Concept maps represent a rich structure to store and picture information or knowledge in form of concept-to-concept relations. There are several methods proposed for concept map analysis, based usually on concept and relation comparison, topological analysis of the map and others. One of the traditional applications of concept maps is the evaluation of the student’s knowledge, enabling to ident...

TOPIC Concept analysis of resilience. PURPOSE To analyze the concept of resilience and provide a definition of resilience that is contextually independent of specific age-related groups or populations. SOURCES Published literature. CONCLUSIONS Resilience is being increasingly studied in innovative ways among diverse populations. The broadly accepted definition of the term, however, has ev...

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) begins from a context, given as a binary relation between some objects and some attributes, and derives a lattice of concepts, where each concept is given as a set of objects and a set of attributes, such that the first set consists of all objects that satisfy all attributes in the second, and vice versa. Many applications, though, provide contexts with quantitativ...

Formal concept analysis is increasingly used for large contexts that are built by programs. This paper presents an efficient algorithm for concept analysis that computes concepts together with their explicit lattice structure. An experimental evaluation uses randomly generated contexts to compare the running time of the presented algorithm with two other algorithms. Running time is mainly propo...

Can we do text analysis without phrase structure? We think the answer could be positive. In this paper we outline the basics of an underlying theory which yields hierarchical structure as the result of more abstract principles relating to the combinatorial properties of linguistic units. We discuss the nature of these properties and illustrate our model with examples.

BACKGROUND Nurses often work with individuals and populations striving to improve or maintain the quality of their lives. Many, struggling from complex health and social problems, are challenged to surmount barriers to achieve this goal. The growing number of homeless families in the United States represent one such cohort. AIMS To develop an operational definition of overcoming and explicate...

Background: Although the concept of family resilience has had increased popularity in recent studies, conceptual and methodological issues need to be addressed. Aim: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current status of the concept of family resilience in research and to suggest future needed directions for research. Methods: The structure of the analysis derives from Rodgers’ evolution...