Understanding emotionally relevant situations in primary dental practice. 3. Emerging narratives

Rapid Facial Reactions to Emotionally Relevant Stimuli

ISSUES AND INNOVATIONS IN NURSING PRACTICE Understanding personal narratives: an approach to practice

Correspondence: H. Lea Gaydos, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150, USA. E-mail: [email protected] GAYDOS H.L. (2005) Journal of Advanced Nursing 49(3), 254–259 Understanding personal narratives: an approach to practice Aim. This paper explores the need for and nature of personal narratives and their relevanc...

Understanding Robocup-Soccer Narratives

We present an approach to map Robocup-soccer narratives (in natural language) to a sequence of meaningful events. Our approach takes advantage of an action-centered framework, an inference subroutine, and an iterative learning algorithm. Our framework represents the narrative as a sequence of sentences and each sentence as a probability distribution over deterministic events. Our learning algor...

Understanding narratives with argumentation

In this paper, we show two important connections between computational models of narrative and computational models of argumentation. First, we show how argumentation techniques can be applied to enrich story understanding, especially where an understanding the story requires understanding of the motives of its characters. This also helps to explain how stories can themselves be seen as as argu...

Emotionally challenging learning situations: medical students' experiences of autopsies

Objectives: To explore medical students’ experiences of an emotionally challenging learning situation: the autopsy. Methods: Qualitative data were collected by means of written accounts from seventeen students after their first and third autopsies and a group interview with seven students after their first autopsy. Data was interpreted using inductive thematic analysis. Results: Students experi...