As William Zinsser once wrote in the classic On Writing Well, “If your job is to write every day, you learn do it like any other job”.1 Academic scholarship, including writing for publication, a fundamental expectation of nursing faculty, but not always easy make time writing. Scholarly time-consuming and often requires intense concentration focus amid complex faculty role that includes competi...

Musing on the rows of discarded crutches on display at Lourdes, the journalist H.L. Mencken observed that no wooden legs were in evidence. Why, one might ask, has this paradox not presented itself to the faithful? Mencken also remarked that faith could be defined as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. The efficacy of prayer is not, as it happens, one of the “weird beliefs” ...

There is no question that the world of children— and thus, that of Pediatrics—has changed in the 20 years since I graduated from medical school. Then, heading off to my internship and training in Pediatrics, medical (ie, scientific) issues still were paramount and costs were no object; we could admit a child for a fever of unknown origin and do a lengthy and thorough workup that provided an edu...

Nurses write to share their ideas, knowledge, research, and contribute the field of nursing science. Ultimately, nurses improve patient population health care outcomes. While writing can be enjoyable for some, others experience it as stressful or hard. Often becomes challenging because pressure felt publish in order achieve promotion, tenure, grant funding. Also, a major challenge academia is b...

This brief essay considers the three papers of the special issue of Interacting with Computers by Picard and colleagues, from several perspectives. First, I question two aspects of the work: the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) approach, and the use of psychophysiological measurements of emotion without a stated theory of emotion. Despite these criticisms, the contributions of Picard and coll...

s 49 Genetic variation in litter size and kit survival of mink (Neovison vison) B.K. Hansen, G. Su, P. Berg The aims of this study are to estimate variance components of litter size and kit survival rate and estimate genetic correlations of litter size and kit survival rate with dam's juvenile body weight and pregnancy length. Variance components for litter size and kit survival were analysed u...

In this paper, I describe the Bayesian Recognitional Decision Model (BRDM), a bayesian implementation of the recognition-primed decision model (Klein, 1993) based primarily on models of episodic recognition memory (Shiffrin & Steyvers, 1997; Mueller & Shiffrin, 2006). The proposed model accounts for three important factors used by experts to make decisions: the evidence about a current situatio...

It has been argued that God is omnipresent, that is, present in all places and in all times. Omnipresence is also implied by God's knowledge, power, and perfection. A Kantian argument shows that in order to be self-aware, apply concepts, and form judgments, in short, to have a mind, there must be objects that are external to a being that it can become aware of and grasp itself in relationship t...

The competitive nature of most algorithmic experimentation is a source of problems that are all too familiar to the research community It is hard to make fair comparisons between algorithms and to assemble realistic test problems Competitive testing tells us which algorithm is faster but not why Because it requires polished code it consumes time and energy that could be spent doing more experim...

The construct of motivational readiness is introduced and explored. Motivational readiness is the willingness or inclination, whether or not ultimately realized, to act in the service of a desire. Building on prior relevant conceptions which include, among others, animal learning models (Hull, 1943; Spence, 1956; Tolman, 1955), and personality approaches (e.g., Atkinson, 1964; Lewin, 1935), a g...