Background and Objectives: Clinicians in many countries increasingly use Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) as an assisting tool in clinical practice. The pattern of PDA usage by clinicians in Iran has not been characterized. This study explored the attitudes of Iranian residents and interns toward medical uses of PDA.   Methods: An interview-based qualitative study was carried out in 2011. A p...

background :this study aimed to understand the confront strategies of parents of premature infants hospitalized in nicu.   methods : this study was performed using qualitative content analysis approach. twelve participants including nine parents whose infants were hospitalized in nicu, two nurses and one physician, all selected by purposive sampling method were interviewed by a female expert oc...

Aging with independence benefits individuals, family, and society. To achieve independence, older adults must be able to function in their homes. This function is determined both by their abilities and by the environment in which they maneuver. This article describes a promising program that intervenes with both older adults and their home environments to improve function. This program, called ...

This paper presents the adaptive search features offered by ACQUA, a Web-based system presenting information about the hydric resources of the Piedmont Italian Region. ACQUA enables the user to retrieve qualitative and quantitative data in different formats, supporting direct data manipulation. Moreover, the system supports the user in the search for information by complementing her explicit se...

The development of successful case-based design aids depends both on the CBR processes themselves and on crucial questions of integrating the CBR system into the larger task context: how to make the CBR component provide information at the right time and in the right form, how to access relevant information from additional information sources to supplement the case library, how to capture infor...

Information visualizations can add great advantages in the classrooms by helping students access appropriate educational resources in order to achieve their course objectives. We present a novel adaptive visualization methods that support goal-based navigations for class materials. In our education support system, map-based adaptive annotation, relevance-based visualization, and visual control ...

Quantifiers like “all” and “every” are frequent in daily language. However, when a sentence contains two quantifiers or is “doubly-quantified” (e.g., “Every boy ate a cookie”) the meaning can often be ambiguous since there are two potential interpretations: collective (e.g., several boys sharing a single cookie) and distributive (e.g., several boys each eating their own cookie). Psycholinguisti...

In Part 1 of this two-part article on web resources to support commissioning I wrote about the radical, ongoing changes to the NHS brought about by the Government’s White Paper, Equity and Excellence: liberating the NHS. Since then, a number of consultations on different aspects of the paper have been published and the new Health and Social Care Bill has been presented to Parliament. The Bill i...

Ontologies, taxonomies, and other semantic resources, are used in a variety of sectors to facilitate knowledge reuse and information exchange between people and applications. In recent years, the need to access multiple semantic resources has led to the development of a variety of projects and tools aiming at integrating existing resources. This paper describes the methodology used during the F...