‘They overworked us’

Do they mean us?

Throughout Britain, nurse teachers and higher education staff are learning more about each other as the incorporation of colleges of nursing and midwifery (and colleges of health) into higher education gathers momentum. The Times Higher Education Supplement, now simply The Higher has been part of my weekly reading for the past ten years, as befits a career which combines nursing and higher educ...

Someone is following us, aren’t they?

“They are Us—We are Them”

Stigmatization towards persons with mental illnesses is a major quality of care concern. Unfortunately, nurses are no less implicated than other health professions. This article reports the results of an evaluation of a learning intervention for psychiatric nursing students in partnership between Brandon University and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. We describe this intervention as an ...

Detection of Overworked Agents in INGENIAS

Overworking behaviors appear in multi-agent systems communication quite often. This occurs when an agent receives many messages in a short period of time. As the agent pays attention to the large amount of messages it worsens its performance, causing the system’s performance to worsen as well. The reasons for this behaviors are varied and depend on the nature of the messages: an agent that send...

Next-Generation Sequencing Approaches in Cancer: Where Have They Brought Us and Where Will They Take Us?

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and data have revolutionized cancer research and are increasingly being deployed to guide clinicians in treatment decision-making. NGS technologies have allowed us to take an "omics" approach to cancer in order to reveal genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic landscapes of individual malignancies. Integrative multi-platform analyses are increasingl...