We are all in it!: Phenomenological Qualitative Research and Embeddedness

We Want It All, and We Want It Now!

Low power, high performance, cost, integration, quality — consumer electronics customers demand all of these, with an increasing sense of urgency and diminishing product cycle times. Properly balancing these factors is the key for success in today's consumer electronics semiconductor industry. SOC designers are faced with challenges of not only delivering complex and highly integrated mixed sig...

We are all Lurkers : Toward a Lurker Research Agenda

Most knowledge repositories focus on the role of knowledge-creators. Recent commercial and research reports have begun to highlight the role and contributions of lurkers, or "non-public participants." We examined the work of Lurkers in an enterprise file-sharing service, and we compared their lurking behaviors to the lurking behaviors of users who uploaded files (Uploaders), and users who contr...

Are We Asking All the Right Questions About Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Reflection for the undergraduate on writing in the portfolio: where are we now and where are we going?

Introduction: The portfolio can be seen as a tool for assessmentof a variety of learning activities that differ in content, usage, andassessment. The portfolio not only meets the learner’s educationalneeds but also the political and public reassurance demand thatthe health professional has achieved the required competency ofthe curriculum that allows him or her to practice safely with orwithout...

Why we need qualitative research.