AIM To explore how men with penile cancer construct humour in relation to their diagnosis and treatment. BACKGROUND Functionalist, relief and incongruity theories attempt to account for humour, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence in nursing care. This is particularly so in relation to a condition like penile cancer where some nurses think that humour in their interactions with patient...

In this response, however, I would like to take issue with some aspects of their article. First, I will argue that Jones and Karsten’s characterizations of adaptive structuration theory (AST) and the approach to research AST advocates are too narrowly drawn. Second, I will raise some questions with their contention that structures exist only as memory traces, a conclusion that has important imp...

The public space is the ideal scenario to analyze and evaluate correlation between behavior morphological conditioning factors in urban structure. This relationship of inhabitants spatial configuration experienced as a social result. From this perspective, success design perceived from capacity it has reconcile conditions with alternatives allows for collective relations, close bidirectional re...

In this study we attempt to identify the basic components of statement intonation as related t o focus, accent and lexical stress in General American English. Instead of viewing f 0 contours as direct acoustic correlates of intonation components, we regard them as the outcome of implementing different functional components of intonation under various articulatory constraints. Eight American Eng...