Conversational styles and personality characteristics in women's close friendships and acquaintance relationships.

Fourteen women engaged in two separate conversations (one with a close friend and one with an acquaintance) and discussed two topics with different task demands (shared similarities magnified by discussing memories the conversational partners share; differences magnified by discussing revealed differences of opinions between conversational partners). Audio taped conversations were coded for conversational turn-taking behaviors such as overlaps, simultaneous speech and successful interruptions. Speakers used a conversational style that included more overlaps and simultaneous speech when conversational partners' shared similarities were magnified than when conversational partners' differences were magnified. Additionally, compared to the women partners in the conversations with the acquaintances, the conversational style between women partners in the close friend conversations was more similar in terms of fast-paced turn-taking (i.e., overlaps). There was no relationship found between conversational behaviorsand personality characteristics (i.e., extraversion).The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b128885

Conversational styles and personality characteristics in women's close friendships and acquaintance relationships.

Fourteen women engaged in two separate conversations (one with a close friend and one with an acquaintance) and discussed two topics with different task demands (shared similarities magnified by discussing memories the conversational partners share; differences magnified by discussing revealed differences of opinions between conversational partners). Audio taped conversations were coded for conversational turn-taking behaviors such as overlaps, simultaneous speech and successful interruptions. Speakers used a conversational style that included more overlaps and simultaneous speech when conversational partners' shared similarities were magnified than when conversational partners' differences were magnified. Additionally, compared to the women partners in the conversations with the acquaintances, the conversational style between women partners in the close friend conversations was more similar in terms of fast-paced turn-taking (i.e., overlaps). There was no relationship found between conversational behaviorsand personality characteristics (i.e., extraversion).The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b128885

Institutionalized effects on innovation: a case study of dental care

This thesis, by observing diffusion, improves understanding of constrains to innovation. It explores dental care in detail, the nature of the market, considerations affecting throughput, introducing the field of dentistry to innovation studies to which patterns of innovation differ from medicine. It describes how the financial managers of dental-care and other institutions mediate/organize the articulation of demand and the decisions of clinical care firms as they seek to drive profitability from dental implant technology. The research followed knowledge at the level of a technique, where transformative effects of technology are understood in terms of technique Pavitt (1987a,c), Rosenberg (1976b, 1982) and Nightingale (2008), in real time, drawing on Granberg’s (1997) mapping technique. The research highlights the value of Chandler’s (1977, 1990) emphasis on “throughput” to the dental sector (Nightingale, 2000; Lazonick, 2005: 40) and the notion that institutions make sense of the stability and structure of the collective action Lundvall (2007) and Johnson (2010), supported by Nelson (2008) and others. For effect on capacity utilization, the research drew on medical economic efficiency literature, Gelijns & Rosenberg (1994) and others of Rosenberg, in other sectors, to draw attention to the interconnectedness of efficiency and utilization to the medical specializations, institutions, bottlenecks, model of delivery and benefits of iterative learning Arrow (1962), Rosenberg (1982), David (1986), and Johnson (2010), that laid the basis to exploring bottlenecks to delivery of dental care, to medical care. The constraint to innovation is the insurance-based financial system, as it changes the direction of learning. Trajectories of technical change have sub-sector, process-level influences that vary with dentist specialty. Learning is directed toward capacity utilization, by increasing throughput to spread costs at a given level of reimbursement, and the prime influence to practical knowledge and change to technique, is the institutionalized continuing education. The thesis shows post-adoption risks to transformation of technique are important to understanding innovation, because it can change the direction of learning, thus challenging the notion of research-based discovery as the preliminary driver of innovation

Microbial Biofilms

In the book Microbial Biofilms: Importance and applications, eminent scientists provide an up-to-date review of the present and future trends on biofilm-related research. This book is divided with four subdivisions as biofilm fundamentals, applications, health aspects, and their control. Moreover, this book also provides a comprehensive account on microbial interactions in biofilms, pyocyanin, and extracellular DNA in facilitating Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation, atomic force microscopic studies of biofilms, and biofilms in beverage industry. The book comprises a total of 21 chapters from valued contributions from world leading experts in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, and Turkey. This book may be used as a text or reference for everyone interested in biofilms and their applications. It is also highly recommended for environmental microbiologists, soil scientists, medical microbiologists, bioremediation experts, and microbiologists working in biocorrosion, biofouling, biodegradation, water microbiology, quorum sensing, and many other related areas. Scientists in academia, research laboratories, and industry will also find it of interest