‘‘Give me children; else I am as dead’’. The desperate cry of Rachel to her husband Jacob, whose life is meaningless whilst she remains sterile, rings down the ages [1], a cry still heard in both developed countries and less affluent ones. Until recently, this pain has been largely ignored or belittled, as it was by Jacob. Sir Robert Edwards, who died last week, understood it. The plight of inf...

In recent years, the use of mobile applications and computer-based games as pedagogical tools has become more and more popular. Additionally, many mobile devices enhance user experience by providing different sensors, e.g. to deliver location-based educative information. In this article we introduce an online tool for easily creating location-based mobile applications that combine teaching and ...

Within a globalised digital environment characterised by increasingly diverse and dynamic social media platforms, video creators their content production circulation now typically operate across multiple platforms. Focusing on Chinese cross-platform cross-cultural practices, this paper draws ethnographic research to analyse how user-generated creator identities are constructed Western services ...

Background: Simulation can produce highly qualified professionals, however, it can also be perceived as stressful and frustrating by the nursing students.Purposes: This study was to identify the attitudes and perceptions of Jordanian nursing students toward simulation as an educational strategy, to investigate whether certain students’ characteristics affect their attitudes and perceptions, to ...