Adaptive Theory Research Articles

Asuhan Keperawatan Perioperatif pada Adenoma Hipofisis dengan Pendekatan Teori Adaptasi Roy

This study aims to describe the implementation of nursing care in post-endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery (ETSS) patients with indications of pituitary adenoma. This research method is a case study in post-ETSS patients with Roy's Adaptation theory approach. This study showed that the patient was free of postoperative complications. The patient could mobilize in stages and went home in a condition that he could walk even with assistance. During treatment, the patient's blood sugar levels were controlled, and signs of dehydration were not found. In conclusion, strict control and good postoperative care can prevent the risk of postoperative complications in patients.
 
 Keywords: Roy Adaptation, Pituitary Adenoma, ETSS

Adaptive Experiential Theory of Hypnosis

ABSTRACT State and nonstate theories of hypnosis have dominated the field for decades and helped advance hypnosis clinically and scientifically. However, they fall short in various ways including insufficient consideration of unconscious/experiential processes. The authors’ new theory is predicated on Epstein’s cognitive-experiential self-theory, a dual-process model that provides a comprehensive understanding of the rational system and the experiential system and highlights that, although they interact synergistically, their features and modes of operation differ greatly. The rational system, influenced by logic and reason, is demanding of cognitive resources and operates effortfully with minimal affect. In contrast, the experiential system is emotionally driven, associative, and encodes reality in images and feelings without conscious effort. Our theory, the adaptive experiential theory, posits that complex hypnotic responding is attributable to an individual’s ability to adapt and deliberately shift from processing primarily within the rational system to the experiential system. Greater association with the experiential system yields alterations in processing reality, which allows hypnotic suggestions to be internalized and enacted without excessive interference from the rational system.

Barriers to adopting automated organisational decision-making through the use of artificial intelligence

PurposeWhile artificial intelligence (AI) has shown its promise in assisting human decision, there exist barriers to adopting AI for decision-making. This study aims to identify barriers in the adoption of AI for automated organisational decision-making. AI plays a key role, not only by automating routine tasks but also by moving into the realm of automating decisions traditionally made by knowledge or skilled workers. The study, therefore, selected respondents who experienced the adoption of AI for decision-making.Design/methodology/approachThe study applied an interpretive paradigm and conducted exploratory research through qualitative interviews with 13 senior managers in South Africa from organisations involved in AI adoption to identify potential barriers to using AI in automated decision-making processes. A thematic analysis was conducted, and AI coding of transcripts was conducted and compared to the manual thematic coding of transcripts with insights into computer vs human-generated coding. A conceptual framework was created based on the findings.FindingsBarriers to AI adoption in decision-making include human social dynamics, restrictive regulations, creative work environments, lack of trust and transparency, dynamic business environments, loss of power and control, as well as ethical considerations.Originality/valueThe study uniquely applied the adaptive structuration theory (AST) model to AI decision-making adoption, illustrated the dimensions relevant to AI implementations and made recommendations to overcome barriers to AI adoption. The AST offered a deeper understanding of the dynamic interaction between technological and social dimensions.

Digital technology usage, strategic flexibility, and business model innovation in traditional manufacturing firms: The moderating role of the institutional environment

This paper investigates how digital technology can be used to facilitate business model innovation in manufacturing firms. Building on organizational adaptation theory and institutional theory, this study examines the impact of digital technology usage on business model innovation, the mediating role of strategic flexibility, and the moderating role of the institutional environment, including policy support and regulatory turbulence. The results based on a sample of 236 traditional manufacturing firms show that there is a significant association between digital technology usage and business model innovation in which strategic flexibility plays a mediating role. The institutional environment has a dual role in this association: policy support strengthens the impact of digital technology usage on strategic flexibility, but regulatory turbulence weakens it. The findings enrich the existing research on the mechanisms and boundary conditions of digitally driven business model innovation and support manufacturing business model innovation in the digital context.

Subjective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 3-year, 35-wave longitudinal study

ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a longitudinal study conducted between December 2019 and December 2022 (35 waves) with 979 participants in Germany. Based on event, transition, and adaptation theories, trajectories of subjective wellbeing (i.e. life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect) were hypothesized and tested across multiple national lockdown and restriction periods. In addition, based on the transactional stress model, this study examined how individuals’ stress appraisals (i.e. threat, challenge) and coping strategies (i.e. active coping, behavioral disengagement) moderate trajectories of subjective wellbeing. There was evidence for some relatively weak lockdown effects on wellbeing and for subsequent recovery effects. Evidence for moderating effects of stress appraisals and coping strategies was mixed. Overall, findings suggest that national lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic had negative, albeit on average relatively weak, effects on subjective wellbeing. Moreover, certain stress appraisals and coping strategies might help individuals maintain wellbeing in times of crisis.

Politics of Indigenization in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire


 The study exhibits the Politics of Indigenization in Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire. It explores the traces of Greek culture in the contemporary society. It also unearths that how the culture affects the role of gender and religion. For textual analysis, the study takes insight from Linda Hutcheon’s Theory of Adaptation. Transcultural adaptation and Indigenization are serving as a tool to explore the study. In this research the geographical changes and its effect upon the characters has been discussed thoroughly. The study aims to explore the importance of old text with reference to present day society. In indigenization the adapter brings the issues into the spotlight. The researcher scrutinizes into the lives and actions of characters with reference to gender. The data is collected after the study of facts, events and incidents in the novel Home Fire as well as from the play Antigone. The theory of Adaptation gives a view that there is a difference between original text and adapted text. So, in this study the difference has been sorted out. Home Fire is adapted as a new form of Antigone. The researcher has found out the similarities and difference from the Greek to the South Asian culture.

Topological optimization method of locking unit layout for space manipulator based on plant root adaptive growth theory

The method of locking point layout optimization and stiffness configuration for multi-joint complex mechanisms of space manipulator is proposed based on the root adaptive growth theory. A simplified model of the space manipulator and 3D spring support model is established. According to the proposed layout optimization and stiffness configuration method, the parallel optimization method and finite element simulation software are utilized to simulate and analyze the differentiation process of space manipulator locking units and the manipulator systems with different stiffness configurations. The results of the layout optimization and stiffness configuration method are compared with the results of the conventional method. It is verified that the fundamental frequency of the optimization and configuration results is higher than that of the conventional method, and the effectiveness of the optimization and configuration method is verified.

Research on Assembly Method of Threaded Fasteners Based on Visual and Force Information

Threaded fastening operations are widely used in assembly and are typically time-consuming and costly. In low-volume, high-value manufacturing, fastening operations are carried out manually by skilled workers. The existing approaches are found to be less flexible and robust for performing assembly in a less structured industrial environment. This paper introduces a novel algorithm for detecting the position and orientation of threaded holes and a new method for tightening bolts. First, the elliptic arc fitting method and the three-point method are used to estimate the initial position and orientation of the threaded hole, and the force impact caused by switching from the free space to the constrained space during bolt tightening is solved. Second, by monitoring the deformation of passive compliance, the position information is introduced into the control process to better control the radial force between the bolt and the threaded hole in the tightening process. The constant force controller and orientation compliance controller are designed according to the adaptive control theory. A series of experiments are carried out. The results show that the proposed method can estimate the initial position and orientation of an M24 bolt with an average position error of 0.36 mm, 0.43 mm and 0.46 mm and an orientation error of 0.65°, 0.46° and 0.59°, and it can tighten the bolt with a success rate of 98.5%.

Novel Didactics? Defoe’s Legacy in the Contemporary Children’s Robinsonade

Abstract The contemporary children’s robinsonade exemplifies an amalgamation of several centuries worth of intertexts, visible not only in the texts themselves but also in their audiences. In addition to adapting narrative elements, such as the shipwreck or the encounter with Friday, the narrative intent of didacticism spans over centuries, emulating ideologies of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, or twenty-first-century cultures. By utilising adaptation theory, it is possible to consider the Crusoe story as an interpretively doubled narrative of didacticism and to examine the emergence of the children’s robinsonade through the reception of eighteenth- and twenty-first-century audiences. In comparing the reception of early robinsonades and their narrative structures with the contemporary example of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, I aim to show the relation between the early reception of Defoe’s work and contemporary adaptations as parts of the didactic legacy of Robinson Crusoe.

Adaptive filter with Riemannian manifold constraint

The adaptive filtering theory has been extensively developed, and most of the proposed algorithms work under the assumption of Euclidean space. However, in many applications, the data to be processed comes from a non-linear manifold. In this article, we propose an alternative adaptive filter that works on a manifold, thus generalizing the filtering task to non-Euclidean spaces. To this end, we generalized the least-mean-squared algorithm to work on a manifold using an exponential map. Our experiments showed that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms in several filtering tasks.

Puteri Gunung Ledang in Popular Media: Womanhood, Femininity and Gender in Puteri Gunung Ledang (2004) and Magika (2010)

This paper examines two recent films about the legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang in order to analyse what they might tell us about contemporary representations of the mythical figure. In doing so, it will focus on how evolving ideas of womanhood, femininity, and gender portray how Puteri Gunung Ledang is represented in contemporary media. Stories of Puteri Gunung Ledang in 21st century films will be studied using a poststructuralist feminist approach, which is guided primarily by Julie Sanders’ theory of Adaptation and Appropriation. Puteri Gunung Ledang is one of the most popular tales in Malay culture and is included in Sulalatus Salatin, a text that highlights some of the most important historical events during the Malacca Sultanate. Today Puteri Gunung Ledang has been rewritten for children and young adult fiction and adapted into other media, such as films and plays. However, the portrayal and characterization of the titular character have evolved, not just in printed versions of the story but also in other popular cultural forms, such as film.

They are Just the Same; Everyday Life of Terrorists’ Families in East Java Indonesia

This article aims to investigate the everyday life of terrorists’ families in Surabaya and Sidoarjo East Java Indonesia namely how they have interacted with their neighbors and adapted to the community. Data of this research were gathered through interviews with the neighbors of terrorists’ families and related parties, observing the crime scene of the bombing blast and the neighborhood areas where the terrorist families live, and library research. Results of this study show that the terrorist families of suicide bombings and those raided by Detachment 88 Police Squad were recognized as “ordinary people” by their neighbors and colleagues. Their physical appearances were generally just the same as other Muslims living in their neighborhood; even they participated in several social activities held by the community and interacted with their neighbors openly. This can be recognized as their strategy of adaptation. Thus, they were accepted by the surrounding community, and at the same time, they could still maintain their inner goals as a member of e terrorist group. This paper used the theory of adaptation and Islamic law to examine these aspects, especially how Islam sees jihâd and Inghimâs.

Pragmatic impairment and multimodal compensation in older adults with dementia

Compensation emerges when older adults encounter pragmatic impairment. Though studies are plentiful in pragmatic impairments of patients with aphasia or neurodegenerative diseases, discussions about compensation, especially older adult’s multimodal performance, need further generalization and interpretation. To fill this gap, this paper attempts to sketch the performance of multimodal compensation of Chinese older adults in pragmatic disorders and its corresponding pragmatic functions. Based on different viewing perspectives, this paper distinguishes three types of compensatory performances, i.e. compensation from inter- and intra- personal perspectives, compensation across language levels, and compensation across semiotic systems and modalities, by giving examples from Multimodal Corpus of Gerontic Discourse constructed by the authors’ team and explains how these compensatory performances help to complete communication. Compensatory performances of older adults classified and analyzed in this study can be explained by brain adaptation and compensation hypothesis. Compensatory performances are on account of interconnection among multiple sensory organs and their neural networks. The exploration of performance and mechanism of multimodal compensation of Chinese older adults not only verifies and expands brain adaptation and compensation theories, but also may prompt the communicative efficiency of older adults when encountering pragmatic impairments.

A Physiological Control for Artificial Heart Pump based on Adaptive Regulation of Heart Rate and the improved BAS Algorithm Optimization

In order to solve the problem that the traditional artificial heart pump has poor dynamic bionic performance and cannot respond to blood perfusion in real time according to the patient’s state, this paper proposes a new physiological control method based on adaptive adjustment of heart rate. Firstly, a coupled model of the cardiovascular circulatory system and artificial heart pump was established, and the correctness of the model is verified by hemodynamic simulation. Secondly, according to the model-free adaptive control theory, the artificial heart pump physiological control strategy for adaptive regulation of heart rate is designed, including pseudo partial derivative estimation algorithm and adaptive control law. Then, the parameters of the adaptive controller are optimized by the improved beetle antennae search algorithm. Finally, the auxiliary effect and dynamic performance of the adaptive control strategy are studied by numerical methods. The results show that the physiological control method based on adaptive regulation of heart rate realizes the adaptive modulation of heart rate and blood flow, which can meet the needs of blood perfusion in different states and help to promote the recovery of damaged heart.

Angular rate enhanced Overload Controller Design for Low-speed UAVs

This paper investigates the overload controller for low-speed UAV maneuvering flight. Compared with high-speed and supersonic vehicles, low-speed UAVs are more sensitive to atmospheric disturbances during maneuvering and their signals are more sensitive. This paper combines UAV overload control theory and L1 adaptive theory to propose a longitudinal attitude control method based on overload control for low-speed UAVs. The method uses overload as the outer loop and pitch angle rate as the inner loop, and provides a reliable control scheme for maneuvering low-speed UAVs. Through simulation experiments, the controller proposed in this paper is compared with the conventional classical three-loop overload controller. The results show that the controller of this paper has faster angular rate response and stronger anti-interference capability under the same overload corresponding conditions.

간호대학생의 간호전문직 자아개념, 임상실습만족도, 임상수행능력이 진로정체감에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this study was to detect nursing professional self-concept, clinical practice satisfaction, clinical competence, career identity, to identify factors that affect career identity for nursing students who have experienced clinical practice until the first semester of the fourth grade, and to use it as basic data to develop nursing education programs that form the right career identity of nursing students. From June 15 to July 10, 2022, an online survey of 191 fourth-year nursing students at two universities in G City was conducted through a self-reported questionnaire to collect data. The data collected in this study were analyzed using the SPSS 19.0 program. As a result of this study, the average of career identity and nursing professional self-concept on a four-point scale were 2.52 points and 3.19 points, respectively, and the clinical performance ability and clinical practice satisfaction on a five-point scale were 4.0 and 3.81 points, respectively. The factors affecting the subject's career identity are professional self-concept (β=.34, p<.001), selection motives (β=.27, p<.001), major satisfaction (β=.22, p<.001), clinical practice satisfaction (β=.21, p<.001), and these variables showed 56% explanatory power for career identity. In conclusion, this study suggested that grade-specific major adaptation programs and theory and practice education-linked nursing education programs that can improve nursing professional self-concept, major and clinical practice satisfaction are needed to establish a career identity of nursing students. In addition, it is suggested that each university needs to strengthen career experience programs so that high school students can choose a nursing department in consideration of their correct understanding and aptitude for nursing major.

Insights on mother’s subjective well-being: The influence of emotion regulation, mindfulness, and gratitude

Adaptation theory explains that mothers’ subjective well-being (SWB) is determined by their abilities to adapt to challenging life events using coping mechanisms. The literature highlights three latent coping mechanism factors: emotional regulation, mindfulness, and gratitude. This study aims to build a model of mothers’ SWB based on these factors. The sample comprised 302 young mothers (20-25 years old) selected using convenience sampling. Data were solicited from Likert scales that measured emotion regulation, mindfulness, gratitude, and SWB and analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results show that the SWB model had adequate goodness of fit, with a chi-square of 153.553 (p .05), GFI of .934, AGFI of .899, CFI of .929, TLI of .906, and RMSEA of .076. The model shows that emotion regulation and mindfulness, mediated by gratitude, influenced SWB, with gratitude as a strong predictor of SWB. As an implication in counseling, gratitude interventions should be applied in practice.

Study on Headline Construction Mechanism of WeChat: Adaptive Theory Perspective

Study on Headline Construction Mechanism of WeChat: Adaptive Theory Perspective

Organizational adaptation to working from home in a crisis situation (COVID-19): the interaction between leaders' openness and followers' voice.

We investigated the effect of time spent at home on employee voice behavior and leadership openness during Covid 19. According to DeRue's adaptive leadership theory which offers an interactionist perspective to explain adaptive organizational behavior during an environmental crisis, we proposed that in the WFH's (work from home) reduced and limited communication space, leaders, who need more feedback, will encourage employees to express their opinions and will show more willingness to listen to them. Meanwhile, employees will ask more questions and make more suggestions to alleviate uncertainty and misunderstanding. Using an online questionnaire, a cross-sectional study (N = 424) has been carried out with employees working from home for a different amount of their working time during the pandemic. Data were analyzed using structural equation models (SEM) in which the effect of leadership openness on employee voice behavior was assessed through the mediation of affective commitment, psychological safety, and intrinsic motivation. The results showed that in the WFH situation, time spent in home office had a low but significant direct negative effect on promotive voice behavior. At the same time, leadership openness was growing with the amount of time spent at home. Leadership openness counteracted the negative effect of WFH on voice behavior: although leadership openness did not have a direct significant effect on voice behavior, it had a positive effect on psychological safety and work motivation which, in turn, influenced positively both promotive and prohibitive voice behavior. Employee's voice, for its part, further augmented leadership openness. In our research we could demonstrate the contingent nature and the mutual influence patterns and feedback loops of leaders-employees exchange. In the WFH situation the openness of the leader is growing with the amount of time spent at home and with the amount of promotive voice manifested by the employee. In consent with DeRue social interactionist adaptive leadership theory, a mutually reinforcing process of leadership openness and employee voice could be demonstrated. We argue that leadership openness is a key factor to motivate employee voice behavior during WFH.

Adaptation in life satisfaction and self-assessed health to disability - Evidence from the UK

Experiencing deteriorating health has implications for your quality of life. The theory of adaptation suggests that with time spend living in a health state individuals can adapt, resulting in observed quality of life levels to revert or stagnate despite persistently decreased health. Adaptation has implications for the use of subjective quality of life indicators when quantifying the impact of health changes or the benefits from new medical technologies. As both the impact from ill health and the benefit from new interventions might be disease- or subgroup-specific adaptation further raises ethical concerns but empirical evidence on its existence, magnitude, and heterogeneity remains inconclusive. This paper uses a general population sample of 9,543 individuals that participate in the UK Understanding Society survey and experience the onset of a long-standing illness or disability to provide evidence on these questions. Using ordered-response fixed effects models we explore longitudinal changes in self-assessed health and life satisfaction around the onset of disability. Our results indicate that disability onset is associated with large decreases in subjective health and well-being. Over time this initial decrease in subjective quality of life indicators attenuates, especially in life satisfaction and to a lesser extent for self-assessed health. While the relative difference in adaptation across these two measures remains persistent, we find that across demographic and severity groups the initial impact of disability onset and adaptation differs considerably in its magnitude. These results have important implications for studies aiming to quantify the impact of health conditions on quality of life outcomes, especially when using observational datasets.