Laying the groundwork for remyelination

Laying the groundwork for managing an inheritance.

Laying the Groundwork for a Worker-Centric Peer Economy

The “gig economy” has transformed the ways in which people work, but in many ways these markets stifle the growth of workers and the autonomy and protections that workers have grown to expect. We explored the viability of a “workercentric peer economy”—a system wherein workers benefit as well as consumers— and conducted ethnographic field work across fields ranging from domestic labor to home h...

Interdisciplinary Disaster Drill Simulation: Laying the Groundwork for Further Research.

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the effect of using serial simulations with progression through the nursing curriculum. BACKGROUND Simulation provides a way to learn without fear of failure and increase critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills. Learning in an interdisciplinary simulation provides a greater understanding of teamwork and communication skills. METHOD The ...

Fostering social capital in a learning network: laying the groundwork for a peer-support service

In online learning environments communities are desirable, or as is the case for a learning network, even essential. This raises the question of how to attain and sustain these communities. In this article we argue that this can be achieved by fostering the social capital of the learning network. It is argued that this can be achieved by (1) improving the relationship characteristics, (2) incre...

Laying the groundwork to investigate scientist's structures and resources in their information environment

The set up to a case study that examined the interactions of a group of interdisciplinary social scientists conducting a systematic review of their research area examines why and how to investigate the information structures and resources relevant in science practice. Partners in other components of a national scale cyberinfrastructure project to develop systems that manage science data periodi...