BACKGROUND Current models of end-of-life care (EOLC) have been largely developed for cancer and may not meet the needs of heart failure patients. AIM To review the literature concerning conversations about EOLC between patients with heart failure and healthcare professionals, with respect to the prevalence of conversations; patients' and practitioners' preferences for their timing and content...

Background: Currently, one of the main interventions that are widely expected to contribute to teachers’ professional development is confronting teachers with feedback from resident evaluations of their teaching performance. Receiving feedback, however, is a double edged sword. Teachers see themselves confronted with information about themselves and are, at the same time, expected to be role mo...

BACKGROUND Currently, one of the main interventions that are widely expected to contribute to teachers' professional development is confronting teachers with feedback from resident evaluations of their teaching performance. Receiving feedback, however, is a double edged sword. Teachers see themselves confronted with information about themselves and are, at the same time, expected to be role mod...

second-language (l2) acquisition is generally thought to be constrained by maturational factors that circumscribe a critical period for native-like attainment. consistent with the maturational view are age effects among learners who begin l2 acquisition prior to, but not after, closure of the putative critical period. some studies indicate that native-like acquisition of a second language by le...

the present article considers why plato, in definitional conversations, finally don’t give a definitive answer to the question which is introduced in this class of conversations, and why these conversations are ended to aporia. for this purpose, first, we seek the etymology of this term, and then, it is concluded that, aporia means a trouble, in which the characters of the conversations, in fin...

Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisors Professor Hans Triebel and Professor Hans-Jürgen Schmeisser for many fruitful discussions, suggestions and remarks. I would like to thank the whole group " Function spaces " for inspiring and friendly atmosphere. Besides, I would like to thank Professor Krotov for helpful conversations and comments.

As the basis of generating nonverbal expressions in animated agents, this paper proposes factors that account for cultural difference in nonverbal behaviors in negotiation interaction. First, we introduce theories of negotiation and cultural characteristics. Then, our analysis of human interaction in negotiation conversations in CUBE-G corpus is described. Finally, by integrating cultural and n...

Acknowledgments I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who provided help in this project. First I would like to thank my advisor John "Spike l1 Hughes for his guidance through this project. Without his encouragement, I would have been discouraged by those large number of images taken from a video camera. Mark Oribello helped to take images and digitize them; Loring Holden...