background: patient’s dignity is an important issue which is highlighted in nursing it is an issue that is highly dependent on context and culture. heart disease is the most common disease in iran and the world. identification of facilitator and threatening patient dignity in heart patients is vital. this study aimed to explore facilitator and threatening patient dignity in hospitalized patient...

Modell HI, DeMiero FG, Rose L. In pursuit of a holistic learning environment: the impact of music in the medical physiology classroom. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 37–45, 2009; doi:10.1152/ advan.90149.2008.—A holistic learning environment is one that nurtures all aspects of students’ learning. The environment is safe, supportive, and provides opportunities to help students deal with nonacademic as wel...

This work proposes a testing environment for evaluation of holistic methods for word recognition. The main goal is to determine an optimun set of holistic characteristics to represent the months of the year in Brazilian Portuguese language. The holistic characteristics treat the words as single, indivisible entities and attempts to perform recognition from their overall shape, as opposed to the...

Although intentionality has been implicated as a causal variable in healing research, its definition has been inconsistent and vague. The objective of this grounded theory study is to develop a substantive theory of intentionality in a naturalistic encounter between nurse-healers and their healee-clients, and to consider the implications for practice and research. Six expert nurse-healers and s...

Current database performance optimizations stop at the border between the database application and the database system, focusing either on improving the performance of just the database system or the application’s execution in isolation of the other. We argue that typical database application design enables a more holistic analysis that maintains the relationship between the database and applic...

background : in order to support cancer patients, nurses need to identify different physio-psycho- social needs of patients using a holistic approach. focusing on quality of life (qol) is congruent with the philosophy of a holistic approach in nursing. the main aim of this research study thus was to identify the level of agreement between cancer patients and nurses about cancer patients' qol. m...

The holistic ecological approach to talent development in sport highlights the central role of the overall environment as it affects a prospective elite athlete. This paper examines a flat-water kayak environment in Norway with a history of successfully producing top-level senior athletes from among its juniors. Principal methods of data collection include interviews, participant observations o...

This report presents the development of the Ganesh system, a programming environment that supports collaborative development of software. The specific goal of this project is to integrate version control and configuration management in a structure based editor. Such an editor provides facilities for visualization and direct manipulation of the program structure, which increases overview signifi...