CREATING A DIGITAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

Creating a Global Community of Practice for Oncofertility

Fertility preservation in the cancer setting, known as oncofertility, is a field that requires cross-disciplinary interaction between physicians, basic scientists, clinical researchers, ethicists, lawyers, educators, and religious leaders. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Oncofertility Consortium (OC) was formed to be a scientifically grounded, transparent, and altruistic resour...

Creating a Chimpanzee Community **

The following narrative by Robert M. Yerkes of his creation of the famous colony of chimpanzees at Orange Park, Florida, has been extracted by his daughter, Roberta W. Yerkes, from an extensive autobiographical manuscript. Readers of this selective account might think Professor Yerkes a man of one idea. So he was, for from 1916 to the end of his life, a period of 40 years, he thought, planned, ...

Creating a Virtual Journal Club: A Community of Practice Using Multiple Social Media Strategies.

Being Politically Impolite: A Community of Practice (CofP) Analysis of Invective Songs of Western Nigerian Politicians

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

feasibility of creating a digital library of public schools in mashhad (a case study)

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