BACKGROUND Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world's largest health professional workforce and a critical resource for achieving Universal Health Coverage. Nonetheless, little is known about nurses' engagement with dual practice. METHODS We c...

This paper depicts the use of computers in the urban studies, and provides a digital way of understanding historical buildings and the relations with the city. ADiscovery of Historical TainanB is a joint project among historians and Ž . computer-aided design CAD researchers to preserve historical evidences of the central city of Tainan by using computer visual simulation. The importance of hist...

We report applications of language technologies to analyzing historical documents in the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thoughts and Literature (DSMCTL). We studied two historical issues with the reported techniques: the conceptualization of “華人” and the attempt to institute constitutional monarchy in the late Qing dynasty. We also discuss research challenges for supporting sophistica...