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Dilemma
About: Dilemma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250251 citations. The topic is also known as: Dilemna.
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TL;DR: This paper uses role theory as a framework to examine why occupational therapists may perceive threats to their professional identity and experience pressure to conform to the defined CMHT ‘role set’.
Abstract: Occupational therapists working in community mental health teams (CMHTs) experience the difficulty of balancing the expectations of their profession with those of the team, their employers, the pur...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an institutionalist approach to link the context of anti-corruption reforms to their likely effectiveness and sustainability, and apply this approach to the assessment of Vietnam's 2005 anticorruption law.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the game-theoretic stability of three strategies, Tit-For-Tat (TFT), all-Defect (all-D), and all-Cooperate (allC), that actors might use for repeated plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Abstract: This article analyzes the game-theoretic stability of three strategies, Tit-For-Tat (TFT), all-Defect (all-D), and all-Cooperate (all-C), that actors might use for repeated plays of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD). The probability that there will be a next play is assumed to depend on the current behavior of one of the actors—it is w after cooperation and u after a defection—and two cases are examined. The first case is where an actor assumes that the continuation probability depends on its own behavior, and the second is where the continuation probability is assumed to depend on the other actor's behavior. It is shown that the potential for mutual cooperation is higher in the first case than in the second. A detailed examination of the first case reveals that when the ratio (1 - w)/(1 - u) is sufficiently extreme for certain classes of PD, the “cooperative” strategy TFT is stable and the “noncooperative” strategy all-D is unstable. For these classes of PD, it is thus possible both for cooperation to be maint...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare Greek myths and Chinese legends, setting the stage for a metarelational analysis of authority relations between teacher and students and between scholar-teachers and political rulers in Confucian-heritage cultures.
Abstract: Throughout history, the generation, exercise, and dissemination of knowledge are fraught with dangers, the root causes of which are traceable to the definition of authority relations. The authors compare Greek myths and Chinese legends, setting the stage for a metarelational analysis of authority relations between teacher and students and between scholar-teachers and political rulers in Confucian-heritage cultures. These two relations are rooted in ideological conservatism. They are related in a higher-order relation or metarelation: Political control and the definition of the teacher-student relationship reinforce each other in consolidating authoritarian values. Thus, ideological conservatism shapes educational philosophy and socialization. It conflicts with present demands for creativity in the service of knowledge-based economies. Hence, a major issue in cultural change to be addressed concerns the dilemma between maintaining authoritarian control and enhancing creativity.
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