The Dying to Talk project in Bradford, UK aimed build resilience young people around the topic of death, dying and bereavement. Starting conversations early life could buttress people’s future wellbeing when faced with bereavement indeed their own mortality. Research indicates that a key feature experience is ‘powerlessness’ (Ribbens McCarthy, 2007). Drawing on principles co-production, led dev...

Very little is documented regarding the efficacy of social stories and comic strip conversations for promoting an understanding of social situations and the appropriate social behaviors of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In addition, few studies on the efficacy of social stories have examined whether outcomes are socially valid. The purpose of this article is to respond to some...

Despite of its evident importance, measuring interactivity as a central parameter for characterizing conversations has not experienced much attention so far. Starting with an axiomatic approach and using thermodynamic concepts, this paper proposes “conversational temperature” as a new interactivity metric. The resulting scalar parameter is easily to be determined from standard measurements with...

This article investigates Frantz Fanon’s theory of race and racism. Three constitutive elements of Frantz Fanon’s racial theory are explored—race as historically situated, race as culturally maintained, and racial constructions as embedded in human ontology. It is argued that Fanon’s work provides a starting point for bringing conversations of race and racism into globalization theories in ways...

Despite of its evident importance, measuring interactivity as a central parameter for characterizing conversations has not experienced much attention so far. Starting with an axiomatic approach and using thermodynamic concepts, this paper proposes “conversational temperature” as a new interactivity metric. The resulting scalar parameter is easily to be determined from standard measurements with...

starting with the origin of the sanskrit language formulated borrowing from the local dravidian and mundalanguages, the indo-iranian connections are explored in the context of myths and legends. the connectionbetween the rigveda text and the indus culture is described, making use of the indus seals. the non-vedictraditions in the rv text are traced to present day folk performances. some rigvedi...

BACKGROUND Despite the benefits to early palliative care in the treatment of terminal illness, barriers to timely hospice referrals exist. Physicians who are more comfortable having end-of-life (EOL) conversations are more likely to refer to hospice. However, very little is known about what factors influence comfort with EOL care. METHODS An anonymous survey was sent to all the residents and ...