Spiritual care is integral to palliative care, and palliative care experience in offering spiritual care can be a resource for the emerging healthcare interest in spirituality. Spirituality is best understood in terms of the web of relationships that gives coherence to our lives, uniquely identifying each person. In palliative care, responsibility for spiritual care is shared by the whole team,...

Every step in the evolution of human kind is associated with the inherent quest for knowledge and substantial growth in intelligence. In the modern world, the thirst for information is quenched by search engines that crawl billions of pages on the World Wide Web. This paper endeavors to make the ranking of the indexed web pages more intelligent by using techniques followed by recommendation eng...

The European Stroke Organisation held its first European Stroke Science Workshop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (December 15–17, 2011). Stroke experts based in Europe were invited to present and discuss their current research. The scope of the workshop was to review the most recent findings of selected topics in stroke, to exchange ideas, to stimulate new research, and to enhance collaborat...

We apply an organizational embeddedness perspective to examine international assignees’ retention with the organization. Specifically, we hypothesize that assignees’ social ties within and their perceived fit with the host unit positively relate to two sacrifices with leaving the organization: their firmspecific learning during the assignment and their perceived career prospects in the organiza...

One of the more important results of the upwelling of research on bereavement in recent decades has been the development of criteria for complicated grief, a disorder whose coherence, correlates and consequences have been subjected to increasing scrutiny. In this article I argue that clinical, conceptual, and evidence-based considerations converge to support the further refinement of such crite...

Virtual reality” adds a new dimension to problem-based learning (PBL) environments in the architecture and building construction educations, where a realistic and lifelike presence in a building enables students to assess and discuss how the various solutions interact with each other. Combined with “Building Information Models” (BIM), “Virtual Reality” provides an entirely new opportunity to in...

The question of the sustainability of IT-dependent com considerably less attention, and much of that attention ha assumption usually underlying this pessimistic view is that sustainable competitive advantage because competitors ca replicate virtually any of its applications. We suggest inst quest for sustainable competitive advantage risks oversimp potential strategic contributions of advanced ...

We describe the design, modification, implementation, and preliminary research of a place-based serious AR (augmented reality) application in rural school setting. The Station is collaboratively designed iPhone app that allows players to explore world around them through educational quests. It links virtual gameplay real-world locations discovery via GPS. quest content user generated companion ...

IMGT/V-QUEST is the highly customized and integrated system for the standardized analysis of the immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) rearranged nucleotide sequences. IMGT/V-QUEST identifies the variable (V), diversity (D) and joining (J) genes and alleles by alignment with the germline IG and TR gene and allele sequences of the IMGT reference directory. New functionalities were added t...