In their day to day practice nurses interact with 'family' as a whole in a variety of community locations. Public health, Practice, District, Well child health and Rural nurses participated in a qualitative study in which four focus groups were used to explore the ways in which each nurse integrated 'family' into their practice. Thematic analysis of the data revealed four related themes: the la...

IN THE VARIOUS PROPOSALS for word-forword machine translation of Russian scientific literature into English, each word in the sentence is considered as a separate entity. If a word has more than one English equivalent, or more than one possible syntactic value, the alternatives must be listed. The chief difficulty with the resulting translation is its prolixity: the reader finds himself confron...

In this paper we consider whether the thematic document clustering approach of Contextual Document Clustering is able to capture the overall sentiment of a cluster of documents. We provide a novel mechanism to determine the sentiment of a cluster based on the latter approach and assess the approach on three data sets formed from the NY Times annotated corpus. We demonstrate that CDC does provid...

As online communities have grown, Computational Social Science has rapidly developed new techniques to study them. However, these require researchers become experts in a wide variety of tools addition qualitative and computational research methods. Studying also requires constantly navigate highly contextual ethical transparency considerations when engaging with data, such as respecting their m...

Health committees are a common strategy to foster community participation in health. Efforts to strengthen committees often focus on technical inputs to improve committee form (e.g. representative membership) and functioning (e.g. meeting procedures). However, porous and interconnected contextual spheres also mediate committee effectiveness. Using a framework for contextual analysis, we explore...

BACKGROUND Postgraduate medical trainees are not well prepared difficult conversations about goals of care with patients and families in the acute care clinical setting. While contextual nuances within the workplace can impact communication, research to date has largely focused on individual communication skills. Our objective was to explore contextual factors that influence conversations betwe...

Background Aphasia is an acquired impairment in language and in the cognitive processes that underlie language. Aphasia affects the quality of life of the person with aphasia (PWA) and his or her families in various ways in diverse contexts and cultures. It is therefore important that speech language therapists understand how different contextual and cultural factors may mediate experiences. ...

BACKGROUND Substance use is a well-established, and potentially modifiable, risk factor for suicide. Suicide prevention interventions are typically framed within the biomedical paradigm and focus on addressing individual risk factors, improving access to psychiatric care, and improving the skills of medical personnel to recognise at-risk individuals. Few studies have focused on contextual facto...