Team Partners Research Articles

Patients as Partners in Responsive Research: Methodological Notions for Collaborations in Mixed Research Teams

Patients are increasingly actively involved in research. We depart from an approach that understands patient participation as dialogue. This idea is grounded in hermeneutic philosophy and responsive research. Patients are engaged in research via dialogues with other stakeholders. New is the inclusion of patients as research partners. Several methodological notions underpin responsive research. In two health research agenda-setting processes (intellectual disability and kidney disease), these notions have been applied and refined for collaboration with research partners in mixed research teams. The findings demonstrate that equal partnerships include involvement in all research activities from beginning to end, a focus on experiential knowledge, mutual learning, openness, and respect. Mutual learning processes help to overcome stereotypes and handle tensions. Other experiences include the financial reimbursement of research partners, and the necessity of an acceptable workload and scheme. The collaboration might then have a surplus value for the research process and for those involved.

How attribution influences aggression: Answers to an old question by using an implicit measure of anger

The present study investigated how aggressive reactions to frustration are influenced by attributional processes. In particular, we examined how the information that another person did not intend a frustration affects anger and aggression. Previous research was inconclusive if attribution to unintentionality decreases anger and aggressive impulses or if it increases the control of aggressive impulses resulting in a selective decrease of aggressive reactions that are controllable. To test these assumptions, two thirds of participants were frustrated by negative evaluations that were paired with aversive sounds from an ostensible team partner. The remaining participants received positive evaluations that were paired with pleasant sounds. Then, half of the frustrated participants obtained a message suggesting that their partner had confused the response scale and had actually meant to deliver an opposite evaluation. This apologizing information was effective in decreasing subsequent aggressive behavior but not in reducing anger as assessed by an implicit measure. This finding is in line with the notion that attribution to unintentionality leads to control of aggressive impulses. We conclude that such attributions influence aggressive behavior mainly via reflective pathways, while impulsive processes remain largely unaffected.

Enhancement Biases and Friendship in Team Formation

In this paper we analyze the impact of enhancement biases on team formation. We show that learning positively about team partners can promote cooperation among individuals as it reduces the negative effect of commonly observed self-enhancement biases. This is the case because evaluating peers favorably promotes the convergence in beliefs about the abilities of the different team members. We show that this effect is even stronger when peer-enhancement biases are reciprocal and balanced.

Working from Our Strengths: partnerships in learning

Over the past four years a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners in learning research across Northern Australia have identified many of the issues that underpin the implementation of training and investment through enterprise development to improve economic and community outcomes of Indigenous partners. This paper provides an overview of a series of recent projects developed around enterprise development and training. The issues that the project teams have explored include developing industry, community and training institutional partnerships in the recognition of diverse knowledge systems within the recognition of prior learning process, the role of digital literacies in sharing knowledge, the co-production of knowledge and workbased learning. The paper then foreshadows the future directions of this work; addressing a range of issues such as infrastructure, funding, technology and identifying relevant skills sets. Approaches to sustainable enterprise learning and production, professional development and support of successful Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers are also discussed. Essentially the paper focuses on the ways partnerships and relationships, rather than systems, can effect change in the implementation of Vocational Education and Training (VET) system in ways that accord with the aims and realities of Indigenous people for their futures.

Local air quality: A growing concern to airport management

Meeting the demand for increased mobility, airports are adapting their infrastructure, but face the challenge of controlling their emissions in the light of the EU air quality standards. A possible way out is a joint and combined approach where the various aviation industry partners (airports, airlines, manufacturers and service providers) team up to develop and implement comprehensive mitigation programmes. Such programmes could include technological, regulatory, operational and economic measures alike.

Observing the Sun from a giant balloon

A solar telescope, borne by a balloon larger than a Boeing 747, was successfully launched to an altitude of 120,000 feet, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) announced on 23 October. NCAR, working with a team of research partners, indicated that the test clears the way for long‐duration polar balloon flights beginning in 2009 to capture unprecedented details of the Sun's surface. “We hope to unlock important mysteries about the Sun's magnetic field structures, which at times can cause electromagnetic storms in our upper atmosphere and may have an impact on Earth's climate,” said Michael Knolker, director of NCAR's High Altitude Observatory and a principal investigator on the project known as Sunrise. “This is a very economical way of rising above the atmosphere and capturing images that cannot be captured from Earth.”

Defining and Measuring Service Awareness Among Elders and Caregivers of Mexican Descent

Mexican American elders' and their caregivers' awareness of available home care services is one of nine factors hypothesized to be associated with underuse of home care services. Previous instruments did not fully measure service awareness. The objective of this study was to explore the conceptual foundation of service awareness, generate items, and establish language equivalence in Spanish and English for the Service Awareness Scale. A hybrid use of the literature and fieldwork were used to develop the concept and generate items. The team used back-translation and community collaboration to test for language equivalence. Concept development and language equivalence were achieved for the Service Awareness Scale. Teaching/learning theories contributed to the definition and inductive validity of service awareness and item generation and can shape future interventions. Bicultural/bilingual community and research team partners refined its measure. The scale will be usable in research and practice designed to promote equity in health care use.

ABB Robot partners team up to supply "world class" materials handling systems

ABB Robot partners team up to supply "world class" materials handling systems

Virtual enterprise formation and partner selection: an analysis using case studies

A Virtual Enterprise (VE) can be described as an organisational form that emerges when individual entities form a team of partners to achieve a specific goal. The ability to assemble the best team is critical to the success of the VE and this imposes strong demands on its formation. In this paper, we present an agent-based model of a VE, where the partners of a VE are represented by software agents. We show how this model can support the different processes that are used in industry for selecting the partners. Industrial case studies have been used to illustrate the different partner selection processes that are used in industry. The selection processes are analysed using Agent Interaction Protocols (AIP) to describe the interactions that take place between the different entities.

Managing Perceptions of Technical Competence: How Well Do Auditors Know How Others View Them?*

AbstractWe investigate factors that influence an auditor's accuracy in knowing how subordinates, peers, and superiors view his or her own technical competence (metaperception). Extant literature on reputation management in auditing contexts depicts preparers of audit workpapers as strategic agents (subordinates) who stylize workpapers and engage in behaviors that enhance their reputations with reviewers (superiors). These superiors, in turn, are represented as strategically engaging in coping behaviors in response to such stylization attempts. One of the necessary conditions for auditors to enhance their reputations on a sustainable basis is accurate metaperception. We report the results of an experiment that investigates determinants of auditors' metaperception accuracy. Our participants comprise teams of audit partners, managers, and seniors who work together in the field. Each auditor performs two tasks of varying complexity and then predicts whether other team members can accurately perform the task and how other team members assess his or her performance on the tasks. Results show that accuracy in knowing what others think of one's technical proficiency (metaperception) is generally high, particularly when the predictor auditors are partners and managers; however, metaperception accuracy is asymmetric and varies depending on the predictor auditor, the target auditor being predicted, and task complexity. Implications are discussed.

댄스스포츠 선수들의 환경적 변인에 따른 파트너 신뢰, 팀몰입 및 결속력의 차이

댄스스포츠 선수들의 환경적 변인에 따른 파트너 신뢰, 팀몰입 및 결속력의 차이

The Making of an Interdisciplinary Partnership: The Case of the Chicago Food System Collaborative

Interdisciplinary partnerships foster innovation to address pressing social problems. This paper describes an interdisciplinary partnership called the Chicago Food System Collaborative (CFSC) composed of a team of partners from four academic institutions and three community-based organizations representing a total of eight disciplines that included: community development and community organizing, community psychology, geography, nursing, nutrition, public health, sociology, and urban planning and policy. Partners came together to address the issue of access to healthy foods and nutrition in a working class African American neighborhood. We analyze and discuss the core principles that guided the partnership and its impact across three dimensions: understanding through interdisciplinary action research, building capacity, and facilitating innovations in practices and policies. Despite the challenges of interdisciplinary partnerships, the potential benefits and impact of such efforts reflect their value as a comprehensive approach to addressing complex social problems.

Realities and Myths of Safety Issues for Community Researchers Working in a Marginalized African American Community

Community psychologists often conduct research in collaboration with marginalized communities in which safety is an issue. However, we rarely talk about what specific safety issues we experience and how we deal with them. Our story describes the realities and myths of neighborhood safety that were experienced in a low-income African American neighborhood of Chicago, while collaborating on a project designed to increase access to the Internet to obtain health information. We examine both the challenges experienced and our responses in the context of a community intervention planned, implemented, and evaluated by a partnership team composed of various stakeholders. Critical lessons such as the importance of building on community strengths and the need to be aware of our own biases are discussed.

Partners in Caring

This article describes one organization's effort to create a family-friendly environment that supports the choice of patients for involvement of a family member or loved one in their care. Changing a culture requires a process that can emotionally drive the caregivers to agree with the need to change and sustain the efforts over a long period. This project, Partners in Caring, describes the philosophy, the journey of changing a culture, and the results achieved over a 7-year period. The Partners in Caring philosophy is "a commitment between a patient, care partner and healthcare team to a relationship of hands-on support based on compassion, communication and choice empowering people to heal in a nurturing manner." This concept laid a foundation for the development of a new model of care, which is described. The implementation has resulted in an improved patient and staff satisfaction and a decrease in patient complaints.

Pets Help Teach in Speech-Language Pathology Sessions

Pets Help Teach in Speech-Language Pathology Sessions

Catenion Strategies, GmbH.

Catenion Strategies is a strategy consultancy company formed around a long-standing team of Anglo-German partners of various scientific and industrial backgrounds with a common passion for the dynamics of the life-science industry. Catenion provide strategy consulting services exclusively for the top management of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics companies. Their focus lies in the areas of corporate development, research and development (R&D), therapeutic area and product strategy, as well as in the emerging field of personalized medicine. Catenion believe their grounding in R&D is unique, and they aspire to be the premier partner of choice for senior management in all core aspects of shaping pharmaceutical strategy.

Michelin added to 787 Dreamliner Partner Team

Michelin added to 787 Dreamliner Partner Team

‘The Biosciences Knowledge Value Chain and Comparative Incubation Models’

This research derives from an EU DG Enterprise (IPS Programme) project on bio-incubation, called Bio-Link. The Bio-Link project is innovative in three ways. First, it involves an international comparative analysis of biotechnology incubators of the kind that is rarely if ever done. Second, the incubator representatives are monitored and investigated by an academic partnership team. Third, there is a stated aspiration by the incubator companies to engage in co-incubation across borders. Co-incubation is, as far as we are aware, a new kind of boundary crossing innovation in which advanced start-up businesses are assisted to enter other national markets and/or benefit from specialised services or scientific, technological, or commercial knowledge absent in the home country but present in a partner country. Evidence from research on European, Israeli and North American bioincubators is included to compare, contrast and enable future judgements of incubator appropriateness to biotechnology.

Managing Perceptions of Technical Competence: How Well Do Auditors Know How Others View Them?

We investigate factors that influence an auditor's accuracy in knowing how their subordinates, peers, and superiors view his/her own technical competence (metaperception). Extant literature on reputation management in auditing contexts depicts preparers of audit workpapers as strategic agents (subordinates) who stylize workpapers and engage in behaviors to enhance their reputations with reviewers (superiors). These superiors, in turn, are represented as strategically engaging in coping behaviors in response to such stylization attempts. A necessary condition, among others, for them to do so on a sustainable basis is accurate metaperception. We report the results of an experiment that investigates determinants of auditors' metaperception accuracy. Our participants comprise teams of audit partners, managers, and seniors who work together in the field. Each auditor performs two tasks of varying complexity, and predicts whether other team members can accurately perform the task, and what other team members assess to be his/her performance on the tasks. Results show that accuracy in knowing what others think of one's technical proficiency (metaperception) is generally high, particularly when the predictor auditors are partners and managers; however, metaperception accuracy is asymmetric and varies depending on the predictor auditor, the target auditor being predicted and task complexity. Implications are discussed.

Publishing Musical Compositions in the Classroom: The Writer's Process At Work in a Teacher/Teaching Artist Collaboration

A school partnership team experiments with adapting a writing process to deepen students' musical composing.