Background Studies of group creativity have focused on adults acting in professional settings, with less attention paid to how adolescents collaborate groups creative activities. Building sociocultural perspectives imagination as a complex capacity adolescence, this study examines students’ creative-imagining processes and the role peer influence collaboration.Methods The setting is two-day mus...

The main question examined is: How do nurses and other healthcare professionals ensure ethical interprofessional collaboration-in-practice as an everyday practice actuality? Ethical interprofessional collaboration becomes especially relevant and necessary when interprofessional practice decisions are contested. To illustrate, two healthcare scenarios are analyzed through three ethics lenses. Bi...

Abstract Over the past decades, Western European municipalities increasingly reacted to presence of immigrants with efforts include these new residents in local policymaking. As part this, many cities installed immigrant councils, allowing newcomers participate political sphere and bring their needs interests into process. Even though councils became strongly institutionalized countries like Ge...

Studies of patient safety and comparative effectiveness entail unique methodologic challenges. These studies may be susceptible to systematic error, including selection bias, exposure misclassification, and outcome misclassification. They may also be vulnerable to random error, or confounding by a variable such as another drug, a disease, or the drug indication itself. Finally, special logistic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine mentoring relationships involving minority graduate students in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors take a multifaceted approach to providing strategies to improve the opportunities of minority students to acquire mentors by directing attention to institutional practices, faculty development, and the behaviors of students themselv...

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Based on the supply chain collaboration literature and electronic collaboration literature, this paper introduces the term ‘electronic supply chain collaboration’. It further introduces and studies the role that an organization’s collaboration climate plays in the perception of the impact of e-marketplace participation and adoption of electronic supply chain collaboration in parallel to externa...

This report describes the growth of institutional repositories in Japan and NII’s support projects since 2004. The characteristic features of the process were: (1) the diversity of the partner universities (2) the collaboration between universities and NII, and (3) the fast localization and installation with limited budget.