Münster (Westfalen), Universität, Thesis (doctoral), 2000.

Integrative behaviours in professional medical practice are those actions taken by a physician to better coordinate practice with other physicians to ensure that the most appropriate care is offered to patients. It has long been argued that the nature of differentiation measured between collaborating physicians affects such integrative activities and integrative success. This research employs professional identity as a basis for describing the nature of differentiation between members of two medical specialists – general surgeons and anesthesiologists – and then examines the impact of such differentiation on integrative behaviours in medical practice. A qualitative approach, employing an embedded case design, was used to observe the practice of anesthesiologists, general surgeons, and their respective residents over a period of eight months. A model of identity-in-use comprising three co-mingled and overlapping identities (professional, role, personal) is developed, and then used to describe the implications for Integrative practice. The demands of medical practice experienced by the general surgeons and anesthesiologists are powerful, almost factory-like in the value placed on speed of action and efficiency of patient throughput. These demands shaped and increased the strength of the contribution role identity made to each participants’ identity-in-use. Personal identity appears to play an important role in blunting the harshness of role demands in at least some of the participants. Personal identity also appears to draw out elements of the professional identity in some individuals, fed by curiousity, empathy, and the ability to be self-reflective. Despite observing little successful integrative behaviour, there are indications that differences in identity are associated with participants’ willingness to collaborate and possession of the skills necessary to collaborate. Potential implications for both the training and development of medical practitioners and the design of hospital work are outlined. / Thesis (Ph.D, Management) -- Queen's University, 2007-09-30 22:47:33.394

Zugl.: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 2002

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2010. / "Graduate Program in Integrative Neuroscience." Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-132).

Bachelor-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2005.

Bachelor-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2006.

Bachelor-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2006.

Master-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2008.

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Living organisms exhibit daily rhythms as a way to anticipate predictable fluctuations in their environment. Such daily rhythmicity is the phenotypic outcome of oscillating genes and proteins, driven by an endogenous biological clock. Clock-controlled behavioral rhythms are inherently "flexible" since their phase, amplitude, and period can change throughout an animal's life hallmarked by changes in so-called chronotype. How this inherent plasticity of clock-controlled rhythms is linked to plasticity of behavior is still an open question in biology. Characterizing the various mechanistic links between plasticity of the animal clock and behavioral state will not only shed light on the molecular underpinnings of animal behavior, but also lead to novel chronotherapeutic interventions to treat human disorders that affect the behavioral state such as bipolar disorder and Alzheimer's. While clock-controlled behavioral plasticity is crucial to a species' survival and fitness, it has also been hypothesized to be a target for manipulative parasites that need to induce timely changes in host behavior to facilitate growth and transmission. Using the Florida carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus as a model, this dissertation attempts to bridge some of the existing knowledge gaps in sociobiology, chronobiology, and parasitology. In the first chapter, we have identified a mechanistic link between plasticity of the C. floridanus clock and its behavioral state. Subsequently, in chapter two, we have provided evidence showing that Ophiocordyceps camponoti-floridani, a fungal parasite that induces timely changes in C. floridanus behavior targets the pre-existing links between host behavior and chronobiological plasticity we have found in chapter one. In the final chapter, we characterize how the clock of O. camponoti-floridani functionally differs from the clock of a non-manipulating fungal parasite, Beauveria bassiana, and put forward a regulatory mechanism via which the manipulating parasite's clock might be inducing timely changes in host behavior.