the collaborative strategy can perform better time and energy consumption.

Worldwide, organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises have already disruptively changed in many ways their physiological inner mechanisms, because of information and communication technologies (ICT) revolution. Nevertheless, the still ongoing COVID-19 worldwide emergency definitely promoted a wide adoption of teleworking modalities for many people around the world, making it more relevant than before to understand the real impact of virtual environments (VEs) on teamwork dynamics. From a psychological point of view, a critical question about teleworking modalities is how the social and cognitive dynamics of collaborative facilitation and collaborative inhibition would affect teamwork within VEs. This study analyzed the impact of a virtual environment (VE) on the recall of individuals and members of nominal and collaborative groups. The research assessed costs and benefits for collaborative retrieval by testing the effect of experimental conditions, stimulus materials, group size, experimental conditions order, anxiety state, personality traits, gender group composition and social interactions. A total of 144 participants were engaged in a virtual Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) classical paradigm, which involved remembering word lists across two successive sessions, in one of four protocols: I-individual/nominal, I I -nominal/individual, I I I -nominal/collaborative, I V -collaborative/nominal. Results suggested, in general, a reduced collaborative inhibition effect in the collaborative condition than the nominal and individual condition. A combined effect between experimental condition and difficulty of the task appears to explain the presence of collaborative inhibition or facilitation. Nominal groups appeared to enhance the collaborative groups’ performance when virtual nominal groups come before collaborative groups. Variables such as personality traits, gender and social interactions may have a contribution to collaborative retrieval. In conclusion, this study indicated how VEs could maintain those peculiar social dynamics characterizing the participants’ engagement in a task, both working together and individually, and could affect their intrinsic motivation as well as performances. These results could be exploited in order to design brand new and evidenced-based practices, to improve teleworking procedures and workers well-being, as well as teleworking teamwork effectiveness.

Developing effective communication strategies and appropriate collaboration in business networks is essential for creating competitive advantages, attracting investors, and expanding business market share. This study will discuss the direct impact of these variables on new business growth and the extent to which their integration can be a determining factor in new business success. Therefore, the researcher chose the research title "Business Network Communication and Collaboration Strategy in Developing New Businesses". The object of this research is the design of the new Mango Elixirs business unit. This research was conducted with the following aims: 1) to find out what kind of communication strategy for building a business network is carried out by Mango Elixirs, 2) to find out how effective the collaboration efforts made by Mango Elixirs are to strengthen business networks, and 3) to find out the communication strategy and collaboration can develop a new mango elixirs business.

This chapter addresses several issues and challenges that one faces when carrying out a real collaborative learning experience following a blended learning design that includes a mixture of face-to-face and online collaborative learning processes. The chapter presents an experience based on a blended course on “Collaborative Educational Systems”. This scenario employed a variety of collaborative strategies, methods and tools to support and enhance debate and information exchange among peers in order to complete a specific task: writing an essay collaboratively. Carrying out this task entails a preliminary study and analysis of the subject matter, which are also performed in a collaborative manner. The authors describe the educational scenario in detail, including the structure of the activities, the rules the groups were asked to apply and the procedures the students had to follow to accomplish the task. They finally analyze and evaluate this learning experience with a critical point of view as regards the collaboration strategies adopted, the way students built their own strategies combining the ones presented in the course, and the collaborative learning process and product.

This study aims to analyze the business collaboration process in the form of Joint Operation with company partners along with the impacts caused after the collaboration strategy is carried out, especially in the Marketing unit of PT BCD. Collaboration in the form of Joint Operation is chosen as the right collaboration strategy to be implemented in PT BCD as an effort to expand the market. This study uses a qualitative approach with an in-depth interview method with the company's internal team to obtain more detailed information related to the collaboration strategy. Qualitative data analysis uses the theory of Miles and Huberman which starts from data collection, data reduction, data presentation and data verification. The results of the study state that with a collaboration strategy in the form of Joint Operation, it can increase company effectiveness and a significant increase in turnover. In realizing good collaboration, it is also supported by good communication between companies. With good communication, the collaboration process can run smoothly. The collaboration process is carried out with other companies that have the same direction and goals to create increasingly superior strength. The process of analyzing cooperation partners is carried out quite strictly and is a long process, even the background of the partner company is also the key to trust in carrying out cooperation. With business cooperation in the form of JO (Joint Operation), it has an impact not only on increasing turnover, but also on stronger and broader company relations.

New special education teachers beginning their career field have many job-related responsibilities and activities to adjust to and learn about. The most important success factor of special education teachers' job is collaboration.Collaboration happens constantly when teaching students with disabilities. In particular, collaboration is an important job responsibility of a special education teacher (Rapert, 2018). The purpose of the current survey study was to provide guidance and explore various collaboration strategies and areas new special educators struggle with. The ultimate purpose of this research was to aid in the development of a collaborative handbook, describing the core components collaboration and providing resources to help support new special education teachers in those identified core components.<br>This study had twenty four potential teacher participants in a Midwestern junior high school. Fourteen teachers voluntarily completed a needs assessment survey. The survey includes twelve questions about collaboration and communication in their school. Fourteen teachers provided their viewpoints of collaboration and communication in their school. Results showed that teachers see the following as core collaboration and communication components for successful collaboration: (1) an equal partnership between special education and general education teachers, (2) adequate preparation time, (3) consistent collaboration, and (4) effective communication strategies. Another interesting finding is that only three out of fourteen teachers indicated they agreed that special education teachers and general education teachers were viewed as equal partners in the classroom. Other findings are about lack of time, the existence of a regular collaboration and communication method. Twelve teachers indicated they had a lack of time in order to collaborate and plan with the special education teachers. Six out of fourteen teachers reported that regular collaboration happened between both general and special education teachers. Eleven teachers indicated e-mailing is the easiest way to communicate. <br>Based on the survey responses and receiving wide responses about teacher’s viewpoints regarding collaboration and communication in their building, a guide to help new special education teachers successfully collaborate with all teachers would be beneficial. Giving a new teacher the tools to be successful in an already challenging position, can increase their confidence and understanding of what is expected in the building. Outlining the best way to communicate, and collaborate with all teachers in the building including teachers who many not directly work with special education students daily. The handbook guides and walks through how to set up conferences and meetings with staff and parents of the student. Given a guide on who to contact, when to contact, and having a checklist prior to setting up one of the various meetings a special educator conducts can help a new teacher tremendously in feeling confident and understanding the building procedures. With the approval from the junior high schools principal this handbook was created to guide new teachers at the specific junior high school. <br>

Effective communication and inter-actor collaboration are essential components of disaster management, crucial for mitigating disaster impacts and accelerating recovery processes. Public communication plays a vital role in disseminating timely, accurate, and comprehensible information to the public, while collaborative strategies ensure coordinated actions among government agencies, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and local communities. Previous studies have identified several challenges in disaster communication, including misinformation, delays, and the spread of hoaxes through social media, which often exacerbate emergency situations. Additionally, coordination issues among disaster management actors hinder the timeliness and effectiveness of response efforts. This study aims to analyze the role of public communication and collaborative strategies in disaster management, with a specific focus on Indonesia, a country highly vulnerable to natural disasters. This study adopts a systematic literature review (SLR) combined with qualitative thematic analysis to examine how communication and cross-sector collaboration contribute to disaster preparedness and response. The analysis identifies recurring themes across scholarly literature, highlighting that government institutions account for the largest share of disaster communication efforts (61%), while civil society, the private sector, and NGOs play supportive yet underutilized roles. Key challenges include limited disaster literacy, the spread of misinformation, and the constraints of Indonesia’s decentralized governance. Drawing on comparative insights, this study emphasizes that community resilience should be prioritized as the most urgent measure, followed by the medium-term development of digital communication platforms, and the long-term adaptation of culturally grounded strategies. The findings contribute to disaster communication theory by positioning Indonesia’s unique governance and socio-cultural context at the center of collaborative approaches, offering a framework for strengthening preparedness, transparency, and community trust.

Recall of actions, sentences, and nouns: Influences of adult age and passage of time

Since the 1998 reformation until the 2014 election, politics in our country was characterized by massive transactional practices. It had been regarding to money politics practiced very obvious in every political event in choosing either in the executives or the representative’s level. However, the more interesting thing, with the rampant practice of transactional culture in the legislative election, is that there were the only few of people who dared to against such issue. This research employs a qualitative research paradigm with using a case study approach in which researcher had found that a political modality of Aziz Kahar Muzakkar is examined in a very strong social capital. Communication strategies which were person campaign strategies, adhesive strategies, structural strategies, cultural strategies as well as the strategy of collaboration between religion and development massages and propaganda techniques. This research also reveals a dominant model of political communication messages was propaganda. The conclusion is that the number of legislative members having a limited budget could be elected in the current transactional politics era. The key for this is to strengthen and maintain social capital in the community, and the communication strategy is in accordance with the political modality owned during the election campaign.

Dialogic design provides efficient, reliable approaches for organizations to envision and implement cohesive, comprehensive, and compelling roadmaps for enterprise evolution. Using structured dialogue to integrate the collective intelligence of stakeholders, we produce a shared representation of the intelligent enterprise, enabling “organizing around intellect.” Dialogic design is progressive in focus, scaling from strategic vision to business process design to system requirements, mapping each level's priorities to successive requirements. Each focus inquiry iterates from deep problem understanding, to generative solution design, through consensus action planning.We applied Structured Dialogic Design to the transformation of a small consultancy, with findings applicable to any enterprise. The process efficiently enables a democratic, collaborative approach to redesign of socio‐organizational systems and practices, using a software‐supported collaborative process. It efficiently achieves true consensus on organizational and business strategy, resolves multiple conflicts of values and resource decisions, and determines the most effective priorities while preventing groupthink errors.

Stereotypes are well documented to elicit stereotype-consistent effects in individual memory. Additionally, collaborative memory can result in detrimental collaborative inhibition and 2 beneficial effects: error pruning and postcollaborative memory benefit. We examined whether the stereotype-consistent effect can be expanded to the context of collaborative memory. Additionally, we examined whether the effects observed in collaborative memory also apply to the memory for social stereotypes. This study applied positive, neutral, and negative gender stereotype words and engaged participants in an individual study and 2 recall tests. Recall 1 was completed either individually or collaboratively, whereas Recall 2 was always performed individually. The recall was to remember both the studied words and the speaker's gender associated with them, testing both item memory and source memory. (a) We expanded the stereotype-consistent effect to both ongoing and postcollaboration situations, affecting both item memory and source memory. Additionally, in the word gender–speaker inconsistent situations, there was an involuntary bias to remember the sources of own-gender stimuli. (b) We extended the detrimental and beneficial effects of collaboration into the domain of gender stereotypes. The detrimental effect of collaborative inhibition was sensitive to both memory tasks and the emotional valence of stimuli. This indicates that when dealing with social stimuli, the disruption of preferential strategies is not confined. The beneficial effects acted as a function of the memory task, providing evidence for the conditional application of the mechanisms of the retrieval strategy disruption hypothesis and the processes of dual process theory in social memory processing.

ABSTRACT: This two-part article focuses on the collaboration specifically of music therapy (MT) and speech-language pathology (SLP) in the treatment of neurogenic communication disorders (NCDs) and the professional documents of each profession that guide collaborative efforts. Part II of this article will include the following: (a) definitions of three primary collaborative models: multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary; (b) application of the various collaborative models in terms of MT and SLP treatment of NCDs; (c) overview of the professional documents from MT and SLP that guide collaboration, including Code of Ethics, Standards of Clinical Practice, and Scope of Practice; and (d) recommendations for ethical and effective collaboration. Collaborative Treatment Approaches According to the 2004 AMTA Sourcebook, 380 music therapists (MTs) serve clients with speech impairments. Among those served are persons whose communication disorder has a neurological basis (e.g., head injuries, Rarkinson's disease, stroke, etc.). Oftentimes, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) serve a key role in the rehabilitation of persons with neurologically based communication disorders; therefore, MTs serving this population may need to coordinate treatment plans with SLPs. In fact, according to Register (2002), of the 695 music therapy respondents who report that they collaborate with other disciplines, 44.6% collaborate with SLPs. Applying collaboration to music therapy practice can contribute to other disciplines' improved understanding of the therapeutic uses of music and related benefits of music therapy (Register, 2002). Creating an optimal rehabilitative environment for the complex and diverse needs of individuals with neurologic deficits, and specifically neurogenic communication disorders (NCDs), may require the collaboration of several different therapeutic fields such as music therapy and speech therapy (Claeys, Miller, Dalloul-Rampersad, & Kollar, 1989; Lucia, 1987; Magee, 1999). Collaboration can be defined as the process of working jointly with others in an intellectual endeavor to bring about change, and it implies shared responsibility (Register, 2002, p. 305). Different models of collaboration are commonly used and each treatment model has strengths and weaknesses (Drew & Hardman, 2000). This article will focus on the collaboration process, specifically of music therapy and speech-language pathology in the treatment of NCDs, and the professional documents of each profession that guide collaborative efforts. The article will include the following: (a) definitions of three primary collaborative models: multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary; (b) application of the various collaboration models in terms of MT and SLP treatment of NCDs; (c) overview of the professional documents that guide collaboration, including Code of Ethics, Standards of Clinical Practice, and Scope of Practice; and (d) recommendations for ethical and effective collaboration. Multidisciplinary Model According to Drew and Hardman (2000), in a multidisciplinary model, various professions approach a client's needs from their own focus or area of expertise. There is little true collaboration among the various professions and virtually no crossing of disciplinary boundaries with regard to treatment provision. Rather, the treatment team is made up of several professionals who are all working with the same client or patient through separate modalities. Within a multidisciplinary model, each profession implements his or her own goals and interventions and treats accordingly (M. Adamek, personal communications, February 11, 2002 and September 13, 2002; Drew & Hardman, 2000). An obvious strength of this approach is the unique and valuable contributions of each discipline. Conversely, the lack of overlap among professionals involved poses a weakness due to possible communiciation gaps or possible inconsistencies within the treatment plan. …