Export Barriers: What are They and Who Do They Matter To?

Energy healers: who they are and what they do.

This paper surveys the landscape of energy healing, offering a taxonomy and conceptual overview of the work of practitioners. First, systems of energy healing are classified under four categories: an East Asian tradition, a Western professional tradition, a bioenergy tradition, and a contemporary metaphysical tradition. Examples of each are provided. Second, the possibility of core concepts in ...

Who do they think they are?

Predoctoral directors: who are they and what do they do in these trying times?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine faces declining student interest and funding. Predoctoral directors will help lead efforts to overcome these challenges. Academic success will be important for predoctoral directors to be effective leaders in academic health centers. We therefore sought to describe predoctoral directors and factors associated with their academic success. METHODS We ca...

Home birth attendants in low income countries: who are they and what do they do?

BACKGROUND Nearly half the world's babies are born at home. We sought to evaluate the training, knowledge, skills, and access to medical equipment and testing for home birth attendants across 7 international sites. METHODS Face-to-face interviews were done by trained interviewers to assess level of training, knowledge and practices regarding care during the antenatal, intrapartum and postpart...

Enterprise Knowledge Portals: What They Are and What They Do

The Enterprise is a continuous, dynamic “swirl” of problem-solving knowledgerelated Interactions from which knowledge is produced and integrated with the business processes of the enterprise. For a given problem generated by a business process, it is useful to abstract from the swirl and to conceptualize an iteration of a knowledge life cycle encompassing knowledge processes targeted on solving...