A Study of Organizational Information Search, Acquisition, Storage and Retrieval

At the 1958 meeting of our society, then known as EMSA, the author introduced the concept of microspace and suggested its use to provide adequate information storage space and the use of electron microscope techniques to provide storage and retrieval access. At this current meeting of MSA, he wishes to suggest an additional use of the power of the electron microscope.The author has been contemplating this new use for some time and would have suggested it in the EMSA fiftieth year commemorative volume, but for page limitations. There is compelling reason to put forth this suggestion today because problems have arisen in the “Standard Model” of particle physics and funds are being greatly reduced just as we need higher energy machines to resolve these problems. Therefore, any techniques which complement or augment what we can accomplish during this austerity period with the machines at hand is worth exploring.

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252 The truly digital echocardiography laboratory: An ultrasound equipment-independent digital image acquisition, storage, and retrieval system

European Journal of Echocardiography ◽

10.1016/s1525-2167(99)80061-4 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. S18-S18

Author(s):

P BARBIER

Keyword(s):

Digital Image ◽

Retrieval System ◽

Image Acquisition ◽

Storage And Retrieval ◽

Echocardiography Laboratory

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Process Accountability as a De-Escalation Technique

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000245 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 63-74

Author(s):

Klaus Moser ◽

Hans-Georg Wolff ◽

Roman Soucek

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processes ◽

Information Search ◽

Employment Relationship ◽

Escalation Of Commitment ◽

Tunnel Vision ◽

Course Of Action ◽

Performance Problems ◽

Over Time ◽

Biased Information

Abstract. Escalation of commitment occurs when a course of action is continued despite repeated drawbacks (e.g., maintaining an employment relationship despite severe performance problems). We analyze process accountability (PA) as a de-escalation technique that helps to discontinue a failing course of action and show how time moderates both the behavioral and cognitive processes involved: (1) Because sound decisions should be based on (hopefully unbiased) information search, which requires time to gather, the effect of PA on de-escalation increases over time. (2) Because continuing information search creates behavioral commitment, the debiasing effect of PA on information search diminishes over time. (3) Consistent with the tunnel vision notion, the effects of less biased information search on de-escalation decrease over time.

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A Hierarchy of Multinomial Models for Multidimensional Source Monitoring

Methodology ◽

10.1027/1614-1881.1.1.2 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 2-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Thorsten Meiser

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processes ◽

Source Monitoring ◽

Source Information ◽

Model Comparisons ◽

Storage And Retrieval ◽

Multinomial Processing Tree ◽

Multinomial Models ◽

Hierarchical Relationship ◽

Statistical Framework ◽

Tree Models

Abstract. Several models have been proposed for the measurement of cognitive processes in source monitoring. They are specified within the statistical framework of multinomial processing tree models and differ in their assumptions on the storage and retrieval of multidimensional source information. In the present article, a hierarchical relationship is demonstrated between multinomial models for crossed source information ( Meiser & Bröder, 2002 ), for partial source memory ( Dodson, Holland, & Shimamura, 1998 ) and for several sources ( Batchelder, Hu, & Riefer, 1994 ). The hierarchical relationship allows model comparisons and facilitates the specification of identifiability conditions. Conditions for global identifiability are discussed, and model comparisons are illustrated by reanalyses and by a new experiment on the storage and retrieval of multidimensional source information.

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