A Look Back

A look back and a look ahead.

The author reviews a series of predictions made more than two decades ago regarding nursing and nursing administration. These concerned the work of nursing, the workers involved in nursing, the environment surrounding practice, and the nurse's role. While many of the forecasts were right on target, others fell short of the mark; both are discussed in light of the challenges facing nurse adminis...

A look back, a look ahead.

Oral Films: A Look Back

Oral films, a promising novel drug delivery system, are a strip of single or multilayered, mucoadhesive or non-mucoadhesive, thin polymeric films that are intended to deliver active therapeutic moieties either locally or systemically in oral cavity through sublingual, buccal, palatal, or gastrointestinal absorption [1-3]. In general, films are known by several names including but not limited to...

GIS Education: A Look Back

This paper presents an overview of GIS certificate programs available through colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. It is argued that by presenting a structured sequence of coursework, GIS certificate programs have begun to address the varied educational goals of both traditional students and non-degree professionals. A survey of certificate programs listed on the World Wid...

ILP: A Short Look Back and a Longer Look Forward

Inductive logic programming (ILP) is built on a foundation laid by research in machine learning and computational logic. Armed with this strong foundation, ILP has been applied to important and interesting problems in the life sciences, engineering and the arts. This paper begins by briefly reviewing some example applications, in order to illustrate the benefits of ILP. In turn, the application...