Morphological lexica are often implemented on top of morphological paradigms, corresponding to different ways of building the full inflection table of a word. Computationally precise lexica may use hundreds of paradigms, and it can be hard for a lexicographer to choose among them. To automate this task, this paper introduces the notion of a smart paradigm. It is a metaparadigm, which inspects t...

Background: Males' health plays a basic role in the community's health, especially in family's health. Health is a multifaceted issue that affects people in all aspects. Health is also one of the 4 metaparadigm concepts in nursing. This study was conducted to explore males' perspectives on health. Methods: In this qualitative study conducted based on a grounded theory approach, 22 males were se...

    Background: Males’ health plays a basic role in the community's health, especially in family’s health. Health is a multifaceted issue that affects people in all aspects. Health is also one of the 4 metaparadigm concepts in nursing. This study was conducted to explore males’ perspectives on health.    Methods: In this qualitative study conducted ba...

Dynamics in the use of metasystems in the development ofinformation systemsis discussed. An axiomatic level of specification is used to allow dynamic specification of"median" level metasystems which are, in turn, used in information systems specification, analysis and design. Existing metasystems are reviewed and principles for metasystem evaluation are considered The implementation and use of ...

My first critical awareness of the tensions between different methodologies arose 5 years ago when preparing the materials for two undergraduate courses: ‘Operations Management’ and ‘Strategy’. The former was concerned with explanation in which there is the assumption of causality; the operations environment could be designed in an optimal manner with predictable behaviour—the domain of those f...

Nursing science and practice focus on health promotion, disease prevention, supporting across the trajectory of acute chronic conditions, including palliative end-of-life care. We include individuals, families, communities lifespan who are diverse in many ways often suffer from inequities associated with multi-level social environmental factors, racism. The National Institute Research others ha...

The concept of self-care is multidimensional, with many defining elements. This paper describes the origin of this comprehensive concept. It examines the response of the nursing discipline to citizen self-care initiatives and the subsequent effects this response has had on the development of nursing knowledge. The evolution of self-care as a core concept within Canadian health policy is present...