Examination of the Relationship between Team (Group) Harmony and Role Perception among Players: A Research on Veteran National Players

AbstractThe purpose of the present study is examining the relationship between team (group) harmony and positive role perception. In addition, the present research aims at examining whether there are significant differences in players’ attitudes toward team (group) harmony and role perception in terms of age groups, gender, length of sporting, and country distributions. 29 female, 46 male; a total of 76 elite veteran players selected via random sampling method among elite veteran players who participated in international veteran friendly matches participated in the research. Questionnaire form that consists of three parts was used as the data collection tool of the present study. First part of the questionnaire form includes 4 questions about the players’ personal information; Group Environment Questionnaire developed by Carron et al. (1985) is the second part of the questionnaire; and Role Perception Scale developed by Beauchamp et al. (2002) is the third part of the questionnaire. According to research findings; there are significant differences in players’ team (group) harmony and role perception levels in terms of age groups, gender, length of sporting and country distributions (p<0.005). Research findings revealed a positive significant correlation between team (group) harmony and positive role perception at 0.01 significance level

The eye of the team : critical incidents analysis of team metaphors used by teams in a health setting : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University

This study sought to explore working teams' mental models of their success and failure, to cast light on what improves rather than undermines the teams' performance. Implicit team mental models may become explicit through exploring the language, specifically metaphors, that teams use to describe successful and unsuccessful performance. Ten teams comprising 69 individuals from a large district health board and including one all Māori team, participated in semi-structured interviews, that focused on the positive and negative critical incidents, when working together. Twin Content analyses of each type of incident revealed classical attribution biases, for example self-serving biases (team failures externalised using system metaphors as in "It is not our fault, it is the computer's fault" and successes internalised as in "the high standard of work is a reflection on the integrity and skills of the team"). At the same time however teams occasionally sidestepped these biases by reflecting on whether they could have achieved even more. Unlike their counterparts, the single all-Māori team used the same "two worlds" metaphor to describe both success and failure through bi-cultural harmony and bi-cultural conflict. Discussion focuses on how metaphors enhance team development. For example through discourse analysis of training sessions, teams may become aware of what biases the team is engaging in, thereby fuelling organisational learning

Harmony in health sector: a requirement for effective healthcare delivery in Nigeria

AbstractHarmony is defined as the pleasing combination of elements of a system to form an all-inclusive, all involving and more productive team. The aim of this present review was to investigate the factors militating against harmony among healthcare professional in the Nigerian healthcare delivery system. This review was carried out by searching through literature on the topic that bother on harmony among health professions in the health sector. Literature search and reports from previous studies indicates that harmony among health workers is pivotal to improving the health indices. However, available evidence suggests that unlike in the developed world, health care professionals do not collaborate well together in Nigeria because of the claim of superiority of a particular health professional over others. This has often resulted in inter-professional conflict which is threatening to tear the health sector apart to the detriment of the patients. The Nigeria health system should be based on team work. Health professionals from a variety of disciplines should work together to deliver the best possible healthcare services to all Nigerians. All members of the team are equally valuable and essential to the smooth running of hospitals. Hospitals should ideally be headed by health administrators or by a qualified member of any of the professions in the health sector

Good Software Development Processes Lead to Harmonious Project Teams Which in Turn Lead to Effective Project Performance

The modem world relies on computers in almost every facet of life. With the explosion of Information Technology, software development has become an important process. However, from the beginning, this process has suffered and continues to suffer from a number of problems. If these problems are not rectified, they can jeopardise projects and lead to project failure. Project failure results in a project being delivered: • without satisfying the functional and non-functional requirements requested by the user or customer • beyond the agreed schedule and/or • over budget. Research indicates that practising good software development processes (SDPs) can override these problems or at least minimise their impact, however the human element of group dynamics cannot be ignored, Demanding disciplined SDPs will lead to project team harmony and this will result in the improvement of product quality, productivity, time to market and customer satisfaction. This research established the relationship between the practice of good SDPs and team harmony and showed that good software development processes lead to harmonious project teams which in turn leads to effective project performance. Team harmony included the presence of constructive conflict and showed that the management of destructive conflict could minimise its impact or even channel it into constructive outcomes. The subjects of this research were third year undergraduate computer science students at Edith Cowan University involved in a year-long software engineering project. Data was collected through questionnaires and an interview and later analysed using the Spearman’s rank correlation against the project team final marks. The outcome of this study is that good software development processes do indeed lead to harmonious project teams, which in tum lead to effective project performance and favourable outcomes

Unifying the Process, A Personal Journey

The unchanging need for harmony in design and construction is best addressed by the traditional master builder. Unfortunately, the master builder is merely an ideal and because of the complexity of today’s projects, it is impossible that the archetypal master builder could be replicated in a single person. However, there are masters in the profession of architecture practicing today that have the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to lead a unified team that, as a whole, embody the master builder archetype. This thesis studies two ‘master architects’ to identify the process of emulating and pursuing the career of “a master.”The unchanging need for harmony in design and construction is best addressed by the traditional master builder. Unfortunately, the master builder is merely an ideal and because of the complexity of today’s projects, it is impossible that the archetypal master builder could be replicated in a single person. However, there are masters in the profession of architecture practicing today that have the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to lead a unified team that, as a whole, embody the master builder archetype. This thesis studies two ‘master architects’ to identify the process of emulating and pursuing the career of “a master.”The unchanging need for harmony in design and construction is best addressed by the traditional master builder. Unfortunately, the master builder is merely an ideal and because of the complexity of today’s projects, it is impossible that the archetypal master builder could be replicated in a single person. However, there are masters in the profession of architecture practicing today that have the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to lead a unified team that, as a whole, embody the master builder archetype. This thesis studies two ‘master architects’ to identify the process of emulating and pursuing the career of “a master.”The unchanging need for harmony in design and construction is best addressed by the traditional master builder. Unfortunately, the master builder is merely an ideal and because of the complexity of today’s projects, it is impossible that the archetypal master builder could be replicated in a single person. However, there are masters in the profession of architecture practicing today that have the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to lead a unified team that, as a whole, embody the master builder archetype. This thesis studies two ‘master architects’ to identify the process of emulating and pursuing the career of “a master.”The unchanging need for harmony in design and construction is best addressed by the traditional master builder. Unfortunately, the master builder is merely an ideal and because of the complexity of today’s projects, it is impossible that the archetypal master builder could be replicated in a single person. However, there are masters in the profession of architecture practicing today that have the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to lead a unified team that, as a whole, embody the master builder archetype. This thesis studies two ‘master architects’ to identify the process of emulating and pursuing the career of “a master.”The unchanging need for harmony in design and construction is best addressed by the traditional master builder. Unfortunately, the master builder is merely an ideal and because of the complexity of today’s projects, it is impossible that the archetypal master builder could be replicated in a single person. However, there are masters in the profession of architecture practicing today that have the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to lead a unified team that, as a whole, embody the master builder archetype. This thesis studies two ‘master architects’ to identify the process of emulating and pursuing the career of “a master.”The unchanging need for harmony in design and construction is best addressed by the traditional master builder. Unfortunately, the master builder is merely an ideal and because of the complexity of today’s projects, it is impossible that the archetypal master builder could be replicated in a single person. However, there are masters in the profession of architecture practicing today that have the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to lead a unified team that, as a whole, embody the master builder archetype. This thesis studies two ‘master architects’ to identify the process of emulating and pursuing the career of “a master.

VGM-RNN: Recurrent Neural Networks for Video Game Music Generation

The recent explosion of interest in deep neural networks has affected and in some cases reinvigorated work in fields as diverse as natural language processing, image recognition, speech recognition and many more. For sequence learning tasks, recurrent neural networks and in particular LSTM-based networks have shown promising results. Recently there has been interest – for example in the research by Google’s Magenta team – in applying so-called “language modeling” recurrent neural networks to musical tasks, including for the automatic generation of original music. In this work we demonstrate our own LSTM-based music language modeling recurrent network. We show that it is able to learn musical features from a MIDI dataset and generate output that is musically interesting while demonstrating features of melody, harmony and rhythm. We source our dataset from VGMusic.com, a collection of user-submitted MIDI transcriptions of video game songs, and attempt to generate output which emulates this kind of music

Hungarian neutral vowels

In Hungarian, stems containing only front unrounded (neutral) vowels fall into two groups: one group taking front suffixes, the other taking back suffixes in vowel harmony. The distinction is traditionally thought of as purely lexical. Beňuš and Gafos (2007) have recently challenged this position, claiming that there are significant articulatory differences between the vowels in the two groups. Neutral vowels also occur in vacillating stems. These typically contain one back vowel and one or more neutral vowels, and accept both front and back suffixes, with extensive inter- and intra-speaker variation. Based on Beňuš and Gafos’s line of argument, the expectation is that vacillating stems will display a kind of phonetic realisation that is distinct from both harmonic and anti-harmonic stems. We present the results of an ongoing acoustic study on the acoustics of neutral vowels, partly re-creating Beňuš and Gafos’s conditions, but also including vacillating stems. To map the extent of individual and dialectal variation regarding vacillating stems, a grammaticality judgement test was also carried out on speakers of two dialects of Hungarian, crucially differing in the surface inventory of neutral vowels. We present our first findings about how this phonetic difference influences the phonological behaviour of vacillating stems

Understanding the Cultural Value of 'In Harmony-Sistema England'

This research project on which this paper reports was designed to explore questions of cultural value in relation to the schools music project In Harmony-Sistema England. Our core research focus has been upon the ways in which children, their teachers and tutors, and their families understand the value of their participation in IHSE initiatives. The project engaged with three case studies of IHSE initiatives (based in Norwich, Telford and Newcastle) and qualitative data was gathered with primary school children, school staff, parents and IHSE musicians in all three cases

Proceeding: 3rd Java International Nursing Conference 2015 “Harmony of Caring and Healing Inquiry for Holistic Nursing Practice; Enhancing Quality of Care”, Semarang, 20-21 August 2015

This is the proceeding of the 3rd Java International Nursing Conference 2015 organized by School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University, in collaboration with STIKES Kendal. The conference was held on 20-21 August 2015 in Semarang, Indonesia. The conference aims to enable educators, students, practitioners and researchers from nursing, medicine, midwifery and other health sciences to disseminate and discuss evidence of nursing education, research, and practices to improve the quality of care. This conference also provides participants opportunities to develop their professional networks, learn from other colleagues and meet leading personalities in nursing and health sciences. The 3rd JINC 2015 was comprised of keynote lectures and concurrent submitted oral presentations and poster sessions. The following themes have been chosen to be the focus of the conference: (a) Multicenter Science: Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, etc. in Holistic Nursing Practice, (b) Complementary Therapy in Nursing and Complementary, Alternative Medicine: Alternative Medicine (Herbal Medicine), Complementary Therapy (Cupping, Acupuncture, Yoga, Aromatherapy, Music Therapy, etc.), (c) Application of Inter-professional Collaboration and Education: Education Development in Holistic Nursing, Competencies of Holistic Nursing, Learning Methods and Assessments, and (d) Application of Holistic Nursing: Leadership & Management, Entrepreneurship in Holistic Nursing, Application of Holistic Nursing in Clinical and Community Settings