Background: Recent publications have suggested that palliative care may be detracting from its primary goal of providing holistic care by focusing almost entirely upon measurable clinical and scientific parameters, and neglecting psychosocial research. This paper aims to evaluate whether palliative care has indeed lost its way. Methods: We employ the example of growing calls for the adoption of...

...although PPP lessons are often supplemented with skills lessons, most students taught mainly through conventional approaches such as PPP leave school unable to communicate effectively in English (Stern, 1983). This situation has prompted many ELT professionals to take note of... second language acquisition (SLA) studies... and turn towards holistic approaches where meaning is central and whe...

Bratman first proposed orthorexia nervosa in the late 1990s, defining it an obsession with eating healthy food to achieve, for instance, improved health. Today, in the Swedish media, excessive exercising plays a central role in relation to orthorexia. A few review articles on orthorexia have been conducted; however, these have not focused on aspects of food and eating, sport, exercise, or a soc...

There are many recommendations for environmental management practices to adopt more holistic or systems-based approaches and to strengthen stakeholder participation. However, management practices do not always match or achieve these ideals. We explore why theory may not be reflected by practice by exploring experiences of projects seeking to implement the ecosystem approach, a concept that enta...

In face recognition literature, major approaches based on holistic templates and geometrical local features have been taken. Both approaches have certain advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we explore a new method which integrates the above two approaches. Among many speciic systems, we select LDA (Linear Discriminant Analysis) and MPF (Matching Pursuit Filter) as the representative fr...

Background In the past century, maternal support during childbirth has been changed according to the different approaches suggested by various health care paradigms. Objective The aim of this review was to argue the maternity supportive care paradigms of the past century and to closely analyze each paradigm. Methods This is a historical review, in which published articles were retrieved fro...