What is Apophaticism? Ways of Talking About an Ineffable God

"Sudden death"--what are we talking about?

Content analysis: What are they talking about?

Quantitative content analysis is increasingly used to surpass surface level analyses in computer-supported collaborative learning (e.g., counting messages), but critical reXection on accepted practice has generally not been reported. A review of CSCL conference proceedings revealed a general vagueness in deWnitions of units of analysis. In general, arguments for choosing a unit were lacking and...

Sentiment Analysis - What are we talking about?

Automatic affect detection and classification from text is a complex task in Natural Language Processing , whose tackling requires not only the use of established methods in the field, but also the use of knowledge extracted from theories in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology or Neuropsy-chology. For the past decade, there has been a large amount of research done in the field. Nev...

Health System Resilience: What Are We Talking About? A Scoping Review Mapping Characteristics and Keywords

Background Health systems are based on 6 functions that need to work together at all times to effectively deliver safe and quality health services. These functions are vulnerable to shocks and changes; if a health system is unable to withstand the pressure from a shock, it may cease to function or collapse. The concept of resilience has been introduced with the goal of strengthening healt...

What we're talking about when we talk about race.

It has been pointed out repeatedly (1,2) that reported associations between race and illness should be subject to careful scrutiny. Establishing race as an independent risk factor for a disease is even more complicated than the usually difficult task of establishing epidemiologic association. Among the usual difficulties are selection of a representative sample, collection of accurate data, ide...