Making Family Process Truly International

Making UIMA Truly Interoperable with SPARQL

Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) has been gaining popularity in annotating text corpora. The architecture defines common data structures and interfaces to support interoperability of individual processing components working together in a UIMA application. The components exchange data by sharing common type systems—schemata of data type structures—which extend a generic, t...

On Making Behavioral Genetics Truly Developmental

What will it take to make behavioral genetics truly developmental? In my opinion, the purely statistical population view will have to be abandoned in favor of the study of individuals: An analysis of the bi-directional relations from gene action to the external environment over the life course, including the prenatal period. I critically examine the somewhat vexed concept of ‘gene-environment i...

Information Polity - Developing a truly international journal

Do lectures truly kindle learning process?

In the last editorial, Omran Bakoush (1) has emphasized the value of bedside teaching in clinical settings. This raises a question whether lecturing is synonymous with teaching? When one of the senior professors was asked about lectures he said, ‘I would rather teach on ward rounds or in a small conference than lecture if that can be arranged.’ This brings out a reflective thought that whether ...

International Patients' Travel Decision Making Process- A Conceptual Framework.

BACKGROUND Role of information source, perceived benefits and risks, and destination image has significantly been examined in travel and tourism literature; however, in medical tourism it is yet to be examined thoroughly. The concept discussed in this article is drawn form well established models in tourism literature. METHODS The purpose of this research was to identify the source of informa...