Farshid Sadatsharifi has been visiting scholar at the Institute of Islamic Studies in McGill University, Montreal, Canada since 2016. He received his PhD and MA in Persian Language and Literature from Shiraz University, Iran. He also completed his post-doc fellowship in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature at the same university. Dr. Sadatsharifi is the co-founder and director of Samaak I...
James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...
BACKGROUND
Contradictory evidence exists about the emotional burden of participating in qualitative research for palliative care patients and carers and this raises questions about whether this type of research is ethically justified in a vulnerable population. This study aimed to investigate palliative care patients' and carers' perceptions of the benefits and problems associated with open int...
Methods Semistructured interviews with one or both parents were held in their homes over a 7 month period. Interviews were open ended, but the interviewer used a prompt guide. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using the constant comparison method assisted by NUD*IST software. Theoretical saturation was reached by the 14 interview. Medical records were also ...
Adel Sedra received the B.Sc. degree from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1964, and M.A.Sc. Ph.D. degrees University of Toronto, Canada, 1968 1969, respectively, all electrical engineering.
Bahrami, Z,
Imani, E,
Khademi, Z,
Naghizadeh, F,
Yusefi, P,
Introduction: Hospital information system with the computerization of medical records of
patients promotes quality of care in addition to raising the level of performance. This study
was performed to measure the experiences and viewpoints of nursing managers about
hospital information system in Shahid Mohammadi hospital in 2009.
Methods: This qualitative study was conducted on 16 nursing ...
Fängström, K. 2017. ‘I don’t even remember anything’. Optimising the choice of method when interviewing preschoolers. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1381. 86 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0106-8. There is increasing need and demand in various contexts to take children’s perspectives into account, including the...