Meaningful recognition

Strengthening the workforce through meaningful recognition.

Meaningfully recognizing the extraordinary contributions of nurses is a key element in creating and sustaining healthy work environments. Publically honoring the work of nursing reinforces those actions and behaviors that patients, families, and colleagues truly value. A multi-site research study provided a 360-degree perspective of the impact this type of acknowledgment had on strengthening th...

Meaningful And More Meaningful: A Modest Measure

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...

Meaningful tips for achieving meaningful use.

Meaningful Play

Heeter and Winn explore the concept of meaningful play, describe highlights of the Meaningful Play: Designing and studying games that matter conference, and introduce the articles in this issue.

Meaningful Clusters

We present an approach to the disambiguation of cluster labels that capitalizes on the notion of semantic similarity to assign WordNet senses to cluster labels. The approach provides interesting insights on how document clustering can provide the basis for developing a novel approach to word sense disambiguation.