In addition, the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) [ 28], developed as an explanatory framework for intentional behavioral change, is based on the observation that people tend to move through a series of stages (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance) in their attempt to change a certain behavior [ 29].
It drips with gaudy display from the very first sequence, a series of grim nocturnal contemplations of New York's hard-edged, sleek-surfaced, glass-and-steel stalagmites of capitalist striving.
In this model change is considered as a process directed towards progress through a series of stages (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance).
It explores how the train's structure and motion neutralised perceived and actual hazards of the Indian environment, while rendering the track-side surroundings a series of sights for aesthetic contemplation.
Documents others might have passed over as routine or dry-as-dust Brucker mined with an unerring eye for discovery and the utter concentration demanded by vast series of documents, the mere contemplation of which would have struck terror in other hearts.
Soon after, he began writing his memoirs (published in part as Souvenirs: Le Cubisme, 1908 14 in 1957) and working on an on-going series of paintings on meditation ("Supports de Contemplation") as well as the large triptych that included the paintings The Crucifixion, Christ in Glory, and The Transfiguration (all 1943).
Although much of the story of his rise is taken up by his contemplation of an endless series of job offers, he was not overtly ambitious.
For Ramanuja, release (moksha) is not a negative separation from transmigration, or a series of rebirths, but rather the joy of the contemplation of God.
His most recent show, at the Dacia Gallery last summer, presented a series of intimate portraits of creative New Yorkers caught in various moments of contemplation and brought a good amount of well deserved attention to his work.
The visible result of the hierarchs' contemplation of the angels is the series of rites belonging to the Christian church.
Core constructs of the model are the Stages of Change, a series of five categories falling along a continuum of readiness (Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action and Maintenance) to change a problem behavior.
