Research is critical for effective and innovative social work practice, yet workers do not always have time to engage with research there are limited accounts of how practitioners can undertake in practical meaningful terms (Mitchell, Lunt, Shaw 2010). Using a reflective, storytelling methodology (Beresford Citation2016), which centres experiential knowledge, we describe one regional teaching p...

This article considers the concept of Competence as applied to educational theory and policy, illuminates possibility significant variations in meaning. Referring Wittgenstein’s distinctions between transitive intransitive uses notions Holland’s description mastery, argues favour two senses which someone can be described being competent: i) expressive a value judgment; ii) pointing person’s (fo...

The aim of this study was to compare the Exceptional Student Learning English (ESLE) web application and traditional application and the evaluation of the ESLE app mainly from the exceptional student parents' perspective. To this end, five exceptional student parents with their exceptional children were selected among 30 parents in Isfahan in Isfahan province. Open-ended questionnaires were sen...

Objectives To explore the process of knowledge exchange in an informal email network for evidence based health care, to illuminate the value of the service and its critical success factors, and to identify areas for improvement. Design Illuminative evaluation. Setting Targeted email and networking service for UK healthcare practitioners and researchers. Participants 2800 members of a networking...

Technological, economical, cultural, and political changes constantly lead to new opportunities and challenges in today’s highly dynamic business environment. Increasingly, modern enterprises leverage the strategic instrument of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) to seize these tempting opportunities and adapt to the altering market conditions. As Information Technology (IT) penetrates the business...

Ibn Sina, the most eminent Muslim physician, illuminative philosopher, great thinker and a versatile genius is regarded as the "Father of Early Modern Medicine" and as the "Father of Clinical Pharmacology". The "Kitab al-Qanun fi-al-Tibb", commonly known as the "Canon Medicinae" is the most important of his medical works and, at the same time, the most carefully preserved treasury both in origi...

Brenner and colleagues [1], in their article published in Critical Care, showed elevated levels of the reactive carbonyl species (RCS) methylglyoxal (MG) in the circulation of patients with septic shock. We commend the authors’ bravery in launching this molecule into a field well-populated with biomarkers and where clinical diagnosis persists as the ‘gold standard’ [2]. The authors hypothesised...