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INTRODUCTION One of the recent advances in assessing outcomes of medical care is the inclusion of the patient perspective. The term patient-reported outcome (PRO) is used to reflect the patient perceptions of disease and its consequences as well as of treatment and health-care provision. The development of PRO measures has advanced rapidly, and implementation in clinical research and practice i...

One-third of women in the UK will have an abortion before their 45th birthday. Yet midwife’s role pregnancy choice counselling, provision and support women’s decisions remains a taboo. This opinion piece calls for open conversation around termination better understanding among midwives as medical procedure. Recognising global impact unsafe abortion, author rallies midwifery profession to take c...

The research critically evaluates ways of narrating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Polish secondary-school history textbooks. Based on a repeated critical reading and discourse analysis both Israeli Arab-Palestinian narratives, study focuses choice pro-Palestinian pro-Israeli designations when naming incorporation or silencing and/or voices textbook narratives. Reducing Palestinians to dis...

I intend the present paper to be my last word1 in the debate I have been having with Walter Block (2010, 2011a, 2011b) on the subject of evictionism as an alleged libertarian “third way,” capable of transcending the familiar “pro-life” and “pro-choice” dichotomy. In this debate, I myself defended what might be regarded as a qualified “pro-life” position, while Block consistently argued for his ...

We are developing a classifier that can automatically identify a web video’s ideological perspective on a political or social issue (e.g., pro-life or pro-choice on the abortion issue). The problem has received little attention, possibly due to inherent difficulties in content-based approaches. We propose to develop such a classifier based on the pattern of tags emerging from folksonomies. The ...

We are developing a classifier that can automatically identify a web video’s ideological perspective on a political or social issue (e.g., pro-life or pro-choice on the abortion issue). The problem has received little attention, possibly due to inherent difficulties in content-based approaches. We propose to develop such a classifier based on the pattern of tags emerging from folksonomies. The ...

in a seismic change in the touch-screen business. Projected capacitive (pro-cap), the touch technology used in the iPhone touch screen, has become the first choice for many small-to-medium (<10-in.) touch-equipped products now in development. The technology is not just Apple-trendy but incorporates some of the best characteristics of competing touch technologies. The three most important advant...