This article investigates negotiations of librarians’ expertise in relation to information literacy at the micro-level, specifically in the domain of nursing education. A qualitaitve empirical framework is employed. The study draws on 18 semi-structured interviews, 16 with Swedish nursing students, one with a librarian and one with a nursing professor. Three themes on librarians’ expertise emer...

In Volume 3, #1 of the Journal of Technology Education, Pannabecker (1991) identified shortcomings in the language that has shaped perspectives within technology education, and raised an issue for dialogue. This essay is intended to extend Pannabecker's critique to include the metaphors of autonomous and advancing technology, and their supporting ideology of technological progress. Reasons for ...

ABSTRACT According to contemporary nonpositivist theories, legal obligations are a subset of our genuine moral obligations. Debates within nonpositivism then turn on how we delimit the “domain” morality. Recently, theories have come under criticism two grounds. First, that they underinclusive, because cannot explain why paradigmatically “legal” such. Second, overinclusive, count as certain plai...

We argue that African philosophy scholars are sometimes blinded by Eurocentric tendencies in the practice of philosophy, and it is important to identify overcome these problems. The research gap we intend fill route self-examination, self-criticism self-evaluation has been underexplored at universities Africa. self-understanding necessary for reconstruction indigenous elements purpose developme...

This study examined whether, in a community sample of Israeli adults (N = 335), benign (i.e., affiliative and self-enhancing) and injurious (i.e., aggressive and self-defeating) humor styles mediated or moderated the relationship between self-criticism and neediness, two traits that confer vulnerability to depression, on the one hand, and levels of depressive symptoms, on the other. There was n...

Challenging an attitude toward fallibility in medical practice which they see as outdated and detrimental to patient care, the authors suggest a new approach to self-evaluation and peer review by physicians. Arguing that knowledge grows from recognition of error, they submit ten proposals aimed at the development of a new professional ethics that would encourage physicians to admit and analyze...

This paper addresses the problem of atomic multicasting messages in asynchronous systems with unreliable failure detection. First, we give a characterisation of the notion of algorithms tolerating unreliable failure detection. Second, we give a characterisation of the notion of genuine atomic multicast. This characterisation leads to a better understanding of the diierence between atomic multic...