...Prosthodontist is the dentist who is committed to the restoration and replacement of teeth by focusing on fixed or removable prosthodontist. When your tooth is too bad to just get a regular fill-in by a general dentist, you will have to visit a prosthodontist. Then they will make you an inlay, onlay, crown, bridges, or you might just have to get dentures. Throughout this paper I will be providing the history on prosthodontist, what do a prosthodontist do, and what is the difference between prosthodontist and a general dentist? According to Academy of Prosthodontics, "In Chicago, Illinois of 1918 the National Dental Association meeting was held to discuss the prosthodontist status." It wasn’t until 1922 were it was completed and presented to the membership. In 1923 the members decided to add removable partial dentures to the program. Also, the organization changes its name two times before they decided to stay with "Academy of Prosthodontics" in the late 1980's. The Educational and Research Foundation of Prosthodontic was founded in 1960. By 1991 it superseded to providing grants for education and outreach projects. As of today, the organization continues to grow and expend with new ideas from the younger members that are coming in. "The specialty of prosthodontist is earned with...
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...American Marketing Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Marketing. http://www.jstor.org Hedonic Consumption: Emerging Concepts, Methods and Propositions Author(s): Elizabeth C. Hirschman and Morris B. Holbrook Source: Journal of Marketing, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Summer, 1982), pp. 92-101 Published by: American Marketing Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1251707 Accessed: 07-09-2015 14:31 UTC REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1251707?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents You may need to log in to JSTOR to access the linked references. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 195.176.55.48 on Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:31:12 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Elizabeth C. Hirschman & Morris B. Holbrook Hedonic Consumption: Emerging Concepts, Methods and Propositions Introduction URING the 1950s there was substantial discussion...
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...User Experience ©Jeff Patton Five topics today: User Experience explained simply and then: Users and modeling what you know about them Usability evaluating & testing it Visual Design guidelines to help visual design to communicate what you intend Emotional Design how do users feel about your software? 2 3 4 User Experience is Built From Dependent Layers Jesse James Garrett’s Elements of User Experience: http://www.jjg.net/elements/ 5 The Surface Layer Describes Finished Visual Design Aspects Surface Skeleton Structure Scope Strategy 6 The Skeleton Describes Screen Layout and Functional Compartments in the Screen Surface Skeleton Structure Scope Strategy 7 Structure Defines Navigation from Place to Place in the User Interface Surface Skeleton Structure Scope modal wizards task panes modal dialogs Strategy 8 The Places in the User Interface are Built to Support User Task-Centric Scope Surface Skeleton Structure Scope Strategy user tasks: • enter numbers • enter text • enter formulas • format cells • sort information • filter information • aggregate information • graph data • save data • import data • export data • print • ….. 9 Business Goals Drive User Constituencies and Contexts Supported To Form Strategy Surface Skeleton Structure Scope Strategy business goals: • displace competitive products • motivate sale of other integrated products • establish file format as default information sharing format...
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...Running head: ONLINE CONSUMER BEHAVIORS Exploring online consumer Behaviors Liberty University Abstract Internet usage has skyrocketed in the past few decades, along with this increase comes the increase in internet shopping by consumers. This research examines the behaviors, motivations, and attitudes of this new form of consumer entity. Online consumer behavior has been studied for over 20 years and will undoubtedly be the source of many future researches as internet consumerism expands. This paper will examine the following research questions: (1) How do factors previously researched affect the online purchasing behavior of consumers and (2) what are the significant consumer behaviors both positive and negative that affect internet consumerism? By identifying these factors and variables, new strategies can be formulated and both consumer and supplier can gain knowledge and understanding of behaviors which exist. The purpose of this research paper is to integrate the varied research information together and draw coherent linkages to how consumer thoughts, attitudes and motivational behavior affect online buying, thus building a broader framework of analysis in which to build upon. Introduction The Internet has been accessible to the public for...
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........................................................................... p. 15 2 INTRODUCTION The last global revolutionary change of books dates back to 1456 when the printing machine was invented by Gutenberg. Before the coming of the printing, books were not products at everybody's disposal but they began to spread all over Europe setting the bases for the creation of a new type of market: the market of publishing. During the following centuries this market favoured the born of different applications of the printing, for example giving birth to the newspapers. But until the XX century nothing has changed in the approach to reading. In the early 80's, when computers and digital technology began to be really important tools for research of every kind, the idea that printed books could be converted in a virtual version started to be taken into consideration. It seems to be a not so relevant change from the point of view of reading itself because the method is still the same; but in terms of tools, the approach to reading evolved. The books are available in a digital format and an eReader is needed to read these files. We can consider the eReader like the cover of a book, and the eBooks files like the pages of the...
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...eThe Life of Michelangelo Art Appreciation Instructor: Jennifer Phelps June 30, 2013 Outline I. Introduction A. Michelangelo’s the interesting things about his life. 1. At the age of thirteen he went to a Florentine painter’s workshop that exposed him to the technique of fresco. 2. After being recommended by his instructor Ghirlandaio he moved into the Palace of Florentine ruler Lorenzo the magnificent. 3. Michelangelo study classical sculpture in the Medic gardens II. Michelangelo first painting was the “Torment of Saint Anthony. 1. Michelangelo moved from the workshop and moved to the school for sculptures which was setup by Lorenzo. 2. His first work in stone was the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the Centaurs. 3. The Madonna of the Stairs shows and astonishing mastery of marble techniques for a boy not even seventeen at the time. 4. The Battle of the Centaurs was done a year later and demonstrated a great amount of growth. 5. This was the first time that Michelangelo used the plasticity of the human body to express conflict in a dramatic compelling term. In its pulse and thrust in the way that he attached the marble this was a preview of his great works to come. III. The masterpiece of Michelangelo’s youth is the Pieta. 1. The piece is located in St. Peters in Rome. 2. The sculpture is of the Virgin Mary and Christ. 3. Until the 15th century the theme of the pietra belonged almost exclusively to the artists of northern...
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...believes caring about oneself is important and integral in a transpersonal relationship. The theory introduces clinical caritas process which help guide the nurse toward developing caring behaviors. They include general concepts of faith, trust, love, hope, caring, selflessness, spirituality, energy, and understanding. This theory is very significant to nursing practice and can be applicable to all fields of nursing. This paper will briefly elaborate Watson’s Theory of Human Caring and elucidate its strengths and weakness in the acute care setting. Introduction Biography Jean Watson was born on June 10, 1940 in Williamson, West Virginia, USA. During her education years, she graduated high school in West Virginia, graduated the Lewis Gale School of Nursing in 1961, baccalaureate degree in Nursing from University of Colorado, Boulder Campus in 1964, Master’s Degree in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing from University of Colorado, Health Sciences Campus in 1966, and Doctorate in Educational Psychology and Counseling from the University of Colorado, Graduate School in 1973. Works and Contribution Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor of...
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...Theories of Personality July 29, 2013 Les Binnix Theoretical Approaches In the world of psychology there are numerous personality theories. Many people have heard of Maslow with the hierarchy of needs or the dispositional theories with types and traits. Both of these theories attempts to understand and explain human thoughts and behaviors through different perspectives. The focus of this paper is to compare and contrast these two different theories. Humanistic and existential theory of personality looks at the individual in a holistic and optimistic manner; this includes Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Carl Rodger's theory of self. The dispositional theories started with a comprehensive definition of personality by Gordon Allport and went on to the investigations of thousands of descriptive words dealing with personality characteristics. Measurements of these characteristics led to the big five or the five factor theory. Both of these major theories are complex, optimistic, and help increase understanding of personalities through different lenses. The purpose of this paper is to examine the personality characteristics attributed to these theories, explain the interpersonal relational aspect associated, and describe the role of personality in affecting situational behavior. Humanistic and existential theory of personality. The humanistic and existential theory of personality is also known as the "Third Force" within psychology, as a result of resisting against...
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...that nurses believe they are here just to perform a job. By applying the Watson caring theory in caring for patients, “it allows nurses to practice the art of caring, to provide compassion to ease patients’ and families’ suffering, and to promote their healing and dignity but it can also contribute to expand the nurse’s own actualization” (Cara, 2003, p 2). Watson believes it is crucial that nurses apply caring values to their practice because it is essentially a byproduct in discovering the meaning of the nursing profession (Theory of Human Caring, n.d.). The foundation of this paper is to expound on the caring theory Jean Watson designed “to bring meaning and focus to nursing as a distinct health profession” (Cara, 2003, p 2). Description of the Theorist In the 1940’s, Jean Watson was born in West Virginia in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains. In 1961, graduated from the Lewis Gale School of Nursing, furthering her career at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1964, received a bachelor’s degree, in 1966 a Master’s degree in psychiatric and mental health nursing and in 1973, a Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling. Throughout her professional career Watson has been the recipient of several awards and honors which include an International Kellogg Fellowship in...
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...Sustainability 2010, 2, 3436-3448; doi:10.3390/su2113436 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Review What is Sustainability? Tom Kuhlman 1,* and John Farrington 2 1 2 Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 29703, 2502LS The Hague, The Netherlands Institute for Rural Research, Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, Scotland, UK; E-Mail: j.farrington@abdn.ac.uk * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: tom.kuhlman@wur.nl; Tel.: +31-70-3358-232; Fax: +31-70-3615-624. Received: 17 September 2010; in revised form: 15 October 2010 / Accepted: 19 October 2010 / Published: 1 November 2010 Abstract: Sustainability as a policy concept has its origin in the Brundtland Report of 1987. That document was concerned with the tension between the aspirations of mankind towards a better life on the one hand and the limitations imposed by nature on the other hand. In the course of time, the concept has been re-interpreted as encompassing three dimensions, namely social, economic and environmental. The paper argues that this change in meaning (a) obscures the real contradiction between the aims of welfare for all and environmental conservation; (b) risks diminishing the importance of the environmental dimension; and (c) separates social from economic aspects, which in reality are one and the same. It is proposed instead...
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...Abstract Jean Watson is a nurse theorist who has impacted the modern nursing in a great way. Her publication, research, and books have helped to bring the profession of nursing to the forefront. This paper is aimed at looking who Jean Watson is, her contribution to the nursing field and the impact of her work in the modern nursing. Introduction Dr. Jean Watson is known as a professor, nurse, theorist and a founder director of Watson Caring Science Institute, which is a non- profit organization. She was awarded the American Academy of Nursing award termed as a Living Legend in the year 2013 (Jug, D, 2015). Jean is known because of her Theory of Human Caring and ten Caritas processes which act as a blueprint for the nursing practice. She was born in West Virginia in the year 1940 (Alligood, 2013). She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the year 1964 from the University of Colorado. She continued with her Ph.D. in Education Psychology and Counseling in the same University. Since then, she has earned other ten honorary doctoral degrees and has a diverse experience working in the mental health nursing and caring science. She is doing more research in the area of human caring and loss. She came up with the Theory of Human Caring in the year 1975 (Wang, 2013). Her main aim at that time was to make people understand that nursing science is important and a different entity from medical science (Jug, D, 2015). Her teaching experience played a significant role in her work...
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...Evidence Based Management and Psychological Contracts: The Success of Apple. Aaron Wood Ottawa University * Introduction For decades, the application of organizational behavior theories to business management has been an ongoing process of discovery and innovative thinking. Concepts like evidence based management (McShane, 2013) and psychological contracts (Braekkan & Tunheim, 2013) are being employed in some of the world’s leading corporations. For the purpose of this paper, the synthesis of material into conceptual application will be applied to a single corporate entity. By choosing a company with global interests who continues to espouse very personal, individual based value perspectives, Apple is a good representational fit. This paper will highlight not only how Apple in some cases is using these concepts successfully in the market place, but also ways in which their former CEO failed miserably in utilization of these concepts while achieving enormous corporate success. This paper will also look to Apple’s future and how study of these theories along with others may be further developed. Multiple references from a wide array of media sources and fields of study have been researched to show the breadth of Apple’s stakeholder and business positioning strategies from the earliest days up to resources compiled as late as November 2013. As the development of information threads lead to fields like manufacturing, education, supply chains, demography, and even social-psychology;...
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...Paul C. Stern National Research Council Thomas Dietz George Mason University I. Stanley Black Illinois Environmental Protection Agency A theoretical model is presented that traces support for environmental protection to a social-psychological process involving the activation of moral norms against harming innocent people. In a preliminary test of the model's social-psychological hypotheses, judgments about the moral obligations of industry with respect to hazardous chemicals were found to depend both on awareness of harmful consequences to people and on ascription of responsibility for those consequences to industry; government, however, was held to be morally obligated to act even if it was not responsible for the harm. Suggestions are offered for using the model to study the determinants of changing public opinion on the environment, the tactics of advocacy groups in environmental policy conflicts, and the process that mobilizes pressure for political causes in the absence of tangible group interests. The last two decades have brought about substantial changes in the environmental policies of most Western industrial nations. These changes are due in large part to the effective mobilization of public support by the enviThe authors thank Jane Phillips for assistance with data analysis and the Academic Computing Service and Graduate School of George Mason University for research support. Requests for reprints should be sent to Paul C. Stern, National Research Council, 2101 Constitutional...
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...2009 Robert D. Lawsson 215 IDENTIFYING AND MANAGING DIVERSITY OF WORKFORCE Robert D. Lawsson (MSc) Abstract The objective of this work is to complete a research proposal on the comparison of work values for gaining of knowledge for management of the multi-generation workforce. The specific focus is upon Generation ‘X’ and the Millennium Generation which are the two primary groups comprising the new workforce. Lawsson R.D. - Identifying and Managing Diversity of Workforce 216 Business Intelligence Journal January OBJECTIVE The objective of this work is to complete a research proposal on the comparison of work values for gaining of knowledge for management of the multigeneration workforce. The specific focus is upon Generation ‘X’ and the Millennium Generation which are the two primary groups comprising the new workforce. INTRODUCTION The generation that a person is born within has some impact upon that individual in terms of work styles, work values and self-image. The demographic profile of the workforce is undergoing quite a change insofar as the representation of generations and the result is that organizations are experiencing a necessity to make changes as well. The workforce will become increasingly more diverse in the future and this greatly affects the organization in its capacity of hiring and retaining employees. The literature reviewed within this study illustrates the fact that the expectations of employees differ within the generations...
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...The Journal of Applied Business Research – May/June 2015 Volume 31, Number 3 Collaborative Consumption And Sustainability: A Discursive Analysis Of Consumer Representations And Collaborative Website Narratives Anne-Sophie Binninger, NEOMA Business School, France Nacima Ourahmoune, NEOMA Business School, France Isabelle Robert, University Lille Nord de France-SKEMA Business School, France ABSTRACT In this article, the authors analyze the collaborative consumption model and its contribution to sustainable consumption. Indeed, collaborative consumption is considered as an alternative, ecological consumption mode (Bostman & Rogers, 2011), but previous research has no yet deeply explored to what extent it contributes the sustainable scheme and values. The study therefore investigates both the producer side (collaborative websites) and consumer side (blog participants) to decipher how sustainable ideals are shaped in this context and how consumers attend to them. Six segments of consumers have been identified which can help marketing and sustainable levers better frame their offer. Keywords: Collaborative Consumption; Sustainable Consumption; Access-Based Consumption; Sharing INTRODUCTION O ver the last decade, markets have changed significantly in terms of our relationship to goods, leading to other forms of acquisition and consumption than via possession (Rifkin, 2000, Lovelock and Gummeson 2004, Mont, 2002, Giesler 2006, Chen, 2009, Belk, 2010, Gansky 2010; Bostman & Rogers...
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