Re-membering Marsha Heims, RN, EdD

Re-membering the Body

Re-membering: a Theory of Agents

This position paper provides an abstract discussion regarding current work to develop a design theory for the realization of a computer-based assistant composed of "societies of agents" based on Minsky’s Society of Mind theory. Specifically, the theory attempts to define a cognitive architecture to integrate various learning and reasoning processing. This work has resulted in the implementation...

The Work of Re-Membering: After Genocide and Mass Atrocity

First, this article explores the role of international criminal trails and truth commissions in resisting narratives of collective guilt and producing a different sort of collective memory, helping the society-and the watching world-not merely recall but also re-member, that is, to reconstitute a community of humanity against which there can be crimes (hence, “crimes against humanity”), and wit...

Beyond re-membering: phantom sensations of congenitally absent limbs.

Phantom limbs are traditionally conceptualized as the phenomenal persistence of a body part after deafferentation. Previous clinical observations of subjects with phantoms of congenitally absent limbs are not compatible with this view, but, in the absence of experimental work, the neural basis of such "aplasic phantoms" has remained enigmatic. In this paper, we report a series of behavioral, im...

Re-evaluating the NCLEX-RN passing standard.

Setting passing standards is a critical component of the NCLEX examination process. This research was conducted to provide sufficient information to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing's (NCSBN) Board of Directors to,make a decision regarding the passing standard of the NCLEX-RN. This article illustrates the standard setting process that NCSBN uses. Surveys of educators and employer...