BACKGROUND There is an emerging knowledge base on the effectiveness of strategies to close the knowledge-practice gap. However, less is known about how attributes of an innovation and other contextual and situational factors facilitate and impede an innovation's adoption. The Healthy Heart Kit (HHK) is a risk management and patient education resource for the prevention of cardiovascular disease...

Globally, millions of people lack access to improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Disabled people, disadvantaged both physically and socially, are likely to be among those facing the greatest inequities in WASH access. This study explores the WASH priorities of disabled people and uses the social model of disability and the World Health Organization's International Classification of Fu...

While efforts to address the management of chronic diseases in the context of large, urban hospitals are underway, the literature is silent on how to facilitate such efforts in the community clinics that provide services to many chronic-care patients who are medically underserved. We offer a contextualist framework for developing IT-enabled chronic care management in community clinics. To under...

The paper presents research that answers three main questions: (1) Do preconceptions held about the constituent materials of an environmental noise barrier affect how people perceive the barrier will perform at attenuating noise? (2) Does aesthetic preference influence the perception of how a barrier will perform? (3) Are barriers, which are deemed more aesthetically pleasing, more likely to be...

Three realities (mindscapes) used in constructing knowledge and their traditional research methodologies are discussed as a basis for proposing a research agenda and strategy for rural education. In order to study rural education, the authors propose the use of conceptual empiricism and contextual appraisal consisting of four domains; personal (self), instruction (class), institutional (school)...

This paper is a comment on Contextual Design, a method frame proposed by Beyer & Holtzblatt (1998) for redesigning work in conjunction with developing technological support for this work. It is scrutinized in which ways Contextual Design is a participatory approach and in which ways Contextual Design is suitable for capturing practices, meanings and challenges in the work environments to be red...

Automatic Construction of a Contextual Valence Shifters Lexicon The research presented in this paper takes place in the field of Opinion Mining, which is mainly devoted to assigning a positive or negative label to a text or a sentence. The context of a highly polarized word plays an essential role, as it can modify its original polarity. The present work addresses this issue and focuses on the ...

In opinion mining, many linguistic structures, called contextual valence shifters, may modify the prior polarity of items. Some systems of sentiment analysis have tried to take these shifters into account, but few studies have focused on the identification of all these structures and their impact

Designing 3D objects from scratch is difficult, especially when the user intent is fuzzy and lacks a clear target form. We facilitate design by providing reference and inspiration from existing model contexts. We rethink model design as navigating through different possible combinations of part assemblies based on a large collection of pre-segmented 3D models. We propose an interactive sketch-t...

The right temporoparietal junction (R TPJ) is involved in stimulus-driven attentional control in response to the appearance of an unexpected target or a distractor that shares features with a task-relevant target. An unresolved question is whether these responses in R TPJ are due simply to the presence of a stimulus that is a potential target, or instead responds to any task-relevant informatio...