Showing papers on "Perspective (graphical) published in 1986"

Corporate Acquisitions: A Process Perspective

Abstract: Historically, acquisition scholars and practitioners have adopted a choice perspective which portrays the corporate executive analyzing acquisition opportunities as a rational decision maker. This paper suggests that the choice perspective be supplemented with a process perspective which recognizes the acquisition process itself as a potentially important determinant of activities and outcomes. A series of research propositions is offered suggesting how four impediments present in the process itself might affect acquisition outcomes.

Feedback-Seeking in Individual Adaptation: A Resource Perspective

Abstract: This research examines a theory of feedback-seeking in organizations. Individuals are hypothesized to seek feedback on important issues and in new and uncertain situations. Results support these hy...

A language/action perspective on the design of cooperative work

Abstract: In designing computer-based systems, we work within a perspective that shapes the design questions that will be asked and the kinds of solutions that are sought. This paper introduces a perspective based on language as action, and explores its consequences for practical system design. The language/action perspective is contrasted to a number of other currently prominent perspectives, and is illustrated with an extended example based on studies of nursing work in a hospital ward. We show how it leads to particular analyses of that work, which reveal potentials for creating new designs that can make the work (and the workers) more effective.

Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: Issues, Terms, and Contexts

Abstract: “It is by now clear that a feminist renaissance is under way … a shift in perspective far more extraordinary and influential than the shift from theology to humanism of the European Renaissance.”1 Like feminism itself, these words of Adrienne Rich, written in 1973, bear reevaluation; not so much, perhaps, to discuss the validity of their assessment or the extensiveness of its claim as to examine the manner of the shift, to analyze, articulate, address the terms of this other perspective.

The Feminization of Love

Abstract: A feminized and incomplete perspective on love predominates in the United States. We identify love with emotional expression and talking about feelings, aspects of love that women prefer and in which women tend to be more skilled than men. At the same time we often ignore the instrumental and physical aspects of love that men prefer, such as providing help, sharing activities, and sex. This feminized perspective leads us to believe that women are much more capable of love than men and that the way to make relationships more loving is for men to become more like women. This paper proposes an alternative, androgynous perspective on love, one based on the premise that love is both instrumental and expressive.2 From this perspective, the way to make relationships more

Effective Curriculum and Instructional Models for Talented Students

Abstract: This article presents an historical perspective on the evolution of three curiculum and instructionial models that have been shown to be effective with gifted learners in various contexts and at va...

Reading Disability Research: An Interactionist Perspective

Abstract: In this paper we examine reading (dis)ability from an interactionist perspective, and discuss the implications of this view for research on reading disability. The paper is divided into three sections as follows. The first section provides a brief historical perspective of the events leading to current views of reading disability and research practices in this area. The second section presents a review of selected literature that provides an interactionist perspective on reading (dis)ability. The final section provides a discussion of the implications of this perspective for future research on reading disability and presents examples of “interactive” research. Our general thesis in this paper is that research on reading disability must move away from the search for causative factors within the reader and toward the specification of the conditions under which different readers can and will learn.

Federal Regulation in Historical Perspective

Abstract: Copyright 1986 by Robert L. Rabin INTRODUCTION 1189 REGULATORY POLITICS IN THE POPULIST ERA 1197 II. THE COURT IN THE POPULIST ERA 1208 III. REGULATORY POLITICS IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1216 IV. THE COURT IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1229 V. WORLD WAR I AND THE 1920s: THE ASSOCIATIONAL IDEA 1236 VI. THE DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL 1243 VII. THE NEW DEAL AND THE COURT 1253 VIII. THE POST-NEW DEAL ERA 1262 IX. REGULATORY POLITICS AND THE GREAT SOCIETY 1272 X. THE PUBLIC INTEREST ERA 1278 XI. THE PUBLIC INTEREST ERA IN THE COURTS 1295 XII. A POSTSCRIPT ON DEREGULATION—UNRESOLVED TENSIONS IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE 1315

Varieties of Realism: Geometries of Representational Art

Abstract: Varieties of Realism argues that it is not possible to represent the layout of objects and surfaces in space outside the dictates of formal visual geometry, the geometry of natural perspective. The book examines most of the world's coherent representational art styles, both in terms of the geometry of their creation and in terms of their perceptual effects on the viewer. A lucid exposition of modern geometrical principles and relations, accessible to the nonmathematical reader, is followed by an analysis of all known styles as variants of natural perspective, as true varieties of realism. Delineating the physical and mechanical constraints that determine the act of visual representation in painting and drawing, the author traces the intimate relations among seemingly distant styles and considers the kind of perceptual information about the world each can carry. Margaret Hagen is a perceptual psychologist with an ecological point of view. Her rigorous but readable presentation of visual theory and research offers provocative new insights into the connections among vision, geometry, and art.

Obesity in perspective.

Abstract: CITATION: Macfarlane, C. M. 1986. Obesity in perspective. South African Medical Journal, 69:185-190.