Wisdom Of Experts Research Articles

Eating disorder diagnoses: Empirical approaches to classification.

Decisions about the classification of eating disorders have significant scientific and clinical implications. The eating disorder diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) reflect the collective wisdom of experts in the field but are frequently not supported in empirical studies and do not capture the disorders of eating experienced by most people with an eating disorder. Statistical approaches to classification such as latent class analysis and taxometrics can help to create a classification system with greater scientific validity and clinical utility. The field would benefit from direct empirical comparisons of different classification schemes with various clinical and scientific validators. Such studies would enable the creators of the next DSM eating disorder classification to increase understanding of the advantages and disadvantages associated with choosing various diagnostic criteria sets for the eating disorders.

Using the Delphi Technique to Identify Topics for a Protected Area Co-Management Capacity Building Programme

Co-management and co-administration are increasingly being promoted as protected area governance tools to encourage local involvement in protected area management in the Mesoamerican region. This increase has exposed the need to strengthen co-management capacities of institutions and organizations. We contend that creating capacity building programmes in co-management should reflect the wisdom of experts and practising co-managers from around the world. This study used the Delphi Technique and the Internet to assemble information from such experts. The purpose of this study was to better understand co-management capacity building needs. The panel of experts comprised of 30 professionals with vast experience in co-management in developing countries. Three rounds of questionnaires were sent to the experts. Twelve topic categories were identified and rated in terms of their importance. Power sharing, negotiating co-management agreements, financing co-management, and understanding the co-management idea were rated as the most important categories. Scoring of final topic categories were analysed using the Wilcoxon, Median, and Kruskall-Wallis non-parametric statistical tests. These results are being used to refine the development of a dynamic re-source web-based database to support co-management capacity building programmes. Results are also informing the development, implementation, and evaluation of a co-administration capacity building programme in Guatemala.

Nash equilibrium in strictly competitive games: live play in soccer

I model a scoring situation that arises frequently during soccer matches. The Nash equilibrium solution is shown to be broadly consistent with the conventional wisdom of experts. Data on goals scored over an entire season in Italy's soccer league provide statistical support for a prediction of the model's Nash equilibrium.

From Recreation to Creative Expression: The Essential Features of an Adolescent Inpatient Psychosocial Support Programme

Introduction: Adolescent Inpatient Units are now an established component of leading tertiary children’s hospitals in the developed world. While different methods have been used to provide psychosocial support in these settings, there is little recent literature about these programmes. We aimed to identify programme goals and to explore the features that are thought to underpin an effective programme. Materials and Methods: A qualitative paradigm was used to identify the essential features of the psychosocial support programme within the adolescent inpatient unit, Royal Children’s Hospital, by drawing on the practice wisdom of experts involved in the development of the psychosocial support programme since its inception over a decade ago. In-depth interviews were conducted that were analysed thematically following recording and transcription. Results: Seven out of nine identified professionals were interviewed. These staff identified that while the psychosocial support programme had focussed on different activities since its inception, the goals of the program had been consistent over time. The essential underpinning features were reported to be support for the programme and communication between multidisciplinary health professionals. When this was effective, the overarching role of the programme was reported to be the promotion of identity formation in adolescents. Conclusions: This small-scale qualitative investigation reveals that identity formation has consistently been the focus of the psychosocial support programme in our adolescent unit, despite the different ways the programme has been run over time. Findings about the importance of support and communication are essential knowledge for those considering the implementation of similar programmes.

School, boredoom and rebelliouseness

This article intends to put light on some of the rationalization mechanisms of the boring and of the scholar disobedience presents at the modern psicopedagogical rationality. We carry on with this task spacing us out from a double position: the one that pathologies what challenge someone or defer from the established identities, and the one that turns violence into a simple phenomena of technical management and of production of expert wisdom. In order to rethink both scholar policy and psicopedagogical practices we will go deep on two phenomena by treating them as problematics. One of them is the 'institutional experience of going to the school'. The second one is inseparable from the above experience and it's both the boring and the disobedience situations we pointed before.

School, boredoom and rebelliouseness

This article intends to put light on some of the rationalization mechanisms of the boring and of the scholar disobedience presents at the modern psicopedagogical rationality. We carry on with this task spacing us out from a double position: the one that pathologies what challenge someone or defer from the established identities, and the one that turns violence into a simple phenomena of technical management and of production of expert wisdom. In order to rethink both scholar policy and psicopedagogical practices we will go deep on two phenomena by treating them as problematics. One of them is the 'institutional experience of going to the school'. The second one is inseparable from the above experience and it's both the boring and the disobedience situations we pointed before.