321 research outputs found
Factor Structure of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents
No full textThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the factor structure of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (LSAS-CA). The LSAS-CA was administered to 225 children and adolescents as a component of various clinical studies. In addition, other measures of psychopathology and impairment were administered to a subgroup of the sample. Confirmatory factor analyses of the social interaction and performance subscales for the anxiety and avoidance ratings yielded poor fit indices. Exploratory factor analysis supported a two-factor solution with a higher order factor for the LSAS-CA anxiety and avoidance ratings. Based on item content, factors were named Social and School Performance. The internal consistency of the factors was high and the convergent and divergent validity was supported vis-à-vis correlations with measures of depression and social anxiety, and clinician ratings of impairment and functioning. Findings suggest that the anxiety and avoidance ratings are best explained by a two-factor solution that measures social anxiety and avoidance in social and school performance interactions. This factor structure appears to be a reliable and valid framework for assessing childhood social phobia
The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents: An Initial Psychometric Investigation
No full textObjective: To examine the psychometric properties of a newly developed clinician rating scale, the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (LSAS-CA), Method: A total of 154 children and adolescents participated in an assessment consisting of a diagnostic interview, the LSAS-CA, and other measures of psychopathology and impairment. Sixty-one of these children also participated in a second LSAS-CA administration, by a different rater blind to diagnosis, within 7 days of the initial assessment. Results: High internal consistency (α = .90-.97 for full sample and .S3-.95 for social phobia group) and test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.89-0.94) were obtained for LSAS-CA total and subscale scores. LSAS-CA scores had stronger associations with measures of social anxiety and general impairment than with a measure of depression. Subjects with social anxiety disorder had significantly higher LSAS-CA scores than subjects with other anxiety disorders and healthy controls. A LSAS-CA cutoff score of 22.5 represented the best balance of sensitivity and specificity when distinguishing between individuals with social phobia and normal controls, whereas a cutoff of 29.5 was optimal for distinguishing social phobia from other anxiety disorders. Conclusion: Initial findings suggest that the LSAS-CA is a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of social anxiety disorder
Knowledge and Collaboration in Multihub Networks: Orchestration Processes among Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in the United Kingdom
No full textMiani C, Zachariadis M, Oborn E, Barrett M. Knowledge and Collaboration in Multihub Networks: Orchestration Processes among Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in the United Kingdom. In: Liebowitz J, ed. Knowledge management handbook : collaboration and social networking. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press; 2012: 11-28
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Piracy on the High C's: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students
No full textRecording industry revenue has fallen sharply in the last three years, and some -- but not all -- observers attribute this to file sharing. We collect new data on albums obtained via purchase and downloading, as well as the consumers' valuations of these albums, among a sample of US college students in 2003. We provide new estimates of sales displacement induced by downloading using both OLS and an instrumental variables approach using access to broadband as a source of exogenous variation in downloading. Each album download reduces purchases by about 0.2 in our sample, although possibly much more. Our valuation data allow us to measure the effects of downloading on welfare as well as expenditure in a subsample of Penn undergraduates, and we find that downloading reduces their per capita expenditure (on hit albums released 1999-2003) from 100 but raises per capita consumer welfare by $70.
How to get published: An editor’s perspective
No full textUMUC Orkand Chair of Management and Technology, Jay Liebowitz, provided his perspective as an editor of an academic journal on the best ways to effectively work with editors and get published. He covered topics including: o Publish or perish o Why publish? o From the editor's experience o Questions you should ask o Games people play o Perseverance pays off1
How to Get Published: An Editor’s Perspective
Jay Liebowitz, D.Sc.
Orkand Chair of Management and Technology
UMUC
September 20092Publish or Perish?[Robert Day, How to Write & Publish a Scientific Paper, 5thed., 1998]
•A scientific experiment is not complete until the results have been published
•Publication in scientific literature serves as a means to secure knowledge ownership claims and is an efficient vehicle for communicating this knowledge
•“No publications, no funds; no funds, no job”3Why Publish?
•Gain recognition
•Improve society
•Increase the state-of-the-art
•Make evolutionary or even revolutionary changes
•Instill creativity (Labor of Love)
•Get tenure (publish or perish?)4Thomson ISI Master Journal List
•About 9,000 journals
•Top 2 reasons for manuscript rejection:
–Flawed or poorly planned study design
–Lack of detail in methods
[D. Byrne, “Common reasons for rejecting manuscripts for medical journals: a survey of editors and peer reviewers,” Science Editor, 2000]5
ISI Essential Science Indicators Tutorial (http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/tutorials/esi/index.html)6My Editor’s Experience
•Founding and Current Editor-in-Chief, Expert Systems With Applications: An Int. Journal (Elsevier); entering Vol. 37; 1,600 paper downloads per day worldwide last year; 2008 Impact Factor: 2.596
•Associate Editor, Int. Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (Inderscience)
•Former Series Editor, Pergamon Press/Elsevier CS-related journals
•Former Associate Editor, Telematics and Informatics: An Int. Journal (Elsevier)
•Former Founding Editor-in-Chief, Failure & Lessons Learned in IT Management: An Int. Journal (Cognizant Communication Corp.)7
Questions You Should Ask
•Is this journal peer-reviewed?
•Is this a prestigious journal?
•Who is this journal’s audience?
•What is the acceptance rate of the journal?
•What type of papers and research methods are most applicable for this journal?
•How long does it take to get through the review process?8What Do I Look for as a Journal Editor?
•Fits within the aims and scope of the journal
•Follows manuscript guidelines
•Well-written
•The research provides a significant contribution to the existing literature
•Thorough literature review (with most recent references in the field) and appropriate research methods employed
•Detailed analysis, discussions, and conclusions
•Lessons learned, limitations, and future work9The Games People Play
•Sometimes the same manuscripts are submitted to more than one journal at the same time (A BIG “NO-NO”)
•Citation analysis, impact factors, abstract/indexing services are all important, BUT many journals play the game that to be published, you must also cite published papers from that journal (i.e., increases the impact factors/citations cited)10
Journal Article Rejection(Chronicle of Higher Education)
•“I am a full professor at Mediocre Big U. and I have had lots of articles published and lots rejected. I share your pain at the rejection of your article. Recently, I had to have a good cry when an article I sent to Leading Journal in the Fieldwas rejected without review. I mean, you think you’ve got it bad. Think how I feel! My article was not even sent out for review…The solution? After a good cry, I sent the piece out to Leading Journal in Another Subfield, and they have sent it out for review. The moral is to never trust one journal’s opinion.”11Failure Breeds Success(Sir Winston Churchill)
•A pessimist finds the difficulty in opportunities, and the optimist finds the opportunity in difficulties
•The optimist finds the success between the failures12Books
•Labor of love: “Only about 1 in 20 books ever makes a profit, and the shelf life of the average trade book is less than 6 months” (Sean Groom, “How to Get Published,” Washington Lawyer, Dec. 2003)
•IT books also have a limited shelf life (usually 3 years)
•It appears the more technical the book, the more limited the market13
My Heuristics for Books
•Write a detailed book proposal
•Get the book signed off first with a publisher
•Takes me 2 years to single-author a book; 1 year to edit a book
•Refereed journal articles usually take precedence over books
•Have a set day (full day, morning, or afternoon) each week for writing and research (no scheduled meetings or interruptions) 14Possible Journals
•The American Journal of Distance Education (Taylor & Francis)
•Educational Technology & Society (IEEE/et al.)
•Educational Technology Review (AACE)
•International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (Athabasca U.)
•Journal of Distance Education (Canadian Association for Distance Education)
•Myriad of discipline-related journals15Summary
•Sign onto an EBSCO Alert through the Library to get latest articles in your research area sent to you each week
•Do your homework!
•Perseverance will get you far
•Set goals and objectives
•Expand your network
•Think “continuous improvement” (Working paper, conference paper, journal article)
•Don’t be discouraged (think positive
Moral erosion: how can medical professionals safeguard against the slippery slope?
No full textThe extensive participation of German physicians in the atrocities of the Holocaust raises many questions concerning the potential for moral erosion in medicine. What circumstances and methods of rationalisation allowed doctors to turn from healers into accomplices of genocide? Are physicians still vulnerable to corruption of their guiding principles and, if so, what can be done to prevent this process from occurring? With these thoughts in mind, the author reflects on his experiences participating in the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics program and offers a medical student's perspective on the ethical issues encountered in clinical training and the practice of medicine
The spotlight effect and the illusion of transparency in social anxiety
No full text[Clark, D. M., & Wells, A. (1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. In: R. G. Heimberg, M. R.
Liebowitz, D. A. Hope, & F. R. Schneier (Eds.), Social phobia: diagnosis, assessment, and treatment (pp.
69–93). New York: Guildford Press] cognitive model of social phobia suggests that both public and private
sources of information contribute to the construction of the self as a social object, which is thought to
maintain the disorder. This study used two concepts developed in social psychology that might help to
explain the processes that contribute to the development of this constructed self. These two concepts are the
spotlight effect [Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., & Savitsky, K. (2000). The spotlight effect in social judgment:
an egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one’s own actions and appearance. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 78(2), 211–222] and the illusion of transparency [Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., &
Savitsky, K. (1998). The Illusion of transparency: biased assessments of others’ ability to read one’s own
emotional states. Journal of personality and social psychology, 75(2), 332–346]. Participants performed a
memory task under either a low or a high social-evaluative condition. In the high social-evaluative
condition, participants reported higher levels of the spotlight effect and more negative evaluation of task
performance, compared to participants in the low social-evaluative condition. There were no differences
between the two conditions in levels of the illusion of transparency. Surprisingly, however, in the low socialevaluative
condition, participants reported higher levels of the illusion of transparency than the spotlight
effect, whereas, in the high social-evaluative condition, they reported the opposite. Results suggest that the
spotlight effect may be specific to social-evaluative concerns, whereas, the illusion of transparency may
represent more general features of social anxiety concerns. Implications of the results for Clark and Wells’
cognitive model of social phobia model are discussed
Co-Designing the Driver's Seat: A call for an "Open" Approach to Drawing Production in Spatial Design Practice
No full textThe question of what the architect is actually doing … raises questions about authorship. Is the architect
a creative author with the will to produce a specific work, or do the conditions imposed on him inevitably
result in something interchangeable, something that could as easily have been produced by someone one
else? (Reidijk, 2010, p20)
This inherent contravention of authorship, summarised in the prologue of Reidijk’s collection
of writings in Architecture as Craft, brings to light a crucial aspect of the built environment’s
process of production; rarely is a building or a space solely brought together through an
individual’s vision and efforts. As a rule, the built spaces occupied by society are the result of
multiple forms of agency and ownership working together at different levels.
While this co-productive nature of built space is well established through Open Building
discourse, the nature of the design communication artefacts to which are trusted to carry the
idea to be understood through remain largely ‘closed’ within the disciplinary boundaries of the
designer and select group of building professionals. Nowhere is this closure more evidently
seen than in technical output produced and commoditised by large scale design practices, such
as urban and city design in South Africa.
The author firmly stands by the belief that in order to allow for the true co-production of the
South Africa built environment to take place equitably and efficiently, spatial design
practitioners need to develop more ‘open’ approaches to the practice in the built environment
– in particular to allow the design communication artefacts of their discipline to be co-owned
and co-produced in the face of a rapidly urbanising world.
In 2015 the author of this paper assisted in the running of UJ_UNIT2; a design-led architectural
research unit housed in the master’s programme at the University Of Johannesburg (UJ). The
research unit embarked on an exploration of new forms of design and building exposing the
nature of agency through the levels that make up the South African built environment. This
experience, combined with the author’s personal work in providing socio-technical support to
the grass-roots international organisation Slum/Shack Dwellers International, provide the
experiential reference to support the above stated belief.
This paper will examine two projects conducted through the author’s own teaching and design
practice that attempted to change the manner in which designer’s see and control design
communication artefacts. A summary of these experiences will then be outlined through a call
for design practitioners to develop their own means of sharing control not only in the spatial
drawing artefact, but in the design itself. This is done with the hope of supporting a growing
national movement that seeks to responsibly relinquish power through design in the aim of
achieving social and spatial justice in South Africa
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