BACKGROUND Potential barriers to breast cancer screening adherence include patient satisfaction, as well as pain, feeling obliged to participate, and other concerns that might compromise the level of satisfaction. The present study aimed to assess the overall satisfaction of Danish citizens with their breast cancer screening experiences, as well as their level of discomfort, concerns, and feeli...

This article uses discourse analysis to investigate how British volunteers involved in the Refugees Welcome movement give an account of their engagement and changes that they aim achieve through actions. Focusing on different ways participants ‘do modesty’ when present actions own role within movement, we show ‘character work’ – effort shape reputation is essential feature discourse. In particu...

Staging a (fictional) encounter between two artworks, work on paper by Indian artist Nalini Malani and the novel No Friend but Mountains Iranian-Kuridsh writer Behrouz Boochani, text—an essay, rather than traditional scholarly article—peruses paradoxes of representing what cannot must be (re-)presented. Issues such as required modesty in face suffering others, irrepresentability trauma intermed...

Mosaic View is a mosaic picture composed of small pieces that contain images. The images used for the pieces can be arbitrary, so the overall image depicted in the mosaic can be independent of the images constituting the parts. The mosaic can display a modest overall image containing rich information using many small images. This article describe one method for making a mosaic, as well as sever...

Bras J Rheumatol 2010;50(3):217-20 The author declares no conflict of interest. Correspondence to: Ricardo Fuller. Av. Brigadeiro Luiz Antonio, 2.466, conjs. 93-94. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. CEP 01402-000. When I was invited to write an article on this subject, my first impulse was to refuse; my mood quickly went from fear to modesty. How could I write about ethics without describing myself, my fa...

Kamphof offers an illuminating depiction of the technological mediation of morality. Her case serves as the basis for a plea for modesty up and against the somewhat heroic conceptualizations of techno-moral change to date-less logos, less autos, more practice, more relationality. Rather than a displacement of these conceptualizations, I question whether Kamphof's art of living offers only a dif...

In Japanese language, the speaker must choose suitable honorific expressions depending on many factors. The computer system should imitate this mechanism to make a natural Japanese sentence. We made a system to determine a suitable expression and named it honorific expression determining system (HEDS). It generates a set of rules to determine suitable honorific expression automatically, by deci...