In Queensland, Aboriginal nurses are limited in number in comparison to the mainstream nursing workforce. More Aboriginal registered nurses are needed to cater for Aboriginal patients in our Australian healthcare system in view of today's burgeoning Indigenous health crisis. It is a foregone conclusion that Aboriginal nurses are the most suitable nurses to provide optimal cross cultural care fo...

With the unprecedented growth in the African American elderly population, there exists an urgent need to prepare nurses to deliver culturally competent care. The purpose of this study was to increase the knowledge available about the cultural heritage, worldviews, and life experiences of African American elders. Reminiscence interviews were conducted with African American elders living in a med...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the experience of Filipino patients with cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH Hermeneutic phenomenologic inquiry using focus groups. SETTING A comprehensive cancer center in the southeastern United States. PARTICIPANTS 18 female and 5 male Filipino patients aged 34-78 years who had received cancer treatment. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Seven focus groups, each lasting two h...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of a cultural care framework that seeks to inform and embrace the philosophical ideals of caring science. Following a review of the literature that identified a lack of evidence of an explicit relationship between caring science and cultural care, a number of well-established transcultural care frameworks were reviewed. Our purpose was to sele...

     This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, w...

In many questions in Community Question Answering sites users look for the advice or opinion of other users who might offer diverse perspectives on a topic at hand. The novel task we address is providing supportive evidence for human answers to such questions, which will potentially help the asker in choosing answers that fit her needs. We present a support retrieval model that ranks sentences ...

Traditional information retrieval models assume keyword-based queries and use unstructured document representations. There is an abundance of event-centered texts (e.g., breaking news) and event-oriented information needs that often involve structure that cannot be expressed using keywords. We present a novel retrieval model that uses a structured event-based representation. We structure querie...

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0. Abstract. PC Beta is a PC oriented tool for corpus work in this term's broadest possible sense. With PC Beta one can prepare texts for corpus work, e.g. standardize texts in different ways (very important when texts from different sources together will constitute a corpus), one can process texts, and one can analyze texts. Making ordinary concordances and similar things with PC Beta is, of c...

As the number of scholarly encoded digital texts is increasing, creating models of these kinds of texts with the help of digital tools is becoming more and more interesting. In connection with this type of work, it is important to have a clear understanding of what these particular models are based on. They will clearly be based on certain readings of the source texts, but we need to keep track...