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Conditions for the Explanatory Power of Life Styles

European Sociological Review, 2007
Life style research has become an independent branch of social structural analysis that systematically complements the role of classical research on social inequality in explaining social action. However, there are important gaps in life style research.
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Decorum, power, and the courtly style

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1992
If politics is an art, then matters of style must be crucial to its practice. This essay considers how political actions are shaped by rhetorical practices that depend upon aesthetic perceptions. Modern assumptions of artistic autonomy are replaced by the classical concept of decorum, which offers a model for understanding how political life is styled ...
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Power-Balancing Styles of Indian Managers

Human Relations, 1988
Emerson's (1962, 1972ab) power-dependence model has had a profound impact on the manner in which power can be viewed in relationships. However, there has been little empirical work examining Emerson's approach, and even less focused at the individual level.
G. S. Das, Chester C. Cotton
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Style and the Revelatory Power of Language

2015
De Quincey was positively obsessed with language and was a highly self-conscious writer. He not only minutely analysed the idiosyncrasies of language and other writers’ texts, but also his own writings. Many of his published articles deal explicitly with various aspects of oral or written language.
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Power orientations and communication style of managers and nonmanagers

Research in Nursing & Health, 1987
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to compare nurse managers and nonmanagers in their orientations to power and in their communication styles. A complementary purpose was to examine the relationship between six orientations to power and social style. Fortyseven hospitals were randomly selected with 43 used for analysis. The director of nursing and a
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On the computational power of Elman-style recurrent networks

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 1995
Recently, Elman (1991) has proposed a simple recurrent network which is able to identify and classify temporal patterns. Despite the fact that Elman networks have been used extensively in many different fields, their theoretical capabilities have not been completely defined. Research in the 1960's showed that for every finite state machine there exists
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Raymond Carver and the Power of Style

2011
Apart from its discussion in a specialised field of linguistics, ‘style’ does not often these days get singled out for literary critical attention. Of course teachers and critics acknowledge in a general way the importance of ‘form’, and in short story theory there is still a marked concern with generic definitions.
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Physician-nurse perceptions of styles of power usage∗

Social Science & Medicine. Part E: Medical Psychology, 1981
Abstract An attempt was made to see whether physician order-giving comprised a major area of conflict with nurses. A group of physicians and nurses at a metropolitan hospital in Los Angeles was asked to use the semantic differential to assign meanings to two hypothetical situations wherein a physician tried to influence a nurse and a patient ...
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Diplomatic Gastronomy: Style and Power at the Table

Food and Foodways, 2012
When world leaders sit together over a meal, much more can be communicated than their conversation. Typically, the event itself is more important than the food on their plates. A diplomatic meal can have the ceremonial splendor and protocol of a state dinner or the quiet power of a working lunch—but the symbolism embedded in both has potential to ...
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Living on PV power in comfort and style

Proceedings of 1994 IEEE 1st World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion - WCPEC (A Joint Conference of PVSC, PVSEC and PSEC), 2002
The Solectrogen House near San Francisco was conceived, designed and built by Solar Depot as an off-grid renewable energy house. It is powered by a Solectrogen hybrid power system consisting of a 3 kW PV array, two 1 kW wind powered generators, a 50 kWh storage battery bank and a 6.5 kW LP-fueled diesel engine generator for back-up.
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