Composite Experience Research Articles

Periphery to core: scenes from a psychodrama

ABSTRACT Psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy is an action-oriented form of therapy through which individuals (protagonists) act out scenes with support from a group facilitator (director) and group members (auxiliary). A traditional psychodrama group has three distinct stages: warm-up, action, and sharing. Psychodrama uses dramatic action to explore the concerns, hopes, and dreams of individuals and groups. The following narrative is a fictional depiction based on a composite of experiences that the authors have had.

Periphery to core: scenes from a psychodrama

ABSTRACT Psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy is an action-oriented form of therapy through which individuals (protagonists) act out scenes with support from a group facilitator (director) and group members (auxiliary). A traditional psychodrama group has three distinct stages: warm-up, action, and sharing. Psychodrama uses dramatic action to explore the concerns, hopes, and dreams of individuals and groups. The following narrative is a fictional depiction based on a composite of experiences that the authors have had.

How Diverse Task Experience Affects Both Group and Subsequent Individual Performance.

Task demonstrability defines the criteria that, when met, facilitate the effective exchange of knowledge within a problem-solving group. The extent to which those criteria are met should vary as a consequence of the relevant experiences that members have prior to entering the group. We investigate whether group members' ability to coordinate with one another is facilitated by their prior task-related experiences. Participants worked individually, then in groups, and then individually again to complete a series of circuit board assembly tasks. Groups in which all members had pre-task experience performed significantly better than groups with even a single member lacking task experience, or individuals. Mediation analysis showed that prior task experience helps group members coordinate by improving task demonstrability. Group experience composition also affected post-group individual performance. Groups with diverse task experience produced individuals who performed better solo but only after working on an unstructured task that allowed for greater exploration.

History, modernity and future of the department "Water supply, sewerage and hydraulics" in KHNUCEA

The article highlights the main stages of formation and development of the Department of Water Supply, Sewerage and Hydraulics of the Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (then Kharkiv Civil Engineering Institute). At the beginning of its founding it was called as "Water Supply, Sewerage and Sanitation". ‘
 The information on the heads of the department is given. Famous graduates are mentioned, who later became famous scientists, production organizers, managers of utilities and construction companies.
 It is noted that during the existence of the department its employees have published a significant number of works of scientific and scientific-methodical nature, including monographs and textbooks, received copyright certificates and patents of Ukraine and other countries.
 It is emphasized that during all the years the training of young specialists at the department was carried out not only for our country, but also for more than 30 countries. Currently, students are trained at the first (bachelor's) and second (master's) levels by highly qualified scientists and specialists with many years of pedagogical, scientific and industrial experience in specialties 192 "Construction and Civil Engineering" professional direction "Water Supply and Sewerage" and 194 "Hydraulic Construction, water engineering and water technologies". Moreover, close partnership with the leading enterprises in Kharkiv had provided an opportunity to open department branches, which helps to practice for students at a high level.
 The main directions of scientific activity, which are embodied in the implementation of state budget and economic-contractual works, are shown. At the same time, significant work is carried out at the department for the training of highly qualified specialists, which allows the staff of the department to maintain the optimal composition of experience and youth.
 An important component of the department is international cooperation with universities and scientific or industrial enterprises in other countries.
 Perspective ways of the department for future are shown.

Level of occupational health risk for workers exposed to aerosols containing chrysotile asbestos

Introduction. The presence of asbestos-containing aerosols in the workplace is one of the main occupational carcinogenic risks in the world. In view of the absence of registered cases of occupational diseases related to exposure to asbestos dust in the Republic of Belarus, it is relevant to study morbidity with temporary disability and to assess occupational health risks using these data. The aim of the study is to determine the characteristics of the dynamics and structure of the morbidity with temporary disability and the assessment of occupational health risks for workers exposed to aerosols containing chrysotile in the building materials manufacturing. Materials and methods . The studies were carried out on the basis of a workshop for the production of asbestos-cement products based on chrysotile. An in-depth analysis of the morbidity with temporary disability was conducted over a four-year period. The influence of the gender, age, and experience composition of groups on the levels of the morbidity with temporary disability was evaluated using standardized indicators. The assessment of the production conditionality of morbidity was carried out in a comparative analysis with the control group (workshop for the production of blocks made of cellular concrete and composite materials), national indicators and indicators of the construction materials industry. The risk assessment was carried out using the occupational risk index calculated based on the relative risk index and the total coefficient of working conditions. Results. The dynamics of the overall intensive indicators of morbidity with temporary disability in the study group shows a tendency to decrease due to a decrease in labor losses in the class of “Respiratory Diseases”, however, the duration of 1 case increases. The overall average long-term indicators of temporary disability are significantly higher in the control group. However, the incidence rates for the class of endocrine diseases, diseases of the circulatory system and diseases of the digestive system are significantly higher in the study group. The average long-term morbidity rates of the study group do not have statistically significant differences with national and industry indicators. Standardization of general indicators of morbidity by gender, age and experience does not change their ratio, but the incidence rates differ in different age, experience and gender groups. The occupational risk index for employees of the asbestos cement products workshop is estimated as average, and the level of occupational health losses of employees is 33.7% (significant, class 3) in the study group and 45.7% (high, class 4) in the control group. Conclusions. Morbidity with temporary disability of workers exposed to chrysotile asbestos dust does not differ significantly from the national and industry levels, and in comparison with the control group shows lower indicators; the level of occupational health risk of workers exposed to chrysotile asbestos is significant; the highest incidence rates are registered in young and least trained employees of the workshop of asbestos — cement products, and by gender-in men, which should be taken into account when planning preventive measures.

Location Factors as Moderators between Some Critical Demographic Characteristics and ICT Adoption: A Study of SMEs

The effect of demographic characteristics of management on ICT adoption is well-researched but how such location issues as firm’s knowledge centre and diverse workforce explain the interactions between demographic composition of management and the rate of ICT adoption is yet to receive adequate scholarly attention. This forms the cornerstone of this paper. Opinions of 344 SME operators were purposefully sampled across five industries located in three geo-political areas of Nigeria. Two cities (a state capital and a commercial nerve centre) were studied and a four-step hierarchical regression was used to analyze the data. The finding shows that location factors such as availability of diversified workforce and improved knowledge centres statistically influence the age, gender, education, and experience composition of management team and ultimately ICT adoption. Therefore, location factors shape management team’s demographics and ICT adoption, and such combination provides SMEs with stronger latitude to be more proactive and pre-emptive in their ICT adoption decision.

Wages and the Composition of Experience

This paper provides evidence on the relation between alternative forms of experience and wages using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Prior labor market experience is segmented into mutually exclusive categories based on industry and occupation to examine how subsequent employers value skills acquired on previous jobs. We find that most forms of experience, including tenure at the current job, provide a comparable return. However, the wage return to prior experience in a different occupation and industry is significantly lower. Such “career changes” constitute over half of all prior work experience among workers in their mid-30s.

Wages and the Composition of Experience

This paper provides evidence on the relation between alternative forms of experience and wages using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Prior labor market experience is segmented into mutually exclusive categories based on industry and occupation to examine how subsequent employers value skills acquired on previous jobs. We find that most forms of experience, including tenure at the current job, provide a comparable return. However, the wage return to prior experience in a different occupation and industry is significantly lower. Such “career changes” constitute over half of all prior work experience among workers in their mid‐30s.

An unidentified source of John Locke's some thoughts concerning education

An example of cultural exchange in the second half of the seventeenth century is discussed. The subject is a well-known case: John Locke's ideas on education, formulated during his five-year sojourn in Holland in the 1680s (autumn 1683 until spring 1689), a period during which – as R. Colie stressed – ‘his whole life was to be changed … neither he nor anybody else had any idea that he was the man whose ideas on human nature, on politics, on education … were to cause such a change in English thinking in the course of the next century’. According to Colie it was the intellectual climate of the Arminian (or Remonstrant) medical and theological circle in Amsterdam which stimulated the ‘composition’ of his work, ‘especially for a man as prepared as Locke, who could well carry out the conclusions he had reached in his head’. In place of this interpretation the author shows that Locke’s stay in Holland – regarding educational questions of children – was more than a period of compilation and composition of experiences made earlier, and of concepts prepared beforehand. It is suggested that Locke’s ideas on education were far more influenced and much more stimulated by his encounters with Dutch educational literature (even to literal borrowing), on the one hand, and Dutch educational practice, mentality and culture, on the other, than has been credited by other researchers until now.

THE NEGRO IN TECHNOLOGY

ABSTRACTIn preparing this article, the editors talked with many negroes actively employed in engineering or the sciences, some (but by no means all) of whom have achieved considerable prominence in their respective fields.This is not the story or the opinions of any one negro in technology; rather it is the composite of experiences and opinions articulated in the course of many interviews.As suggested in the article, there may be some negroes—including some in the technological professions—who would title this article, “The Confessions of Uncle Tom”; but it is a fair and accurate representation of the opinions we spent several months in gathering.

The Road to Damascus, Part One : A Skeptic's Everyman

The Road to Damascus, Part One : A Skeptic's Everyman

CHRONIC SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

PREFATORY NOTE Since the foundation of the Society of Clinical Surgery some twenty years ago, there has been a tendency for other limited groups of clinicians who have common problems, sympathies and interests to band themselves into migratory organizations which meet in rotation at one another's place of work. One of the youngest of these is the Society of Neurological Surgeons. Certain members of this society in their desire to advance information concerning a poorly understood and supposedly rare intracranial lesion have generously pooled their experiences in regard to it, so that a single individual might have at command sufficient material for a comprehensive study. Whether such a novel and unselfish program will lead to anything beyond the present report cannot be foreseen, but it at least sets a good precedent. Certainly such a composite of experiences is of greater value and will arouse wider interest than the mere presentation