O ne year ago we posed three questions to address the potential contribution that QSHC might make to increase the momentum for healthcare quality improvement and patient safety. In response to an invitation to comment, this journal’s readers submitted dozens of responses that have served to guide the work of the journal. It is worth reexamining the three original questions one year later in the...

To improve teaching and learning, it is important to understand how knowledge propagates. In general, when a new piece of knowledge is introduced, people start learning about it. Since the potential audience is limited, after some time, the number of new learners starts to decrease. Traditional models of knowledge propagation are based on differential equations; in these models, the number of n...

columns (go ahead and try it). “Marginalia” refers to notes, comments, and other writings on page margins. Notations by famous persons can add value to a book while those that you or I create probably will not. Computer programs such as Microsoft Word allow comments on the margins of pages and some even allow Web-sharing of this type of marginalia (called “shared annotations”). E-readers such a...

Mental Health Weekly readers continue to weigh in on what awaits them the new year. Here are more of their comments.

Abstract. In online discussions, users often evaluate comments from other users. On the basis of face theory, present study analyzed effects evaluative replies on evaluated comment authors. The investigation complements existing research, which has mainly focused uninvolved readers. experimental presented here, disapproving evaluations provoked negative and less positive emotions, authors were ...

Abstract. We show that q-Euler numbers can be represented as an integral by the q-analogue of the ordinary p-adic fermionic measure, whence we give an answer to the question of readers to ask us for the fermionic p-adic q-integral on Zp. Sometimes several readers give the nonsense comments to us. But we do not write their names in this paper. I would like to tell the readers that papers are dif...

Various news sites exist today where internet audience can read the most recent news and see what other people think about. Most sites do not organize comments well and do not filter irrelevant content. Due to this limitation, readers who are interested to know other people’s opinion regarding any specific topic, have to manually follow relevant comments, reading and filtering a lot of irreleva...