scholarly journals The Exit of Residential Mobility or the Voice of Political Action? Strategies for Problem Solving in Residential Communities1

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Vugt ◽  
Peter John ◽  
Keith Dowding ◽  
Eric Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Action Strategies ◽  
The Voice

An Exploration of the Use of Emotional Discourse in Parliamentary Deliberations

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-267
Author(s):  
Magret Jongore
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Historical Periods

In Parliament, problem-solving argumentation calls for several thresholds of proof. This chapter presents the Rhetoric of Parliamentary. The role of such rhetoric is to articulate political motives and legitimize political action. This therefore calls for a review of language use as a concrete display of power: securing political power, challenging it, competing for it, or defending and consolidating it. In socio-historical periods marked by significant paradigm shifts and political polarizations, parliaments have played a decisive role in benchmarking current societal issues and exposing party-political agendas by debating the pros and cons of alternative political solutions. The chapter with the use of critical discourse analysis (CDA) reveals forms of power inherent in this discourse. CDA as a theoretical framework insists that there is no language that is neutral. Thus, CDA unravels unequal power relations, ideological inclinations and hegemony parliamentary discourse of this chapter.

Mobile Phone Use and Stress-Coping Strategies of Medical Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Toda ◽  
Satoko Ezoe ◽  
Tatsuya Takeshita
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Stress Coping Strategies ◽  
Phone Service ◽  
Problem Solving Strategy ◽  
Solving Strategy ◽  
Medical University ◽  
The Voice

This paper investigates associations between mobile phone use and stress coping. To 139 medical university students, a set of self-reporting questionnaires designed to evaluate mobile-phone use and stress coping was administered. In relation to the intensity of mobile phone use, the low-dependence group had statistically significantly higher scores for coping strategy, planful problem solving, than the high-dependence group. When the respondents were allocated to one of three groups according to which mobile-phone service they use most frequently, scores for planful problem solving were statistically significantly higher in the voice phone group than in the Web-browsing group. These findings suggest that the intensity and type of mobile phone use may be associated with stress coping, particularly planful problem solving strategy.

A Cognitive Problem-Solving Employment Readiness Intervention for Methadone Clients

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome J. Platt ◽  
Stephen D. Husband ◽  
Jared Hermalin ◽  
Jacqueline Cater ◽  
David Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Group Intervention ◽  
Methadone Treatment ◽  
Drug Abuse Treatment ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Cognitive Problem ◽  
Action Strategies ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Experimental Group

Employment has been identified as a major goal of drug abuse treatment yet few rigorous tests of employment-related interventions have been conducted. A10-session, manual-guided vocational cognitive problem-solving intervention was evaluated at five methadone treatment sites in an effort to reduce the high unemployment rate among methadone clients. The group intervention focused on helping participants explore the value they place on work, identifying social and psychological barriers to work, developing action strategies to overcome those barriers, setting realistic expectations of work, and taking action. At six months post-intervention, the experimental group (N = 67) demonstrated a significant increase in employment rate (13.4% to 26.9%); no significant change occurred for controls (N = 63). At 12 months post-intervention, however, overall employment gains declined in the experimental group, suggesting the need for additional intervention in order to maintain employment gains.

Sovereign Silences and the Voice of War in the American Conflict over Slavery

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-594
Author(s):  
David F. Holland
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Mechanisms Of Change ◽  
The People ◽  
Constitutional Culture ◽  
The Voice

Various students of constitutional law have proposed a negative relationship between the possibility of formal amendment and recourse to informal construction. They suggest that if formal amendatory appeal to the sovereign People seems excessively difficult, a constitutional culture will more readily tolerate expansive interpretations or simple political action as mechanisms of change and clarification. Conversely, if the processes of amendment sufficiently allow the People to clarify or alter their own original charter, a constitutional culture will manifest less willingness to let judges and politicians put words in their mouths. The basic thrust of such constitutional logic is that, where reasonably possible, sovereigns will speak for themselves.

Changing Politics: Thoreau, Dewey and Cavell, and Democracy as a Way of Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-193
Author(s):  
Naoko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Ordinary Language Philosophy ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Language Philosophy ◽  
American Philosophy ◽  
Emotional Dimensions

This paper reconsiders the meaning of political action by way of a dialogue between Dewey, Thoreau, and Cavell. These philosophers demonstrate possibilities of political engagement and participation. Especially in response to the psychological and emotional dimensions of political crisis today, I shall claim that American philosophy can demonstrate something beyond problem-solving as conventionally understood in politics and that it has the potential to re-place philosophy in such a manner that politics itself is changed. First, I shall draw a contrast between the ways of political action demonstrated respectively by Dewey and Thoreau. Some points of divergence are revealed within American philosophy. I shall then explore the partially different sense of political action implied by Cavell’s ordinary language philosophy, identifying this as the politics of acknowledgment. Finally, I shall propose the idea of challenging inclusion as an alternative political education for human transformation, taking this as a key to changing politics.

Asynchronous Communications to Support Distributed Work in the National Airspace System

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Roger J. Chapman ◽  
Philip J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
National Airspace System ◽  
Tabular Data ◽  
Distributed Work ◽  
Asynchronous Communications ◽  
Collaborative Analysis ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Slide Shows

This research involved the evaluation of a multimodal asynchronous communications tool to support collaborative analysis of post-operations in the National Airspace System (NAS). Collaborating authors have been shown to provide different feedback with asynchronous speech based communications compared to text. Voice synchronized with pointing in asynchronous annotation systems has been found to be more efficient in scheduling tasks, than voice-only, or text only communication. This research investigated how synchronized voice and pointing annotation over asynchronously shared slide shows composed of post operations graphical and tabular data differs in its effect compared to text based annotation, as collections of flights ranked low by standard performance metrics are discussed by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and airline representatives. The results showed the combined problem solving and message creation time was shorter when working in the voice and pointing mode than the text based mode, without having an effect on the number and type of ideas generated for improving performance. In both modes the system was also considered useful and usable to both dispatchers and traffic managers.

scholarly journals Integration of Triz Into Quality Function Deployment

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Tursch ◽  
Christine Goldmann ◽  
Ralf Woll
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Quality Function ◽  
The Voice

Abstract Purpose: The objective of successful companies is the integration of customer requirements in the development process of a new product. Therefore, the Quality Function Deployment method has proven useful several times. The customer requirements often contain contradictions, which are mostly solved by compromises. The aim should be to integrate all customers’ demands and wishes into future products. Methodology: The theory of inventive problem solving can be applied to eliminate compromises in the product development. The method’s different tools enable a goal-oriented and systematic conflict resolution and may help to uncover trends. This paper displays an approach where individual tools of TRIZ are integrated into the Quality Function Deployment. Results: The result of this work is the presentation of the resulting benefits from combining the two methods. For this reason, individual tools of TRIZ are used in different points of the QFD process. The paper shows examples of starting points. Value of paper: In the context of this paper, the benefits from the interaction of QFD and TRIZ are presented. These are particularly evident in the initial phase of project implementation. In this phase the goal of the QFD process is to succeed in translating the voice of the customer for the company and then integrating it into the product development.

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