Familiar Constructs Research Articles

Re-designing public–private partnerships: Case study – Green Hydrogen Hub, Denmark

Public and private actors are increasingly realizing that the hypercomplex challenges that societies are facing require them to collaborate in different manners than current structures and best practices cater for. Private–public partnerships (PPP) and public–private innovation (PPI) are familiar constructs. However, politicians, public and private actors, and academics increasingly point out that society’s complex, wicked problems require new forms of collaboration structures that allow for solutions to be co-created in order to create real impact. Novel collaboration structures are emerging worldwide, and early studies indicate that they demand a radical change of governmental behaviours in order to sustain these, often long-term, relationships. This case study examines the cross-sectoral co-creation initiative, Green Hydrogen Hub (GHH). GHH is designing and developing a society-scale green energy storage capacity that will play a key role in the green electrification of Denmark. Specifically, it investigates the change of role, self-perception and orchestrating capabilities of the governmental actor, Gas Storage Denmark, in its role in the public–private co-creation (PPC) consortium. Through a series of qualitative interviews with both public and private actors within and surrounding the co-creation consortium, this study has identified one overarching necessity for driving successful PPC: the ability to juxtapose public actors’ for-purpose obligations and private actors’ for-profit obligations in a non-oppositional setup. The case shows how this is obtained through three key indicators: 1) an ability to establish a resilient team, 2) a strong focus on storytelling about the overall purpose, 3) a plasticity from the actors to deliver on the purpose. As such, this article brings a deeper understanding for both public and private organizations as to how they can effectively engage in co-operative complex innovation activities.

On the study of the running maximum and minimum level of level-dependent quasi-birth–death processes and related models

AbstractWe present a study of the joint distribution of both the state of a level-dependent quasi-birth–death (QBD) process and its associated running maximum level, at a fixed time t: more specifically, we derive expressions for the Laplace transforms of transition functions that contain this information, and the expressions we derive contain familiar constructs from the classical theory of QBD processes. Indeed, one important takeaway from our results is that the distribution of the running maximum level of a level-dependent QBD process can be studied using results that are highly analogous to the more well-established theory of level-dependent QBD processes that focuses primarily on the joint distribution of the level and phase. We also explain how our methods naturally extend to the study of level-dependent Markov processes of M/G/1 type, if we instead keep track of the running minimum level instead of the running maximum level.

Clinical utility of the alternative model of personality disorders: A 10th year anniversary review.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, (DSM-5) alternative model of personality disorders (AMPD) has now been available for researchers and clinicians for a decade. The present article aims to provide a narrative review of literature on the AMPD framework with particular emphasis on its clinical utility, inclusive of clinicians' and patients' acceptability, ease of use, diagnostic accuracy, continuity with clinically familiar constructs, and proposed utility for treatment planning, case-formulation, and clinical management. The review specifically covers the utility of Criterion A (i.e., Level of Personality Functioning Scale) and Criterion B (i.e., maladaptive personality traits) in relation to common disorders of personality. By drawing on empirical studies, surveys, clinical cases, and recommendations, the current review points to various aspects of clinical utility as well as areas for improvement. One way of increasing the AMPD's feasibility for clinicians is to omit the transitional personality disorder (PD) hybrid types while retaining a purer diagnostic classification of PD severity and traits that also align with the International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), PD classification. This would allow for a more efficient assessment for busy practitioners working in general psychiatry and primary care while retaining the possibility of a more fine-grained elaboration of the PD diagnosis in high-resource specialist settings. Such revision could possibly be introduced in DSM-5.1 or DSM-6. We also propose that future exploration of the AMPD's clinical utility may involve its potential value for allocation of clinical resources, communication between clinicians and their patients' relatives, and utility for informing different treatment modalities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Revisiting Milgram and Kishino's Reality-Virtuality Continuum

Since its introduction in 1994, Milgram and Kishino's reality-virtuality (RV) continuum has been used to frame virtual and augmented reality research and development. While originally, the RV continuum and the three dimensions of the supporting taxonomy (extent of world knowledge, reproduction fidelity, and extent of presence metaphor) were intended to characterize the capabilities of visual display technology, researchers have embraced the RV continuum while largely ignoring the taxonomy. Considering the leaps in technology made over the last 25 years, revisiting the RV continuum and taxonomy is timely. In reexamining Milgram and Kishino's ideas, we realized, first, that the RV continuum is actually discontinuous; perfect virtual reality cannot be reached. Secondly, mixed reality is broader than previously believed, and, in fact, encompasses conventional virtual reality experiences. Finally, our revised taxonomy adds coherence, accounting for the role of users, which is critical to assessing modern mixed reality experiences. The 3D space created by our taxonomy incorporates familiar constructs such as presence and immersion, and also proposes new constructs that may be important as mixed reality technology matures.

Stereotyping, Empathizing, Co-constructing Uniquenesses: A Reflection on Intimacy

ABSTRACT An important kind of intimacy can usefully be understood as occurring through the process I call co-constructing uniquenesses. Here, conceptual analysis explains this joint process, and close reading of a clear case displays how the process happens in conversation. The conceptual analysis appropriates two familiar constructs – stereotyping and empathizing – to help define the process by contrast. The close reading applies elements of Robert Arundale’s “conjoint co-constituting model of communicating” to illustrate how co-constructing uniquenesses is accomplished in verbal/nonverbal talk, and how it may be analyzed. Researchers, teachers, and trainers interested in intimacy are invited to consider how this construct might contribute to their work.

Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in child psychology and psychiatry.

Enhancements in mobile phone technology allow the study of children and adolescents' everyday lives like never before. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) uses these advancements to allow in-depth measurements of links between context, behavior, and physiology in youths' everyday lives. A large and diverse literature now exists on using EMA to study mental and behavioral health among youth. Modern EMA methods are built on a rich tradition of idiographic inquiry focused on the intensive study of individuals. Studies of child and adolescent mental and behavioral health have used EMA to characterize lived experience, document naturalistic within-person processes and individual differences in these processes, measure familiar constructs in novel ways, and examine temporal order and dynamics in youths' everyday lives. Ecological momentary assessment is feasible and reliable for studying the daily lives of youth. EMA can inform the development and augmentation of traditional and momentary intervention. Continued research and technological development in mobile intervention design and implementation, EMA-sensor integration, and complex real-time data analysis are needed to realize the potential of just-in-time adaptive intervention, which may allow researchers to reach high-risk youth with intervention content when and where it is needed most.

Hemiblocks and the fascicular system: myths and implications.

The His bundle divides into the right bundle branch (RBB) and the more complex left bundle branch (LBB). The latter is typically represented as further dividing into anterior and posterior fascicles, and possibly an additional septal fascicle. This construct raises questions as to why conduction can be preserved in patients with "trifascicular block" and why it sometimes very difficult to ablate fascicular or papillary muscle tachycardias. The answer may be that the LBB is much more complex, variable, and interconnected and that the simple familiar constructs may have obstructed our understanding of conduction and tachycardias. Remarkably, the actual explanatory histopathology has been known for nearly half a century, spearheaded by the work of Demoulin and Kulbertus. One picture is worth a thousand words.

The Semantic Brand Score

The Semantic Brand Score (SBS) is a new measure of brand importance calculated on text data, combining methods of social network and semantic analysis. This metric is flexible as it can be used in different contexts and across products, markets and languages. It is applicable not only to brands, but also to multiple sets of words. The SBS, described together with its three dimensions of brand prevalence, diversity and connectivity, represents a contribution to the research on brand equity and on word co-occurrence networks. It can be used to support decision-making processes within companies; for example, it can be applied to forecast a company's stock price or to assess brand importance with respect to competitors. On the one side, the SBS relates to familiar constructs of brand equity, on the other, it offers new perspectives for effective strategic management of brands in the era of big data.

THE PROBLEMATIC INFLUENCES OF FIRST LANGUAGE CULTURE ON ESL AND MODES TO OVERCOME THE SAME

ESL teaching is common, all over the world because of the significance and reach of the English language. It is a globally connective language and has become indispensible due to objectives of business, education or simply communication. The main issue while learning a different language comes out to be with the cultural differences in the grammatical concepts that one has been familiar with since childhood. It is rather challenging to overcome such an integral part of language that most of us consider the “rules” to abide by, so that we can make sense of statements. For example, the Mandarin language has four basic tones, and another fifth neutral tone. The use of tones are extremely important to the meaning generated, and thus are not compromisable. If a tone is missed out, the implication changes, thus leaving the output incorrect.Such tones do not exist in the English language, however it comes with its own set of complexities, such as the tense. The concept of tense in does not influence the verb in Mandarin language.When referring to an action that occurred in the past, such as “eat”, the English language requires it to be changed to “ate” (referring to simple past tense), however, in the Mandarin language, the verb remains in the same form (chi).Research in such areas are necessary to understand and develop methodologies to overcome these issues for faster and better acquisition of language.Overcoming grammatical and linguistic differences between languages, and the comparison of languages for ESL teaching and learningESL is one of those subjects which enjoy maximum demand due to the basic principle on which it is based - communication. In a world which is being repeatedly called a “global village”, it is quite expected that a common ground for interaction will emerge. English is, of course, the most spoken language throughout the world as a result of various phenomenon such as colonisation, immigration etc. The English language has grown to become the “international business language”, wherein without business the globe would not be functioning in the manner it currently is.The purpose of ESL is never put in a position of doubt, for some it might be the acceptance in university or a job, while for others it is a more important deal of settling in a foreign land with a foreign tongue.While learning a second language, it is expected that there will be anxiety or nervousness among the students. ESL teaching techniques are most important as they are responsible for ensuring comfort and participation, and thus, improvement in the students.This paper reviews the current methodologies employed in teaching and learning English as a second language, along with the very problematic scenario of grammatical differences between the many languages of the world. It is expected that these “rules” of grammar or lack thereof in some languages causes some serious struggles in the process of understanding and incorporating English into one’s vocabulary. Unless simultaneously learnt, it is quite difficult for someone to ignore the ways in which a language they have been familiar with since childhood constructs a sentence, as compared to the English language. On top of that, English is a tricky language, with appropriate pronunciation and homophones which takes much time and work to learn and remember. It is a topic which requires acknowledgement.

Gender and the Social Body in Edith Wharton'sThe Fruit of the Tree

AbstractIn The Fruit of the Tree, Wharton portrays corporate personhood as an early feminist alternative to the lingering vestiges of coverture, one that allows married women a socially acceptable method of furthering their own desires through the corporate profit-making imperative. Wharton emphasizes the social, communal nature of the corporation, using familiar constructs like “company” and the traditional bonds of marriage and family to naturalize the corporation into an extension of preexisting social ties. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, the legal doctrine of coverture constructed marriage as a form of group personhood in which a woman's legal being, including her property, became subsumed into that of her husband. In The Fruit of the Tree, Wharton presents the corporation as supplanting the strictures of coverture by pitting the old understandings of the meanings of marital union against the new financial realities of stock ownership. In addition, by creating a corporation where the stock is transferred from mother to daughter, Wharton complicates the gendering of the corporation, presenting its operations as animated in large part by women occupying traditionally feminine spaces.

When More Is Not Enough

The concept of greed is one of the oldest social constructs; however, greed as a managerial attribute that affects firm outcomes has yet to attract scholarly attention in management. In this study, we examine the relationship of CEO greed to shareholder wealth. After anchoring greed to familiar constructs in organizational literature, we test our hypotheses on a sample of over 300 publicly traded firms from multiple industries. As predicted, greed has a negative relationship with shareholder return, but this relationship is moderated by the presence of a powerful, independent board, managerial discretion, and CEO tenure. The contributions of this study, which include refining our understanding of self-interest and opportunism, developing the greed construct, and illustrating its impact on shareholder wealth, are intended to open a new line of inquiry in the management literature.

POPL 2005

We propose a novel approach to the well-known view update problem for the case of tree-structured data: a domainspecific\ programming language in which all expressions denote bi-directional transformations on trees. In one direction, these transformations--dubbed lenses--map a "concrete" tree into a simplified "abstract view"; in the other, they map a modified abstract view, together with the original concrete tree, to a correspondingly modified concrete tree. Our design emphasizes both robustness and ease of use, guaranteeing strong well-behavedness and totality properties for well-typed lenses We identify a natural space of well-behaved bi-directional transformations over arbitrary structures, study definedness and continuity in this setting, and state a precise connection with the classical theory of "update translation under a constant complement" from databases. We then instantiate this semantic framework in the form of a collection of lens combinators that can be assembled to describe transformations on trees. These combinators include familiar constructs from functional programming (composition, mapping, projection, conditionals, recursion) together with some novel primitives for manipulating trees (splitting, pruning, merging, etc.). We illustrate the expressiveness of these combinators by developing a number of bi-directional list-processing transformations as derived forms

Validity and reliability of lean product development frameworks in Indian manufacturing industry

Purpose – The purpose of the article is to identify suitable existing lean product development (LPD) framework that is useful to implement in Indian manufacturing industry. The number of successful products is one of the most deciding factors in any organization revenue. Lean principles can be applied across product development processes to eliminate waste activities. Thus, to fulfill the objective, the present study has performed validity and reliability analysis on the existing LPD frameworks with the help of empirical data collected from Indian manufacturing sector through a survey questionnaire methodology. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data was collected from 180 manufacturing organizations from Indian manufacturing sector. The study has gathered the empirical data from respondents from top and middle level personnel. Factor analysis was conducted on the collected empirical data to find the unidimensionality of the each framework. Reliability of each individual framework was determined through Cronbach’s alpha value. Finally, the frequency distribution analysis was performed to find familiar constructs in the selected frameworks sorted on the basis of validity and reliability analysis. Findings – The present study found that only eight LPD frameworks have displayed unidimensionality with respect to the construct, i.e. the LPD it measures. The study also found that those eight frameworks have displayed a high level of reliability. Further, the study tried to find the most familiar constructs from the selected eight frameworks by applying frequency distribution analysis. The frequency distribution analysis has identified that most of the constructs have showed a high value in terms of mode and mean. The study also concluded that there is a need to develop a new LPD framework, which is suitable to fulfill the requirements of Indian manufacturing industry, as well as global manufacturing industry. Research limitations/implications – The study collected empirical data from 180 organizations and all of the respondents were restricted from Indian manufacturing industry. Hence, the study believes that there is a chance some more amplification before being generalizes over across the sectors and countries. Originality/value – The main objective of the present article is to find out the suitability of the existing LPD frameworks to Indian manufacturing sector. The study also anticipates that the products development managers and executives may collect complete information on the existing LPD frameworks and also a chance to executing proper suitable framework in the respective manufacturing organization.

Validity and reliability of lean manufacturing frameworks

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate, validity and reliability analysis on existing Lean manufacturing (LM) frameworks when applied to Indian organizations. LM is one of the best manufacturing strategies that are used by manufacturing plant managers to improve manufacturing capabilities.Design/methodology/approach– In the present research work, a questionnaire-based survey was used to examine 35 LM frameworks. The study targeted respondents ranging from top- and middle-level management personnel in Indian manufacturing industry. The sample includes organizations in a variety of industries ranging from automobile, electronics, engineering, process and textile industries products. The survey tool was prepared with team of 12 members i.e. six academicians and six professionals from manufacturing industry environment. The study received 186 responses from various sectors of manufacturing industry, 180 surveys were usable resulting in a response rate of 23.90 per cent. Factor analysis was conducted to check unidimentionality of the framework. Cronbach’s alpha is calculated to find reliability of each framework’s. Lastly, frequency analysis was used to recognize familiar constructs of LM on the chosen framework.Findings– This study has identified that most of the LM frameworks revealed a high level of reliability. When the study has examined further advance about unidimensionality with respect to the construct, i.e. the LM it measures, it confirmed 11 frameworks were revealing unidimensionality. The frequency analysis was evident that a greater part of the constructs has a high mean score and mode. Finally, the research concludes that there is requirement for a novel framework to Indian manufacturing industry to stay in competition with global manufacturing industries.Research limitations/implications– Cross-sectional data from manufacturing industries and India (only one country) is used with sample size restricted to 180 only, and it would be interesting to test these frameworks for more than one industry sector and country.Practical implications– The present work tries to find the suitability of the presented LM frameworks to Indian manufacturing industry sector. The authors hoped that the present research would give the information to the management to execute the suitable LM framework in their firm.Originality/value– The present work tries to find the suitability of the presented LM frameworks to Indian manufacturing industry sector. The authors hoped that the present research would give the information to the management to execute the suitable LM framework in their firm.

Ethnocentrism and country of origin effects among immigrant consumers

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how country of origin and consumer ethnocentrism pertain to first-generation immigrants, who often identify with two or more countries. Design/methodology/approach – After a pretest to validate the modified consumer ethnocentrism scale, the main study used a series of scenario-based experiments and compiled data from 419 members of four distinct first-generation immigrant communities. Findings – Non-ethnocentric immigrants favor the products of economically advanced countries. Ethnocentric immigrants favor the products of their home and host countries relative to foreign products, regardless of the economic standing of foreign countries. When home and host countries represent significantly different degrees of economic advancement, both ethnocentric and non-ethnocentric immigrants favor the products of the more advanced country. Research limitations/implications – Apart from the individual effects of country of origin and consumer ethnocentrism, the interplay between the two effects can yield important insights. There are other ways to operationalize multicultural identity beyond studying first-generation immigrants. Researchers should go beyond nationality and incorporate other forces of cultural diversity. Practical implications – For both ethnocentric and non-ethnocentric immigrants, the product that benefits from both effects is the most preferred, and the product that benefits from neither of the two effects is the least preferred. Where the product benefits from one but not the other effect, the two effects hold roughly equal power for ethnocentric consumers, but COO dominates CE for non-ethnocentric consumers. Originality/value – The paper presents a critical evaluation and extension of the respective literatures investigating familiar constructs in multicultural settings.

The promise of ritual: a lens for understanding persistent practices in mathematics classrooms

In this article, I propose ritual as an analytic lens for understanding the persistence of practices in contemporary mathematics classrooms. By foregrounding the cultural nature of the teaching and learning of mathematics in schools, ritual analysis can provide insight about the causes and effects of practices that persist through rounds of “reform.” I begin by considering the legacy of the notion of culture in mathematics education research. I then provide examples of ritual analysis in education research and in mathematics education research. I draw on the scholarship of Quantz (2011) as I articulate a working definition of ritual for use in mathematics education research, considering how this definition may help raise and answer distinct questions apart from more familiar constructs. I list some well-known problems and dilemmas in mathematics education that may be promising domains for a ritual analysis, and I conclude by positioning ritual alongside other constructs and methods that are in use in mathematics education research today.

The vicissitudes of the recovery construct; or, the challenge of taking “subjective experience” seriously

The vicissitudes of the recovery construct; or, the challenge of taking “subjective experience” seriously

Myth of the pure obsessional type in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Several studies have identified discrete symptom dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), derived from factor analyses of the individual items or symptom categories of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist (YBOCS-SC). This study aims to extend previous work on the relationship between obsessions and compulsions by specifically including mental compulsions and reassurance-seeking. Because these compulsions have traditionally been omitted from prior factor analytic studies, their association to what have been called "pure obsessions" may have been overlooked. Participants (N = 201) were recruited from two multi-site randomized clinical treatment trials for OCD. The YBOCS-SC was used to assess OCD symptoms, as it includes a comprehensive list of obsessions and compulsions, arranged by content category. Each category was given a score based on whether symptoms were present and if the symptom was a primary target of clinical concern, and a factor analysis was conducted. Mental compulsions and reassurance-seeking were considered separate categories for the analysis. Using an orthogonal geomin rotation of 16 YBOCS-SC categories/items, we found a five-factor solution that explained 67% of the total variance. Inspection of items that composed each factor suggests five familiar constructs, with mental compulsions and reassurance-seeking included with sexual, aggressive, and religious obsessions (unacceptable/taboo thoughts). This study suggests that the concept of the "pure obsessional" (e.g., patients with unacceptable/taboo thoughts yet no compulsions) may be a misnomer, as these obsessions were factorially associated with mental compulsions and reassurance-seeking in these samples. These findings may have implications for DSM-5 diagnostic criteria.

A new model to use when teaching Euclidean geometry

A geometric model is introduced which satisfies the Euclidean parallel postulate as well as all of Hilbert's axioms except the Side-Angle-Side axiom. This model provides several teaching opportunities in those Euclidean geometry classrooms that use the axiomatic method. In presenting these models at the same time as the more familiar ℝ2, ℝ3, and Poincare models, students may be less tempted to assume that familiar constructs (lines, trianges, etc.) allow them to rely on familiar assumptions.

Emotional Intelligence as a Salient Predictor for Collegians’ Career Decision Making

Among the plethora of career theories and counseling practices, human emotion continues to be underrepresented. The paucity is evoking discontentment. For many career specialists, a distal role for emotionality has become untenable. This study demonstrated emotional intelligence (EI) associates with familiar constructs within the career decision-making journey. In particular, multiple regression analyses of 561 collegians revealed EI as a salient predictor of vocational personality (Holland’s Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional [RIASEC]), vocational identity, and career indecision. The findings also exposed important gender differences and distinguished which competency of EI is germane to what career construct and gender. Implications from the findings and practical applications for placing emotion in a more proximal role by career counselors are discussed.