Bought by Chance? Understand Why!

Why Personal Ties Cannot Be Bought

Personal connections can function as privileged channels of information and trust. When the reliability of information is particularly important applying for a job, needing capital for a new enterprise, moving to a new country their role often becomes crucial. Hence the ethnic enclaves, both residential and professional, in New York City; the economic weight of the Overseas Chinese in their cou...

Why They Don’t Understand?

Why is it Hard to Understand

The AURA system is currently unable to reliably understand original English AP questions, and instead the user has to reformulate them into the controlled language CPL. The purpose of this report is to characterize why the original English is so difficult to process. Clearly, the need for world knowledge is part of the challenge. However, another significant challenge is crossing the language-k...

Why nurses need to understand nursing informatics.

N ursing informatics is an exciting nursing specialtydit affects learning environments, meaningful use, interprofessional collaboration, patient care settings, strategic planning, patient satisfaction, and, ultimately, patient outcomes. Simply put, nursing informatics is the practice of using nursing science and technology to enhance the pathway that data take to become knowledge to improve pat...

Why we need to read and understand literature: literariness and Hans Rosling’s Factfulness (2018)

My article addresses the qualities of “good” literature and how an understanding of the nature of literary devices, so-called “literariness”, can enhance the reading experience. Focusing on Hans Rosling’s Factfulness (2018), I discuss some of the most important features of good writing. Six literary devices have been selected for special attention: point of view, tone, amplification, anecdotes,...