OBJECTIVE Very little research has been conducted that examines men, sport, masculinities, and disability in the context of health. Readdressing this absence, this article examines the health narratives told by spinal injured men and the work narratives do on, in, and for them. METHODS In-depth life history interviews and fieldwork observations with men (n = 17) who sustained a spinal injury ...

Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) was held October 10–14, 2011, at Stanford University, ajacent to Palo Alto, California. AIIDE is a premier interaction forum for researchers in artificial intelligence and interactive entertainment. The conference, which includes a research and industry track as well as a demonstration program, aims at bringing together both academic and industrial comm...

the aim of this study is to investigate iranian tefl graduates’ conception of measurement error in research. adopting a sequential explanatory multi-method strategy (borg, 2009), the researchers analyzed causal and temporal relations in the research narratives elicited from 30 tefl graduates. gee’s (1986) framework for identifying narrative discourse units (lines, stanzas, and episodes) was ado...

Using the example of a failed software implementation, we discuss the role of artifacts in shaping organizational routines. We argue that artifact-centered assumptions about design are not well suited to designing organizational routines, which are generative systems that produce recognizable, repetitive patterns of interdependent actions, carried out by multiple actors. Artifact-centered assum...

BACKGROUND Sharing interim data, results or result extrapolations is an important issue that can affect trial integrity. The different ways in which Data Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) share interim results with non-DSMB members and the acceptability of such practices are poorly understood. Our objective was to undertake a narrative review specifically on what kind of interim results, if any,...